Rushden Research Group: Deeds Bedford Rd properties

Extracted by Kay Collins, from privately held deeds, 2012

Bundle of deeds

Nos 11, 13, 15 & 17 Bedford Road

Copy of Probate of the Will of Mr Thomas Smith 11th May 1815

12 August 1820 Attested Copy of Conveyance of an Estate at Rushden, which had been Mortgaged in fee to Mary Simpson and John Simpson dec’d.

13 Jan 1821 Release of a cottage with covenant – Mr William Head by the direction of the devisees in trust of Mr Thomas Smith dec’d to Mrs Hannah Jaquest

03 Oct 1823 Lease for a year from Mrs Hannah Jaquest to Messrs John Barber Tuck and John Marriott

04 Oct 1823 Marriage Settlement - Mrs Hannah Jaquest and Mr Samuel Summerly

08 May 1830 Appointment of several freehold and copyhold messuages and premises from Mrs Hannah Summerly and Mr Samuel Summerly to Mr John Barber Tuck

1877 Abstract of Title of Mrs Agnes Provost Mr Walter Barber Tuck and Miss Gertrude Tuck to an Estate partly Freehold and partly Copyhold at Rushden.

1911 Abstract of Title Trustees of the Will of Thomas Affleck dec’d to freehold hereditaments in Rushden.

20 Nov 1952 Letter from Rushden Urban District Council to the solicitors on behalf of the trustees of George Bayes dec’d

That on 11 Mar 1951 - Nos 7, 9, 11 & 13 Bedford Road are now renumbered as Nos 11, 13, 15 & 17 respectively.

[these cottages were between Harborough Road and Manor Farm]

9th January 1879 Conveyance of two freehold Cottages and Covenant to surrender three Copyhold Cottages in Bedford Road from The trustees of the Marriage Settlement of Mr and Mrs James Ashton Provost (with the consent of the said Mr and Mrs Provost) and Mr Walter Barber Tuck and Miss Gertrude Tuck to Mr Thomas Affleck and with Mr William Warren.

Abstract of Title – The Trustees of the Will of Thomas Affleck

Freehold hereditaments situate at Rushden.

January 1878 – Indenture between Charles Frederick Lavender then late of Elstow Hardwick, Bedford, farmer, then of Bedford, gentleman, George Small of Bedford house decorator, and John Provost of Huntingdon, chemist of the first part, Walter Barber Tuck of 42 Wharton Street Lloyd Square, Middlesex, chemist of the second part, Gertrude Tuck of St Agnes Bishopstoke, Southampton, spinster of the third part, James Ashton Provost of Eastbourne, Sussex, chemist and Agnes Provost his wife (formerly Agnes Tuck spinster) of the fourth part, Thomas Affleck of Wellingborough, draper (hereinafter called the purchaser, of the fifth part, and William Warren of Rushden carrier of the sixth part.

Reciting – Will of William Mather Tuck late of Sharnbrook, gentleman, who died 17th Aug 1876. Admon granted to Marrianne Tuck.

Marriage Settlement April 1871.

"All those three messuages or tenements (formerly one messuage or tenement in the occupation of – Lane widow) with the yard or garden barn and outbuilding thereunto belonging situate on the South side of the Gable end abutting on the Bedford Road in Rushden, formerly in the several occupations of Hannah Jaquest James Jaquest and James Robinson and then converted into and occupied as four tenements thereof which were in the several tenures of John Underwood James Jaquest and John Perrin and the other untenanted and then again converted into three tenements which were then late in the several tenures or occupations of William Warren Maria Childs and James Warren and two of which were then in the occupation of the said William Warren and Maria Childs and the other was unoccupied bounded on or towards the North by property then belonging to George Wilmer on or towards the East by the said Brook or watercourse on or towards the South by the Freehold hereditaments therein before described and thereby assured and on or towards the West by Bedford Road aforesaid To which said hereditaments the said Agnes Provost William Barber Tuck and Gertrude Tuck were admitted tenants as thereinbefore recited."

April 1908 Will of Thomas Affleck who died October 1910, and was proved May 1911.

1815 Copy Probate Thomas Smith

1820 Attested Copy of Conveyance

1821 Release

1823 Lease

1823 Marriage Settlement

1830 Appointment

1877 Abstract of Title

1879 Conveyance

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