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Document Number:0412087
Title:Probate
Date:24 January 1804
SOLD - transcription available: £8.00
Condition:
Poor. The ink is faded in places (but still legible). The pendant seal is falling apart.
Physical description:
Parchment : 1 sheet 49cm x 72cm with grant of probate and pendant seal.
Summary of contents
Testator
Thomas Smith of Blackrod, Lancashire, Yeoman.

Beneficiaries
Robert Smith of Bolton-in-the-Moors, Lancashire.
Richard Strickland of Blackrod, Lancashire.

Subject
The main part is a copy of the will of Thomas Smith written 17/03/1803 in which he leaves property to his son Robert Smith and his son-in-law Richard Strickland. The property consists of two dwelling houses known as Eccles House and Physic House with 5 fields known as Meadow Croft, The Tidy Field, The Barn Field, The Upper Meadow and The Lower Meadow, all in Dilworth, Lancashire, Probate granted 24/01/1804.
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