Reference
Z1265/8/1
Title
Conveyance
Date free text
3 January 1849
Production date
From: 1841 To: 1849
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Charles Armstrong of Wootton, farmer; William Armstrong of Haynes, farmer;
(ii) Mary Armstrong of Houghton Conquest, widow;
(iii) Thomas Bunker of Houghton Conquest, baker;
(iv) Isaac Handscomb of Ampthill, upholsterer
Reciting:
- will of John Armstrong of Houghton Conquest, farmer, deceased of 7 June 1841 giving £400 to each of his daughters Mary Ann and Althamiah and charging the legacies on his estates; devising all his real estate to (i) and (ii) with the intent that (iii) had an annuity of £52 per annum out of them and giving (i) and (ii) power of sale;
- proof of the will of John Armstrong on 19 June 1843 in Archdeaconry of Bedford;
- death of Althamiah Armstrong on 16 February 1848 under the age of 21;
- Mary Ann Armstrong had recently married Thomas George;
- to raise the £800 for Mary Ann George (i) and (ii) had determined to sell part of the real estate
Operative Part:
- (i) and (ii) conveyed and (ii) released (a) to (iii) for £100
Property:
(a) two cottages in Houghton Conquest n occupation of Richard Whiteman and Thomas Brightman and built by John Armstrong in front of a cottage in occupation of Samuel Cook, then John Dyer situate between the former workhouse in occupation of Thomas Bunker W and cottage formerly of John Constable now of Edmund Day E and abutting S on highway
Habendum:
- to (iii), to the use of (iii) for his life, to the use of (iv) during the life of (iii) in trust for (iii), to the use of (iii) for ever
Witness:
- Edward Handscomb of Ampthill, solicitor
Level of description
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