Reference
Z1337/4/1
Title
Abstract of title of Sidney Charles Beale to 32 and 34 Langley Street, Luton
Date free text
1894
Production date
From: 1863 To: 1894
Scope and Content
Description of property:
Numbers 32 and 34 Langley Street, Luton, with gardens, washhouses and appurtenances then or lately occupied by Ann Woollatt and Joseph Thomas Fox, with small stable in the rear fronting Oxford Road occupied by Frederick Hawkes. Bounded on: NW by premises formerly of Revd. John Nanes but then of William Flemons; SW by a garden and premises formerly belonging to Mrs Knight but then to Mary Ann Holyoak wife of William George Holyoak; SE by Oxford Road; NE by Langley Street. Measuring 105 feet 9 inches long and 34 feet 1 inch wide next to Langley Street and 29 feet 4 inches wide at the rear.
Recites documents and events:
- indenture dated 1 June 1867 [apparently an error – should be 1857?] between (i) John Cook and Michael Cook, and (ii) James Burgess granting the property to James Burgess;
- will of James Burgess dated 9 October 1863 devising his real estate to his wife Mary Ann Burgess;
- death of James Burgess on 2 March 1871;
- probate dated 13 April 1871;
- marriage of Mary Ann Burgess to William Hipgrave at St. Pancras (Middx) on 10 August 1871;
- indenture dated 28 May 1875 between (i) William Hipgrave, (ii) Mary Ann Hipgrave, and (iii) Charles Washington Seabrook and Luke Dennis Smith appointing Seabrook and Smith trustees in respect of estate of Mary Ann Hipgrave
- indenture dated 23 December 1886 between (i) Mary Ann Hipgrave of 45 Rothesay Road, Luton, retired soda water manufacturer and (ii) Sidney Charles Beale of 20 Cumberland Street, Luton, brewer’s agent. Sale of 32 and 34 Langley Street to Sidney Charles Beale for £600
Also recites series of mortgages:
- mortgage dated 25 February 1888: property mortgaged to Hannah Primett of Luton, wife of William Primett retired farmer by Sidney Charles Beale for £80;
- mortgage dated 5 November 1888: property mortgaged to Hannah Primett for a further £60;
- mortgage dated 28 October 1889: property mortgaged to Hannah Primett for £50 in addition to the previous two loans;
- repayment of all mortgage principal to Hannah Primett by Sidney Charles Beale on 13 November 1890;
- mortgage dated 14 November 1890: property mortgaged by Sidney Charles Beale to Charles Davis of Sharpenhoe, farmer, Samuel Davis of Rothesay Road, Luton, and William Thomas Partridge of 97 Albany Road, Camberwell,doctor of medicine for £300;
- mortgage of £300 to Davis, Davis and Partridge repaid on 29 February 1892 by Matilda Emily Davis Beale, wife of Sidney Charles Beale and property remortgaged to her
- transfer of £300 mortgage on 29 July 1892 from Matilda Emily Davis Beale to Sophia Simpkins of 53 Tavistock Street, Luton, wife of Joseph Simpkins, engineeer
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