WI/124

Will of Samuel Hopkins of Leighton Buzzard, farmer

Will dated 11 March 1871, copied 1874

From: 1852 To: 1852

–Devisees to son Benjamin, “Grovebury Farm”, leased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, & a messuage in the Church Square in Leighton Buzzard in occupancy of John Philip Kipling. Two copyhold cottages in the North Street of Leighton Buzzard in occupancy of William Brown & Edward Pointer, a garden ground in the Lammas Close, in occupancy of son Thomas & George Gibbs, to use of son Samuel. To granddaughter, Elizabeth Cullingham, the house & shop in North Street with right of way over the “Greyhound Inn” yard, then in occupancy of son Thomas. To John Loke of Leighton Buzzard, maltster, & Matthew Bliss of Hellesthorpe (county Buckinghamshire), farmer, (executors & trustees), the rest of his real and personal estate in trust to sell it by public auction or private contract and to divide the profits amongst his sons Samuel, Henry, James & Thomas. Witness Fred Willis & H. Ladd (solicitors of Leighton Buzzard).

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Hopkins, Samuel,
Hopkins, Benjamin,
Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
Kipling, John Philip,
Brown, William,
Pointer, Edward,
Gibbs, Thomas,
Gibbs, George,
Cullingham, Elizabeth,
Hopkins, Thomas,
Loke, John,
Bliss, Matthew,
Hopkins, Henry,
Hopkins, James,
Willis, Fred,
Ladd, H.

wills, legal papers, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, Leighton Buzzard Grovebury Farm, Leighton Buzzard Church Square, Leighton Buzzard North Street, rights of way, Leighton Buzzard Greyhound