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Downs Malting, Brewery Lane, Biggleswade

1864

From: 1800 To: 1864

Conveyance 1) Mary Ann Herbert of 88 Bishopsgate Street, City of London, spinster 2) Elizabeth Herbert of Kildare Terrace, Bayswater, Middlesex, spinster 3) Harriett Helen Herbert of same, spinster 4) George Hawkins of 88 Bishopsgate Street, merchant James McFarlane of Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, Writer to the Signet 5) Henry Robert Russell of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand but formerly of Dunfermline, gentleman and Susanna Cobham his wife 6) Frederick Hogge, Robert Henry Lindsell and Charles Samuel Lindsell of Wells and Company of Biggleswade (purchasers) recites; Turner Boston seised of copyhold lands enfranchised 30 June 1810 recites: Will of Turner Boston: - to sister Ann Doune, reversion to her husband John Doune, gentleman and then to her children: all real estate made 25 Mar 1795 proved Prerogative Court of Canterbury 27 May 1800 recites admission of Ann Doune to copyhold lands held of Manor of Biggleswade 29 and 30 April 1800 : one daughter Mary Ann Doune : Marriage Settlement 1) John Doune Mary Ann Doune marrying party Nathaniel Vincent Herbert, merchant marrying party 2) James Townsend, gentleman Thomas McGarth, surgeon (trustees) 18 October 1809 Enfranchisement of 30 June 1810 : death of her two parents in Mary Ann Herbert’s lifetime : Nathaniel Vincent Herbert and Mary Ann had 8 children George (died 1821 age 1 week) Sarah (died 1831 aged 12 years) Charlotte (died 1832 age 19 years) Dennis and female parties of present deed 1), 2), 3) and 5) recites: Marriage Settlement 1) Mary Ann Herbert, the mother 2) Henry Robert Russell (marrying party) 3) Susanna Cobham Herbert 4) George Hawkins and James McFarlane Trustees 1/5 part of hereditaments below 9 June 1846 recites: death of Dennis Herbert 1847 intestate recites Will of Mary Ann Herbert (died 18 March 1862) her 4 daughters: all property to be equally divided made 24 April 1861 proved 3 November 1862 : Deed of Settlement of shares in property below 1) Mary Ann Herbert 2) Elizabeth Herbert 3) Harriett Helen Herbert 4) Henry Robert Russell and Susanna Cobham his wife 5) George Hawkins and James McFarlane 9 Apr 1864 Conveyance 1) Henry Robert Russell and Susanna Cobham 2) Mary Ann Herbert 3) Elizabeth Herbert 4) Harriett Helen Herbert 5) Thomas Butts Tanqueray Willaume 3 undivided shares out of to use of 3 unmarried sisters 9 April 1864 piece of land in Back Lane, Biggleswade together with Malting Offices and premises erected on part of it, frontage to east of footway leading to Chapel fields of 156 ft 9 ins to S. of road called Back Lane 92 ft 1 inch abutting N. property of William Maddams W. by (added in pencil later, Mr Weston’s garden) Covenant by purchasers to erect closed 4 ft fence on N. side £105 each to first 4 parties 9 Apr 1864 NB Memorandum in Margin of Conveyance of SW. corner of above (N.-S. 50 ft, E.-W. 22 ft) conveyed to R H Lindsell and William Pope, churchwardens, Thomas Heath and William Kingsley, Overseers of parish of Biggleswade for site of fire engine house

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Hooper & Fletcher,
Wells & Co,
Herbert, Mary Ann,
Herbert, Elizabeth,
Herbert, Harriet Helen,
Hawkins, George,
McFarlane, James,
Russell, Henry Robert,
Russell, Susannah Cobham,
Hogge, Frederick,
Lindsell, Robert Henry,
Lindsell, Charles Samuel,
Boston, Turner,
Downe, Ann,
Boston, Ann,
Downe, John,
Downe, Mary Ann,
Herbert, Nathaniel Vincent,
Herbert, Mary Ann,
Townsend, James,
McGarth, Thomas,
Herbert, George,
Herbert, Sarah,
Herbert, Charlotte,
Herbert, Dennis,
Herbert, Susannah Cobham,
Willaume, Thomas Butts Tanqueray,
Maddams, William,
Weston, James Joseph,
Pope, William,
Heath, Thomas,
Kingsley, William

Hooper & Fletcher, breweries, BIGGLESWADE, Wells & Company, DEEDS, buildings and land use, Bishopsgate Street, Bayswater, merchant, Fife, Writer to the Signet, New Zealand, copyhold, enfranchisement, wills, Manor of Biggleswade, marriage settlements, surgeon, Biggleswade Back Lane, malting, offices, Biggleswade Chapel Fields, gardens, churchwardens, Overseers, parish, fire engines