An interesting linking will and this is the Buller family of Pelynt as they are referred to on the Visitation of Cornwall. John Buller (the testator) was the 2nd son of John Francis Buller and Rebecca Trelawny. He almost disappears from view as he is listed as C on page 58 and of course his details are on page 59 of the Visitation. The family of John Francis Buller was large (will blogged for John Francis Buller):
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/02/will-of-john-francis-buller-esquire-of.html
and included his eldest son James (James Buller of Kings Nympton - will blogged: http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/02/will-of-james-buller-esquire-of-kings.html), John Buller 2nd son (the present testator), Francis Buller 3rd son (blogged: http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/02/will-of-francis-buller-esquire-of_27.html), William Buller 4th son (his daughter Anne married the eldest son of James Buller of Kings Nympton and his wife left a will blogged: http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/02/will-of-anne-buller-widow-of-exeter.html) and then daughters Rebecca married to Sir Charles Watson (mentioned in the will as a trustee), Elizabeth married the Reverend John Sturges, Ann married Reginald Pole, Mary married Sir Joseph Copley, Baronet. Just to place this will in the time period of the Cornwall Buller family. The will for the fourth son William who was Lord Bishop of Exeter and Dean of Canterbury was probated 28 Jan 1797 and I have not yet transcribed his will (I lately discovered it in my purchases and not transferred to the Buller file along with one for a a Benjamin Buller written in 1701). Again it does not fit into my Christopher Buller line as his children are being born about the same time as Christopher. It does however help to fill out the story for the Buller family of Cornwall especially the children of John Francis Buller as he had a very large family.
One of the testator's sons was Sir Edward Buller of Trenant Park (first Buller will blogged), his other two sons (by his first wife) mentioned in the will were Henry Buller (of Bengal, will blogged: http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/03/will-of-henry-buller-bengal-east-indies.html) and John. These sons all by his first wife Mary St Aubyn and then his children by his second wife Frederick William Buller (will to come), Caroline who married her cousin William Buller, George and Augustus.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 18 Mar 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1144/353
Testator: John Buller, Esquire
Place: Westminster, Middlesex
Date of document 31 Dec 1784, probated 2 Aug 1786
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Document quality: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: John
[Margin]: Buller
[Margin]: Esquire
1 This is the last Will
2 and Testament of me John Buller of Privy Garden
3 Westminster in the County of Middlesex first I give
4 and bequeath unto my Brother the Reverend William
5 Buller Doctor in Divinity Sir Charles Watson Baronet
6 and Reginald Pole Carew Esquire the Sum of three
7 thousand pounds Upon Trust that they the said William
8 Buller Sir Charles Watson and Reginald Pole Carew
9 or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors
10 or Administrators of such Survivor do and shall place
11 layout and invest the same either in public or in
12 private Securities and pay the Interest dividends and
13 proceed thereof from time to time as the same shall
14 be by them received unto my beloved Wife Elizabeth
15 Caroline Buller for and during the term of her
16 natural Life to and for her own use and benefit and
17 from and immediately after her decease upon Trust to
18 pay or Assign and Transfer One thousand and Five
19 hundred pounds part of the said Trust Sum of three
20 thousand pounds unto my Son John Buller and One
21 thousand pounds another part of the said Trust Sum
22 of three thousands unto my Son Henry Buller and Five
23 hundred pounds being the remaining part of the
24 said Trust Sum of three thousand pounds unto my Son
25 Edward Buller which I hereby give them in
26 addition to the provision made for them on my
27 Marriage with their Mother who was my first Wife
28 as to my dear daughter Caroline and my Sons Frederick
30 George and Augustus they are deservedly as much
31 beloved by me as my other Children but the
32 confidence I have in the Goodness and prudence of
33 their
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34 their Mother makes it appear unnessary for me to give
35 them any Specific Legacy as I am sure she will
36 immediately after my decease by Will or otherwise make
37 the best provision in her power for them relying on
38 this and that she will be perfectly kind and good to
39 all my Children I do hereby give devise and bequeath
40 unto my said Wife Elizabeth Caroline her heirs
41 Executors Adm[inistrat]ors and assigns all and singular my real
42 Estate and all the rest and residue of my personal
43 Estate and do hereby constitute and appoint her
44 sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament
45 I Witness whereof I the said John Buller have to
46 this my said last Will and Testament set my hand
47 and Seal this thirty first day of December in the
48 Year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and
49 eighty four J. Buller Signed Sealed and
50 declared by the said John Buller the Testator as and for his
51 last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in
52 his presence at his request and in the presence of
53 each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses
54 hereto Step[he]n Round, Windsor - Charles Pound - Charles
55 Sam[ue]l Whinfield - Clerks to Mr Round
56 This Will was proved at London the second day
57 of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven
58 hundred and eighty six before the Right Worshipful
59 Peter Calvert Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or
60 Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
61 lawfully constituted by the Oath of Elizabeth Caroline
62 Buller Widow the Relict of the deceased and Sole
63 Executrix named in the said Will to whom Adm[inistrati]on
64 was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels
65 and Credits of the said deceased having been first
66 Sworn by Commission duly to Administer
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Will of Arthur Buller, Clerk, Milverton, Warwickshire - The National Archives PROB 11/2125/93, probated 30 Jan 1851
A wonderful will to have for the family of the Reverend Arthur Buller second son of Richard Buller and Felizarda Guerhelmina Burmester (maiden name unknown). Arthur was married to Grace Bell Ward. Richard's will was blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/03/will-of-richard-buller-esquire-of-saint.html
as was the will of his mother Sarah Stert Buller:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/03/will-of-sarah-buller-widow-saint-george.html
Arthur had five siblings: Anna Guilhermina Buller married to Sir Peter Pole, Baronet; Felizarda Matilda Buller married to Charles Pole (brother of Sir Peter), Marianna married to Reverend Henry Isham, eldest brother Cornelius Buller married Mary Down and youngest brother Daniel.
In his will he mentions his nieces and nephews:
Arthur Isham
Cornelius Buller
Marianna Buller
Spencer Wellington Buller
Vivian Arthur Buller
Plumer Alexander Buller
Frederick Pole Buller
John Burmester
Susan Pullene
Mariana Barker
Harriet Burmester
and his great niece
Charlotte Emma Bulkeley
Although he hasn't remembered all of his nieces and nephews, this will is still a great family linker.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 16 Mar 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2125/93
Testator: The Reverend Arthur Buller, Clerk
Place: Milverton, Warwickshire
Date of document 21 Aug 1850, probated 30 Jan 1851
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Document quality: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: The Rev[erend]
[Margin]: Arthur
[Margin]: Buller
[Margin]: 13 Clerk
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me the Reverend Arthur Buller of Bertie Terrace in the parish of Milverton
3 in the County of Warwick Clerk I desire to be buried in the Church yard of
4 Milverton aforesaid in an unostentatious and quiet manner I will and desire
5 that all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences and the legacies due
6 on the several legacies hereinafter by me bequeathed be first fully paid and
7 satisfied out of my personal estates I give and devise all that my freehold
8 messuage or tenement with the premises and appurtenances thereto belong-
9 ing situate in and being number eight in Bertie Terrace aforesaid now in
10 my own occupation unto my dear wife and her assigns for and during the
11 term of her natural life and from and immediately after her decease I give
12 and devise the same unto my nephew the Reverend Arthur Isham his
13 heirs and assigns for ever and my will and desire is that my said wife
14 do not let the said messuage or tenement unfurnished without the consent
15 of my said nephew Arthur Isham and that in case she do let the same
16 the sum of twenty pounds per annum part of the cost for which
17 the same is let be paid to my said nephew Arthur Isham and be ap-
18 propiated by him in and towards keeping the said messuage or ten-
19 ement and premises in good a tenantable state and condition and
20 give and bequeath unto my said nephew Arthur Isham ten shares
21 in the Guardian Life and Fire Insurance Company and two shares in
22 the Imperial Fire Insurance Company for the purpose of keeping
23 the same messuage or tenement and premises in repair I give and
24 devise all that my freehold messuage or tenement with the premises
25 and appurtenances thereto belonging situate in and being number
26 seventeen in Clarendon Square in the Parish of Leamington Priors
27 in the same county unto my nephew Cornelius Buller his heirs and
28 assigns for ever I give and bequeath unto my dear wife all the house-
30 hold goods and furniture wines spirits linen pictures ornaments (except
31 my five Saxon vases which I had from my father ) pianofortes and
32 other musical instruments and music books in and belonging to my
33 house in Bertie Terrace aforesaid at the time of my death and all the
34 plate plates goods and books which my said wife has at the time of our
35 marriage and thirty volumes of books to be selected by her and also the
36 following articles of silver plate belonging to me that is to say twelve
37 table spoons twelve desert spoons twelve tea spoons twelve table forks
38 twelve dessert forts two salt cellars with ladles one pair of candlesticks
39 (not the high candlesticks with branches that stand with cruets and
40 mustard spoon To hold to her my said wife to and for her own absolute
41 use and benefit I give and bequeath unto my said nephew Arthur
42 Isham fifty shares in the York Newcastle and Berwick Railway Also
43 my crole repeater watch and gears and the remainder of my books
44 after my wife has made her selection and after the decease of my said
45 wife I also give and bequeath unto my said newphew Arthur Isham two
46 thousand pounds in the three per cent asured annuities part of a
47 sum settled upon my said wife for her life I give and bequeath unto
48 my said nephew Cornelius Buller two shares in the Imperial Fire
49 Assurance Company and my five Saxon vases which I has from my
50 father and also after the decease of my said wife two thousand
51 pounds in the three per cent reduced annuities further part of the said
52 sum settled upon my said wife I give and bequeath unto my niece
53 Marianna Buller fifty shares in the London and South Western
54 Railway also after the decease of my said wife two thousand pounds
55 in the three per cent reduced annuities further part of the sum settled
56 upon my said wife I give and bequeath unto my nephew Spencer
57 Wellington Buller twenty five shares in the Imperial Life Assurance
58 Company and also after the decease of my said wife one thousand
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59 pounds three percent reduced annuities further part of the said sum
60 so settled I give and bequeath unto my nephews Vivian Arthur Buller
61 twenty shares in the York and North Midland Railway Also after the decease
62 of my said wife one thousand pounds three per cent reduced annuities further
63 part of the sum settled as aforesaid I give and bequeath unto my nephew
64 Plumer Alexander Buller twenty shares in the York and North Midland
65 Railway Also after the decease of my said wife one thousand pounds three per
66 cent reduced annuities likewise further part of the sum settled upon her I
67 give and bequeath unto my grand niece Charlotte Emma Bulkeley two shares in the
68 Imperial Fire Insurance Company Also after the decease of mys aid wife
69 one thousand pounds three per cent reduced annuities further part of the
70 sum settled on my said wife I give and bequeath to each of my nephews
71 and nieces Frederick Pole Buller John Burmester Susan Pullene Marianna
72 Barker and Harriet Burmester a legacy of fifty pounds sterling I give and
73 bequeath the remainder of my plate equally between the said Cornelius
74 Buller Marianna Buller Spencer Wellington Buller Vivian Arthur Buller
75 and Plumer Alexander Buller All the Rest Residue and Remainder
76 of my money securities for money goods chattels effects and personal
77 estate whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever
78 I give and bequeath unto and equally between and amongst my said wife
79 and nephews Arthur Isham and Cornelius Buller and I direct that the
80 said several legacies and bequests shall be paid free of legacy duty and that
81 the provisions of this my will shall be carried out and fulfilled as far as
82 may be within three calendar months next after my decease and I con-
83 stitute and appoint my said nephews Arthur Isham and Cornelius Buller
84 joint Executors of this my will and hereby revoke all other wills by me
85 at any time heretofore made In witness whereof I the said Arthur
86 Buller the testator have hereunto set my hand this twenty first day of
87 August one thousand eight hundred and fifty Arthur Buller
88 Signed published and declared by the said Arthur Buller the testator
89 as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his
90 request in his presence and in the presence of each other have set our
91 names as witnesses Tho[ma]s Sam[ue]l Wright Sol[icito]r Leamington
92 George Pole his Clerk
93 Proved at London 30th Jan[uar]y 1851 before the worshipful James
94 Parker Deane Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths of The Rev[eren]d
95 Arthur Isham Clerk and Cornelius Buller Esquire the newphews the
96 Executors to whom adm[inistratio]n was granted having been first sworn
97 duly to administer
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/03/will-of-richard-buller-esquire-of-saint.html
as was the will of his mother Sarah Stert Buller:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/03/will-of-sarah-buller-widow-saint-george.html
Arthur had five siblings: Anna Guilhermina Buller married to Sir Peter Pole, Baronet; Felizarda Matilda Buller married to Charles Pole (brother of Sir Peter), Marianna married to Reverend Henry Isham, eldest brother Cornelius Buller married Mary Down and youngest brother Daniel.
In his will he mentions his nieces and nephews:
Arthur Isham
Cornelius Buller
Marianna Buller
Spencer Wellington Buller
Vivian Arthur Buller
Plumer Alexander Buller
Frederick Pole Buller
John Burmester
Susan Pullene
Mariana Barker
Harriet Burmester
and his great niece
Charlotte Emma Bulkeley
Although he hasn't remembered all of his nieces and nephews, this will is still a great family linker.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 16 Mar 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2125/93
Testator: The Reverend Arthur Buller, Clerk
Place: Milverton, Warwickshire
Date of document 21 Aug 1850, probated 30 Jan 1851
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Document quality: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: The Rev[erend]
[Margin]: Arthur
[Margin]: Buller
[Margin]: 13 Clerk
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me the Reverend Arthur Buller of Bertie Terrace in the parish of Milverton
3 in the County of Warwick Clerk I desire to be buried in the Church yard of
4 Milverton aforesaid in an unostentatious and quiet manner I will and desire
5 that all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences and the legacies due
6 on the several legacies hereinafter by me bequeathed be first fully paid and
7 satisfied out of my personal estates I give and devise all that my freehold
8 messuage or tenement with the premises and appurtenances thereto belong-
9 ing situate in and being number eight in Bertie Terrace aforesaid now in
10 my own occupation unto my dear wife and her assigns for and during the
11 term of her natural life and from and immediately after her decease I give
12 and devise the same unto my nephew the Reverend Arthur Isham his
13 heirs and assigns for ever and my will and desire is that my said wife
14 do not let the said messuage or tenement unfurnished without the consent
15 of my said nephew Arthur Isham and that in case she do let the same
16 the sum of twenty pounds per annum part of the cost for which
17 the same is let be paid to my said nephew Arthur Isham and be ap-
18 propiated by him in and towards keeping the said messuage or ten-
19 ement and premises in good a tenantable state and condition and
20 give and bequeath unto my said nephew Arthur Isham ten shares
21 in the Guardian Life and Fire Insurance Company and two shares in
22 the Imperial Fire Insurance Company for the purpose of keeping
23 the same messuage or tenement and premises in repair I give and
24 devise all that my freehold messuage or tenement with the premises
25 and appurtenances thereto belonging situate in and being number
26 seventeen in Clarendon Square in the Parish of Leamington Priors
27 in the same county unto my nephew Cornelius Buller his heirs and
28 assigns for ever I give and bequeath unto my dear wife all the house-
30 hold goods and furniture wines spirits linen pictures ornaments (except
31 my five Saxon vases which I had from my father ) pianofortes and
32 other musical instruments and music books in and belonging to my
33 house in Bertie Terrace aforesaid at the time of my death and all the
34 plate plates goods and books which my said wife has at the time of our
35 marriage and thirty volumes of books to be selected by her and also the
36 following articles of silver plate belonging to me that is to say twelve
37 table spoons twelve desert spoons twelve tea spoons twelve table forks
38 twelve dessert forts two salt cellars with ladles one pair of candlesticks
39 (not the high candlesticks with branches that stand with cruets and
40 mustard spoon To hold to her my said wife to and for her own absolute
41 use and benefit I give and bequeath unto my said nephew Arthur
42 Isham fifty shares in the York Newcastle and Berwick Railway Also
43 my crole repeater watch and gears and the remainder of my books
44 after my wife has made her selection and after the decease of my said
45 wife I also give and bequeath unto my said newphew Arthur Isham two
46 thousand pounds in the three per cent asured annuities part of a
47 sum settled upon my said wife for her life I give and bequeath unto
48 my said nephew Cornelius Buller two shares in the Imperial Fire
49 Assurance Company and my five Saxon vases which I has from my
50 father and also after the decease of my said wife two thousand
51 pounds in the three per cent reduced annuities further part of the said
52 sum settled upon my said wife I give and bequeath unto my niece
53 Marianna Buller fifty shares in the London and South Western
54 Railway also after the decease of my said wife two thousand pounds
55 in the three per cent reduced annuities further part of the sum settled
56 upon my said wife I give and bequeath unto my nephew Spencer
57 Wellington Buller twenty five shares in the Imperial Life Assurance
58 Company and also after the decease of my said wife one thousand
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59 pounds three percent reduced annuities further part of the said sum
60 so settled I give and bequeath unto my nephews Vivian Arthur Buller
61 twenty shares in the York and North Midland Railway Also after the decease
62 of my said wife one thousand pounds three per cent reduced annuities further
63 part of the sum settled as aforesaid I give and bequeath unto my nephew
64 Plumer Alexander Buller twenty shares in the York and North Midland
65 Railway Also after the decease of my said wife one thousand pounds three per
66 cent reduced annuities likewise further part of the sum settled upon her I
67 give and bequeath unto my grand niece Charlotte Emma Bulkeley two shares in the
68 Imperial Fire Insurance Company Also after the decease of mys aid wife
69 one thousand pounds three per cent reduced annuities further part of the
70 sum settled on my said wife I give and bequeath to each of my nephews
71 and nieces Frederick Pole Buller John Burmester Susan Pullene Marianna
72 Barker and Harriet Burmester a legacy of fifty pounds sterling I give and
73 bequeath the remainder of my plate equally between the said Cornelius
74 Buller Marianna Buller Spencer Wellington Buller Vivian Arthur Buller
75 and Plumer Alexander Buller All the Rest Residue and Remainder
76 of my money securities for money goods chattels effects and personal
77 estate whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever
78 I give and bequeath unto and equally between and amongst my said wife
79 and nephews Arthur Isham and Cornelius Buller and I direct that the
80 said several legacies and bequests shall be paid free of legacy duty and that
81 the provisions of this my will shall be carried out and fulfilled as far as
82 may be within three calendar months next after my decease and I con-
83 stitute and appoint my said nephews Arthur Isham and Cornelius Buller
84 joint Executors of this my will and hereby revoke all other wills by me
85 at any time heretofore made In witness whereof I the said Arthur
86 Buller the testator have hereunto set my hand this twenty first day of
87 August one thousand eight hundred and fifty Arthur Buller
88 Signed published and declared by the said Arthur Buller the testator
89 as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his
90 request in his presence and in the presence of each other have set our
91 names as witnesses Tho[ma]s Sam[ue]l Wright Sol[icito]r Leamington
92 George Pole his Clerk
93 Proved at London 30th Jan[uar]y 1851 before the worshipful James
94 Parker Deane Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths of The Rev[eren]d
95 Arthur Isham Clerk and Cornelius Buller Esquire the newphews the
96 Executors to whom adm[inistratio]n was granted having been first sworn
97 duly to administer
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Will of Richard Buller Esquire of Saint Marylebone, Middlesex - The National Archives, PROB 11/1680/55, probated 21 Jan 1824
Always nice to match up wills and this is Richard the second son of William Watson Buller and Sarah Stert. His will was blogged earlier. This Richard was married to Felizarda Guilhermina and her surname is unknown. They had six children including three daughters and three sons.
Sir Peter Pole, Baronet, married Anna Guilhermina Buller 24 Dec 1798. She was the eldest daughter of Richard Buller, Esquire. They had eight children. She died 25 Jul 1835.
A second daughter Felizarda Matilda Buller was married to Charles Pole (brother of Sir Peter Pole).
The third daughter Marianna was married to the Reverend Henry Isham.
The oldest son appears to be Cornelius, second eldest is the Reverend Arthur, Clerk and Daniel is the youngest son although he appears to benefit little from the will.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/buller/messages/260.html
An online website links this family back to the Buller family of Shillingham but I still haven't figured out the connection. There is just one Richard that is a possibility on the Visitation but it does not extend his information further than himself although it also does not show him to have died without issue. However the dates of birth for the two Richard entries do not agree. A mystery that is actually. Of course the other issue is whether or not all children are listed on the Visitation. By the wills that were written father to son it does appear that they are all mentioned but then one generation back there are several sons about whom nothing more has been written.
Is the Cornelius Buller Esquire who was Governor of the Bank of England 1824-1826 related to this testator? Looking at the deaths in Free BMD there was one Cornelius Buller who died Jun quarter 1849 (he was the Governor of the Bank of England as mentioned) in Kensington RD. and another death of Cornelius Buller Dec quarter 1880 and he was 77 years of age dying in Marylebone RD. This would be the son of the testator.
http://theweek.com/article/index/95385/the-panic-of-1825
However there was a Cornelius Buller who was in business with Richard Buller and a third partner Hieronymus Burmester. Was Cornelius Buller a brother to Richard? Was Hieronymus Burmester a brother to the wife of Richard Buller namely Felizarda Guilhermina (surname unknown). Cornelius Buller stepped back from becoming involved when the banking house of Pole was in trouble in 1825 because he was related (the deputy Governor took over that particular transaction). However Cornelius Buller is credited with preventing a complete collapse of the system. But how does this Cornelius Buller fit into the Buller family? Cornelius Buller was married to Mary Downe the daughter of Richard Down Esquire Banker of Bartholomews Lane in the City of London. The Will or Richard Down is in its entirety in the website below:
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dewievans/richard_will.html
Another researcher has passed the following information to me to clarify some of my questions above:
"There are indeed two Cornelius Bullers: one was the eldest son of Felizarda Guilhermina and Richard Buller, baptised 15 Apr 1772, married Mary Down 04 May 1801 (Boyd’s marriage indexes) and died 11 Apr 1849 in Cambridge Street, Hyde Park, Kensington. It was he who was Governor of the Bank of England from 1824 -1826 source http://www.bized.ac.uk/dataserv/chron/governors.htm . He worked with related members of the family – all in the banking world, such as Sir Peter Pole 2nd Bt, Edward Down and Peter Free: as you can see Mary Down was one of the daughters of Peter Free. A German PhD student, many years ago, was working on the Burmester family and has provided us with the Burmester tree going back many generations. However getting documents and proof from Germany has been exceedingly difficult, mostly because much was destroyed during the World Wars.
"The second Cornelius was the son of Cornelius “the elder” and Mary Down. Born 23 Feb 1803 in Westminster, Middlesex, England, unmarried at the 1861 census, and died 25 Oct 1880 at St Mary, Marylebone, London, England." quoted from an email received from B Fife-Schaw and thank you very much for the information.
Added by me just to mention again why I discuss Buller on my blog (5 Sep 2017). My interest in the Buller family continues to be trying to trace my 3x great grandfather Christopher Buller born circa 1764 and died May 1832 in the Workhouse Infirmary in Bermondsey and was buried 13 May 1832 at St Olave Parish, Bermondsey. He is a bit of a mystery. He had a "slop" shop on Tooley Street in Bermondsey ("slops" was the name given to the clothes worn by sailors) and thus far no records have revealed an ancestry for him.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 17 Feb 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1680/55
Testator: Richard Buller Esquire
Place: Saint Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Date of document: 2 Aug 1823, probated 21 Jan 1824
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Document quality: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Richard
[Margin]: Buller
[Margin]: 51
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Richard Buller of Cumberland Street in the parish of Saint
3 Marylebone in the County of Middlesex Esquire I direct that all my
4 just debts be paid immediately after my decease I appoint my sons
5 Cornelius Buller and Arthur Buller and my son in Law Charles
6 Pole Executors of this my will I give and bequeath unto my Son
7 Cornelius Buller the sum of twenty thousand pounds which I
8 have advanced as a Capital in the Mercantile Firm of Richard
9 Buller and Co and I also release and discharge him from the
10 payment of the sum of Sixteen thousand Seven hundred pounds
11 which I have advanced to him for various purposes I give and
12 bequeath unto my Son the Reverend Arthur Buller the sum
13 of twenty thousand pounds and to my Son Daniel Buller the
14 sum of twenty thousand pounds the said two legacies to be
15 paid within two months after my decease I give and bequeath
16 to my daughter Anna Guilhermina wife of Sir Peter Pole Bar[one]t
17 the sum of ten thousand pounds and to my daughter Felizarda
18 Matilda wife of Charles Pole Esquire the like sume of ten thousand
19 pounds to be respectively paid within two months after my
20 decease I give and bequeath to my said Executors Cornelius
21 Buller, Arthur Buller and Charles Pole the sum of ten thousand
22 pounds upon trust within two months after my decease to
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23 lay out and invest the same in their names upon Government
24 Securities in Great Britain with power to vary and transpose
25 the said Securities from time to time at their discretion and to stand
26 possessed of the said Securities upon trust to pay the dividends or
27 interest thereof from time to time as the said shall become due
28 into the proper hands of my daughter Mariana Johane the
29 wife of the said Henry Charles Isham or unto her order to be
30 signified by writing under her hand from time to time after the
31 same shall have become due and not by way of anticipation
32 for her life for her sole use and benefit and I declare that the same
33 shall not be subject to the debts controll or Engagements of
34 her present or any future husband of my said daughter and
35 that the receipts of my said daughter alone or of such person
36 or persons as she shall in manner aforesaid appoint shall
37 from time to time not withstanding her coverture be a
38 good and sufficient discharge to my said Executors and after
39 the decease of my said daughter Marianna Isham upon
40 trust to pay assign and transfer her said sum of ten thousand
41 pounds or the securities upon which the same shall be invested
42 unto and amongst all and every the Child and Children of
43 my said daughter Marianna Isham in such shares and
44 proportions and at such times and in such manner and
45 form as my said daughter shall by deed or will executed
46 in the presence of and attested by two witnesses direct or
47 appoint and in default of appointment in equal shares and
48 proportions such shares being vested interests in the Children
49 of my said daughter being Sons on their attaining the age
50 of twenty one years or being daughters on their attaining
51 that age or on the day or days of their marriage with benefit
52 of Survivorship among them in case of the death of any of
53 them before their respective shares or interests should become vested
54 as aforesaid and with the allowance of the dividends or
55 interest of their respective shares for their maintenance and
56 Education in case my said daughter should die before the
57 said shares become vested and also with power to my said
58 Executors after the decease of my said daughter to advance
59 any part of the expectant shares of her said Children respectively
60 for their preferment or advancement in the world as my
61 said Executors shall think fit and in case my said daughter
62 shall depart this life without leaving issue or there being
63 such they shall all die being Sons under the age of twenty
64 one years and being daughters under that age and unmarried
65 then I direct the said sum of ten thousand pounds or the
66 securities upon which the same shall be invested to be paid
67 and transferred unto and equally between all my surviving
68 Grand Children who shall be living at the decease of my
69 said daughter share and share alike I give and bequeath
70 unto each of Sons in Law Sir Peter Pole Baronet Charles
71 Pole Esquire and the Reverend Henry Isham the sum of
72 two hundred pounds sterling and to Mr John Schubach
73 the like sum of two hundred pounds such last mentioned
74 legacies to be paid within two months after my decease and
75 I give and bequeath unto each of the Children of my Children
76 Anna Guilhermina Cornelius Felizarda Matilda and
77 Marianna who shall be living at the time of my decease the
78 sum of one hundred pounds to be paid to such of them as shall
79 have attained twenty one years of age as soon as conveniently
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80 may be after my decease and to be paid to such of them as
81 shall not have attained twenty one years of age or their
82 attaining that age but to be a vested interest at my decease and
83 to be paid out at interest upon Government securities for their
84 benefit respectively during their Minorities and I direct my
85 Executors to present Mourning Rings to each of my friends
86 and relatives as they may think proper I direct my said
87 Executors to lay out and invest in their names within
88 one Month after my decease in Government securities in Great
89 Britain so much money as will produce the clear annual
90 sum of one hundred pounds and to stand possessed thereof In
91 trust to pay the interest or dividends thence arising from time to
92 time as and when the same shall become payable to my old
93 and faithful Maid Servant Isabella Brown for her life with
94 proportionable part thereof to the day of her decease and
95 after her decease I direct that the said Government securities
96 shall sink into and become part of the residue of my personal
97 Estate I give and bequeath to my Coachman Francis Brown
98 if he shall be in my service at the time of my decease the sum
99 of one hundred pounds sterling to be paid in one month after
100 my decease and I give to each of my other servants who shall
101 be living with me at my decease the sum of ten pounds to
102 be paid within one month after my decease and I also give
103 to each and every of my servants who shall be living with
104 me at the time of my decease such Mourning as my Executors
105 shall think proper and as to the residue and remainder
106 of my Estate and Effects real or personal or of what nature
107 or kind soever or wheresoever I give devise and bequeath
108 the same unto and to the use of my Son Cornelius Buller
109 his heirs Executors advisors and assigns for ever according
110 to the different natures thereof respectively but in case my
111 personal Estate shall be insufficient to satisfy my debts
112 legacies funeral and Testamentary Expences then I direct
113 that such deficiency provided the same do not exceed five
114 thousand pounds shall be deducted and retained out of the
115 said legacy of twenty thousand pounds so given and bequeathed
116 to my Son Arthur but in case such deficiency shall exceed
117 five thousand pounds then I direct such deficiency exceed the sum of five thousand pounds shall be borne by my Son Cornelius
118 and I do hereby give full power to my Executors to submit
119 to arbitration adjust settle compromise and compound
120 all accounts dealings and transactions in which I shall be
121 concerned at the time of my decease as they shall think fit
122 and I direct all my Books papers accounts and writings to
123 be delivered to or taken by my said Son Cornelius and I
124 declare that the receipt or receipts of my said Executors for
125 any money to be received or collected and got in or in
126 any other manner to become payable to them under the
127 trusts of this my will shall effectually discharge the person
128 or persons to whom the same shall be given from being
129 answerable or accountable for the misapplication or
130 Nonapplication or being bound to see to the application
131 or the money expressed in such receipts to be received and
132 I further declare that the Executors and trustees hereby as
133 appointed or to be appointed in pursuance of this my Will
134 their heirs Executors and adm[inistrat]ors shall be charged due
135 chargeable respectively only for such monies as they shall actually
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136 actually received by virtue of the trusts hereby in them
137 reposed notwithstanding his or their joining in or signing
138 any receipt or receipts by way of conformity and any one
139 or more of them shall not be answerable or accountable
140 for the other or others of them or for any misfortune or loss
141 which may happen in the Execution of the aforesaid trusts
142 except the same shall happen through their own wilful
143 default respectively and that it shall be lawful for them
144 out of the Monies which shall come to their hands by
145 virtue of the trusts hereby created to reimburse himself
146 and themselves respectively and also to allow to his and their
147 co executors and trustees and each of them all costs charges
148 counsels fees and Expences which they or other of them shall
149 or may sustain in or about the Execution of the aforesaid trusts
150 or in any wise relating thereto and I hereby also declare
151 that when and so often as either of the trustees appointed
152 by this my will or any future trustee to be appointed as
153 after mentioned shall die decline to act or become desirous
154 of being discharged from the trusts herein created it shall
155 be lawful for the surviving or trustees or the Executors or
156 advisors of the Survivor to appoint another person to
157 succeed to the place of every trustee who shall so die
158 decline to act or become desirous of being discharged as
159 aforesaid and immediately upon any such appointment
160 the said trust Estate and property shall be tranferred
161 conveyed and disposed of so that the same may become
162 vested in such newly appointed trustee or trustees jointly
163 with the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees upon such
164 of the trusts hereby created as shall be then capable of taking
165 effect and every such appointed trustee shall have and be
166 entitled to the same protection and be invested the same
167 powers priviledges and authorities as are hereby given
168 to and provided for the trustees hereinbefore named and
169 I do hereby revoke all former wills made by me and declare
170 this only to be my last will and Testament In witness whereof
171 I the said Richard Buller have to this my last Will and Testament
172 contained in five sheets of paper and to a duplicate thereof
173 set my hand and seal that is to say to the four first sheets
174 thereof set my hand only and to this fifth and last sheet my
175 hand and seal this second day of August in the year of our
176 Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three. Richard
177 Buller Signed sealed published and declared by the said
178 Richard Buller the Testator as and for his last Will and
179 Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at
181 his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
182 subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto Tho[ma]s Haddon
183 Angle Court Throgmorton Street Fra[nci]s Moreroether of the
184 same place Clerk to Mess[ieur]s Galty Haddon and Galty
185 Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me Richard
186 Buller of Cumberland Street in the parish of Saint
187 Marylebone in the County of Middlesex Esquire I give to
188 my Son Cornelius Buller my large Silver Salver which
189 is contained in a plate Chest now in the possession of
190 my Bankers Mess[ieur]s Stowe and Martin and I give
191 the remainder of the articles of plate which are contained
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192 in the said Chest together with all and singular my plate
193 Linen China household Goods and Furniture Wines and
194 liquors to my two Sons Arthur Buller and Daniel Buller
195 and my daughter Marianna Isham in equal shares and
196 proportions as Tenants in Common the share of my said
197 daughter to be for her separate use free from the debts
198 controul or engagements of her present or any future husband
199 and for which her receipt shall be a sufficient discharge and
200 whereas I have by my said Will given to my daughter Anna
201 Guilhermina the wife of Sir Peter Pole Baronet the sum of
202 Ten thousand pounds and I have also given unto my daughter
203 Felisarda Matilda wife of Charles Pole Esquire the like sum
204 of Ten thousand pounds and I have also given to my Executors
205 the like sum of ten thousand pounds upon trust for my dau[ghte]r
206 Marianna Isham and her issue as therein mentioned Now
207 I do hereby revoke the said three several legacies so given to
208 or in trust for my said daughters as aforesaid and in lieu
209 thereof I do hereby give and bequeath unto each of them
210 my said daughters Ann Guilhermina and Felizarda Matilda
211 the sum of five thousand pounds to be paid respectively
212 within two months after my decease and I do give and
213 bequeath unto the Executors in my said Will named
214 the sum of twenty thousand pounds upon trust that they
215 my said Executors do and shall within two months next
216 after my decease lay out or invest the sum of ten thousand
217 pounds part thereof upon Government or ral real securities
218 and vary such securities at their discretion and that they
219 and the survivors and survivor of them his Executors
220 advisors and assigns shall stand possessed of the same
221 upon the trusts following that is to say upon trust to pay
222 the dividends interest and income thereof unto my said
223 daughter Marianna Isham during her life for her sole
224 and separate use and I declare that the same shall not
225 be in any manner subject to the controul debts or
226 Engagements of her present or any future husband with
227 whom she may intermarry and that she shall not anticipate
228 charge incumber or assign the growing payments thereof
229 and that her receipts shall from time to time notwithstanding
230 her coverture be good and sufficient discharges for so much
231 of the said dividends interest and income as shall therein
232 respectively be acknowledged to have been received and
233 on the decease of my said daughter Marianna Isham
234 I declare that her said trust funds and securities so directed
235 to be purchased with the said sum of ten thousand
236 pounds shall be held by my said trustees upon trust for
237 all or such one or more exclusively of the other or others
238 of the Child or Children of my said daughter Marianna
239 Isham to be paid assigned or transferred to and vest in
240 such Child or Children at either ages days or times and
241 more than are in such parts hares and proportions and
242 with such directions for maintenance and Education
243 and such conditions and restrictions as she my said daughter
244 by any deed or deeds writing or writings with or without
245 power of revocation and new appointment to be sealed
246 and delivered by her in the presence of and to be attested
247 by two or more credible witnesses or by her last will and
248 testament
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249 Testament in writing or any writing in the nature thereof
250 or any Codicil thereto to be signed and published by her in
251 the presence of and to be attested by the like number of
252 credible witnesses shall direct or appoint and in default
253 of such direction or appointment and so far as any such
254 direction or appointment if incomplete shall not extend upon trust
255 for all and every her Child and Children who being a Son or Sons
256 shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a daughter
257 or daughters shall attain that age or be married to be divided
258 between them if more than one in equal shares as Tenants
259 in Common and if there shall be but one such Child then
260 the whole of the same shall be in trust for that one Child
261 and it is my further Will and I direct that my said Executors
262 do and shall within two months next after my decease lay
263 out and invest in their names the sum of five thousand
264 pounds other part of the said sum of twenty thousand pounds
265 upon Government or real securities and vary such securities at their
266 discretion and that they and the survivors of them and the Executors
267 and adm[inistrat]ors of such survivor shall stand possessed of the said last
268 mentioned stocks funds and securities upon the trusts following that
269 is to say upon trust to pay the interest dividends and income thereof
270 unto my said daughter Anna Guilhermina Pole for her own
271 sole and separate use and I declare that the same shall not be
272 in any manner subject to the controul debts or engagements
273 of her present or any future husband with whom she may
274 intermarry and I direct that she shall not anticipate charge or
275 incumber the growing payments thereof but that her receipt
276 alone notwithstanding her coverture shall be a good and
277 sufficient discharge for so much of the said dividends interest
278 and income as shall therein be expressed to be received and
279 on the decease of my said daughter Anna Guilhermina Pole
280 I declare that the said trust funds and securities so directed to
281 be purchased with the said sum of five thousand pounds
282 shall be held by my said trustees upon trust for all or such one
283 or more exclusively of the other or others of the Child or Children
284 of my said daughter Anna Guilhermina Pole to be paid
285 assigned and transferred or vest in such Child or Children at
286 such ages days or times and if more than one in such
287 parts shares or proportions and with such direction for
288 maintenance and Education and with such conditions and
289 restrictions as she my said daughter by any deed or deeds
290 writing or writings with or without power of revocation
291 and new appointment to be sealed and delivered by her in
292 the presence of and to be attested by two or more credible
293 witnesses or by her last will and Testament or any writing
294 in the nature thereof or any Codicil thereto to be signed
295 and published by her in the presence of and to be attested
296 by the like number of Witnesses shall direct or appoint and
297 in default of such direction or appointment and so far
298 as any such direction or appointment if incomplete shall
299 not extend upon trust for all and every her Child and Children
300 who being a Son or Sons shall attain the age of twenty
301 one years or being a daughter or daughters shall attain
302 that age or be married equally to be divided between
303 them if more than one as Tenants in Common and if
304 there shall be but one such Child then the whole of the
305 same shall be in trust for that one Child and it is my
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306 further will and I direct that my said Executors do and
307 shall within two months next after my decease lay out and
308 invest the sum of five thousand pounds residue of the said
309 sum of twenty thousand pounds upon Government or real
310 securities and vary such securities at their discretion and that
311 they and the survivors and survivor of them his Executors
312 administrators and assigns shall stand possessed of the said
313 last mentioned funds and securities upon trust to pay the
314 dividends interest and income thereof unto my daughter
315 Felizarda Matilda Pole during her life for her sole and
316 separate use and I declare that the same shall not be
317 in any manner subject to the controul debts of engagements
318 of her present or any future husband with whom she
319 may intermarry and that she shall not anticipate charge
320 encumber of assign the growing payments thereof and
321 that her receipts alone not withstanding her coverture shall
322 be good and sufficient discharges for so much of the said
323 dividends interest and income as shall therein respectively
324 be acknowledged to have been received and on the decease
325 of my said daughter Felizarda Matilda Pole I declare that
326 the funds and securities directed to be purchased with
327 the last mentioned sum of five thousand pounds shall
328 be held by my said trustees upon trust for all or such one
329 or more exclusively of the other or others of the child or
330 Children of my said daughter Felizarda Matilda Pole to
331 be paid assigned or transferred to or vest in such Child or
332 Children of such ages days or times and if more than one
333 in such parts shares and proportions and with such
334 direction for maintenance and education and such
335 conditions and restrictions as she my said daughter by
336 any deed or deeds writing or writings with or without
337 power of revocation and new appointment to be sealed
338 and delivered by her in the presence of and to be attested
339 by two or more credible witnesses of by her last will and
340 Testament in writing or any writing in the nature thereof or
341 any Codicil thereto to be signed and published by her in the
342 of and to be attested by the like number of Witnesses shall
343 direct or appoint and in default of such direction or
344 appointment and so far as any such direction or appointment
345 shall not extend upon trust for all and every her Child or
346 Children who being a Son or Sons shall attain the age
347 of Twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters
348 shall attain that age or be married to be divided between
349 them if more than one in equal shares as Tenants in
350 Common and if there shall be but one such Child then
351 the whole of the same shall be in trust for that one Child
352 provided always and I do hereby declare my Will and
353 mind to be that no Child of either of my said daughters taking
354 any part of any of the said trust funds under or by virtue of
355 any such appointment as aforesaid shall have or be
356 entitled to any share of the unappointed parts thereof
357 without bringing his or her appoint share into th[e ]other
358 pot and accounting for the same accordingly unless such
359 appointment shall contain an express direction to the
360 contrary and I direct the interest or dividends of the respective
361 shares of the same children to be applied for their
362 respective
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363 respective maintenance and Education during their respective
364 Minorities in such manner as my said trustees or trustee shall
365 think fit and in case my said daughters or other of them
366 shall die without having had any Child or in case the Child
367 if only one or all the Children if more than one of each
368 or either of my said daughters shall happen to die without
369 having become absolutely entitled to the said trust monies
370 under the trusts herein before declared then I direct that
371 the funds and securities the dividends interest and income
372 whereof is so give as aforesaid to my daughter or each of
373 my daughters so dying or whose issue shall so fail as aforesaid
374 shall be held upon trust for and be paid and transferred
375 unto and equally between all my Grand Children who
376 shall be living at the decease of my said daughters
377 respectively share and share alike and whereas by virtue
378 of the articles of agreement or settlement entered into
379 upon the Marriage of my said daughters Anna Guilhermina
380 and Felizarda Matilda my said two daughters will in-
381 crease amount of the legacies of five thousand pounds herein
382 before given to them become entitled to a further provision
383 or settlement from their respective husbands Now I do hereby
384 direct that such additional settlement be duly executed to
385 the satisfaction of my said Executors before or at the time
386 that such legacies shall respectively be paid and whereas
387 I have by my said will directed my said Executors to lay out
388 and invest in their names within one month after my
389 decease in Government securities in Great Britain so much
390 Money as will purchase the clear annual sum of one
391 hundred pounds and to stand possessed thereof in trust to
392 pay the interest or dividends arising from time to time
393 as and when the said shall become payable to my old
394 and faithful Maid Servant Isabella Brown for her life
395 Now I do hereby revoke the disposition thereby made
396 by me of the said Monies and in lieu thereof do hereby
397 direct my said Executors within one Month after my
398 decease to purchase with the Monies arising from my
399 personal Estate a Government Annuity of one hundred
400 pounds for the life of the said Isabella Brown and to
401 pay the same annuity to her or her assigns during her
402 natural life and I hereby ratify and confirm my said
403 Will in all respects except where the same hath been
404 altered or varied by this Codicil thereto In Witness
405 whereof I the said Richard Buller have to this Codicil
406 to my last Will and Testament and to a Duplicate thereof
407 each contained in six sheets of paper set my hand and
408 seal that is to say my hand to each of the five preceding
409 sheets and my hand and seal to this sixth and last sheet
410 the twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one
411 thousand eight hundred and twenty three. Richard Buller
412 Signed sealed published and declared by the said Richard
413 Buller as and for a Codicil to his last will and Testament in
414 the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in
415 the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our
416 names as witnesses Tho[ma]s Haddon Angel Court Rich[ar]d Pemberton
417 Clerk to Mr Haddon
418 Proved at London with a Codicil 21st January 1824
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419 before the Worshipful John Daubeny Doctor of Laws and
420 Surrogate by the Oaths of Cornelius Buller Esquire and the
421 Rev. Arthur Buller Clerk the Sons two of the Executors
422 to whom admon was granted having been first sworn
423 duly to admin[iste]r power reserved to Charles Pole Esq[uie]r the other
424 Executor
Sir Peter Pole, Baronet, married Anna Guilhermina Buller 24 Dec 1798. She was the eldest daughter of Richard Buller, Esquire. They had eight children. She died 25 Jul 1835.
A second daughter Felizarda Matilda Buller was married to Charles Pole (brother of Sir Peter Pole).
The third daughter Marianna was married to the Reverend Henry Isham.
The oldest son appears to be Cornelius, second eldest is the Reverend Arthur, Clerk and Daniel is the youngest son although he appears to benefit little from the will.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/buller/messages/260.html
An online website links this family back to the Buller family of Shillingham but I still haven't figured out the connection. There is just one Richard that is a possibility on the Visitation but it does not extend his information further than himself although it also does not show him to have died without issue. However the dates of birth for the two Richard entries do not agree. A mystery that is actually. Of course the other issue is whether or not all children are listed on the Visitation. By the wills that were written father to son it does appear that they are all mentioned but then one generation back there are several sons about whom nothing more has been written.
Is the Cornelius Buller Esquire who was Governor of the Bank of England 1824-1826 related to this testator? Looking at the deaths in Free BMD there was one Cornelius Buller who died Jun quarter 1849 (he was the Governor of the Bank of England as mentioned) in Kensington RD. and another death of Cornelius Buller Dec quarter 1880 and he was 77 years of age dying in Marylebone RD. This would be the son of the testator.
http://theweek.com/article/index/95385/the-panic-of-1825
However there was a Cornelius Buller who was in business with Richard Buller and a third partner Hieronymus Burmester. Was Cornelius Buller a brother to Richard? Was Hieronymus Burmester a brother to the wife of Richard Buller namely Felizarda Guilhermina (surname unknown). Cornelius Buller stepped back from becoming involved when the banking house of Pole was in trouble in 1825 because he was related (the deputy Governor took over that particular transaction). However Cornelius Buller is credited with preventing a complete collapse of the system. But how does this Cornelius Buller fit into the Buller family? Cornelius Buller was married to Mary Downe the daughter of Richard Down Esquire Banker of Bartholomews Lane in the City of London. The Will or Richard Down is in its entirety in the website below:
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dewievans/richard_will.html
Another researcher has passed the following information to me to clarify some of my questions above:
"There are indeed two Cornelius Bullers: one was the eldest son of Felizarda Guilhermina and Richard Buller, baptised 15 Apr 1772, married Mary Down 04 May 1801 (Boyd’s marriage indexes) and died 11 Apr 1849 in Cambridge Street, Hyde Park, Kensington. It was he who was Governor of the Bank of England from 1824 -1826 source http://www.bized.ac.uk/dataserv/chron/governors.htm . He worked with related members of the family – all in the banking world, such as Sir Peter Pole 2nd Bt, Edward Down and Peter Free: as you can see Mary Down was one of the daughters of Peter Free. A German PhD student, many years ago, was working on the Burmester family and has provided us with the Burmester tree going back many generations. However getting documents and proof from Germany has been exceedingly difficult, mostly because much was destroyed during the World Wars.
"The second Cornelius was the son of Cornelius “the elder” and Mary Down. Born 23 Feb 1803 in Westminster, Middlesex, England, unmarried at the 1861 census, and died 25 Oct 1880 at St Mary, Marylebone, London, England." quoted from an email received from B Fife-Schaw and thank you very much for the information.
Added by me just to mention again why I discuss Buller on my blog (5 Sep 2017). My interest in the Buller family continues to be trying to trace my 3x great grandfather Christopher Buller born circa 1764 and died May 1832 in the Workhouse Infirmary in Bermondsey and was buried 13 May 1832 at St Olave Parish, Bermondsey. He is a bit of a mystery. He had a "slop" shop on Tooley Street in Bermondsey ("slops" was the name given to the clothes worn by sailors) and thus far no records have revealed an ancestry for him.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 17 Feb 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1680/55
Testator: Richard Buller Esquire
Place: Saint Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Date of document: 2 Aug 1823, probated 21 Jan 1824
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Richard
[Margin]: Buller
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1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Richard Buller of Cumberland Street in the parish of Saint
3 Marylebone in the County of Middlesex Esquire I direct that all my
4 just debts be paid immediately after my decease I appoint my sons
5 Cornelius Buller and Arthur Buller and my son in Law Charles
6 Pole Executors of this my will I give and bequeath unto my Son
7 Cornelius Buller the sum of twenty thousand pounds which I
8 have advanced as a Capital in the Mercantile Firm of Richard
9 Buller and Co and I also release and discharge him from the
10 payment of the sum of Sixteen thousand Seven hundred pounds
11 which I have advanced to him for various purposes I give and
12 bequeath unto my Son the Reverend Arthur Buller the sum
13 of twenty thousand pounds and to my Son Daniel Buller the
14 sum of twenty thousand pounds the said two legacies to be
15 paid within two months after my decease I give and bequeath
16 to my daughter Anna Guilhermina wife of Sir Peter Pole Bar[one]t
17 the sum of ten thousand pounds and to my daughter Felizarda
18 Matilda wife of Charles Pole Esquire the like sume of ten thousand
19 pounds to be respectively paid within two months after my
20 decease I give and bequeath to my said Executors Cornelius
21 Buller, Arthur Buller and Charles Pole the sum of ten thousand
22 pounds upon trust within two months after my decease to
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23 lay out and invest the same in their names upon Government
24 Securities in Great Britain with power to vary and transpose
25 the said Securities from time to time at their discretion and to stand
26 possessed of the said Securities upon trust to pay the dividends or
27 interest thereof from time to time as the said shall become due
28 into the proper hands of my daughter Mariana Johane the
29 wife of the said Henry Charles Isham or unto her order to be
30 signified by writing under her hand from time to time after the
31 same shall have become due and not by way of anticipation
32 for her life for her sole use and benefit and I declare that the same
33 shall not be subject to the debts controll or Engagements of
34 her present or any future husband of my said daughter and
35 that the receipts of my said daughter alone or of such person
36 or persons as she shall in manner aforesaid appoint shall
37 from time to time not withstanding her coverture be a
38 good and sufficient discharge to my said Executors and after
39 the decease of my said daughter Marianna Isham upon
40 trust to pay assign and transfer her said sum of ten thousand
41 pounds or the securities upon which the same shall be invested
42 unto and amongst all and every the Child and Children of
43 my said daughter Marianna Isham in such shares and
44 proportions and at such times and in such manner and
45 form as my said daughter shall by deed or will executed
46 in the presence of and attested by two witnesses direct or
47 appoint and in default of appointment in equal shares and
48 proportions such shares being vested interests in the Children
49 of my said daughter being Sons on their attaining the age
50 of twenty one years or being daughters on their attaining
51 that age or on the day or days of their marriage with benefit
52 of Survivorship among them in case of the death of any of
53 them before their respective shares or interests should become vested
54 as aforesaid and with the allowance of the dividends or
55 interest of their respective shares for their maintenance and
56 Education in case my said daughter should die before the
57 said shares become vested and also with power to my said
58 Executors after the decease of my said daughter to advance
59 any part of the expectant shares of her said Children respectively
60 for their preferment or advancement in the world as my
61 said Executors shall think fit and in case my said daughter
62 shall depart this life without leaving issue or there being
63 such they shall all die being Sons under the age of twenty
64 one years and being daughters under that age and unmarried
65 then I direct the said sum of ten thousand pounds or the
66 securities upon which the same shall be invested to be paid
67 and transferred unto and equally between all my surviving
68 Grand Children who shall be living at the decease of my
69 said daughter share and share alike I give and bequeath
70 unto each of Sons in Law Sir Peter Pole Baronet Charles
71 Pole Esquire and the Reverend Henry Isham the sum of
72 two hundred pounds sterling and to Mr John Schubach
73 the like sum of two hundred pounds such last mentioned
74 legacies to be paid within two months after my decease and
75 I give and bequeath unto each of the Children of my Children
76 Anna Guilhermina Cornelius Felizarda Matilda and
77 Marianna who shall be living at the time of my decease the
78 sum of one hundred pounds to be paid to such of them as shall
79 have attained twenty one years of age as soon as conveniently
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80 may be after my decease and to be paid to such of them as
81 shall not have attained twenty one years of age or their
82 attaining that age but to be a vested interest at my decease and
83 to be paid out at interest upon Government securities for their
84 benefit respectively during their Minorities and I direct my
85 Executors to present Mourning Rings to each of my friends
86 and relatives as they may think proper I direct my said
87 Executors to lay out and invest in their names within
88 one Month after my decease in Government securities in Great
89 Britain so much money as will produce the clear annual
90 sum of one hundred pounds and to stand possessed thereof In
91 trust to pay the interest or dividends thence arising from time to
92 time as and when the same shall become payable to my old
93 and faithful Maid Servant Isabella Brown for her life with
94 proportionable part thereof to the day of her decease and
95 after her decease I direct that the said Government securities
96 shall sink into and become part of the residue of my personal
97 Estate I give and bequeath to my Coachman Francis Brown
98 if he shall be in my service at the time of my decease the sum
99 of one hundred pounds sterling to be paid in one month after
100 my decease and I give to each of my other servants who shall
101 be living with me at my decease the sum of ten pounds to
102 be paid within one month after my decease and I also give
103 to each and every of my servants who shall be living with
104 me at the time of my decease such Mourning as my Executors
105 shall think proper and as to the residue and remainder
106 of my Estate and Effects real or personal or of what nature
107 or kind soever or wheresoever I give devise and bequeath
108 the same unto and to the use of my Son Cornelius Buller
109 his heirs Executors advisors and assigns for ever according
110 to the different natures thereof respectively but in case my
111 personal Estate shall be insufficient to satisfy my debts
112 legacies funeral and Testamentary Expences then I direct
113 that such deficiency provided the same do not exceed five
114 thousand pounds shall be deducted and retained out of the
115 said legacy of twenty thousand pounds so given and bequeathed
116 to my Son Arthur but in case such deficiency shall exceed
117 five thousand pounds then I direct such deficiency exceed the sum of five thousand pounds shall be borne by my Son Cornelius
118 and I do hereby give full power to my Executors to submit
119 to arbitration adjust settle compromise and compound
120 all accounts dealings and transactions in which I shall be
121 concerned at the time of my decease as they shall think fit
122 and I direct all my Books papers accounts and writings to
123 be delivered to or taken by my said Son Cornelius and I
124 declare that the receipt or receipts of my said Executors for
125 any money to be received or collected and got in or in
126 any other manner to become payable to them under the
127 trusts of this my will shall effectually discharge the person
128 or persons to whom the same shall be given from being
129 answerable or accountable for the misapplication or
130 Nonapplication or being bound to see to the application
131 or the money expressed in such receipts to be received and
132 I further declare that the Executors and trustees hereby as
133 appointed or to be appointed in pursuance of this my Will
134 their heirs Executors and adm[inistrat]ors shall be charged due
135 chargeable respectively only for such monies as they shall actually
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136 actually received by virtue of the trusts hereby in them
137 reposed notwithstanding his or their joining in or signing
138 any receipt or receipts by way of conformity and any one
139 or more of them shall not be answerable or accountable
140 for the other or others of them or for any misfortune or loss
141 which may happen in the Execution of the aforesaid trusts
142 except the same shall happen through their own wilful
143 default respectively and that it shall be lawful for them
144 out of the Monies which shall come to their hands by
145 virtue of the trusts hereby created to reimburse himself
146 and themselves respectively and also to allow to his and their
147 co executors and trustees and each of them all costs charges
148 counsels fees and Expences which they or other of them shall
149 or may sustain in or about the Execution of the aforesaid trusts
150 or in any wise relating thereto and I hereby also declare
151 that when and so often as either of the trustees appointed
152 by this my will or any future trustee to be appointed as
153 after mentioned shall die decline to act or become desirous
154 of being discharged from the trusts herein created it shall
155 be lawful for the surviving or trustees or the Executors or
156 advisors of the Survivor to appoint another person to
157 succeed to the place of every trustee who shall so die
158 decline to act or become desirous of being discharged as
159 aforesaid and immediately upon any such appointment
160 the said trust Estate and property shall be tranferred
161 conveyed and disposed of so that the same may become
162 vested in such newly appointed trustee or trustees jointly
163 with the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees upon such
164 of the trusts hereby created as shall be then capable of taking
165 effect and every such appointed trustee shall have and be
166 entitled to the same protection and be invested the same
167 powers priviledges and authorities as are hereby given
168 to and provided for the trustees hereinbefore named and
169 I do hereby revoke all former wills made by me and declare
170 this only to be my last will and Testament In witness whereof
171 I the said Richard Buller have to this my last Will and Testament
172 contained in five sheets of paper and to a duplicate thereof
173 set my hand and seal that is to say to the four first sheets
174 thereof set my hand only and to this fifth and last sheet my
175 hand and seal this second day of August in the year of our
176 Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three. Richard
177 Buller Signed sealed published and declared by the said
178 Richard Buller the Testator as and for his last Will and
179 Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at
181 his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
182 subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto Tho[ma]s Haddon
183 Angle Court Throgmorton Street Fra[nci]s Moreroether of the
184 same place Clerk to Mess[ieur]s Galty Haddon and Galty
185 Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me Richard
186 Buller of Cumberland Street in the parish of Saint
187 Marylebone in the County of Middlesex Esquire I give to
188 my Son Cornelius Buller my large Silver Salver which
189 is contained in a plate Chest now in the possession of
190 my Bankers Mess[ieur]s Stowe and Martin and I give
191 the remainder of the articles of plate which are contained
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192 in the said Chest together with all and singular my plate
193 Linen China household Goods and Furniture Wines and
194 liquors to my two Sons Arthur Buller and Daniel Buller
195 and my daughter Marianna Isham in equal shares and
196 proportions as Tenants in Common the share of my said
197 daughter to be for her separate use free from the debts
198 controul or engagements of her present or any future husband
199 and for which her receipt shall be a sufficient discharge and
200 whereas I have by my said Will given to my daughter Anna
201 Guilhermina the wife of Sir Peter Pole Baronet the sum of
202 Ten thousand pounds and I have also given unto my daughter
203 Felisarda Matilda wife of Charles Pole Esquire the like sum
204 of Ten thousand pounds and I have also given to my Executors
205 the like sum of ten thousand pounds upon trust for my dau[ghte]r
206 Marianna Isham and her issue as therein mentioned Now
207 I do hereby revoke the said three several legacies so given to
208 or in trust for my said daughters as aforesaid and in lieu
209 thereof I do hereby give and bequeath unto each of them
210 my said daughters Ann Guilhermina and Felizarda Matilda
211 the sum of five thousand pounds to be paid respectively
212 within two months after my decease and I do give and
213 bequeath unto the Executors in my said Will named
214 the sum of twenty thousand pounds upon trust that they
215 my said Executors do and shall within two months next
216 after my decease lay out or invest the sum of ten thousand
217 pounds part thereof upon Government or ral real securities
218 and vary such securities at their discretion and that they
219 and the survivors and survivor of them his Executors
220 advisors and assigns shall stand possessed of the same
221 upon the trusts following that is to say upon trust to pay
222 the dividends interest and income thereof unto my said
223 daughter Marianna Isham during her life for her sole
224 and separate use and I declare that the same shall not
225 be in any manner subject to the controul debts or
226 Engagements of her present or any future husband with
227 whom she may intermarry and that she shall not anticipate
228 charge incumber or assign the growing payments thereof
229 and that her receipts shall from time to time notwithstanding
230 her coverture be good and sufficient discharges for so much
231 of the said dividends interest and income as shall therein
232 respectively be acknowledged to have been received and
233 on the decease of my said daughter Marianna Isham
234 I declare that her said trust funds and securities so directed
235 to be purchased with the said sum of ten thousand
236 pounds shall be held by my said trustees upon trust for
237 all or such one or more exclusively of the other or others
238 of the Child or Children of my said daughter Marianna
239 Isham to be paid assigned or transferred to and vest in
240 such Child or Children at either ages days or times and
241 more than are in such parts hares and proportions and
242 with such directions for maintenance and Education
243 and such conditions and restrictions as she my said daughter
244 by any deed or deeds writing or writings with or without
245 power of revocation and new appointment to be sealed
246 and delivered by her in the presence of and to be attested
247 by two or more credible witnesses or by her last will and
248 testament
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249 Testament in writing or any writing in the nature thereof
250 or any Codicil thereto to be signed and published by her in
251 the presence of and to be attested by the like number of
252 credible witnesses shall direct or appoint and in default
253 of such direction or appointment and so far as any such
254 direction or appointment if incomplete shall not extend upon trust
255 for all and every her Child and Children who being a Son or Sons
256 shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a daughter
257 or daughters shall attain that age or be married to be divided
258 between them if more than one in equal shares as Tenants
259 in Common and if there shall be but one such Child then
260 the whole of the same shall be in trust for that one Child
261 and it is my further Will and I direct that my said Executors
262 do and shall within two months next after my decease lay
263 out and invest in their names the sum of five thousand
264 pounds other part of the said sum of twenty thousand pounds
265 upon Government or real securities and vary such securities at their
266 discretion and that they and the survivors of them and the Executors
267 and adm[inistrat]ors of such survivor shall stand possessed of the said last
268 mentioned stocks funds and securities upon the trusts following that
269 is to say upon trust to pay the interest dividends and income thereof
270 unto my said daughter Anna Guilhermina Pole for her own
271 sole and separate use and I declare that the same shall not be
272 in any manner subject to the controul debts or engagements
273 of her present or any future husband with whom she may
274 intermarry and I direct that she shall not anticipate charge or
275 incumber the growing payments thereof but that her receipt
276 alone notwithstanding her coverture shall be a good and
277 sufficient discharge for so much of the said dividends interest
278 and income as shall therein be expressed to be received and
279 on the decease of my said daughter Anna Guilhermina Pole
280 I declare that the said trust funds and securities so directed to
281 be purchased with the said sum of five thousand pounds
282 shall be held by my said trustees upon trust for all or such one
283 or more exclusively of the other or others of the Child or Children
284 of my said daughter Anna Guilhermina Pole to be paid
285 assigned and transferred or vest in such Child or Children at
286 such ages days or times and if more than one in such
287 parts shares or proportions and with such direction for
288 maintenance and Education and with such conditions and
289 restrictions as she my said daughter by any deed or deeds
290 writing or writings with or without power of revocation
291 and new appointment to be sealed and delivered by her in
292 the presence of and to be attested by two or more credible
293 witnesses or by her last will and Testament or any writing
294 in the nature thereof or any Codicil thereto to be signed
295 and published by her in the presence of and to be attested
296 by the like number of Witnesses shall direct or appoint and
297 in default of such direction or appointment and so far
298 as any such direction or appointment if incomplete shall
299 not extend upon trust for all and every her Child and Children
300 who being a Son or Sons shall attain the age of twenty
301 one years or being a daughter or daughters shall attain
302 that age or be married equally to be divided between
303 them if more than one as Tenants in Common and if
304 there shall be but one such Child then the whole of the
305 same shall be in trust for that one Child and it is my
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306 further will and I direct that my said Executors do and
307 shall within two months next after my decease lay out and
308 invest the sum of five thousand pounds residue of the said
309 sum of twenty thousand pounds upon Government or real
310 securities and vary such securities at their discretion and that
311 they and the survivors and survivor of them his Executors
312 administrators and assigns shall stand possessed of the said
313 last mentioned funds and securities upon trust to pay the
314 dividends interest and income thereof unto my daughter
315 Felizarda Matilda Pole during her life for her sole and
316 separate use and I declare that the same shall not be
317 in any manner subject to the controul debts of engagements
318 of her present or any future husband with whom she
319 may intermarry and that she shall not anticipate charge
320 encumber of assign the growing payments thereof and
321 that her receipts alone not withstanding her coverture shall
322 be good and sufficient discharges for so much of the said
323 dividends interest and income as shall therein respectively
324 be acknowledged to have been received and on the decease
325 of my said daughter Felizarda Matilda Pole I declare that
326 the funds and securities directed to be purchased with
327 the last mentioned sum of five thousand pounds shall
328 be held by my said trustees upon trust for all or such one
329 or more exclusively of the other or others of the child or
330 Children of my said daughter Felizarda Matilda Pole to
331 be paid assigned or transferred to or vest in such Child or
332 Children of such ages days or times and if more than one
333 in such parts shares and proportions and with such
334 direction for maintenance and education and such
335 conditions and restrictions as she my said daughter by
336 any deed or deeds writing or writings with or without
337 power of revocation and new appointment to be sealed
338 and delivered by her in the presence of and to be attested
339 by two or more credible witnesses of by her last will and
340 Testament in writing or any writing in the nature thereof or
341 any Codicil thereto to be signed and published by her in the
342 of and to be attested by the like number of Witnesses shall
343 direct or appoint and in default of such direction or
344 appointment and so far as any such direction or appointment
345 shall not extend upon trust for all and every her Child or
346 Children who being a Son or Sons shall attain the age
347 of Twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters
348 shall attain that age or be married to be divided between
349 them if more than one in equal shares as Tenants in
350 Common and if there shall be but one such Child then
351 the whole of the same shall be in trust for that one Child
352 provided always and I do hereby declare my Will and
353 mind to be that no Child of either of my said daughters taking
354 any part of any of the said trust funds under or by virtue of
355 any such appointment as aforesaid shall have or be
356 entitled to any share of the unappointed parts thereof
357 without bringing his or her appoint share into th[e ]other
358 pot and accounting for the same accordingly unless such
359 appointment shall contain an express direction to the
360 contrary and I direct the interest or dividends of the respective
361 shares of the same children to be applied for their
362 respective
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363 respective maintenance and Education during their respective
364 Minorities in such manner as my said trustees or trustee shall
365 think fit and in case my said daughters or other of them
366 shall die without having had any Child or in case the Child
367 if only one or all the Children if more than one of each
368 or either of my said daughters shall happen to die without
369 having become absolutely entitled to the said trust monies
370 under the trusts herein before declared then I direct that
371 the funds and securities the dividends interest and income
372 whereof is so give as aforesaid to my daughter or each of
373 my daughters so dying or whose issue shall so fail as aforesaid
374 shall be held upon trust for and be paid and transferred
375 unto and equally between all my Grand Children who
376 shall be living at the decease of my said daughters
377 respectively share and share alike and whereas by virtue
378 of the articles of agreement or settlement entered into
379 upon the Marriage of my said daughters Anna Guilhermina
380 and Felizarda Matilda my said two daughters will in-
381 crease amount of the legacies of five thousand pounds herein
382 before given to them become entitled to a further provision
383 or settlement from their respective husbands Now I do hereby
384 direct that such additional settlement be duly executed to
385 the satisfaction of my said Executors before or at the time
386 that such legacies shall respectively be paid and whereas
387 I have by my said will directed my said Executors to lay out
388 and invest in their names within one month after my
389 decease in Government securities in Great Britain so much
390 Money as will purchase the clear annual sum of one
391 hundred pounds and to stand possessed thereof in trust to
392 pay the interest or dividends arising from time to time
393 as and when the said shall become payable to my old
394 and faithful Maid Servant Isabella Brown for her life
395 Now I do hereby revoke the disposition thereby made
396 by me of the said Monies and in lieu thereof do hereby
397 direct my said Executors within one Month after my
398 decease to purchase with the Monies arising from my
399 personal Estate a Government Annuity of one hundred
400 pounds for the life of the said Isabella Brown and to
401 pay the same annuity to her or her assigns during her
402 natural life and I hereby ratify and confirm my said
403 Will in all respects except where the same hath been
404 altered or varied by this Codicil thereto In Witness
405 whereof I the said Richard Buller have to this Codicil
406 to my last Will and Testament and to a Duplicate thereof
407 each contained in six sheets of paper set my hand and
408 seal that is to say my hand to each of the five preceding
409 sheets and my hand and seal to this sixth and last sheet
410 the twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one
411 thousand eight hundred and twenty three. Richard Buller
412 Signed sealed published and declared by the said Richard
413 Buller as and for a Codicil to his last will and Testament in
414 the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in
415 the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our
416 names as witnesses Tho[ma]s Haddon Angel Court Rich[ar]d Pemberton
417 Clerk to Mr Haddon
418 Proved at London with a Codicil 21st January 1824
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419 before the Worshipful John Daubeny Doctor of Laws and
420 Surrogate by the Oaths of Cornelius Buller Esquire and the
421 Rev. Arthur Buller Clerk the Sons two of the Executors
422 to whom admon was granted having been first sworn
423 duly to admin[iste]r power reserved to Charles Pole Esq[uie]r the other
424 Executor
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