• Reference
    WE757
  • Title
    Papers relating to the Hensman family
  • Date free text
    1780-1834
  • Production date
    From: 1780 To: 1834
  • Scope and Content
    including: a) Extract from Will of John Hensman of Flitwick, victualler and wheelwright, dated 24 November 1828, and proved 7 February 1834. ... Devises to sisters Rachel Hensman and Mary Page (wife of Abraham Page), his messuage at Ampthill. b) Declaration of Samuel Hensman of Ampthill, wheelwright and machinist (a son of John Hensman and wife Elizabeth, and brother of John Hensman [as in a)] ), in the matter of the said property; dated 11 March 1850. c) Declaration of Rachel Hensman that she and her nephew William Farrer Hensman (eldest son of John Hensman and heir of Mary Page) have sold the property; dated 20 March 1854. d) Extracts from parish registers as to i) Marriage of John Hensman to Elizabeth Aspray, both of Ampthill (Ampthill 1780), ii) Burial of John Hensman (Ampthill 1826), iii) Baptism of John, son of John and Elizabeth Hensman (Ampthill 1787), iv) Baptism of Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth Hensman (Ampthill 1783), v) Marriage of Abraham Page of Lidlington, widower, and Mary Hensman of Ampthill, spinster (Ampthill 1815), vi) Death of Abraham Page (Fenny Stratford 1849), vii) Death of Mary Page (Fenny Stratford 1852), viii) Marriage of John Hensman of Ampthill and Sarah Farrer of Flitwick (Flitwick 1818), ix) Burial of John Hensman (Flitwick 1828), and x) Baptism of William Farrar son of John and Sarah Hensman (Flitwick 1819). e) Pedigree of the Hensman family compiled from the extracts.
  • Level of description
    file