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X335/5
Title
Mortgage: £1,500
Date free text
17 August 1847, 1856
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From: 1847 To: 1856
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Mary Tansley of Bedford, widow and heiress of George Dilley
Thomas Street of Harrowden, farmer
recites:-
feoffment 29 January 1803; Issac Sedgwick, Nathaniel Dilley, John Paine;
cottage and close in Cotton End occupied by Nathaniel Dilley;
house adjacent built by William Dunton, occupied by Thomas Goodship;
enclosure award:
death of Nataniel Dilley, 1843; bequeathed to son George;
George Dilley built 12 cottages on the land in his father's life; he has also converted his father's cottage into two, occupied by John Arnold and James Bettles; and has built two more tenements, occupied by Thomas Valentine and Mary Malden; no 1
George Dilley has also built 2 houses occupied by Jabez Pain and James Hughan;
George Dilley was lent £1,000 by Thomas Street;
George Dilley also had 3 houses in Ampthill Street, Bedford, occupied by Mrs Webb, Reverend Thomas Lester, Joseph Sunderland and Mrs Wood;
bordered West by property of Captain Henry Leach, East by a new street;
He also had 2 houses on the West side of the new sreet; occupied by John Barker and William Bennet, bordered North by property of William Francis. West by Bedford, London and Birmingham railway;
George Dilley died 15 October 1846, bachelor;
recites also:-
mortgage £300 by Mary Tansley to Thomas Woolridge and Esther Leach;
Mary Tansley is borrowing another £500 on land in the 4th schedule (4 houses in Ampthill Street, occupiers Mrs Andrew, P D Souper, William
White and Mrs Hornsby; house in the new street, heretofore occupied by George Dilley, now Mary Tansley; 4 cottages on the West side of
Pilcroft Street, occupied by John Smith, William Taylor; piece of garden in Pilcroft Street.);
she is borrowing from Thomas Street;
-- property in 4 schedules:-
3 acres in Cotton End, Cardington, with 18 dwellinghouses or cottages thereon;
2 messuages in Offa Street, Bedford;
5 messuages in or near Ampthill Street, Bedford;
9 messuages and garden in or near Ampthill Street, Bedford
17 August 1847
endorse with transfer to George Woodward 1856
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