Reference
X77/6
Title
Probate of Will of Thomas Bishop of Silsoe in the parish of Flitton, gentleman
Date free text
7 Dec 1754; codicil 22 Apr 1758; Proved 11 May 1759
Production date
From: 1754 To: 1759
Scope and Content
(bequests (mainly monetary)
to: daughter Sarah Loyd (wife of Richard Loyd);
John and Thomas Loyd (sons of Richard Loyd),
daughter Elizabeth Bristow (wife of Timothy Bristow),
Timothy, Thomas and Elizabeth Bristow (children of Timothy Bristow),
daughter Jane Sheppard (wife of Thomas Sheppard),
and William and Richard Sheppard (sons of Thomas Sheppard).
Devises to said William and Richard Sheppard all his real estate in Weston (county Hertfordshire).
And to John Rowley (son of daughter Mary Rowley, deceased), his 2 cottages in Silsoe, in occupation of George Willmore and Ann Millward.
(Further bequests to nephew Christopher Bishop and niece Hannah Fox, and to the afore-mentioned persons, of money and one sixteenth part of the ships "William" (master: Captain Glendes), and "The New Industry" (master: Captain Wigg)).
Executors: sons-in-law Richard Loyd and Thomas Sheppard, and daughter Elizabeth Bristow
Witnesses: Joannah Fletcher, John Beaumont and Robert Parker
[Codicil, dated 22 Apr 1758; whereby he devises to Ruth Howes, the house in Silsoe in which John Parker, butcher, lives.
Witnesses: Richard Harrison and Thomas Lilburn]
Level of description
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