• Reference
    Z1265/1/11
  • Title
    Extract of will of Charles Purser of Bedford, gentleman
  • Date free text
    2 February 1834
  • Production date
    From: 1834 To: 1834
  • Scope and Content
    - bequeathing £50 to Mary Ann Ashby of Bedford, Saint Mary; - bequeathing £80 to his servant Margaret Lacy; - bequeathing £25 to Dorothy, widow of his brother William; - bequeathing £25 to ths children of William Purser; - bequeathing the residue of his personal estate and devising his real estate to his nephews John and William Purser of Willington, farmers in trust for sale, dividing monies not used for debts payment and for legacies evenly between Ann, widow of his brother John and their children; - appointing John and William Purser as executors; - witnesses; C Short of Bedford, surgeon; Alexander Sharman of Bedford, solicitor; Henry Brooke, clerk to Alexander Sharman; - proved in PPR 23 May 1834
  • Level of description
    item