Reference
X493/11
Title
Conveyance
Date free text
5 Feb 1900
Production date
From: 1871 To: 1900
Scope and Content
i) Rosa Matilda Lees, wife of Alfred Lees, Bedford, gentleman
Alfred William Henry Lees, Bedford, gentleman
ii) said Alfred Lees
iii) Reverend Henry Smith Plevy Mumford, Belfast, Antrim, Moravian minister
Reverend George Alfred Harold Mumford, Gomersal, Birstal, Yorkshire, Moravian minister
iv) Emma Mumford, Gomersal, widow
v) Edward Owen Carpenter, Bedford Bank, Bedford, gentleman
Captain Lindesay Beaumont Beaumont, Crossland Fosse, Kempston
[the Debenture trustees]
vi) Newland and Nash Limited, Lurke Street, Bedford
[the Company]
recites: will of Henry Smith dated 1 January 1871 in which he bequeathed to his brother William Hill Smith, one moiety of his real and personal estate and the other half to be divided between his 4 sisters Sarah, Mary Ann, Emma and Eliza and his niece Rosa Matilda Lees (then called Rosa Matilda Flood). Will proved in Northampton District Probate Registry on 11 March 1871
: Emma Smith married Reverend William Mumford at St Paul’s Church, Bedford on 31 July 1861. he died 5 December 1889
whereas: by conveyance of 8 June 1872 between a) William Hill Smith, Sarah Smith, Mary Ann Smith, Emma Mumford, Eliza Smith and Rosa Matilda Lees, b) William Smail, c) said William Hill Smith, a) conveyed to b) to use of c) upon trust for sale, property later described
: William Hill Smith made his will dated 13 September 1898. i) appointed executors and trustees. His property to be sold. He died 6 December 1898. Will proved 20 July 1899
: by deed of gift made 12 December 1898 between iv) and iii) her sons, she conveyed to them all the property to which she might become entitled under wills of her late brothers
: by the Debenture Trust Deed of 14 August 1897 between vi) and v) certain lands were conveyed by the Company to the Trustees
i) and iii), with confirmation of ii) and iv) convey to v) for £750
- ground in Lurke Street, in length from East to West 34 ft 2” and 72 ft from North to South
- 2 messuages known as nos. 20 and 22 Lurke Street, late in occupations of –-- Wynn and Samuel Lamb and now of vi), together with stable and coach house recently erected in the occupation of vi)
North: late Sarah Rawlings, now i)
South:. Lurke Street
East: vi)
West: late Nathaniel Wells Small and now of ---
covenant to produce copies of deeds mentioned
signed: i), ii), iii) and iv) and seal of vi) witness: -- director., secretary
witnesses: Frederick Sharman, John Camp(?), Albert Beldar(?)
endorsed with acknowledgement of Rosa Matilda Lees
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