Jacob Blake, the testator, is a mystery. No reasonable entries for births emerged searching the various sites.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 23 Apr 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/867
Name of testator: Jacob Blake, 43rd Company of Marines in Portsmouth Division now belonging to his Majesties Ship Namur
Place: on board his Majesties Ship Namur
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 12 Feb 1761, probated 12 Aug 1761
[In margin]: Jacob Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Jacob Blake a Marine in the 43 Company of Marines in Portsmouth
3 Division now belonging to his Majesties Ship Namure being in Body
4 health and of Sound and disposing Mind and Memory and considering
5 the perils and dangers of the Seas and other uncertainties of this
6 transitory Life do for avoiding controversies after my decease make
q publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner
8 following that is to say First I commend my Soul to God that gave
9 it and my Body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God
10 to order and as for and concerning all my Worldly Estate I give
11 bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth that is to say all my pay
12 and Wages Sum and Sums of Money Lands Tenements Goods
13 Chattels and Estate whatsoever as shall be any ways due owing or
11 belonging unto me at the time of my decease I do give devise and
15 bequeath the same unto my Friend Thomas Soaper of Portsea in
16 the County of Southampton Joyner to and for his own use and
17 Benefit and I do hereby nominate and appoint the said Thomas
18 Soaper Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby
19 revoking all former and other Wills Testaments and deeds of Gifts
20 by me at any time heretofore made and I do ordain and ratify
21 these presents to Stand and be for and as my only last Will and
22 Testament In Witness whereof to this my said Will I have set
23 my hand and Seal the twelfth day of February in the year of
24 our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty one and in
25 the first year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the
26 third over Great Britain etc The Mark of Jacob Blake Signed
27 Sealed published and declared in the presence of us John
28 Robinson Thos Binsteed
29 This Will was proved at London before the Right Worshipful
30 Edward Simpson doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the
31 prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted on the twelth day
32 of August in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and
33 Sixty one by the Oath of Thomas Soaper Sole Executor named in the
34 said Will to whom Administration was granted of all and Singular
35 the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased he having been
36 first Sworn by Commission duly to administer
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Sunday, April 6, 2014
Will of John Blake, Gentleman, Stratford Langthorn, West Ham, Essex - The National Archives PROB 11/1771/19, probated 2 Dec 1771
The testator, John Blake of Stratford Langthorn, West Ham, Essex, does give a few clues to his family. He is married to Mary. He has a half brother John Robinson and two nieces Elizabeth Rolph and Mary Litchfield. He identifies the home location for John Robinson as Sudbrook, Lincolnshire (near Lincoln).
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/973/19
Testator: John Blake, Gentleman
Place: Stratford Langthorn, West Ham, Essex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 26 Jul 1771, probated 2 Dec 1771
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: John
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I John Blake of Stratford Langthorn in the Parish
3 of Westham in the County of Essex Gentleman being
4 in perfect health and memory for which I render
5 hearty thanks to God but considering the frailty of
6 human life Do make this my last Will and Testament
7 in manner and form following (that is to say) I com[m]end
8 my Soul into the hands of Almighty God believing in
9 him Remission of Sins and Everlasting life by the
10 Merits Death and Passion of Jesus Christ my
11 Saviour and Redeemer my Body I Commit to the
12 Earth to be Decently Interred by my Executrix herein
13 after named as follows That is to say If I shall die
14 in the Town of Stratford aforesaid then to be buried
15 in the Churchyard belonging to the Parish of
16 Westham in the Vault belonging formerly to Mr
17 Yarsons’s Family if agreeable to them if not in
18 a Grave Six feet Deep and as near the said Vault
19 as Convenient and to have a hand Stone inscribing
20 who and what I was and as to my Worldly Estate I
21 Dispose thereof as follows Imprimis I will that all
22 my Just Debts and Funeral Charges be first paid and
23 satisfied Item I give and bequeath unto my half
24 Brother John Robinson of Sudbrook near Lincoln
25 in the County of Lincoln Thirty pounds if he shall
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26 be living at the time of my Decease if not then
27 I Give and bequeath the said Thirty pounds
28 unto my two Neices Elizabeth Rolph and Mary
29 Litchfield equally Share and Share alike Item
30 I Give and bequeath unto Charles Smith Esquire
31 Treasurer of the Charity School of Westham or
32 his successor (if he should Die in my life or be
33 removed) Twenty pounds for the use of the said
34 Charity Item I Give unto John Grant one Suit of
35 my Cloaths at the Discretion of my Said Wife and
36 as to all the Rest Residue and Remainder of my
37 Estate and Effects whatsoever or wheresoever the
38 same is was or shall or may be at the time of my
39 Decease I Give Devise and bequeath the same
40 unto my beloved Wife Mary Blake her executors
41 admors and Assigns for ever and I do hereby
42 revoke all former and other Wills by me at any
43 time heretofore made and do publish and declare
44 this and this only to be my last Will and Testament
45 and do hereby Constitute and Appoint my Said
46 beloved Wife Mary Blake Sole Executrix hereof
47 In Witness whereof I the said John Blake the
48 Testator have to this my Last Will and Testament
49 set my hand and affixed my Seal this Twenty Sixth
50 day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand
51 Seven hundred and Seventy one John Blake
52 Signed, Sealed, published and declared by the
53 Testator John Blake as and for his last Will
54 and Testament in the presence of us who have in
55 his presence and in the presence of each other
56 and at his request Subscribed our names as
57 Witnesses hereto the words (Thirty pounds) being
58 first interlined Thomas Crook and an Wm Deyongh
60 This Will was proved at London the
61 second day of December in the year of our Lord
62 One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy one
63 before the Worshipful Andrew Coltee Ducarel
64 doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Worshipful
65 George hay also doctor of Laws Master Keeper
66 or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
67 lawfully Constituted by the Oath of Mary Blake
68 Widow the Relict of the deceased Sole Executrix named
69 in the Said Will to whom Administration was Granted
70 of all and Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits
71 of the said deceased she having been first sworn
72 duly to administer
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/973/19
Testator: John Blake, Gentleman
Place: Stratford Langthorn, West Ham, Essex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 26 Jul 1771, probated 2 Dec 1771
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: John
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I John Blake of Stratford Langthorn in the Parish
3 of Westham in the County of Essex Gentleman being
4 in perfect health and memory for which I render
5 hearty thanks to God but considering the frailty of
6 human life Do make this my last Will and Testament
7 in manner and form following (that is to say) I com[m]end
8 my Soul into the hands of Almighty God believing in
9 him Remission of Sins and Everlasting life by the
10 Merits Death and Passion of Jesus Christ my
11 Saviour and Redeemer my Body I Commit to the
12 Earth to be Decently Interred by my Executrix herein
13 after named as follows That is to say If I shall die
14 in the Town of Stratford aforesaid then to be buried
15 in the Churchyard belonging to the Parish of
16 Westham in the Vault belonging formerly to Mr
17 Yarsons’s Family if agreeable to them if not in
18 a Grave Six feet Deep and as near the said Vault
19 as Convenient and to have a hand Stone inscribing
20 who and what I was and as to my Worldly Estate I
21 Dispose thereof as follows Imprimis I will that all
22 my Just Debts and Funeral Charges be first paid and
23 satisfied Item I give and bequeath unto my half
24 Brother John Robinson of Sudbrook near Lincoln
25 in the County of Lincoln Thirty pounds if he shall
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26 be living at the time of my Decease if not then
27 I Give and bequeath the said Thirty pounds
28 unto my two Neices Elizabeth Rolph and Mary
29 Litchfield equally Share and Share alike Item
30 I Give and bequeath unto Charles Smith Esquire
31 Treasurer of the Charity School of Westham or
32 his successor (if he should Die in my life or be
33 removed) Twenty pounds for the use of the said
34 Charity Item I Give unto John Grant one Suit of
35 my Cloaths at the Discretion of my Said Wife and
36 as to all the Rest Residue and Remainder of my
37 Estate and Effects whatsoever or wheresoever the
38 same is was or shall or may be at the time of my
39 Decease I Give Devise and bequeath the same
40 unto my beloved Wife Mary Blake her executors
41 admors and Assigns for ever and I do hereby
42 revoke all former and other Wills by me at any
43 time heretofore made and do publish and declare
44 this and this only to be my last Will and Testament
45 and do hereby Constitute and Appoint my Said
46 beloved Wife Mary Blake Sole Executrix hereof
47 In Witness whereof I the said John Blake the
48 Testator have to this my Last Will and Testament
49 set my hand and affixed my Seal this Twenty Sixth
50 day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand
51 Seven hundred and Seventy one John Blake
52 Signed, Sealed, published and declared by the
53 Testator John Blake as and for his last Will
54 and Testament in the presence of us who have in
55 his presence and in the presence of each other
56 and at his request Subscribed our names as
57 Witnesses hereto the words (Thirty pounds) being
58 first interlined Thomas Crook and an Wm Deyongh
60 This Will was proved at London the
61 second day of December in the year of our Lord
62 One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy one
63 before the Worshipful Andrew Coltee Ducarel
64 doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Worshipful
65 George hay also doctor of Laws Master Keeper
66 or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
67 lawfully Constituted by the Oath of Mary Blake
68 Widow the Relict of the deceased Sole Executrix named
69 in the Said Will to whom Administration was Granted
70 of all and Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits
71 of the said deceased she having been first sworn
72 duly to administer
Friday, March 28, 2014
Will of Arabella Blake, spinster, Upton, Essex - The National Archives PROB 11/1439/159, probated 5 Mar 1806
Arabella Blake, spinster, is the testatrix of this present will. She lived at Upton, Essex. I found an interesting webpage on The Descendants of John Pelly and the Pelly family is mentioned in this will.
http://www.pennyghael.org.uk/Pelly.pdf
Henry Hinde Pelly (son of John Pelly and Elizabeth Hinde) married Sally Hitchen Blake who was the daughter of a Captain John Blake (wife unknown) and they married 13 Jul 1776. Sally was said to be born in 1744 and died on 15 May 1824 (aged 80). This couple (Henry Hinde Pelly and Sally Hitchen Blake) had four children according to this document namely John Henry Pelly, William Pelly, Charles Pelly and Francis Pelly. The will mentions Henry Hinde Pelly and his wife Sally Hitchen Pelly and their children Charles, John Henry, Francis and Raymond and possibly a daughter Mary who married Benjamin Harrison.
John Henry Pelly (nephew to Arabella Blake) has a rather interesting life story:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=21815&back=
Pelly, Sir John Henry, first baronet (1777–1852), merchant, born on 31 March 1777, was the eldest son of Henry Hinde Pelly (1744/5–1818) of Upton House, Essex, a captain in the service of the East India Company, and Sally Hitchen, the daughter of John Blake. His grandfather John Pelly was also a captain in the company's service, and his grandmother was Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of Henry Hinde of Upton. John is said to have been in his youth in the navy. If so, he quitted it without obtaining a commission. It is more probable that he was with his father in the company's service; that he had nautical experience of some sort appears certain. Having settled in business in London, he became in 1806 a director of the Hudson's Bay Company, of which he was afterwards successively deputy governor and governor. On 13 July 1807 he married Emma (d. 1856), the sixth daughter of Henry Boulton of Thorncroft, Surrey, the governor of the Corporation of Working Mines and Metals in Scotland and a director of the Sun Fire Office. They had eight sons and two daughters who survived infancy. In 1823 Pelly was elected elder brother of Trinity House, and, some years later, deputy master. In 1840 he was a director of the Bank of England, and in 1841 governor.
As governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1835 Pelly is remembered for having sent out the exploring parties which, under Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson (1808–1840), two of the company's agents, did so much for the discovery of the north-west passage and of the coastline of North America. His share in this work is commemorated by Cape Pelly which marks the eastern extremity of Dease and Simpson Strait. In August 1838 he and Simpson travelled to St Petersburg to negotiate with Baron von Wrangel of the Russian American Company. These talks led in 1839 to the Hudson's Bay Company's leasing the Alaskan peninsula from the Russians. On 6 July 1840 Pelly was created a baronet, on the recommendation of Lord Melbourne. The duke of Wellington was on friendly terms with him. He died at Upton House on 13 August 1852.
J. K. Laughton, rev. Elizabeth Baigent
Sources
GM, 2nd ser., 38 (1852), 527 • Annual Register (1852), 300 • Burke, Peerage • T. Simpson, Narrative of the discoveries on the north coast of America …, 1836–9 (1843) • DCB, vol. 8
Archives
BL, corresp. with W. E. Gladstone, Add. MSS 44364–44368 • BL, corresp. with Sir Robert Peel, Add. MSS 40411–40592 • U. Southampton L., letters to first duke of Wellington
Likenesses
H. P. Briggs, oils, Hudson's Bay Company, London
© Oxford University Press 2004–14
All rights reserved: see legal notice Oxford University Press
J. K. Laughton, ‘Pelly, Sir John Henry, first baronet (1777–1852)’, rev. Elizabeth Baigent, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21815, accessed 27 March 2014]
Sir John Henry Pelly (1777–1852): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21815
Now, to try to discover who Captain John Blake was, the father, of the testator and grandfather of John Henry Pelly above. Another record shows that Captain John Blake was with the Honourable East India Company Service. I should be able to learn more about him on Find My Past but first to continue checking the names on google.
Going to Family Search I did find a baptism for Mary Tymewell Blake 20 Jan 1758 (born 23 Dec 1757) at St James Westminster, Middlesex, England with father John Blake and mother Mary. There is a baptism for Sally Hitchen Blake 12 Oct 1744 at Saint Andrew Holborn, London. No baptism for Arabella located.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=0RAwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=John+Blake+%2B+Mary+Tymewell&source=bl&ots=nUJh5mhhEQ&sig=-5IB1yAKvjCUZJgag7ojn8LUXek&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Xos0U-q0MK78yAHrqYCIDQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=John%20Blake%20%2B%20Mary%20Tymewell&f=false
I did find a marriage for John Blake to Mary Tymewell 17 Nov 1743 at Westminster Abbey, London, England. The published registers for Westminster Abbey (The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St Peter Westminster, edited and annotated by Joseph Lemuel Chester, Private Edition, London, 1876, London: Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, Wardour Street, W.), show that John Blake was of St Andrews Holborn and Mary Tymewell of Camrewell, Surrey. There is a footnote attached to this particular entry which reads “He, son of Captain John Blake and Mary his wife, was born at Limehouse, Middlesex 27 Aug 1713, and became, like his father, a captain in the merchant service. His residence was sometime at Watcombe, in Brockenhurst, Hampshire and afterwards in Parliament Street, Westminster. He died 25 Feb 1790. She only daughter and heir of Charles Tymewell of Peckham, co. Surrey, Gent., by (apparently) his third wife, Arabella, widow of John Hitchin, of the same place, Gent., and was born about 1723. After her husband’s death she resided at Goldwell House, Speen Hill, Berkshire. Her will, dated 7 June 1797, was proved 15 March 1802. Their eldest surviving daughter and coheir married Henry Hinde Pelly, Esquire., and was mother of Sir John Henry Pelly, first Baronet of Upton, Essex.”
This is a tremendous find since most records do not have any information on the parents of Arabella, her brother John Bradby and sisters Sally Hitchen and Mary Tymewell. I also have not transcribed this will although I did think that I had all of Berkshire completed! I have downloaded the will from Ancestry and will do it next. From the register I have now learned that Captain John Blake is the son of another Captain John Blake and checking Family Search for his birth 27 Aug 1713 and there is a baptism for John Blake at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London son of John and Mary Blake 29 Aug 1713. There is a marriage of John Blake and Mary Daberon 24 Mar 1702 at Saint Bride Fleet Street, London.
A little more information on a random search for Watcombe, Brockenhurst, Hampshire yielded a rather interesting comment about Watcombe Farm at Brockenhurt which was sold in 1759 by Captain John Blake (India Service). The farm was described as a mansion in a 1751 lease (Hampshire Record Office apparently. http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1000499 The Hampshire Record Office has an item 6M80/3/B86 which is described as a Counterpart lease for 1000 years of Watcombe Lane, in front of the mansion house of John Blake, leading from Brockenhurst into the New Forest, dated 22 Oct 1751 and Jeremiah Cray of Ibsley, esq and John Blake, of Brockenhurst, esq were mentioned in the document. A second document 6M80/E/T273 is a Bargain and sale of Watcombe House and lands, Brockenhurst, dated 2 Aug 1759 with John Blake of Watcombe, Brockenhurst and John Howard of Bedfordshire, esquire being mentioned.
Probably if I can acquire records from the Honourable East India Company Service I will be able to learn more about this Blake family. They are now traced back to the baptism of John Blake 29 Aug 1713 at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London and possibly the son of John Blake and Mary Daberon. There were a number of Blake marriages at Saint Dunstan Stepney which I mentioned in my blog post for John Blake mariner of Stepney:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/11/will-of-john-blake-mariner-of-stepney.html
More to come when I blog the will of Arabella’s mother.
Names mentioned in the will:
Arabella Blake, Upton, Essex, testatrix
Sally Hitchen Pelly, sister
Charles Pelly, nephew, godson
Mary Harrison, niece, wife of Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison, esquire, husband of Mary
John Henry Pelly, nephew
Francis Pelly, nephew
Raymond Pelly, nephew
Mary Tymewell Nutt, sister
Mrs Joan Dearing, mortgagee
Henry Anson Nutt, nephew
Charles Nutt, nephew
John Joseph Blake, adopted nephew
John Bradby Blake, brother, deceased
Henry Hinde Pelly, esquire, brother in law, executor
Mary See
Mary Nutt, step-niece
George Anson Nutt, esquire, brother in law
Catherine Arabella Browne, god daughter
Jeremiah Flack
Ellen Flack
Edmund Robinson, witness
Chris Lee, witness
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 27 March 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1439/159
Testator: Arabella Blake, spinster
Place: Upton, Essex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 13 May 1805, probated 5 Mar 1806
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Arabella
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Arabella Blake of Upton in the County of
3 Essex Spinster being of sound Mind Memory and
4 Understanding do make this my last Will and
5 Testament in manner following I direct that all
6 my just debts and Funeral Expences shall be fully
7 paid and satisfied and subject thereto I dispose of
8 my Estate as follows I Give unto my dear Sister
9 Sally Hitchen Pelly the Capital Sum of Three
10 hundred pounds Old South Sea Annuities standing
11 in my Name I give unto my Nephew and
12 Godson Charles Pelly the Capital Sum of One
13 Thousand pounds like Old South Sea Annuities
14 I Give to my Niece Mary Harrison Wife of
15 Benjamin Harrison Esquire the Sum of One
16 hundred pounds four pounds per Cent Bank Ann[uiti]es
17 standing in my Name I Give unto my Nephew
18 John Henry Pelly the like Sum of One hundred
19 pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities I give
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20 to my Nephew Francis Pelly the like Sum of
21 One hundred pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities
22 I give to my Nephew Raymond Pelly the like Sum
23 of One hundred pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities
24 I Give to my dear Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt One
25 Thousand pounds now lent on Mortgage to Mrs
26 Joan Dearing of Canterbury also the Capital sum of
27 One Thousand pounds East India Stock now standing
28 in my Name also the Capital Sum of One
29 thousand pounds four per Cent Bank Annuity
30 I Give to my Nephew Henry Anson Nutt and
31 Charles Nutt each the Capital Sum of One
32 hundred pounds four pounds per Cent Bank
33 Annuities to be transferred to them respectively on
34 their respectively attaining the age of twenty one
35 years I Give to John Joseph Blake the adopted
36 Son of my late Brother John Bradby Blake the
37 Capital Sum of One Thousand pounds three pounds
38 per Cent deducted Bank Annuities and Three
39 hundred pounds three per Cent Consolidated Bank
40 Annuities part of the like Bank Annuities
41 standing in my Name and also the Sum of Thirty
42 Guineas I Give unto my Brother in Law Henry
43 Hinde Pelly Esq[uie]r the Capital Sum of Five hundred
44 pounds four pounds per Cent Bank Annuities upon
45 Trust that he or his Executors or Administrators
46 do and shall pay the dividends and Interest
47 thereof unto Mary See of Brompton in the said
48 County of Middlesex Spinster for her Life and after
49 her decease do and shall transfer the same unto
50 the person or persons who for the time being shall
51 be entitled to the Residue of my Estate I Give
52 to the said Mary See the Sum of Thirty
53 Guineas I Give to Mary Nutt the daughter of
54 my said Brother in Law George Anson Nutt
55 Esq[uie]r by his former Wife One hundred pounds of
56 like old South Sea Annuities I Give to my God
57 daughter Catharine Arabella Browne One hundred
58 pounds like old South Sea Annuities I Give
` my late Faithful Servant Jeremiah Flack Thirty
60 Guineas and to Ellen his Wife Twenty Guineas
61 and as a further Testimony of my regard for
62 the said Ellen Flack I Give her the Sum of
63 Two hundred pounds like three pounds per Cent
64 Consolidated Bank Annuities I Give to my said
65 Brother in Law George Anson Nutt Thirty
66 Guineas I Give to my Brother in Law Henry
67 Hinde Pelly one hundred pounds for the Trouble
68 he will have in the execution of this my Will
69 and the Trusts hereby reposed in him as to all
70 my household Goods Plate Linen China Books
71 and all other my Estate and Effects whatsoever
72 I Give and bequeath the same unto my said
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73 Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt her Executors Admors
74 and Assigns and my Will is and I do hereby declare
75 that the said several Bequests hereinbefore given
76 by me to my said Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt is
77 given to her for her respective sole and separate
78 use and benefit and I direct that the same shall
79 be transferred and paid to her or to such person or
80 persons as she shall by any routing appoint and
81 that the same shall not be subject or liable to
82 the debts Controul Contract Engagements or any
83 Intermeddling of her present or any future
84 husband and for this purpose I direct that the
85 separate Receipt of my said Sister Mary Tymewell
86 Nutt or the person or persons whom notwithstanding
87 her Coverture she shall appoint to receive the
88 same shall be a good and sufficient discharge to
89 my Executor and my Will further is that my
90 Executor and Trustee his Executors and Admors shall
91 and may from time to time by and out of the
92 Monies which shall come to his hands by
93 virtue of this my Will deduct retain and reimburse
94 himself all Costs Charges and Expences which he
95 shall sustain in and about the execution of this my
96 Will and that he or they shall not be charged
97 or chargeable with more Money than shall
98 actually come to his or their hands Nor for any
99 Loss or Misfortune that shall happen to the said
100 Real Monies and premises unless the same shall
101 happen therunder his or their own wilful neglect and
102 I do hereby appoint the said Henry Hinde Pelly
103 sole Executor of this my Will and do hereby
104 revoke all former Will and Codicils by me made
105 and do declare this only to be my last Will and
106 Testament In Witness whereof I the said Arabella
107 Blake have to this my last Will and Testament
108 set my hand and Seal this thirteenth of May one
109 thousand eight hundred and Five Arabella Blake
110 Signed Sealed published and declared by the said
111 Arabella Blake as and for her last Will and Testament
112 in the presence of us who in her presence at her request
113 and in the presence of each other have hereunto
114 subscribed our Names as Witnesses Edm Robinson
115 Chris Lee Lincolns Inn
116 The Will was proved at London on the
117 Fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one
118 thousand eight hundred and six before the
119 worshipful Herbert Jenner doctor of Laws and
120 Surrogate of The Right honorable Sir William
121 Wynne Knight doctor of Laws Masterkeeper or
122 Commissary of the prerogative Court of Canterbury
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123 lawfully constituted by the oath of Henry Huit
124 Pelly Esquire the sole Executor named in the
125 said Will to whom admon was granted of all and
126 Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased
127 he having been first sworn duly to administer
http://www.pennyghael.org.uk/Pelly.pdf
Henry Hinde Pelly (son of John Pelly and Elizabeth Hinde) married Sally Hitchen Blake who was the daughter of a Captain John Blake (wife unknown) and they married 13 Jul 1776. Sally was said to be born in 1744 and died on 15 May 1824 (aged 80). This couple (Henry Hinde Pelly and Sally Hitchen Blake) had four children according to this document namely John Henry Pelly, William Pelly, Charles Pelly and Francis Pelly. The will mentions Henry Hinde Pelly and his wife Sally Hitchen Pelly and their children Charles, John Henry, Francis and Raymond and possibly a daughter Mary who married Benjamin Harrison.
John Henry Pelly (nephew to Arabella Blake) has a rather interesting life story:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=21815&back=
Pelly, Sir John Henry, first baronet (1777–1852), merchant, born on 31 March 1777, was the eldest son of Henry Hinde Pelly (1744/5–1818) of Upton House, Essex, a captain in the service of the East India Company, and Sally Hitchen, the daughter of John Blake. His grandfather John Pelly was also a captain in the company's service, and his grandmother was Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of Henry Hinde of Upton. John is said to have been in his youth in the navy. If so, he quitted it without obtaining a commission. It is more probable that he was with his father in the company's service; that he had nautical experience of some sort appears certain. Having settled in business in London, he became in 1806 a director of the Hudson's Bay Company, of which he was afterwards successively deputy governor and governor. On 13 July 1807 he married Emma (d. 1856), the sixth daughter of Henry Boulton of Thorncroft, Surrey, the governor of the Corporation of Working Mines and Metals in Scotland and a director of the Sun Fire Office. They had eight sons and two daughters who survived infancy. In 1823 Pelly was elected elder brother of Trinity House, and, some years later, deputy master. In 1840 he was a director of the Bank of England, and in 1841 governor.
As governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1835 Pelly is remembered for having sent out the exploring parties which, under Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson (1808–1840), two of the company's agents, did so much for the discovery of the north-west passage and of the coastline of North America. His share in this work is commemorated by Cape Pelly which marks the eastern extremity of Dease and Simpson Strait. In August 1838 he and Simpson travelled to St Petersburg to negotiate with Baron von Wrangel of the Russian American Company. These talks led in 1839 to the Hudson's Bay Company's leasing the Alaskan peninsula from the Russians. On 6 July 1840 Pelly was created a baronet, on the recommendation of Lord Melbourne. The duke of Wellington was on friendly terms with him. He died at Upton House on 13 August 1852.
J. K. Laughton, rev. Elizabeth Baigent
Sources
GM, 2nd ser., 38 (1852), 527 • Annual Register (1852), 300 • Burke, Peerage • T. Simpson, Narrative of the discoveries on the north coast of America …, 1836–9 (1843) • DCB, vol. 8
Archives
BL, corresp. with W. E. Gladstone, Add. MSS 44364–44368 • BL, corresp. with Sir Robert Peel, Add. MSS 40411–40592 • U. Southampton L., letters to first duke of Wellington
Likenesses
H. P. Briggs, oils, Hudson's Bay Company, London
© Oxford University Press 2004–14
All rights reserved: see legal notice Oxford University Press
J. K. Laughton, ‘Pelly, Sir John Henry, first baronet (1777–1852)’, rev. Elizabeth Baigent, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21815, accessed 27 March 2014]
Sir John Henry Pelly (1777–1852): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21815
Now, to try to discover who Captain John Blake was, the father, of the testator and grandfather of John Henry Pelly above. Another record shows that Captain John Blake was with the Honourable East India Company Service. I should be able to learn more about him on Find My Past but first to continue checking the names on google.
Going to Family Search I did find a baptism for Mary Tymewell Blake 20 Jan 1758 (born 23 Dec 1757) at St James Westminster, Middlesex, England with father John Blake and mother Mary. There is a baptism for Sally Hitchen Blake 12 Oct 1744 at Saint Andrew Holborn, London. No baptism for Arabella located.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=0RAwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=John+Blake+%2B+Mary+Tymewell&source=bl&ots=nUJh5mhhEQ&sig=-5IB1yAKvjCUZJgag7ojn8LUXek&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Xos0U-q0MK78yAHrqYCIDQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=John%20Blake%20%2B%20Mary%20Tymewell&f=false
I did find a marriage for John Blake to Mary Tymewell 17 Nov 1743 at Westminster Abbey, London, England. The published registers for Westminster Abbey (The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St Peter Westminster, edited and annotated by Joseph Lemuel Chester, Private Edition, London, 1876, London: Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, Wardour Street, W.), show that John Blake was of St Andrews Holborn and Mary Tymewell of Camrewell, Surrey. There is a footnote attached to this particular entry which reads “He, son of Captain John Blake and Mary his wife, was born at Limehouse, Middlesex 27 Aug 1713, and became, like his father, a captain in the merchant service. His residence was sometime at Watcombe, in Brockenhurst, Hampshire and afterwards in Parliament Street, Westminster. He died 25 Feb 1790. She only daughter and heir of Charles Tymewell of Peckham, co. Surrey, Gent., by (apparently) his third wife, Arabella, widow of John Hitchin, of the same place, Gent., and was born about 1723. After her husband’s death she resided at Goldwell House, Speen Hill, Berkshire. Her will, dated 7 June 1797, was proved 15 March 1802. Their eldest surviving daughter and coheir married Henry Hinde Pelly, Esquire., and was mother of Sir John Henry Pelly, first Baronet of Upton, Essex.”
This is a tremendous find since most records do not have any information on the parents of Arabella, her brother John Bradby and sisters Sally Hitchen and Mary Tymewell. I also have not transcribed this will although I did think that I had all of Berkshire completed! I have downloaded the will from Ancestry and will do it next. From the register I have now learned that Captain John Blake is the son of another Captain John Blake and checking Family Search for his birth 27 Aug 1713 and there is a baptism for John Blake at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London son of John and Mary Blake 29 Aug 1713. There is a marriage of John Blake and Mary Daberon 24 Mar 1702 at Saint Bride Fleet Street, London.
A little more information on a random search for Watcombe, Brockenhurst, Hampshire yielded a rather interesting comment about Watcombe Farm at Brockenhurt which was sold in 1759 by Captain John Blake (India Service). The farm was described as a mansion in a 1751 lease (Hampshire Record Office apparently. http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1000499 The Hampshire Record Office has an item 6M80/3/B86 which is described as a Counterpart lease for 1000 years of Watcombe Lane, in front of the mansion house of John Blake, leading from Brockenhurst into the New Forest, dated 22 Oct 1751 and Jeremiah Cray of Ibsley, esq and John Blake, of Brockenhurst, esq were mentioned in the document. A second document 6M80/E/T273 is a Bargain and sale of Watcombe House and lands, Brockenhurst, dated 2 Aug 1759 with John Blake of Watcombe, Brockenhurst and John Howard of Bedfordshire, esquire being mentioned.
Probably if I can acquire records from the Honourable East India Company Service I will be able to learn more about this Blake family. They are now traced back to the baptism of John Blake 29 Aug 1713 at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London and possibly the son of John Blake and Mary Daberon. There were a number of Blake marriages at Saint Dunstan Stepney which I mentioned in my blog post for John Blake mariner of Stepney:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/11/will-of-john-blake-mariner-of-stepney.html
More to come when I blog the will of Arabella’s mother.
Names mentioned in the will:
Arabella Blake, Upton, Essex, testatrix
Sally Hitchen Pelly, sister
Charles Pelly, nephew, godson
Mary Harrison, niece, wife of Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison, esquire, husband of Mary
John Henry Pelly, nephew
Francis Pelly, nephew
Raymond Pelly, nephew
Mary Tymewell Nutt, sister
Mrs Joan Dearing, mortgagee
Henry Anson Nutt, nephew
Charles Nutt, nephew
John Joseph Blake, adopted nephew
John Bradby Blake, brother, deceased
Henry Hinde Pelly, esquire, brother in law, executor
Mary See
Mary Nutt, step-niece
George Anson Nutt, esquire, brother in law
Catherine Arabella Browne, god daughter
Jeremiah Flack
Ellen Flack
Edmund Robinson, witness
Chris Lee, witness
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 27 March 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1439/159
Testator: Arabella Blake, spinster
Place: Upton, Essex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 13 May 1805, probated 5 Mar 1806
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Arabella
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Arabella Blake of Upton in the County of
3 Essex Spinster being of sound Mind Memory and
4 Understanding do make this my last Will and
5 Testament in manner following I direct that all
6 my just debts and Funeral Expences shall be fully
7 paid and satisfied and subject thereto I dispose of
8 my Estate as follows I Give unto my dear Sister
9 Sally Hitchen Pelly the Capital Sum of Three
10 hundred pounds Old South Sea Annuities standing
11 in my Name I give unto my Nephew and
12 Godson Charles Pelly the Capital Sum of One
13 Thousand pounds like Old South Sea Annuities
14 I Give to my Niece Mary Harrison Wife of
15 Benjamin Harrison Esquire the Sum of One
16 hundred pounds four pounds per Cent Bank Ann[uiti]es
17 standing in my Name I Give unto my Nephew
18 John Henry Pelly the like Sum of One hundred
19 pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities I give
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20 to my Nephew Francis Pelly the like Sum of
21 One hundred pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities
22 I give to my Nephew Raymond Pelly the like Sum
23 of One hundred pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities
24 I Give to my dear Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt One
25 Thousand pounds now lent on Mortgage to Mrs
26 Joan Dearing of Canterbury also the Capital sum of
27 One Thousand pounds East India Stock now standing
28 in my Name also the Capital Sum of One
29 thousand pounds four per Cent Bank Annuity
30 I Give to my Nephew Henry Anson Nutt and
31 Charles Nutt each the Capital Sum of One
32 hundred pounds four pounds per Cent Bank
33 Annuities to be transferred to them respectively on
34 their respectively attaining the age of twenty one
35 years I Give to John Joseph Blake the adopted
36 Son of my late Brother John Bradby Blake the
37 Capital Sum of One Thousand pounds three pounds
38 per Cent deducted Bank Annuities and Three
39 hundred pounds three per Cent Consolidated Bank
40 Annuities part of the like Bank Annuities
41 standing in my Name and also the Sum of Thirty
42 Guineas I Give unto my Brother in Law Henry
43 Hinde Pelly Esq[uie]r the Capital Sum of Five hundred
44 pounds four pounds per Cent Bank Annuities upon
45 Trust that he or his Executors or Administrators
46 do and shall pay the dividends and Interest
47 thereof unto Mary See of Brompton in the said
48 County of Middlesex Spinster for her Life and after
49 her decease do and shall transfer the same unto
50 the person or persons who for the time being shall
51 be entitled to the Residue of my Estate I Give
52 to the said Mary See the Sum of Thirty
53 Guineas I Give to Mary Nutt the daughter of
54 my said Brother in Law George Anson Nutt
55 Esq[uie]r by his former Wife One hundred pounds of
56 like old South Sea Annuities I Give to my God
57 daughter Catharine Arabella Browne One hundred
58 pounds like old South Sea Annuities I Give
` my late Faithful Servant Jeremiah Flack Thirty
60 Guineas and to Ellen his Wife Twenty Guineas
61 and as a further Testimony of my regard for
62 the said Ellen Flack I Give her the Sum of
63 Two hundred pounds like three pounds per Cent
64 Consolidated Bank Annuities I Give to my said
65 Brother in Law George Anson Nutt Thirty
66 Guineas I Give to my Brother in Law Henry
67 Hinde Pelly one hundred pounds for the Trouble
68 he will have in the execution of this my Will
69 and the Trusts hereby reposed in him as to all
70 my household Goods Plate Linen China Books
71 and all other my Estate and Effects whatsoever
72 I Give and bequeath the same unto my said
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73 Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt her Executors Admors
74 and Assigns and my Will is and I do hereby declare
75 that the said several Bequests hereinbefore given
76 by me to my said Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt is
77 given to her for her respective sole and separate
78 use and benefit and I direct that the same shall
79 be transferred and paid to her or to such person or
80 persons as she shall by any routing appoint and
81 that the same shall not be subject or liable to
82 the debts Controul Contract Engagements or any
83 Intermeddling of her present or any future
84 husband and for this purpose I direct that the
85 separate Receipt of my said Sister Mary Tymewell
86 Nutt or the person or persons whom notwithstanding
87 her Coverture she shall appoint to receive the
88 same shall be a good and sufficient discharge to
89 my Executor and my Will further is that my
90 Executor and Trustee his Executors and Admors shall
91 and may from time to time by and out of the
92 Monies which shall come to his hands by
93 virtue of this my Will deduct retain and reimburse
94 himself all Costs Charges and Expences which he
95 shall sustain in and about the execution of this my
96 Will and that he or they shall not be charged
97 or chargeable with more Money than shall
98 actually come to his or their hands Nor for any
99 Loss or Misfortune that shall happen to the said
100 Real Monies and premises unless the same shall
101 happen therunder his or their own wilful neglect and
102 I do hereby appoint the said Henry Hinde Pelly
103 sole Executor of this my Will and do hereby
104 revoke all former Will and Codicils by me made
105 and do declare this only to be my last Will and
106 Testament In Witness whereof I the said Arabella
107 Blake have to this my last Will and Testament
108 set my hand and Seal this thirteenth of May one
109 thousand eight hundred and Five Arabella Blake
110 Signed Sealed published and declared by the said
111 Arabella Blake as and for her last Will and Testament
112 in the presence of us who in her presence at her request
113 and in the presence of each other have hereunto
114 subscribed our Names as Witnesses Edm Robinson
115 Chris Lee Lincolns Inn
116 The Will was proved at London on the
117 Fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one
118 thousand eight hundred and six before the
119 worshipful Herbert Jenner doctor of Laws and
120 Surrogate of The Right honorable Sir William
121 Wynne Knight doctor of Laws Masterkeeper or
122 Commissary of the prerogative Court of Canterbury
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123 lawfully constituted by the oath of Henry Huit
124 Pelly Esquire the sole Executor named in the
125 said Will to whom admon was granted of all and
126 Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased
127 he having been first sworn duly to administer
Monday, March 25, 2013
Will of Frederick William Buller, Lieutenant General in His Majesty's Army - The National Archives PROB 11/2221/379, probated 17 Nov 1855
This will fits with the will of John Buller (blogged: http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/03/will-of-john-buller-esquire-westminster.html)
Frederick William Buller is the son of John Buller and Elizabeth Caroline Buller (second wife) and he was a Major General in the Army born 1778 and died 5 November 1855. He and his wife had a large family which included Frederick Thomas Buller, William Buller, Sir George Buller, John Buller, Charlotte Buller, Caroline (Buller) Lady Poltimore, Agnes and Georgiana Amelia (Buller) Hulse. Mentioned in his will: Major General Frederick Thomas Buller married to Lady Agnes Percy, Reverend William Buller married first to Leonora Sophia Bond and secondly Eleanor Coney, Sir George Buller, General, Commander 1 Battalion Rifle Brigade, Knight of the Legion of Honor and Order of the Medjidie married to Henrietta Macdonald, Caroline married to George Warwick Lord Poltimore, Georgiana Amelia married to Charles Hulse of Breamore.
This is the Buller family of Pelynt and they are descendant of John Francis Buller (he was the grandfather of Frederick William Buller (the testator).
The Buller family has played an enormous role in the military life of the British Isles and I just felt that I needed to do this will just to show how dedicated as a family they were to the United Kingdom. I am still hoping that sometime in the future someone will take on the one name study for the Buller family.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 18 Mar 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2221/379
Testator: Frederick William Buller, Lieutenant General in His Majesty's Army
Date of document: 5 Apr 1836, probated 17 Nov 1855
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Frederick
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Buller
[Margin]: Esquire
[Margin]: 12
1 This is the last Will and Testam[en]t
2 of me Frederick William Buller a Lieutenant General in His Majesty's
3 Army Whereas by the Settlement or Articles made on the marriage of my Son
4 Frederick Thomas Buller with Lady Agnes Percy I am authorized and enpow-
5 ered to charge my Estates in the County of Cornwall with the Sum of Twenty
6 thousand pounds Now I do hereby in pursuance and exercise of such power and
7 of every other power enabling me in that behalf, specifically charge the said
8 Estates with the payment of the said sum of Twenty thousand pounds to be
9 raised and paid within six calendar months after my decease with interest there
10 on after the rate of Four pounds per cent per annum from the day of my death
11 and to be divided equally between my four younger children William Buller
12 George Buller Caroline Lady Poltimore and Georgina Hulse the Wife of Charles
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13 Hulse Esquire share and share alike the shares of them the said Caroline Lady Poltimore
14 and Georgina Hulse to be paid to the Trustees of their respective Marriage Settlements
15 in satisfaction and performance of all the covenants and agreements entered into by
16 me in such Settlements and to be applied by the said Trustees upon the trusts thereof
17 And subject thereto and to the trusts of the said Settlement so far as the same concern
18 my said Estates I give and devise all and singular my Estates in the said County of
19 Cornwall whether Real or Leasehold and of what nature of kind soever of which
20 may be possessed or entitiled to at the time of my death and all my interest at
21 therein unto my said Sons William Buller and George Buller their heirs executors
22 administrators and assigns according to the nature and tenure of the said
23 Estates upon Trust to sell and dispose of the same together or in parcels and
24 either by public auction of private contract and to stand possessed of the monies
25 arising from the sale thereof after payment of all incidental expenses for the
26 equal benefit of themselves the said William Buller and George Buller my
27 son Frederick Thomas Buller and my said daughter Georgina Hulse share and
28 share alike And in order to facilitate the sale of my said Estates I hereby direct
30 that the receipts of them the said William Buller and George Buller or the
31 survivor of them or other the Trustee or Trustees for the time being of this my
32 Will shall be sufficient discharges for any sum or sums of money paid to them
33 and that the person or persons paying the same shall not be bound to see to
34 the application or be answerable or accountable for the misapplication or
35 misapplication thereof or any part thereof provided always that if any or
36 either of them my said three Sons shall happen to die in my lifetime and shall
37 have issue living at my death than I direct that the share or shares of such
38 Son or Sons so dying as well in the said sum of Twenty thousand pounds as
39 also in the proceeds arising from the sale of my said Estates shall go and vest
40 in such manner as if such Son or Sons so dying had died possessed thereof
41 my estate and as part of his or their personal Estate I give and bequeath unto
42 my said Son William Buller all my plate All the Rest and Residue of
43 my personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever not hereby other-
44 wise disposed of after payment thereout of all my debts funeral and testamen-
45 tery expenses I give and bequeath equally between my said Sons William
46 Buller and George Buller and my daughter Georgina Hulse or such of them
47 as shall be living at my death share and share alike provided nevertheless
48 and it is my will and meaning that all monies bequeathed to my daughter
49 Georgina Hulse under this my Will or to which she shall be in any manner
50 entitled by virtue hereof shall be paid to the Trustees for the time being of her
51 Marriage Settlement upon the trusts of the said Settlement And my will is and
52 I hereby declare that the Trustees for the time being of this my Will shall not
53 be chargeable for any more monies than they shall actually receive nor
54 shall they be accountable except for wilful default And that it shall and
55 may be lawful for them my said Trustees in the first place by and out of the
56 monies which shall respectively come to their hands to deduct and reimburse
57 themselves all such expenses as they shall respectively sustain for or by
58 reason of the trusts hereby in them reposed And in case either of these my said
59 Trustees or any other Trustee of this my Will to be appointed in manner here-
60 inafter stated shall die or decline or become incapable to act in the trusts here-
61 by declared before the same shall be fully executed then I declare that it shall
62 be lawful for the surviving acting or continuing Trustee or for the Executors
63 or Administrators of the last surviving Trustee as the case may be to appoint
64 a Trustee or Trustees in the room of the Trustee or Trustees so dying declining
65 or becoming incapable to act and in all such cases all the said trust monies
66 and effects shall be effectually assigned to and vested in the Trustees for the
67 time being of this my Will in such manner as is usual in like cases I appoint
68 my said Sons William Buller and George Buller Executors of this my Will
69 hereby revoking all other Wills by me at any time heretofore made and
70 declaring this only to be my true last Will and Testament In witness whereof
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71 I the said Frederick William Buller to this my last Will and Testament have
72 set my hand and seal this fifth day of April One thousand eight hundred
73 and thirty six F. W. Buller Signed sealed published and declared
74 by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence
75 of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other
76 have hereunto set and subscribed our names as witnesses Frederic Philip
77 Maude - Tho[ma]s Marshall - F B Robinson Essex Street Strand
78 Proved at London 17th Nov[embe]r 1855 before the Worshipful William Calverley
79 Curteis Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oath of the Rev[eren]d William Buller
80 Clerk the Son one of the Executors to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted having
81 been first sworn duly to administer power reserved of making the like grant
82 to Sir George Buller Knight the Son also the other Executor when he shall
83 apply for the same.
84 Proved at London the 7th of November 1862 by the Oath of Sir George
85 Buller Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath the
86 son the other and surviving Executor named in the said Will he having been
87 first sworn to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted
Frederick William Buller is the son of John Buller and Elizabeth Caroline Buller (second wife) and he was a Major General in the Army born 1778 and died 5 November 1855. He and his wife had a large family which included Frederick Thomas Buller, William Buller, Sir George Buller, John Buller, Charlotte Buller, Caroline (Buller) Lady Poltimore, Agnes and Georgiana Amelia (Buller) Hulse. Mentioned in his will: Major General Frederick Thomas Buller married to Lady Agnes Percy, Reverend William Buller married first to Leonora Sophia Bond and secondly Eleanor Coney, Sir George Buller, General, Commander 1 Battalion Rifle Brigade, Knight of the Legion of Honor and Order of the Medjidie married to Henrietta Macdonald, Caroline married to George Warwick Lord Poltimore, Georgiana Amelia married to Charles Hulse of Breamore.
This is the Buller family of Pelynt and they are descendant of John Francis Buller (he was the grandfather of Frederick William Buller (the testator).
The Buller family has played an enormous role in the military life of the British Isles and I just felt that I needed to do this will just to show how dedicated as a family they were to the United Kingdom. I am still hoping that sometime in the future someone will take on the one name study for the Buller family.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 18 Mar 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2221/379
Testator: Frederick William Buller, Lieutenant General in His Majesty's Army
Date of document: 5 Apr 1836, probated 17 Nov 1855
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Frederick
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Buller
[Margin]: Esquire
[Margin]: 12
1 This is the last Will and Testam[en]t
2 of me Frederick William Buller a Lieutenant General in His Majesty's
3 Army Whereas by the Settlement or Articles made on the marriage of my Son
4 Frederick Thomas Buller with Lady Agnes Percy I am authorized and enpow-
5 ered to charge my Estates in the County of Cornwall with the Sum of Twenty
6 thousand pounds Now I do hereby in pursuance and exercise of such power and
7 of every other power enabling me in that behalf, specifically charge the said
8 Estates with the payment of the said sum of Twenty thousand pounds to be
9 raised and paid within six calendar months after my decease with interest there
10 on after the rate of Four pounds per cent per annum from the day of my death
11 and to be divided equally between my four younger children William Buller
12 George Buller Caroline Lady Poltimore and Georgina Hulse the Wife of Charles
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13 Hulse Esquire share and share alike the shares of them the said Caroline Lady Poltimore
14 and Georgina Hulse to be paid to the Trustees of their respective Marriage Settlements
15 in satisfaction and performance of all the covenants and agreements entered into by
16 me in such Settlements and to be applied by the said Trustees upon the trusts thereof
17 And subject thereto and to the trusts of the said Settlement so far as the same concern
18 my said Estates I give and devise all and singular my Estates in the said County of
19 Cornwall whether Real or Leasehold and of what nature of kind soever of which
20 may be possessed or entitiled to at the time of my death and all my interest at
21 therein unto my said Sons William Buller and George Buller their heirs executors
22 administrators and assigns according to the nature and tenure of the said
23 Estates upon Trust to sell and dispose of the same together or in parcels and
24 either by public auction of private contract and to stand possessed of the monies
25 arising from the sale thereof after payment of all incidental expenses for the
26 equal benefit of themselves the said William Buller and George Buller my
27 son Frederick Thomas Buller and my said daughter Georgina Hulse share and
28 share alike And in order to facilitate the sale of my said Estates I hereby direct
30 that the receipts of them the said William Buller and George Buller or the
31 survivor of them or other the Trustee or Trustees for the time being of this my
32 Will shall be sufficient discharges for any sum or sums of money paid to them
33 and that the person or persons paying the same shall not be bound to see to
34 the application or be answerable or accountable for the misapplication or
35 misapplication thereof or any part thereof provided always that if any or
36 either of them my said three Sons shall happen to die in my lifetime and shall
37 have issue living at my death than I direct that the share or shares of such
38 Son or Sons so dying as well in the said sum of Twenty thousand pounds as
39 also in the proceeds arising from the sale of my said Estates shall go and vest
40 in such manner as if such Son or Sons so dying had died possessed thereof
41 my estate and as part of his or their personal Estate I give and bequeath unto
42 my said Son William Buller all my plate All the Rest and Residue of
43 my personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever not hereby other-
44 wise disposed of after payment thereout of all my debts funeral and testamen-
45 tery expenses I give and bequeath equally between my said Sons William
46 Buller and George Buller and my daughter Georgina Hulse or such of them
47 as shall be living at my death share and share alike provided nevertheless
48 and it is my will and meaning that all monies bequeathed to my daughter
49 Georgina Hulse under this my Will or to which she shall be in any manner
50 entitled by virtue hereof shall be paid to the Trustees for the time being of her
51 Marriage Settlement upon the trusts of the said Settlement And my will is and
52 I hereby declare that the Trustees for the time being of this my Will shall not
53 be chargeable for any more monies than they shall actually receive nor
54 shall they be accountable except for wilful default And that it shall and
55 may be lawful for them my said Trustees in the first place by and out of the
56 monies which shall respectively come to their hands to deduct and reimburse
57 themselves all such expenses as they shall respectively sustain for or by
58 reason of the trusts hereby in them reposed And in case either of these my said
59 Trustees or any other Trustee of this my Will to be appointed in manner here-
60 inafter stated shall die or decline or become incapable to act in the trusts here-
61 by declared before the same shall be fully executed then I declare that it shall
62 be lawful for the surviving acting or continuing Trustee or for the Executors
63 or Administrators of the last surviving Trustee as the case may be to appoint
64 a Trustee or Trustees in the room of the Trustee or Trustees so dying declining
65 or becoming incapable to act and in all such cases all the said trust monies
66 and effects shall be effectually assigned to and vested in the Trustees for the
67 time being of this my Will in such manner as is usual in like cases I appoint
68 my said Sons William Buller and George Buller Executors of this my Will
69 hereby revoking all other Wills by me at any time heretofore made and
70 declaring this only to be my true last Will and Testament In witness whereof
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71 I the said Frederick William Buller to this my last Will and Testament have
72 set my hand and seal this fifth day of April One thousand eight hundred
73 and thirty six F. W. Buller Signed sealed published and declared
74 by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence
75 of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other
76 have hereunto set and subscribed our names as witnesses Frederic Philip
77 Maude - Tho[ma]s Marshall - F B Robinson Essex Street Strand
78 Proved at London 17th Nov[embe]r 1855 before the Worshipful William Calverley
79 Curteis Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oath of the Rev[eren]d William Buller
80 Clerk the Son one of the Executors to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted having
81 been first sworn duly to administer power reserved of making the like grant
82 to Sir George Buller Knight the Son also the other Executor when he shall
83 apply for the same.
84 Proved at London the 7th of November 1862 by the Oath of Sir George
85 Buller Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath the
86 son the other and surviving Executor named in the said Will he having been
87 first sworn to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted
Monday, March 4, 2013
Will of Elizabeth Buller, Widow, Holles Street, Clare Market, Middlesex - The National Archives PROB 11/1787/229
Elizabeth Buller is the Testator. Perhaps her marriage is to George Buller 1794 at Stoke Newington, Middlesex (Society of Genealogists, Find My Past). Interesting to have a George Buller as this is quite a common forename in the Somerset Buller family.
Her sister Mary married John Douglas 14 Jun 1795 at All Saints Church, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. They baptized three children at Gainsborough: Thomas Douglas 9 Jul 1796 and 1 Dec 1797 and Eliza Douglas 12 Sep 1818.
Her sister Sarah married Isaac Mundy 17 Aug 1806 at All Saints Church, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. They baptized four children at Gainsborough: Thomas Munday 10 Feb 1810, Margaret Munday 24 Dec 1814 at Gainsborough, Elizabeth and Ann Munday 29 Jan 1820 at Gainsborough.
Her sister Ann married Abraham Evans 9 Feb 1800 at St James, Piccadilly, Middlesex. This was Marriage #39 and they were both of the parish and married by banns and they both signed the Parish Register and witnesses were Samuel Evans and Faney Evans.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24 Feb 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1787/229
Testator: Elizabeth Buller, Widow
Place: Holles Street, Clare Market, Middlesex, England
Date of document: 17 Dec 1830, probated 28 Jul 1831
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Document quality: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Elizabeth
[Margin]: Buller
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Elizabeth Buller of Holes Street Clare Market in the County of Middlesex
3 widow I direct all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences to be fully paid
4 and satisfied as soon as conveniently may be after my decease I give to my dear
5 Sister Mary Douglas Wife of John Douglass of Gainsborough in the County of
6 Lincoln the sum of One hundred pounds for her separate use independently of
7 her husband I also give the like sum of One hundred pounds unto my dear
8 Sister Sarah Monday Wife of Isaac Monday of Gainsborough aforesaid Tailor for her
9 separate use independently of her husband and in case of the decease of either of my
10 said Sisters in my life time I direct that the said Legacies shall not lapse but shall
11 be paid to their respective personal representative and I direct that the said
12 Legacies shall be paid within six months after my decease I give all my Linen
13 wearing Apparel Trinkets and Ornaments of the person whatsoever unto my Sister
14 in Law Elizabeth Robinson Wife of my Brother Thomas Robinson of Holles Street
15 aforesaid hair dresser and as to all the Rest Residue and Remainder
16 of my personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever I direct my Executor hereinafter
17 named to convert into money such parts thereof as may not consist of money and I give
18 one moiety thereof unto my said Brother Thomas Robinson for his absolute use and
19 benefit and in case he shall depart this life in my life time I give the same moiety
20 to Elizabeth Robinson his wife for her absolute use and benefit and as to the other
21 moiety thereof I give the same unto my said Brother Thomas Robinson and to
22 Samuel Pett of Upper Clapton in the said County of Middlesex Esquire who has
23 consented to act as my trustee for the purposes hereinafter mentioned Upon trust
24 the interest and dividends thereof unto my Sister Ann Evans Wife of Abraham
25 Evans of Park Street Islington in the County of Middlesex Gentleman for the term
26 of her natural life for her separate use independently of her husband and not to be subject
27 to his debts controul or engagements and for which her receipt alone shall be a sufficient
28 discharge to my said Trustees and after the decease of my said Sister Ann Evans I give the
29 said moiety of my residuary personal Estate unto my said Sisters Mary Douglass and
30 Sarah Monday in equal proportions share and share alike for their separate use and
31 benefit independently of their respective husbands and in case of the death of either of
32 them the said Mary Douglass and Sarah Monday in my life time or during the life of my
33 said Sister Ann Evans then I direct that the share of her so dying shall be equally
34 divided between her children and I hereby declare that my Executor and Trustees or
35 either of them shall not be answerable or accountable the one for the other of them or for the
36 acts of the other but each only for the money that shall actually come to his hands and the acts
37 they shall not be answerable for any loss which may happen by placing any part of
38 such money in any Bank of Bankers hands for safe custody or otherwise without his or
39 their wilful neglect or default and I declare it to be my wish to be Buried in the
40 Burying Ground of the New Grave Pit Meeting House at Hackney and I hereby appoint
41 my said Brother Thomas Robinson Executor of this my Will and revoking all other Wills
42 by me made I declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said
43 Elizabeth Buller the Testatrix have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and
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44 seal this twenty eighth day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty Elizabeth
45 Buller Signed sealed published and declared by the said Elizabeth Buller the
46 testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in her presence at
47 her request and in the presence of each other attest the same as Witnesses the words "Mary"
48 and "Sarah" in the preceding page being first written on Erasures Fras: Pett Hitchin
49 Thomas Emery
50 Proved at London the 28th July 1831 before the Worshipful Jesse Addams Doctor of Laws
51 and Surrogate by the Oath of Thomas Robinson the Brother the sole Executor to whom Adm[inistrati]on
52 was granted having been first sworn duly to administer
Her sister Mary married John Douglas 14 Jun 1795 at All Saints Church, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. They baptized three children at Gainsborough: Thomas Douglas 9 Jul 1796 and 1 Dec 1797 and Eliza Douglas 12 Sep 1818.
Her sister Sarah married Isaac Mundy 17 Aug 1806 at All Saints Church, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. They baptized four children at Gainsborough: Thomas Munday 10 Feb 1810, Margaret Munday 24 Dec 1814 at Gainsborough, Elizabeth and Ann Munday 29 Jan 1820 at Gainsborough.
Her sister Ann married Abraham Evans 9 Feb 1800 at St James, Piccadilly, Middlesex. This was Marriage #39 and they were both of the parish and married by banns and they both signed the Parish Register and witnesses were Samuel Evans and Faney Evans.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24 Feb 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1787/229
Testator: Elizabeth Buller, Widow
Place: Holles Street, Clare Market, Middlesex, England
Date of document: 17 Dec 1830, probated 28 Jul 1831
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Document quality: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Elizabeth
[Margin]: Buller
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Elizabeth Buller of Holes Street Clare Market in the County of Middlesex
3 widow I direct all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences to be fully paid
4 and satisfied as soon as conveniently may be after my decease I give to my dear
5 Sister Mary Douglas Wife of John Douglass of Gainsborough in the County of
6 Lincoln the sum of One hundred pounds for her separate use independently of
7 her husband I also give the like sum of One hundred pounds unto my dear
8 Sister Sarah Monday Wife of Isaac Monday of Gainsborough aforesaid Tailor for her
9 separate use independently of her husband and in case of the decease of either of my
10 said Sisters in my life time I direct that the said Legacies shall not lapse but shall
11 be paid to their respective personal representative and I direct that the said
12 Legacies shall be paid within six months after my decease I give all my Linen
13 wearing Apparel Trinkets and Ornaments of the person whatsoever unto my Sister
14 in Law Elizabeth Robinson Wife of my Brother Thomas Robinson of Holles Street
15 aforesaid hair dresser and as to all the Rest Residue and Remainder
16 of my personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever I direct my Executor hereinafter
17 named to convert into money such parts thereof as may not consist of money and I give
18 one moiety thereof unto my said Brother Thomas Robinson for his absolute use and
19 benefit and in case he shall depart this life in my life time I give the same moiety
20 to Elizabeth Robinson his wife for her absolute use and benefit and as to the other
21 moiety thereof I give the same unto my said Brother Thomas Robinson and to
22 Samuel Pett of Upper Clapton in the said County of Middlesex Esquire who has
23 consented to act as my trustee for the purposes hereinafter mentioned Upon trust
24 the interest and dividends thereof unto my Sister Ann Evans Wife of Abraham
25 Evans of Park Street Islington in the County of Middlesex Gentleman for the term
26 of her natural life for her separate use independently of her husband and not to be subject
27 to his debts controul or engagements and for which her receipt alone shall be a sufficient
28 discharge to my said Trustees and after the decease of my said Sister Ann Evans I give the
29 said moiety of my residuary personal Estate unto my said Sisters Mary Douglass and
30 Sarah Monday in equal proportions share and share alike for their separate use and
31 benefit independently of their respective husbands and in case of the death of either of
32 them the said Mary Douglass and Sarah Monday in my life time or during the life of my
33 said Sister Ann Evans then I direct that the share of her so dying shall be equally
34 divided between her children and I hereby declare that my Executor and Trustees or
35 either of them shall not be answerable or accountable the one for the other of them or for the
36 acts of the other but each only for the money that shall actually come to his hands and the acts
37 they shall not be answerable for any loss which may happen by placing any part of
38 such money in any Bank of Bankers hands for safe custody or otherwise without his or
39 their wilful neglect or default and I declare it to be my wish to be Buried in the
40 Burying Ground of the New Grave Pit Meeting House at Hackney and I hereby appoint
41 my said Brother Thomas Robinson Executor of this my Will and revoking all other Wills
42 by me made I declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said
43 Elizabeth Buller the Testatrix have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and
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44 seal this twenty eighth day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty Elizabeth
45 Buller Signed sealed published and declared by the said Elizabeth Buller the
46 testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in her presence at
47 her request and in the presence of each other attest the same as Witnesses the words "Mary"
48 and "Sarah" in the preceding page being first written on Erasures Fras: Pett Hitchin
49 Thomas Emery
50 Proved at London the 28th July 1831 before the Worshipful Jesse Addams Doctor of Laws
51 and Surrogate by the Oath of Thomas Robinson the Brother the sole Executor to whom Adm[inistrati]on
52 was granted having been first sworn duly to administer
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Will of Mary Butler, Spinster of Saint Benet Fink, London - The National Archives PROB 11/982/169, probated 16 Nov 1772
Thought this could be a possibility to help me out given the time frame (after Christopher Buller was born circa 1673) however the will is for Mary Butler I am fairly sure and will check that out with the National Archives. Handy will though for this family as she identifies her brother and sister who are living in Louth Lincolnshire.Indeed The National Archives has sent me an email stating this is Mary Butler.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 13 Feb 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/982/169
Testator: Mary Butler, Spinster
Place: Saint Benet Fink, London, England
Date of document: 12 Nov 1772, probated 16 Nov 1772
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Document quality: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Mary Butler
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Mary Butler of Bear Alley of the parish of Saint
3 Bennet Finck London Spinster being sick and weak of
4 Body but of sound Mind Memory and Understanding do
5 make this my last Will and Testament in manner and
6 forme following that is to say First and principally I commend
7 my Soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator
8 hoping for pardon of my Sins by the Merits and
9 Intercession of my blessed Saviour my Body I commit to
10 the Earth to be buried and as to all such Estate Goods
11 and Chattels that I shall be possessed of interested in or
12 intitled unto at the time of my decease after payment
13 of all my Debts Funeral Charges and all other necessary
14 Expences I do dispose thereof as followeth that is to say
15 I do give and bequeath unto my Brother James Butler
16 Shoemaker now living at Louth Lincolnshire and to my
17 Sister Ann Ward (wife of Thomas Ward Shoemaker living
18 at the aforesaid place) all and every part of my Estate in
19 Effects Goods and Chattels that may be remaining after
20 the following Legacies herein mentioned being paid I do give
21 and bequeath unto Elizabeth Cuthbert two Tea Spoons
22 marked C I do give and bequeath unto Elizabeth
23 Robinson daughter of Eleanor Robinson a Silver Medal
24 and pin and I do give and bequeath three Rings as
25 follow one to Mrs Ann Brown one to Mrs Catherine
26 Brown and one to Mrs Bridget Hughes if they please
27 to accept of them I do also give and bequeath Five
28 Guineas to my Executrix Mrs Jane Monkhouse for her
29 care and trouble and I do give and bequeath Three Rings
30 unto Mr Edward Derby and his two Daughters Isabella
31 Derby and Carolina Derby and I do hereby constitute and
32 appoint Jane Monkhouse Spinster of the parish of
33 Peckham in the County of Surry my Executrix of this my
34 last Will hereby revoking all other Wills and Testaments
35 by me at any time heretofore made or published I do
36 declare this to be my Will and Testament In Witness
37 whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the
38 Twelfth day of November in the Twelfth Year of the
39 Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the
40 Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
41 King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the year
42 of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and seventy two
43 Mary Butler Signed sealed published and Declared by
44 the Testator as and for her last Will and Testament in
45 the presence of us who here subscribe our Names as
46 Witnesses hereto in her presence and at her request in
47 the presence of another; Witnesses E: Derby, Sarah Ireland X her mark
48 This Will was proved at London the Sixteenth
49 day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
50 seven hundred and seventy two before the Worshipful George
51 Harris Doctor of Laws and Surrogate of the Right
52 Worshipful George Hay Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or
53 Commissary of the prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully
54 constituted by the Oath of Jane Monkhouse Spinster the
55 Executrix named in the said Will to whom administration
56 was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattles and
57 Credits of the said deceased having been first sworn duly
58 to administer
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 13 Feb 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/982/169
Testator: Mary Butler, Spinster
Place: Saint Benet Fink, London, England
Date of document: 12 Nov 1772, probated 16 Nov 1772
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Mary Butler
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Mary Butler of Bear Alley of the parish of Saint
3 Bennet Finck London Spinster being sick and weak of
4 Body but of sound Mind Memory and Understanding do
5 make this my last Will and Testament in manner and
6 forme following that is to say First and principally I commend
7 my Soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator
8 hoping for pardon of my Sins by the Merits and
9 Intercession of my blessed Saviour my Body I commit to
10 the Earth to be buried and as to all such Estate Goods
11 and Chattels that I shall be possessed of interested in or
12 intitled unto at the time of my decease after payment
13 of all my Debts Funeral Charges and all other necessary
14 Expences I do dispose thereof as followeth that is to say
15 I do give and bequeath unto my Brother James Butler
16 Shoemaker now living at Louth Lincolnshire and to my
17 Sister Ann Ward (wife of Thomas Ward Shoemaker living
18 at the aforesaid place) all and every part of my Estate in
19 Effects Goods and Chattels that may be remaining after
20 the following Legacies herein mentioned being paid I do give
21 and bequeath unto Elizabeth Cuthbert two Tea Spoons
22 marked C I do give and bequeath unto Elizabeth
23 Robinson daughter of Eleanor Robinson a Silver Medal
24 and pin and I do give and bequeath three Rings as
25 follow one to Mrs Ann Brown one to Mrs Catherine
26 Brown and one to Mrs Bridget Hughes if they please
27 to accept of them I do also give and bequeath Five
28 Guineas to my Executrix Mrs Jane Monkhouse for her
29 care and trouble and I do give and bequeath Three Rings
30 unto Mr Edward Derby and his two Daughters Isabella
31 Derby and Carolina Derby and I do hereby constitute and
32 appoint Jane Monkhouse Spinster of the parish of
33 Peckham in the County of Surry my Executrix of this my
34 last Will hereby revoking all other Wills and Testaments
35 by me at any time heretofore made or published I do
36 declare this to be my Will and Testament In Witness
37 whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the
38 Twelfth day of November in the Twelfth Year of the
39 Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the
40 Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
41 King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the year
42 of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and seventy two
43 Mary Butler Signed sealed published and Declared by
44 the Testator as and for her last Will and Testament in
45 the presence of us who here subscribe our Names as
46 Witnesses hereto in her presence and at her request in
47 the presence of another; Witnesses E: Derby, Sarah Ireland X her mark
48 This Will was proved at London the Sixteenth
49 day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
50 seven hundred and seventy two before the Worshipful George
51 Harris Doctor of Laws and Surrogate of the Right
52 Worshipful George Hay Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or
53 Commissary of the prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully
54 constituted by the Oath of Jane Monkhouse Spinster the
55 Executrix named in the said Will to whom administration
56 was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattles and
57 Credits of the said deceased having been first sworn duly
58 to administer
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