Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WI/87
  • Title
    Admission of Thomas Doggett on surrender of Richard Goodman alias Dickens of Mutton Lane, South Mimms (County Middlesex), yeoman (natural son & devisee of Richard Goodman & one of the sons of Sarah Dickens, widow, previous to their marriage; for £109.
  • Date free text
    25,26 Oct 1810
  • Production date
    From: 1810 To: 1810
  • Scope and Content
    - 8½ acres in the Open Fields of Leighton Buzzard. Place names: Middle Field, Hunts Way, the Glebe Land, Hockliffe Highway, Great Hunts Way, Hockliffe Way, Flitch of Bacon Hedge; Grovebury Field, Grovebury Bottom, Dunstable Highway, the Homestead. Bounding owners: Abraham Mann, (occupant), late Arthur Clarke esq., then Joshua Hopkins, Mrs Ashwell, late John Ashwell late Mary Flemons, widow late Daniel Poynten, then John Tring, late Mr Matthews, John Short, late John Dean, then Ann London, late Robert Millard, then John Millard. [Richard Goodman senior was admitted, 1755, on Surrender of John Eason of Leighton Buzzard, shepherd; and Richard Goodman alias Dickens., 1802 on death of his father]. Also 3 acres of land in Shenley Hill Field. Place names: Short Linslade Furlong, the Glebe Land, Shenley Hill next the highway, Blakes Mead, Blakes Mead Furlong, Short Linslade, Lord Leigh’s headland. Bounding owners: late John stone, then Mrs Stone, the widow, late Thomas Walker, them William Claridge, late John Smith, then Samuel Davis, late Joseph Nash, then Henry Bates, late Edward Ashwell esquire, then Mrs Ashwell, late Mr Baskerfield, then Thomas Cooper, late Henry Woodman, then John Grant, late John Owen Stubbe, then John Bushell, late Mr Griffin. [Richard Goodman alias Dickens purchased the 3 acres from John Newman of Leighton Buzzard, wheelwright, and was admitted, 1806.] Court of Rev. Thomas Leigh & James Henry Leigh esq. Steward: Thomas Hill Mortimer
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