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Howard, William
PERSONS/8/1482
1795 - 1849
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Farmer and baker, Gosford St. from the 1820s (see PA101/8/901,903: PA56/1/6,7 ). From 1822 to 1834 Howard was a trustee for sale of Well St. premises (see PA202/1/14-17). He occupied land at Harnall Fields - see PA221/1/2. A Bakers' Company member, 1795 (PA8/6/130). A chamberlain, 1809. Howard held Shortley land, 1824 - see PA279/3/4. Howard tenanted Shoulder of Mutton Close and Haunch Close (total: 7a. 3r. 19p.) at Stoke in 1840 [Blyth]. For the Harnall land, see also PA213/1/12. For the Well St. premises, see BA/A/G/17/2,3. Howard was trustee for a Cross Cheaping messuage (1837 to his death on 23rd. Jan., 1849 - see BA/A/G/28/3,5), was mortgage-assignee for Well St. premises (1813-22: BA/A/G/18/4,8), was owed money by James Dunckley (1810 - BA/E/K/114/96) and sold a Burges messuage in 1846 (see BA/A/G/23/35). Howard was mortgage-assignee for a Gosford St. messuage (1822 - PA55/4/6) and an Aldermans Green cottage (1815 - PA55/23/13), trustee of a Cross Cheaping messuage (1808 - PA55/36/18) and himself mortgagor of a Harnall property (1809ff - PA55/27/2,3). See PA55/26/1: PA1681/34/1. Trustee of Butterworth family property, 1822 (CCA/2/3/194/37: PA1681/48/3.XII,XIII,XXIII,XXIX). Howard was interested in Red Lane land, 1832 (PA56/67/1.XIV,XV). He was trustee for John Johnson's purchase of Crabtree Close, Gosford Green 1819 (PA56/138/1.IX,2-3). Howard held land from the Drapers' Company, 1824-44 (see PA468/4/3/33/42; PA468/4/3/54/4,7,14,22; PA468/5/3/57/32,33; PA468/5/13/22,23). See PA2297/3/15: PA849/7/3. CCA/2/3/162/26 is Howard's 1821-24 account with Joshua Adams; in 1826 he bought two messuages near Saint Michael's in which the other had a life-interest (see CCA/2/3/162/27-28). Mortgage-assignee of the "Roebuck", Little Park Street, 1815-20 (CCA/2/3/170/34,36). Howard acted as trustee when the victualler Josiah Rainbow purchased Mill Lane property in 1809 - see CCA/2/3/219/19-20. Trustee for part of Greyfriars' Churchyard, 1823 (CCA/2/3/135/19-20). Howard was a trustee of Ann Ling's marriage settlement, etc., 1809-15 (see CCA/2/3/1/20,21,25,27-28). Trustee for John Conway (q.v.)'s purchase of property beyond Well Street Gate in 1822 (see CCA/2/3/310/21); for John Hunt's of Longford property in 1817 (see PA2529/1/11); for John Ryley(q.v.)'s of land for the development of Whitefriars' Street, 1820 (CCA/2/3/888/3). Howard was a trustee of the mealman James Hewitt(q.v.)'s 1823 will (PA2458/6). He was named in 1822 as an executor of Mary Matthews (see PA2770/26/21,24.XVII). Occupied a Far Gosford Street messuage - see PA2830/1/4.I. For his Harnall land, 1809ff, see also PA704/1/14.I,II. Howard was trustee when the butcher John Johnson (q.v.) sold parts of Crab Tree Close, Gosford Green in 1820 (see CCA/2/3/951/2-3,26-27). Involved in Town Court litigation, 1827 - see BA/E/K/110/719.
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