Reference
WE2098
Title
Copy of will of John Findlay of Ampthill, gentleman, aged and infirm
Date free text
1746-1816
Production date
From: 1746 To: 1816
Scope and Content
To son William Findlay
... messuage or Inn called “The White Hart”, Ampthill, now in occupation of John Blakely etc.
... messuage, gardens, coach house and part of the garden with the summer house in Ampthill as now is in the occupation of Thomas Armstrong esquire.
...tenement adjoining and part of it, now occupied by Michael Morris, blacksmith
... messuage, malting, yards, orchards and gardens belonging formerly in occupation of Charles Dymoke, gentleman deceased and now divided into several tenements in occupation of testator, Mrs Terry, ___ Dix widow, and son in law Thomas Hollingworth etc.
... 3 closes of pasture or sward ground and last messuage near adjoining and called Upper Close, Middle Close and Lower Close now in occupation of Thomas Hollingworth
...messuage, cottage or tenement etc., Ampthill adjoining Lower Close now in occupation of Arthur Wooding and Thomas Sharpe
...acres of common field in Flitwick Field shooting down to the Brook by Yew Green House now in occupation of Daniel Wright, gentleman.
Subject to paying granddaughter Martha Dearmer £15 when aged 21
To William Findlay
... messuage or tenement in Ampthill with yard, garden orchard and backside as is now in occupation of George Gale, son in law
... all land, ley and meadow in Ampthill and Maulden now occupied by George Gale (part of estate purchased from Thomas Day esquire and Catherine his wife)
Son to pay £200 mortgage and interest (mortgaged with messuage adjoining called “The Compasses”)
To daughter Margaret, wife of George Gale
... messuage called “The Compasses” (NB to be free of all incumbrances) now in occupation Daniel Wright. [residue of estate purchased from Thomas Day]
To Thomas Hollingworth, son in law
...cottage, Dunstable Street, Ampthill in occupation of Richard Beech, pipemaker
...close of pasture ground or orchard adjoining also occupied by Richard Beech.
And son William £50 out of personal estate as Trustee for Ann Dearmer for her own use for joint lifes of her and her husband
if daughter survives husband, then to her, if she does not then £50 and interest to her 2 daughters equally when both 21, if both die under 21 to William Findlay absolutely
Residue to William
Will made 24 Jan 1746
Codicil
To Ann wife of John Dearmer
... messuage now in occupation of Michael Morris, blacksmith, (part of messuage now in occupation of Thomas Armstrong) and liberty and use of the pump in the yard in common with owners and occupiers of messuage in occupation of Thomas Armstrong
and of messuage now in occupation of son in law Thomas Wyles and which testator lately conveyed to him and liberty and use of the yard to go to and from the messuage to the building across the yard called the Woodhouse
... the Woodhouse for sometime in occupation of Michael Morris to be kept by Ann in good repair and paying 1/3rd of the costs of keeping the pump in repair
Reversion to granddaughter Martha
If dies before 21 without legitimate issue then to testator’s right heirs
Also revokes £50 Trust
Son in law Thomas Hollingworth erected a building on part of a close in Dunstable Street, Ampthill over against his own house BUT left it in his will to son William to prevent disputes, gives the building and ground or soil of the close from Richard Beech’s garden hedge quite round the building, 6 feet from the fence next the street and 6 feet round the building, (which fence is to be repaired by Thomas Hollingworth and his heirs) to Thomas Hollingworth.
Made 18 Jul 1747
Proved Bedford 1747/8
No date when copy was made (papermark 1816)
(NB Will of William Findlay, of Ampthill, gentleman “weak in body”)
... messuage or inn called the “White Hart”, Ampthill in occupation of John Blakely with all houses, outhouses, edifices, buildings, barns, stables, yards etc. and other messuage or tenement with the outhouses, stables, coach house and part of the garden with the summer house in Ampthill, late in occupation of Thomas Armstrong and now of Mrs Armstrong, his widow, to sister Martha, wife of Thomas Eyles, surgeon; life reversion to nephew John Bolding.
Martha and Ann Wyles as tenants in common
subject to brother in law Thomas Wyle’s trust to pay
a) £50 to sister Margaret, wife of George Gale of Ampthill, brasier for herself
b) £10 to sister Ann Dearmer for herself
£10 for niece Martha Dearmer within 5 years after testators death.
further £50 for Margaret Gale within 1 or 2 years.
Residue of goods to Thomas Wyles (as a token of the great care and trouble my said sister Wyles and he have had and taken with me in my several illnesses and as a small recompense to them for the same and what I already owe them)
Thomas Wyles sole executor
Made 28 March 1750; proved Bedford 20 Oct 1750
(Will reference: APBW1750/42)
Will reference of original is APBW1747-8/71 and APBW1750/42
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