• Reference
    RY616
  • Title
    Will (probate) of Thomas Birdsey, Leighton Buzzard, butcher
  • Date free text
    made 5 May 1787; proved 7 Jul 1787
  • Production date
    From: 1787 To: 1787
  • Scope and Content
    to wife Mary, all freehold and copyhold messuages and lands in Leighton Buzzard for life, with goods, to educate and maintain children Residue in counties of Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire to wife Mary and to her brothers William and Samuel Haydon to convert into money, and with the sum to pay off debts etc., then to be divided between children On death of wife property in Leighton Buzzard to go to trustees to be sold and money arising to be divided between children, share of daughter Elizabeth Beaumont to be paid to her exclusive of her husband John Beaumont made 5 May 1787 proved Leighton Buzzard Peculiar 7 Jul 1787
  • Level of description
    item