Reference
RO28
Title
Farm and 100 acres in Millbrook with 2 acres in Marston purchased by John Earl of Upper Ossory in 1806
Date free text
1717-1806
Production date
From: 1717 To: 1806
Scope and Content
The title to the estate which John Earl of Upper Ossory purchased from Richard Edwards in 1806 is rather involved, as it had for many years been divided into two moieties (or halves) each of which must be followed separately. The title to the copyhold land concerned goes back further than that of the freehold but it is a reasonable assumption that the freehold (like the copyhold) had been the estate of John Hind of London, brewer, at the beginning of the 18th century, and was divided between his daughters Mary and Rebecca.
The moiety of Rebecca was settled on her grand-daughter Catherine Browning at the latter's marriage to Timothy Edwards in 1768. Edward held considerable lands in Wales while Catherine's parents settled on the couple, as well as a moiety of the Millbrook farm, a farm at Much Hadham, Hertfordshire and farms in Pulloxhill and Kempston. Two years later, Timothy Edwards purchased the other moiety of the farm at Millbrook from Edward Nickin, the second husband of Mary's niece, who had outlived his wife.
The copyhold premises, although at first divided into two moieties between Mary and Rebecca, were reunited on the descent of both moieties to John Browning from whom it passed to his daughter Catherine and to the Edwards family
[see L12/114-136 for title to the farm at Pulloxhill which was purchased by Lord Ongley 1812 and by him conveyed to the Earl de Grey in 1838. The title includes the originals of some of the deeds for which copies exist here and also the wills of Mary Helder of Little Offley (1748) and of John Browning (1756) and other material relating to the families concerned here]
[RO1/43 mentions a copyhold estate sold by Nicholas Denton of Barton in the Clay to John Hind, brewer, c.1697]
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