Reference
Z1542/1/4
Title
Supplemental Abstract of Thomas Ball to property in Milton Ernest
Date free text
1859
Production date
From: 1766 To: 1859
Scope and Content
(I) Extracts from parish registers for: burial of William Little at Milton Ernest 3 November 1766; burial of Elizabeth Grant at Ravenstone churchyard south-west 23 December 1787; burial of Hannah Sutton at Ravenstone 24 April 1803; burial of Mary Harrison at Pavenham 8 November 1797
(II) Statutory declaration of 2 July 1841 of Mary Lowe of Newport Pagnell [Buckinghamshire], widow that: she was 58; she was formerly Mary Guilden of Newport Pagnell; she married George Lowe at Newport Pagnell in April 1801; George was eldest son of James and Ann Lowe of Milton Ernest; Ann Lowe had been born Ann Sutton, a devisee and legatee in the will of Abraham Little of Milton Ernest; George and Mary Lowe had six children all born at Newport Pagnell; the eldest was stillborn, the second, Samuel, died an infant, the third, William then lived at Northampton as a sraper and he was heir at law of his father George; George Lowe, husband of Mary, died at Newport Pagnell in 1813 and was buried there; she believed her husband had been born at Milton Ernest in 1775; she knew her parents-in-law James and Ann Lowe went to live at Hackney [Middlesex] in their final years and had a small farm, she believed Ann died a year or two before her husband who died in November 1825; she had often heard James and Ann Lowe say that William was their heir at law; she did not think they had attempted to to dispose of the estate claimed from the will of Abraham Little and that Mary Lowe’s son William was now entitled to it; signed by Mary Lowe by mark
(III) Extracts from parish registers of Newport Pagnell: marriage of George Lowe and Mary Guilden 16 October 1799; birth of Samuel, son of George and Mary Lowe 18 April 1801; baptism of Samuel 22 April 1801; burial of Samuel 24 January 1808; baptism of William, son of George and Mary Lowe 19 April 1822
(IV) Extracts from parish registers of Saint John, Hackney : burial of James Lowe 25 January 1826; burial of Ann Lowe 21 October 1823
(V) Extracts from the parish registers of Milton Ernest: marriage of James Lowe and Ann Sutton 28 September 1774; marriage of Thomas Harrison and Sarah Pecke 16 November 1790; baptism of George son of James and Ann Lowe January 1775; burial of Hannah Sutton 24 April 1803
(VI) Extracts from the parish registers of Pavenham: marriage of Samuel Harrison and Mary Pecke 28 October 1784; baptism of Thomas, son of Samuel and Mary Harrison 29 May 1791; burial of Thomas Harrison 27 March 1831
(VII) Statutory declaration of George Rench of Milton Ernest, labourer of 17 August 1841 that: he was 90; he was born at Biddenham and had lived at Milton Ernest upwards of 65 years; he knew Abraham Little of Milton Ernest who died there; he knew all the people with an interest in the will of Abraham Little, especially Thomas Pecke, Elizabeth Sutton, Susannah Sutton, Hannah Sutton, Ann Sutton, afterwards Ann Lowe, Mary Pecke and Sarah Pecke; that Elizabeth Sutton married William Grant of Ravensden, had two children, died in the lifetime of her husband and was buried at Milton Ernest; Hannah Sutton died at Milton Ernest unmarried; Ann Sutton married James Lowe of Milton Ernest and had children by him of whom George was the eldest; George Lowe was a stonemason and went to live at Newport Pagnell; Mary Pecke married Samuel Harrison of Pavenham, a stonemason and victualler, she died in his lifetime and had one son, Thomas, who was then living in Pavenham; Sarah Pecke married a Thomas Harrison of Pavenham, butcher who had since died but Sarah was then living a widow; George Rench signed by mark
(VIII) Statutory declaration of 15 February 1842 of Sarah Harrison of Pavenham, widow that: she was a niece of Abraham Little of Milton Ernest, yeoman; that Hannah Sutton who died many years since was her sister of the half blood and also a niece of Abraham Little; that Hannah Sutton died intestate
(IX) Extract from the parish registers of Blunham: marriage of Thomas Slaney and Mary Jeeres of 6 April 1815
(X) Extract from the parish registers of Milton Ernest: burial of Susan Sutton on 9 December 1841
(XI) Statutory declaration of 29 January 1842 of John Williamson of Sharnbrook, surgeon, that: he knew Thomas Slaney of Riseley, yeoman for thirty years prior to his death; he knew Slaney’s wife Mary, whom he married in 1815 and had been Mary Jeeres, widow; their first child died shortly after birth; he knew Simeon Sutton Slaney, second child of Thomas and Mary who was still living and was his father’s heir; Thomas and Mary Slaney were protestant dissenters - Baptists - and that neither their first child nor Simeon Sutton Slaney had not been baptised in Little Staughton where they were born or in any other church
(XII) Extract from a letter of Thomas Robinson on 16 February 1842: “Mr W Goodliffe died at Little Staughton on 22 April 1834 he was buried in the Graveyard adjoining our chapel and this taken from the stone standing there to his memory by Thomas Robinson the Minister of the place”.
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