| Description | [Contained in parcel containing CR2440/11-12 also].
The lands were two closes in Beech End called The Rough (late of Levi Boughton) and Gorsey Bit (late of Thomas Haynes). In 1820 Stephen Oldham of Coundon, gentleman surrendered the property to Julia Brown of Berkswell spinster, whose copy will (1826) is present, with extracts from the Berkswell and Hampton-in-Arden registers as to Brown family entries, 1843. After the Browns ceased to hold the premises, Benjamin Clarke of Coventry, mail contractor, was admitted to the property in 1843 and the will of Benjamin Clarke of Coventry, yeoman, is present (1855). The closes were sold by auction in 1860, and Charles Woodcock was admitted. In 1878 there is a sale catalogue and plan on the sale of a small copyhold farm and land on Berkswell and freehold cottages and land at Allesley in four lots. Lot 3 is this property, to which Fanny Bury and then John Howe of Knowle, clerk, were admitted in 1878. On the death of Howe, his stepson Captain George Westley Richards of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, was admitted, 7 June 1892. |