Their children (and all are mentioned in the will below):
John baptized 7 Nov 1799 (born 4 Oct 1799) Andover
Elizabeth baptized 29 Sep 1803 (born 30 Aug 1803) Andover
Leonard baptized 23 Feb 1802 (born 18 Aug 1801) Andover
Mary baptized 25 Jul 1806 (born 4 Apr 1806) Andover
John Lywood married Elizabeth Dowling 1 Jan 1823 at Goodworth Clatford
Elizabeth Lywood married John Lewis 10 Jan 1822 at Barton Stacey
Leonard Lywood married Anne Courtney 9 Nov 1830 at Barton Stacey
Mary Lywood married Anthony Mist Lewis 7 Jul 1825 at Barton Stacey
There are four possibilities for the parents of John Lywood (Testator) on Find My Past (and the first one is eliminated by the last leaving two possibilities one at Knights Enham and one at Chawton):
John Lywood baptized 16 Aug 1752 and the son of Jesse and Mary Lywood at Nether Wallop (married 22 Dec 1760 Jesse Lywood and Mary Cook (widow) at Nether Wallop)
John Lywood baptized 15 Sep 1757 and the son of John and Mary Lywood at Knights Enham (married 21 Oct 1756 John Lywood and Mary Pearce at Knights Enham)
John Lywood baptized 9 May 1760 and the son of John and Ann Lywood at Chawton (married 10 Jul 1759 John Lywood and Ann Cousins at Chawton)
John Lywood baptized 2 Mar 1777 and the son of John and Ruth Lywood at Houghton (married 13 May 1776 John Lywood and Ruth Warwick at Nether Wallop)
Knights Enham is interesting being so close to Andover. However, Froyle where they married is only 4.3 miles NE of Chawton and Andover is 25 miles East of Froyle. So no guesses here on that one!
The will might give us some information on his origins if he mentions siblings. Barton Stacey is 5.5 miles south east of Andover just to place this location. He does not however mention any family other than his children and wife in his will below.
I have no ideas on the ancestry of this Lywood family but I vaguely recall Warwick mentioning that this Hampshire Lywood family may not share ancestry until back before the 1600s. I haven't spoken to him in at least seven years (via email) so he may have more information now and can be found on the Guild of one name studies website.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24 Apr 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1776/81
Testator: John Lywood, Esquire
Place: Barton Stacey, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 28 Oct 1826, probated 3 Sep 1830
Read: Electronic copy images
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: John
[Margin]: Lywood
[Margin]: Esquire
[Margin]: 54
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me John Lywood
3 of Southampton Esquire made in sound and disposing mind memory and understanding
4 as follows that is to say First I will and direct that all my just debts the expences of my
5 Funeral and all my testamentary expences as also the pecuniary Legacies by me herein
6 after given shall be paid out of the residue of my personal Estate And it is my will that
7 if such Residue of my personal Estate shall not be sufficient for that purpose the
8 deficiency shall be made good by my Children in equal shares and proportions out of the
9 Estates and property hereinafter devised and bequeathed to them Also I do hereby give and
10 bequeath unto the following persons the under mentioned specific Legacies that is to say To
11 my dear wife Elizabeth Lywood my Single Horse Chaire and Harness and such Horse as
12 shall have been usually driven therein a short time before or at the time of my decease
13 To my eldest Son John Lywood my Gold watch To my youngest Son Leonard Lywood
14 my Silver Watch my Silver Soup Ladle and my Silver Quart Tankard To my eldest
15 daughter Elizabeth Lewis one of my Silver pint Cups and one of my silver half pint
16 Cups To my youngest daughter Mary Lewis my other silver pint Cup and an other silver
17 half pint Cup Also I give and bequeath unto my said wife all my household Goods and
18 Furniture household Implements plate (not hereinbefore disposed of) Silver and China now
19 being or which at the time of my decease shall be in and about my present dwelling
20 house and premises at Barton Stacey aforesaid Also I give and bequeath unto my Son
21 Leonard Lywood all the household Goods and furniture household Implements plate not
22 hereinbefore disposed of Silver and China now being in and about my late dwellinghouse
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23 at Barton Stacey in the parish of Barton Stacey aforesaid and now in the permitted
24 possession of the said Leonard Lywood Also I give and bequeath unto my present Servant
25 William Hamborn whether he shall be in my Service at the at the time of my decease or not the
26 Legacy or Sum of Twenty pounds To Ann the wife of James Smith of Barton Stacey afores[ai]d
27 the Legacy or Sum of one guinea and to James Bower five pounds if in my Service or that
28 of my Son Leonard Lywood at the time of my decease And whereas my Son in Law
29 John Lewis is indebted to me Two hundred pounds Now I do hereby give and bequeath
30 one hundred pounds part of the said debt to the said John Lewis And I give and bequeath
31 one hundred pounds residue thereof to my Son in Law Anthony Lewis Also I give and
32 bequeath unto my said wife for and during the term of her natural life determinable
33 nevertheless as hereinafter mentioned one annuity or clear yearly Sum of Ninety pounds over
34 and besides all Taxes or Duties payable for or in respect of the same or any part thereof
35 and free and clear from such duties and all charges and deductions whatsoever and which
36 said Annuity or clear yearly Sum of Ninety pounds I do hereby charge upon and make
37 payable out of my Freehold Messuages Farms Lands hereditaments and premises with the
38 appurtenances situate at Upper Clatford in the said County of Southampton called Norman
39 Court Farm by four equal quarterly payments in every year that is to say the twenty fifth
40 day of March the twenty fourth day of June the twenty ninth day of September and the
41 twenty fifth day of December the first payment thereof to be made on such of the said
42 quarterly days of payment as shall first happen next after my decease Also I give and
43 bequeath unto my said wife for and during the term of her natural life determinable
44 nevertheless as hereinafter mentioned One other Annuity or clear yearly Sum of Sixty
45 pounds over and besides all Taxes or duties payable or to be payable for or in respect of
46 the same or any part thereof and free and clear from such Taxes duties and all charges
47 and deductions whatsoever which said last mentioned Annuity or clear yearly Sum of
48 Sixty pounds I do hereby charge upon and make payable out of my Freehold Messuages
49 Farms Lands hereditaments and premises with the appurtenances situate at Barton
50 Stacey aforesaid by the like four quarterly payments in every year by which the said last
51 mentioned Annuity of Ninety pounds hereinbefore charged upon the said hereditaments and
52 premises at Upper Clatford aforesaid to make payable provided always that if the said
53 annuities or clear yearly Sums of Ninety pounds and Sixty pounds or either of them
54 shall be in arrear and unpaid in part or in all for the space of twenty one days next
55 over or after either of the said days of payment on which the same respectively ought to
56 be paid as aforesaid Then and in such case and as often as the same shall happen it shall
57 and may be lawful to and for my said wife Elizabeth Lywood and her assigns over and
58 besides all other remedies which she may be entitled to have or take for recovery of
59 the same to enter into and upon the said several Messuages Farms Lands Tenements and
60 hereditaments with the appurtenances charged with the payment of the same respectively
61 or any part thereof and distrain for such of the said respective annuity or annuities or
62 such part of parts thereof respectively which shall be so in arrear and unpaid as afores[ai]d
63 and the distress and distresses then and there find to impound take lead drive and carry
64 away sell and dispose of according to Law in like manner as in case of Rent in
65 arrear until such Annuity and Annuities respectively and all arrears of the same
66 together with all costs charges and expences attending the making keeping sale and disposal
67 of such distress or distresses shall be fully paid and satisfied provided also that when
68 and as soon as the Annuity or clear yearly Sum of one hundred and fifty pounds
69 hereinafter given to my said Wife shall become payable and my said wife shall be in
70 the actual receipt and perception thereof by virtue of the bequest hereinafter contained
71 Then the said several Annuities of Ninety pounds and Sixty pounds and each of them
72 shall be no longer paid or payable to her and the same severally together with the powers
73 and remedies for recovery of the same respectively shall cease and be determined and void
74 provided also that the said two several annuities or clear yearly Sums of Ninety pounds
75 and Sixty pounds and the Annuity or clear yearly Sum of One hundred and fifty pounds
76 hereinafter given to my said Wife instead of and in lieu of the same in the event of the
77 death of Thomas Bennett Gentleman hereinafter named and as hereinafter mentioned
78 are given and bequeathed to her and shall be by her accepted and taken in full and entire
79 bar and satisfaction of all Dower and right and Title to Dower and Thirds at the
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80 Common Law which she may have or claim to have into or out of all or any or either
81 of my Freehold Estates but not of her widowhood or Freehold in any Copyhold Estate or
82 Estates which I may be seized or possessed of which it is my will and desire she shall and
83 may hold and enjoy over and besides the said several Annuities or such of them as
84 remain and shall be payable according to the custom of the respective Manor or Manors
85 under which the said Copyhold Estate or Estates are or may be held by me at the time
86 of my decease and subject to the first mentioned Annuity of clear yearly sum of Ninety
87 pounds and the remedies for the recovery of the same determinable nevertheless as herein
88 before and hereinafter mentioned I give and devise my said Freehold Messuages Farms Lands
89 hereditaments and premises situate at Upper Clatford aforesaid unto and to the use of
90 my said eldest Son John Lywood his heirs and assigns for ever Also I give bequeath and
91 confirm unto my said Son John Lywood his executors administrators and assigns all the
92 live and dead Stock and Implements of husbandry corn grain grass and hay and all other
93 my Farming Stock and Effects whatsoever now in the possession of the said John
94 Lywood and which have been for some time past or now art or may at the time of my decease
95 be in or upon or used by my said Son John Lywood by my permission in or about my said
96 Farm Lands hereditaments and premises or any part thereof at Upper Clatford aforesaid and
97 also all such monies as have arisen or been received by my said Son John Lywood or his
98 assigns or which shall or may arise or be raised by him or them by the sale and disposal
99 thereof and subject (as to the said Freehold premises charged therewith) to the said last one
100 mentioned annuity or clear yearly Sum of Sixty pounds and the remedies for recovery of the
101 same determinable nevertheless as hereinbefore and hereinafter is mentioned I give devise and
102 bequeath my said Freehold Messuages Farms Lands hereditaments and premises with the appurtenances situate at Newton Stacey and in the parish of Barton Stacey aforesaid and also all and singular my Leasehold Titles hereditaments and premises with the appurtenances which I hold under the Dean and Chapter of Winchester my Lease of
103 which or part of which I am about to renew with the said Dean and Chapter and all other
104 my leasehold property situate at Newton Stacey and in the parish of Barton Stacey aforesaid
105 unto and to the use of my said Son Leonard Lywood his heirs executors administrators and
106 assigns forever for and during my present or any renewed Estates or Estate and interest in the
107 same respectively according to the nature description and quality of the same Also I give
108 bequeath and confirm unto my said Son Leonard Lywood all the live and dead Stock and
109 Implements of husbandry corn grain grass and hay and all other my Farming Stock and Effects
110 save and except such are hereinbefore specifically otherwise disposed of which have been for some
111 time past or now are or at the time of my decease may be in or upon or used by my said Son
112 Leonard Lywood by my permission in or about the Farms Lands and premises late in my
113 occupation and now in the occupation of my said Son Leonard Lywood at Newton Stacey and
114 in the parish of Barton Stacey aforesaid or any part thereof and also all such monies as
115 have arisen or been received by the said Leonard Lywood or his assigns or shall or may
116 arise and be received by him or them by the sale and disposal thereof Also I give and devise
117 unto my said daughters Elizabeth Lewis and Mary Lewis and their several heirs and
118 assigns All that my Freehold Messuages Farms Lands hereditaments and premises with
119 the appurtenances situate at or near Leckford in the County of Southampton To hold the
120 same with their and every of their appurtenances unto and to the use of my said daughters
121 Elizabeth Lewis and Mary Lewis and their several and respective heirs and assigns for ever equally
122 share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants And whereas as heir at
123 Law of my late Sister Mary the late Wife of the said Thomas Bennett or otherwise I am
124 also entitled to an Estate of Inheritance in fee simple expectant upon the decease of the
125 said Thomas Bennett in and to several Freehold Messuages and a Freehold Estate Farm
126 Lands hereditaments and premises with the appurtenances situate lying and being at or near Martyr
127 Worthy aforesaid Now I do hereby give and bequeath unto my said Wife Elizabeth Lywood an annuity or
128 clear year Sum of one hundred and fifty pounds over and besides all Taxes and duties
129 payable or to be payable for or in respect of the same or any part thereof and free and
130 clear of and from such Taxes duties and all charges and deductions whatsoever and which
131 said annuity or clear yearly Sum of One hundred and fifty pounds I do hereby charge
132 upon and make payable out of my said Freehold Messuages Estate Farm Lands heredit-ament]s
133 and premises with the appurtenances at or near Martyr Worthy aforesaid To hold the
134 said annuity or clear yearly Sum of One hundred and fifty pounds unto my said wife
135 Elizabeth Lywood from and after the death of the said Thomas Bennett for and
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136 during the term of her natural life and to be paid and payable to her by the like quarterly
137 payments and with the like remedies and powers for recovery of the same as is hereinbefore
138 mentioned and expressed respecting the said several annuities of Ninety pounds and Sixty
139 pounds herein before mentioned and subject to the said annuity or clear yearly Sum of one
140 hundred and fifty pounds to my said Wife during her life as aforesaid and to the remedies and
141 powers for recovery of the same I do hereby give and devise the said Freehold Messuages
142 Estate Farm Lands hereditaments and premises with the appurtenances at or near
143 Martyr Worthy aforesaid unto my said daughters Elizabeth Lewis and Mary Lewis and
144 their several heirs and assigns To hold the same with their and every of their appurtenances
145 unto and to the use of my said daughters Elizabeth Lewis and Mary Lewis and their
146 several and respective heirs and assigns for ever equally share and share alike as tenants
147 in common and not as joint tenants Also I give and bequeath all the ready money and
148 cash Notes which I may have in m y house at the time of my decease unto and
149 amongst my said wife and children equally share and share alike to be divided between
150 them as soon as may be after my decease All the Rest Residue and Remainder of
151 my Monies Securities for Money and all other my personal Estate and Effects whatsoever
152 not hereinbefore disposed of I give and bequeath unto my said wife and children upon
153 trust to apply the same and the produce thereof in and towards payment of my just debts
154 Legacies Funeral and Testamentary Expences and in case the same shall be more than
155 sufficient for that purpose to divide the surplus thereof to and amongst them my said
156 wife and children equally share and share alike And I do hereby nominate my said
157 Wife and Children Executors of this my last Will and Testament provided always and I
158 do hereby declare my will to be that in case the said Residue of my personal Estate
159 shall not be sufficient for payment of my pecuniary Legacies just debts and funeral and
160 testamentary expences that any deficiency which may happen or be in such residue of
161 my said personal Estate for the said purposes or any or either of them shall be paid
162 and made good by my said Children equally share and share alike out of the several
163 devised bequests and other provisions hereinbefore made for them respectively and that
164 the Estates property and Effects hereinbefore given to them respectively shall be chargeable
165 with and subject and liable to the payment of his her or their respective several shares
166 and proportions of such deficiency according to the intent and meaning of this my will and
167 that my said pecuniary Legatees or the pecuniary Legacies to them respectively given
168 shall not be affected thereby or any abatement made from the same in consequence of
169 such deficiency provided also that my said Executors or either of them shall not
170 be answerable or accountable for more of my Estate and Effects than what they shall
171 respectively receive nor with any loss which shall of may happen of the same or any
172 part thereof except such loss happen through their his or her wilful default or neglect
173 nor one of them for the other of them or the acts receipts defaults or disbursements of
174 the other of them and I declare it to be my will and intention that my said Executors
175 and each of them shall and may from time to time by without out of my personal
176 Estate retain and reimburse to himself herself and themselves and also pay to his her
177 or their co-executors all such costs charges damages and expences as they any or
178 either of them shall or may pay sustain lay out expend or be put unto in and about
179 the execution of this my will In witness whereof I the said John Lywood the
181 Testator have to two parts of this my last will and Testament each of them written and
182 contained in six sheets of paper to the first five sheets of each of the said parts set
183 my hand and to the last sheets thereof set my hand and seal the twenty eighth day of
184 October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty six
185 John Lywood Signed sealed published and declared by the Testator John
186 Lywood as and for his last will and Testament in the presence of us who at his
187 request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
188 our names as witnesses thereto James Jolliffe Curate of Barton Stacey Robt Bird
189 Attorney at Law Winchester Charles Russell Clerk to Mr Bird
190 I the said John Lywood the Testator having since the date and
191 publication of my Will above written surrendered the Lease by which I hold my
192 Leasehold Tytles hereditaments and premises at Barton Stacey and in the parish
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193 of Barton Stacey in the County of Southampton under the Dean and Chapter of Winchester
194 given and devised by my said will to my said Son Leonard Lywood and taken a renewed
195 Lease of the saide premises for another Term of years in the said Renewed Lease mentioned I
196 do hereby give and devise the said Tytles hereditaments and premises with the appurtenances
197 to the said Leonard Lywood his executors administrators and assigns during all my estate and
198 interest therein and in all other respects I do hereby confirm my said will In witness
199 whereof I have to this codicil to my said will set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of
200 december in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six John Lywood
201 Signed sealed published and declared by the said John Lywood the Testator as and for a
202 Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence
203 and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto
204 Robt Bird Jane Bird C Russell
205 I John Lywood now residing at Barton Stacey in the county of Southampton
206 Esquire being of sound mind and memory do make this further Codicil to my last Will and
207 Testament bearing date the twenty eighth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty
208 six as follows whereas I have declared in and by my said will that all my just debts the expences
209 of my Funeral and all my testamentary expences as also the pecuniary Legacies by me therein
210 given should be paid out of the residue of my personal Estate and that if such residue of
211 my personal Estate should not be sufficient for that purpose the deficiency should be made
212 good by all my children in equal shares and proportions out of the Estates and properties
213 therein devised and bequeathed to them and I did in and by my said will further declare
214 that any deficiency which might happen or be in such residue of my said personal Estate
215 for payment of the same pecuniary Legacies just debts funeral and testamentary expences
216 should be paid and made good by my said children equally share and share alike out of
217 the several devised bequests and other provisions therein made for them respectively and
218 that the Estates therein given to them respectively should be chargeable with and subject
219 and liable to the payment of his her of their respective several shares and proportions of
220 such deficiency Now I do hereby revoke and make void so much and such part and
221 parts only of the said declaration or declarations in my said will contained in which
222 it is declared to be my will that such deficiences should be made good by all my said
223 children equally share and share alike and that the Estates property and Effects therein
224 given to them respectively should be chargeable with and subject and liable to the
225 payment of his her or their several shares and proportions of such deficiency and instead
226 and lieu thereof do hereby declare my will to be that such deficiency shall be borne paid and
227 made good by my said children in manner and by the proportions following that is to
228 say one third part thereof by my Son John Lywood one other third part thereof by
229 my Son Leonard Lywood and the remaining third part thereof by my daughters
230 Elizabeth Lewis and Mary Lewis in equal shares and proportions and that such
231 deficiency shall be charged and chargeable upon the Estates property and Effects herein
232 before given to them the said John Lywood Leonard Lywood Elizabeth Lewis and
233 Mary Lewis in such shares and proportions hereby lastly above expressed accordingly
234 and I do hereby confirm my said Will and my other codicil made thereto on the
235 thirteenth day of december one thousand eight hundred and twenty six in all other respects
236 whatsoever In witness whereof I the said John Lywood the Testator have to this
237 codicil to my last will and Testament written and contained in two sheets of paper to the
238 first sheet thereof set my hand and to the second and last sheet thereof set my hand a
239 seal this eighteenth day of december in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
240 and twenty seven John Lywood Signed sealed published and declared by the said
241 John Lywood the Testator as and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the
242 presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have
243 hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto James Jolliffe Robt Bird
244 C Russell Clerk to Mr Bird
245 I the above named Testator John Lywood do make this further codicil to
246 my will that is to say I revoke and make void the Legacy by my said will given to
247 my Servant Ann Smith and in all other respects confirm my said Will Witness my hand
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248 this ninth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight John
249 Lywood
250 I John Lywood now residing at Barton Stacey in the County of
251 Southampton Esquire being of sound mind and memory do make this further Codicil to my
252 last Will and Testament bearing date the twenty eighth day of October one thousand eight
253 hundred and twenty six as follows whereas in and by my said Will I gave unto Ann
254 the wife of James Smith of Newton Stacy in the Parish of Barton Stacey aforesaid
255 the legacy or sum of one guinea Now I do hereby revoke and make void the said legacy
256 and whereas in and by my said Will after writing that my Son in Law John Lewis
257 was indebted to me two hundred pounds I gave and bequeathed one hundred pounds
258 part of the said debt to the said John Lewis and one hundred pounds residue thereof
259 to my Son in Law Anthony Mist Lewis thereby called Anthony Lewis and whereas the
260 said John Lewis is about to pay off the said debt and it is my intention thereupon
261 to give one moiety of the said Two hundred pounds to the said John Lewis and
262 the other moiety to the said Anthony Mist Lewis for their immediate advancement
263 Now I do hereby declare that in case such my intentions shall be carried into effect
264 during my life that the said bequest of the said Sum of Two hundred pounds to the said
265 John Lewis and the said Anthony Mist Lewis in the proportions aforesaid shall be
266 void and of none effect And I confirm my said Will in all respects wherein the same is
267 not altered by this or any other codicil thereto In witness whereof I have to this
268 further codicil to my last Will and Testament set my hand and seal this thirtieth day of
269 October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight John
270 Lywood signed sealed published and declared by the said John Lywood the testator
271 as and for a further codicil to his last will and Testament in the presence of us who at
272 his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our
273 Names in Witness thereto Robt Bird Attorney at Law Winchester C Russell
274 Clerk for Mr Bird
275 Proved at London with 4 Cod[ici]ls 3rd Sept 1830 before the Judge by the oaths of John
276 Lywood and Leonard Lywood the Sons two of the Executors to whom Admon was
277 granted having been first sworn by comm duly to adm[iste]r power reserved of making the
278 like Grant to Elizabeth Lywood widow the Relict Elizabeth Lewis (wife of John Lewis)
279 and Mary Lewis (wife of Anthony Mist Lewis) the daughters the other Executors when they or
280 either of them shall apply for the same
