I have just finished transcribing the will of George Stillings of Bolton Brow, my 4x gt grandfather, a Corn Miller just outside Halifax.
It is the usual division of property etc. He owned quite a few cottages etc in Bolton Brow (now Sowerby Bridge).
One snippet tickled my sense of humour:
"And I expressly order and direct that the owners and occupiers for the time being of all the Cottages and Premises above by me devised which front to the Sowerby Bridge and Salterhebble Turnpike Road shall have an equal right and privilege at all Times hereafter to use the privy and deposit ashes upon the plot of ground situate at the North Side of the Cottages ...."
It is the usual division of property etc. He owned quite a few cottages etc in Bolton Brow (now Sowerby Bridge).
One snippet tickled my sense of humour:
"And I expressly order and direct that the owners and occupiers for the time being of all the Cottages and Premises above by me devised which front to the Sowerby Bridge and Salterhebble Turnpike Road shall have an equal right and privilege at all Times hereafter to use the privy and deposit ashes upon the plot of ground situate at the North Side of the Cottages ...."
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