Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HF40/1/4/22
  • Title
    Fair copy draft of Statement of Assets and Liabilities of Wells and Company, Old Firm (amended to 1924)
  • Date free text
    1906 - 1924
  • Production date
    From: 1906 To: 1924
  • Scope and Content
    1) £124 late W Jeeves secures on property at Sandy – can only be sold on T Millard death. See also HF41/1/1/30 2) £1000 life policy of W Fuller £1572 paid by Wells and Company – get £1715..5s on W Fuller’s death 1924 see also HF41/1/3/5-17 and HF40/1/4/11 3) £1000 policy on life of F Gresham, died 10 August 1920 Bonus £81..17s January 1907 Total Bonus £142..3s Bonus £106..11s, November 1911 Total Bonus £248..14s Bonus £113..2s, 1916 Total Bonus £361..16s See HF41/1/31-53 and HF40/1/4/7-10 4) £6000/400 policies on life of T Y White paid February 1923 See HF40/1/4/2-6 5) £400 Policy on life of John Powers – produced £819..10s (died February 1908). House and land (J Powers) Girtford, value 1906 £800 and 2 cottages there (one 1906 £150) sold to John Powers the son by auction 3 April 1908 for £775 – formerly in mortgage to Beauford’s Trustees but mortgage paid for out of cash; January 1906 6) 48 £10 shares in Biggleswade Gas Company 18 £1 shares in Biggleswade Gas Company, value “say £500” 7) 2 acres of land at Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire late C Powers let for £3..10s per annum, sold to H J Harper the tenant for £65 September 1912 8) £500 policy on life of C Christian premium paid by C Christian – died October 1912, policy monies received and divided up 9) 2/3rds share in 65 acres of freehold, Camb(ridgeshire) (unsold part of Langford Hill Farm) estimated value £1950 – 2/3rds £1300 (overdraft £3707..3s..5d). sold to C Northfield 6 May 1912 and Bank overdraft paid off 10) unsold building land forming part of Maswell Park Estate, Hounslow (late Hooper) all 1897 valuation should be worth £4000 “since then there has been a great fall in the value of land at Hounslow, apparently owing to the abnormal rates there” “all sold” see HF41/1/3/18 : HF41/1/6/5-6b 11) £820 due from F Coxall secured by life policy for £500 and present bonus addition £291 paid off by F Coxall February 1908 see HF41/1/3/1-4 12) Book debt of Whaley (late Sandon) £151..17s..6d. £75 paid August 1921 and accepted in satisfaction by Mrs Whaley’s executor, interest of £5..17s..7d to be paid to Hooper and Fletcher in June 13) C Powers – detailed description of position see HF/41//2 received £1776..8s..8d 1924 b) Brewery Property 1) 11 common rights say £40 each – pencilled down to £30 – let at £2 each – (pencilled to £2..10s) 2) garden at Wilstead (late Cole) let at 30s per annum sold to P Mann, tenant for £31 September 1912 3) 2 acres of land at Stotfold valued £100 (1906) let at £5 per annum, sold to Misses Bowman for £100, September 1912 4) 2 cottages, Horselow street, Potton copyhold of 3-4 different manors let at £5..18s enfranchised and sold to Miss A Bartle for £120 no date 5) Cottage and 14 acres of land at Clifton (late Maindley) value “say £800” [1906]. sold June 1910 for £1140 Nov 1906
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