Reference
Z591/38
Title
Draft Deed of Gift
Date free text
22 Feb 1895
Production date
From: 1861 To: 1895
Scope and Content
i) Michael Cook, 32 High Street North, Dunstable, retired grocer
ii) Ann Cook
Margaret Cook
(spinsters, daughters of i))
now in consideration of natural love and affection of i) to ii)
i) conveys to ii)
... lands and property as in 2nd, 3rd and 4th schedules
1st schedule
... messuage, shop, etc., on North side of High Street, Houghton Regis (28 perches), now in occupation of John Horsler and conveyed to i) by deed of 19 November 1861 from trustees of late Duke of Bedford
... strip of land (about 6 perches) at North end thereof now thrown into the same, formerly part of plot of land referred to among property no. 4 in 2nd schedule
2nd schedule
... 3 cottages on North side of High Street, Houghton Regis, one formerly used as a mealman's shop
West: Unicorn Public House, with buildings etc. adjoining, and part of them occupied therewith, other such buildings being occupied by the Salvation Army, late James Gregory, Ezra Fletcher and John Horsler and formerly described as a farm, yard and outbuildings
... plot of pasture land adjoining occupied part by John Horsler and part by Ezra Fletcher (a small piece having been thrown into property in 1st schedule)
(total - 4 acres 2 roods 11 perches) numbered 4 on conveyance to i) from late Joseph Tofield's trustees dated 27 May 1878
... 3 plots arable, nos. 8, 9 and 10 adjoining each other and lying North and North East of no. 4 (2 acres, 1 acre 1 rood 33 perches, 2 roods 25 perches) and all piece of meadow (formerly arable) no. 12 on said plan, adjoining no. 8, called Shop Close and now in occupation of Mary Jane Goosey (1 rood 24 perches) except a portion (16 perches) sold off to --- Billington and Mooring
all conveyed to i) by deed of 27 May 1878
3rd schedule
... messuage, farmhouse etc., at Perry Green, Kimpton, Hertfordshire (15 acres) now in occupation of Joseph Cartwright
... 4 cottages (two of them formerly a chapel) adjoining now in occupations of the Reverend George Hawker and Messrs Willis, Gazeley and Mardell
all of which were devised to i) by will of father, Michael Cook, deceased
4th schedule
... piece of land, butcher's shop etc., on South side of High Street, Houghton Regis, with Cumberland Street on East, now in occupation of George Tompkins, butcher, and purchased by i) from John Cumberland, Luton, auctioneer 22 Feb 1895
endorsed: signature of i)
witness: Stephen D Middleton, solicitor, Dunstable
memorandum of conveyance of property in 4th schedule to George Tompkins 22 Feb 1895
attached draft of above deed
Level of description
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