Reference
Z1578/Blun/1/12
Title
Abstract of Title
Date free text
1889
Production date
From: 1813 To: 1889
Scope and Content
Abstract of Title of Sarah Ann Bodger, Edward Bodger, Mary Poole, Elizabeth Pidgeon, Thomas Addington and Charles Albert Bodger to 12 acres of land,and a cottage and 3 roods in Blunham (copyhold Manor of Blunham)
(I) Deed of covenant of 30 December 1813
Parties:
(i) John Emery of Tempsford, gentleman; Mary Emery of Tempsford, spinster (only daughter of John);
(ii) Richard Bodger of Southill, farmer and grazier
Reciting:
- intended marriage between Mary Emery and (ii)
Operative Part:
- (i) covenanted to surrender (a)-(b)
Property:
(a) messuage, outbuildings and premises in Blunham in occupation of James Norman;
(b) close of pasture in Blunham near The Green abutting towards an old sluice on E and containing 12 acres in occupation of John Emery
Habendum:
- to the use of Mary Bodger for her life, remainder to Richard Bodger for his life as a widower, remainder to their child or children as tenants in common
(II) Z1578/Blun/1/1
(III) Z1578/Blun/1/2
(IV) pedigree table showing:
- Richard Bodger (24 June 1788-19 March 1844) married in December 1813 Mary Emery (5 April 1788-30 March 1878);
- their children: Emery Bodger (8 October 1814-4 December 1868 – left a will); Richard Bodger (7 August 1816-29 September 1854 – married, died intestate); John Bodger (18 February 1818-16 September 1876 – left a will); Sarah Ann Bodger (27 September 1819 still living 1889); William Bodger (24 November 1823-20 February 1824); Elizabeth Bodger (4 March 1824 – still living in 1889 as widow of Charles Pidgeon); Samuel Bodger (21 March 1826-21 September 1826); Samuel Bodger (2 July 1827-23 July 1827); Edward Bodger (5 October 1828 – still living in 1889); Mary Bodger (1 November 1830 – still living 1889 as wife of Frederick Poole);
- children of Richard Bodger: Mary Jane (born 17 May 1853); Charles Albert (born 17 May 1853 – a lunatic);
- children of John Bodger: Richard Bodger; Samuel Addington Bodger; Matilda Bodger; Florence Taylor, widow; Emily Bodger
(V) death of Mary Bodger on 31 March 1878
(VI) Z1578/Blun/1/3
(VII) Will of Emery Bodger of 9 December 1863 appointing his mother Mary, uncle John Edward Bodger, sister Sarah Ann Bodger and brother Edward Bodger as executors and after making certain legacies devised all his freehold real estate and residue personal estate to his mother and siblings equally and devised his copyhold estate to Edward Bodger in trust for himself, his mother and siblings
(VIII) Death of Emery Bodger on 4 December 1868
(IX) Proof of will of Emery Bodger in PPR on 26 January 1869
(X) Will of Mary Bodger of 26 August 1871 appointing her sons John and Edward and daughter Sarah Ann as executors and after bequeathing legacies devised all real and bequeathed residue personal estate to her executors for sale, conversion to money and division “as therein mentioned”
(XI) Death of Mary Bodger on 31 March 1878
(XII) Proof of will of Mary Bodger in Northampton DPR – John Bodger died in her lifetime
(XIII) Will of John Bodger of Gosmore, Saint Ippollitts [Hertfordshire], farmer of 13 February 1855 appointing his wife Mary Ann and brother Emery and brother-in-law Thomas Addington as executors and bequeathing and devising all personal and real estate in trust for conversion and sale at the discretion of his wife for her widowhood remainder to his children with sons having half as much again more than daughters and all shares to be as tenants-in-common
(XIV) Death of John Bodger on 15 September 1876
(XV) Proof of will of John Bodger on 25 October 1876
(XIV) death of Emery Bodger on 4 December 1868
(XV) Death of Mary Ann Bodger on 19 February 1877
(XVI) Z1578/Blun/1/4-11
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