Saturday, June 28, 2014

Will of Elizabeth Blake, widow, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry, probated 15 Nov 1851

Another administration and again in the same general area as the two earlier ones. Elizabeth Blake mother of William Blake of Duntisbourne Abbots. There is a William Blake at Duntisborne Abbots, farmer, born circa 1784 on the 1851 census.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 28 May 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator:  Elizabeth Blake
Place: Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document:15 Nov 1851, probated 15 Nov 1851
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy


1    Know all Men by these Presents that We William Blake
2    of Duntisbourne Abbots in the County of Gloucester Farmer
3    Edward Page of Swindon Wilts Ironmonger and
4    William Sutton Page of Coaley in the County of Gloucester
5    Gentleman
6    are held and firmly bound unto James Henry Lord Bishop
7    of Gloucester and Bristol and his successors
8    in the sum of six hundred pounds
9    of good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid unto the said Lord
10    Bishop or his Successors or to his or their certain Attorneys Executors Admins-
11    trators or Assigns To which Payment well and truly to be made We oblige ourselves
12    and each of us by himself in and for the whole our and
13    each of our Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by
14    these Presents Sealed with our Seals dated the nineteenth day of
15    November in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
16    Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United
17    Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith Etc And
18    in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty one
19    The Condition of this Obligation is such That if the above bounden
20    William Blake Administrator of all and singular the Goods
21    Chattles and Credits of Elizabeth Blake deceased do
22    make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods
23    Chattles and Credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the Hands
24    Possession or Knowledge of him the said William Blake
25    or into the Hands and Possession of any Person or Persons for
26    him and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Registry
27    of the Consistory Court of Gloucester at or before the
28    last day of March next ensuing and the same Goods
29    Chattles and Credits and all other the Goods Chattles and Credits of the said deceased
30    at the time of her death which at anytime after shall come to the hands or Possession
31    of the said William Blake or into the hands
32    and Possession of any other Person or Persons for him do well and truly administer
33    according to Law And further do make or cause to be made a true and just Accompt
34    of his said Administration at or before the last day of Nov[embe]r 1852
35    and all the Rest and Residue of the said Goods Chattles and Credits which shall be
36    found remaining upon the said Administrators Accompts the same being first
37    examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges for the time being of the said
38    Court shall deliver and pay unto such Person or Persons respectively as the said
39    Judge or Judges by his or their Decree or Sentence pursuant to the true Intent and
40    Meaning of a late Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth and three and
41    twentieth Years of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second
42    entituled an Act for the better settling of Intestates Estates which limit and appoint
43    And if it shall hereafter appear that any last Will and Testament was made by the
44    said deceased and the Executor or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into
45    the said Court making Request to have it allowed and approved accordingly if the
46    said William Blake
47    above bounden being thereunto required do render and deliver the said Letter of
48    Administration Approbation of such Testament being first had and made in the
49    said Court then this Obligation to be void or else to remain in full Force and Virtue.
50    Signed Sealed and delivered
51    in the presence of
52    Tho[ma]s Woodward
53    William Blake
54    Edward Page
55    Wm Sutton Page

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