The testator, Thomas Blake, is named as a Baker and Yeoman of Sturmer, Essex. Sturmer is 14 miles from Bocking and Braintree. There was a Barnabas Blake family at Bocking namely Barnabas Blake married to Hannah Barnard 26 Sep 1751 at St Mary the Virgin, Bocking. Is Thomas a Brother to this Barnabas Blake? Barnabas was also a baker. He left a will dated prior to 20 Dec 1800 when he was buried at St Mary the Virgin in Bocking. This will transcription can be found on Ancestry in the tree of Johnaowen and others. However this Barnabas does not have children Thomas and Elizabeth so is likely a separate Blake family from this one. Barnabas seemed like an unusual forename but obviously not. I did not find any other Barnabas Blake that I could attach to this family.
Names mentioned in the will:
Thomas Blake, Testator, baker and yeoman, Sturmer, Essex
Elizabeth Blake, wife, executrix
Barnabas Blake, eldest brother
Thomas Blake, nephew, son of Barnabas
Elizabeth Blake, niece, daughter of Barnabas
Mary Bannister, niece
Ann Fraser, sister, Debenham, Essex
Sarah Ling, sister
John Challis, cousin, stone cutter?, Braintree
John Purkiss, executor
Richard Webb, witness
Thomas Mason, witness
Ann Stubbin, witness
No success in sorting this line out at the moment.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1360/118
Testator: Thomas Blake, Baker and Yeoman
Place: Sturmer, Essex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 15 May 1800, probated 10 Jul 1801
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Thomas
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Thomas Blake of the parish of Sturmer in the County
3 of Essex Baker and Yeoman being weak in body but
4 of Sound and disposing mind memory and understanding
5 do make and ordain this to be my Last Will and
6 Testament in manner and form following (viz)
7 First and principally I commend my Soul into the
8 hands of Almighty God my heavenly Creator and my
9 body I Commit to the Earth to be decently buried
10 by the order and at the discretion of my Executors
11 herein after named and First I give devise and
12 bequeath unto Elizabeth my Loving Wife all the
13 Income of my real and personal Estate which I
14 leave after my decease with all the Effects that to
15 ine belongeth or appertaineth and my Will is the
16 same shall be Sold within one Year after my
17 decease by my Executors and the Income or Interest
18 thereof I give as aforesaid to my Loving Wife during
19 the term of her natural life and after her
20 decease I give and bequeath unto my Eldest Brother
21 Namely Barnabas Blake Five pounds Also to
22 his two children namely Thomas and Elizabeth
23 twenty pounds each Also to my Neice Mary
24 Bannister the Sum of Fifty pounds Also to the Four
25 Children of my Sister Ann Frazer of Debenham the
26 Sum of twenty pounds each share and share alike
27 also to my Sister Sarah Ling the Sum of twenty pounds
28 Also to my Cousin John Challis of Braintree in Essex
29 the Sum of ten pounds my Will is he should fix
30 me a stone as soon as Convenient after my decease
31 and the rest and Residue that remain after all my
32 just debts Funeral Charges with the probate of this
33 my last Will and Testament are paid off I give
34 and bequeath unto all my before mentioned Legatees
35 to be divided share and share alike and Lastly
36 I Nominate and appoint Mr John Purkiss
37 with Elizabeth my Wife to be the Executors of this
38 my Last Will revoking all others before Witness
39 I have set my hand and affixt my Seal this
40 2nd day of May One thousand Eight hundred 1800
41 Tho[mas] Blake Signed Sealed and declared to
42 be the Last Will and Testament of Mr. T Blake
43 in his presence and in the presence of Each of us
44 Rich[ar]d Webb Tho[ma]s Masons Mark X Ann
45 Stubbins Mark X
46 I Thomas Blake do
47 annex and Join this for a Codicil to my Will dated
48 May the 2nd 1800 and I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth
49 my Wife therein mentioned the Sum of twenty
50 pounds besides the Income or Interest of all my Estate
51 and Effects therein resited Also I give unto my Sister
52 Allice Frazer of Debenham the Sum of ten pounds
53 Witness my hand this 15 day of May 1800 Thos
54 Blakes Mark X John Purks R[ichar]d Webb
55 13 th May 1801
56 On which day appeared personally Richard Webb
57 of Havershill in the County of Suffolk Baker one of
58 the Subscribing Witnesses to the Last Will and
60 Testament of Thomas Blake late of Sturmer in
61 the County of Essex deceased with a Codicil thereto
62 and made oath that on the Second day of May One
63 thousand Eight hundred he the appearer together
64 with Thomas Mason and Ann Stubbins did see
65 the said deceased Sign Seal publish and declare the
66 paper Writing now here unto annexed beginning
67 thus In the Name of God Amen I Thomas Blake of
68 the parish of Sturmer in the County of Essex Baker
69 and Yeoman ending thus before Witnesses I have
70 set my hand and affixt my Seal this 2nd Day of
71 May One thousand Eight hundred 1800 and thus
72 Subscribed Thos Blake as and for his last
73 Will and Testament and he then Subscribed his
74 Name thereto as Witness and the said Thomas
75 Mason and Ann Stubbins made their Marks
76 thereto and he further saith having fir Carefully
77 viewed and perused the said Will so here unto
78 annexed he saith that the word Five written upon
79 an obliteration after the Name Barnabas Blake
80 in the thirteenth Line also the Words Elizabeth
81 and Niece severally written on Erasures in the
82 Fourteenth line from the top of the said Will were
83 severally so made written and done previous
84 to the deceased executing the said Will in the
85 presence of this deponent and the other Subscribing
86 Witnesses and he Lastly saith that the said
87 Will is in every respect in the same plight and
88 condition as when executed by the deceased in
89 manner before set Forth Rich[ar]d Webb The same
90 day the said Richard Webb was duly sworn to
91 the truth of this affidavit Before me C: Hayward
92 Commiss[ione]r
93 This Will was proved at London with a
94 Codicil the tenth day of July in the year of Our
95 Lord One thousand Eight hundred and One before
96 the Right honorable Sir William Wynne Knight
97 doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of
98 the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully
99 constituted by the Oath of John Purks one of the
100 Executors named in the said Will to whom Admon
101 was granted of all and Singular the Goods Chattles
102 and Credits of the said deceased having been First
103 Sworn duly to administer power reserved of
104 making the like grant to Elizabeth Blake Widow
105 the Relict and the other Executor named in the
106 said Will when she shall apply for the same
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Monday, April 14, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Will of Joan Moggeridge, Widow, Nettlecombe, Somerset - The National Archives PROB 11/177/35, probated 4 May 1638
Johan Moggeridge is the testatrix and she lived at Nettlecombe, Somerset. This parish is 3 miles south west of Williton and 15 miles west of Taunton. To place it in the area where my Moggeridge family was known to live, Nettlecombe is 5 miles south east of Dunster, 8 miles ESE of Wootton Courtenay, 10 miles ESE of Selworthy and 12 miles ESE of Porlock.
She is perhaps quite elderly as her will is nuncupative. Cleanger Devon is likely Clayhanger. Holcombe Rogus is also in Devon. The brother of the testatrix is named as Thomas Stone and her nephew Alexander Stone and they live at Holcombe Rogus. The Mannyng family of Nettlecombe is also mentioned – Grace daughter of John. Chipstable Somerset is 7 miles from Nettlecombe where the Merch family lives also mentioned in the will. The Knowell family at Milverton is also mentioned. Her sister Grace lives at Holcombe (perhaps Rogus) and is the wife of John Helling. John Mannyng is her executor.
The National Archives (UK) has a document 1936 M/L/138 dated 1671 which has the following information 1. John Bluett, 2. Mary Clarke and William Franckpitt, Holcombe Rogus. Premises: Alexander Stone’s messuage Term: 1 life, Rent: 1 s 4 d, Fine £10
Searched through the PCC wills looking for the Stone, Helling, Knowell, Merch and Manning families mentioned above but did not see anything worth pursuing at this time. It does lend credence to the idea that the Moggeridge family was back and forth between North Devon and West Somerset.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/177/35
Testator: Joan Moggeridge, Widow
Place: Nettlecombe, Somerset, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 28 Nov 1637, probated 4 May 1638
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament] Joanne
[Margin]: Moggeridge
1 Memorandum that in the moneth
2 of November in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred thirtie
3 seaven and on or about the eight and twentieth day of the same moneth Johan Moggeridge
4 late whilest shee lived of Nettlecombe in the Countie of Som[er]set widow deceased
5 being sicke in bodie but of p[er]fect minde memory and understanding and being
6 desirous to make her last will and Testament and therby settle her estate did
7 utter and speake theis words or the like in effect following viz[ a vi]t First shee
8 gave and bequeathed unto Alexander Stone sonne of Thomas Stone of
9 Holcome Rogus her brother the som[m]e of ten pounds of lawfull money of England
10 Item she gave unto Grace Mannyng daughter of John Mannyng of Nettlecombe
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11 aforesaid gent the som[m]e of eight pounds of lawfull money of England one coffer or chest
12 and her safeguard Alsoe she gave unto Radigon Merch daughter of Katherine Merch of
13 Chipstable in the Countie aforesaid widdowe one coffer two wastcotes and all such
14 implemente and houshouldstuff as she then had in the house and custodie of the said
15 Katherine and likewise all such ymplement and houshouldstuff as she then had in the house
16 and custodie of R[ue]ben Potter and Grace his wife of Cleanger in the Countie of
17 Devon Alsoe she gave unto Johan Knowell the wife of Thomas Knowell of
18 Milverton in the Countie of Som[er]set aforenamed one peece of greene woolen cloth
19 Alsoe she gave unto Elizabeth Helling her sister the wife of John Helling of Holcombe
20 aforesaid one smock Alsoe she gave unto Elizabeth Pugslie one peece of red
21 woolen cloath All the rest and residue of her goods and chattles not before herein
22 given and bequeathed she gave and bequeathed unto the foresaid John Manning
23 whome she made and no[mi]nated her whole and sole executor of this her last will and
24 Testament All such words or the like in effect were spoken by the said Johan
25 w[i]th an intent and purpose to make and declare her last will Att all and singular
26 which premises shee the said Joan was of good and p[er]fect memory in the p[re]sence
27 and heareing of the witnesses whole names are hereunder subscribed The m[ar]ke
28 of Margaret Webb witn[ess] the marke of Elizabeth Pougslie witness
29 Probatum fuit testamentum suprascriptumn apud London coram venli
30 viro dno Henrico Marten inte legume dcore Curia Prerogative Cantuar
31 viro Custode sino Comtie litime constituto Quarto die Mensis Maij anno d[omi]ni
32 millimo sexcemo tricesimo octano Juramento Johannis Manning gen of executoris
33 vinci in humoi teste noiat Cui commissa fuit admistrato bonorum unium et creditorium
34 defci de bene et fidelr admstrando ead Ad sca dei Evangelia Coram Roberto
35 Gaie clico vigore Comissoinis Jurat
She is perhaps quite elderly as her will is nuncupative. Cleanger Devon is likely Clayhanger. Holcombe Rogus is also in Devon. The brother of the testatrix is named as Thomas Stone and her nephew Alexander Stone and they live at Holcombe Rogus. The Mannyng family of Nettlecombe is also mentioned – Grace daughter of John. Chipstable Somerset is 7 miles from Nettlecombe where the Merch family lives also mentioned in the will. The Knowell family at Milverton is also mentioned. Her sister Grace lives at Holcombe (perhaps Rogus) and is the wife of John Helling. John Mannyng is her executor.
The National Archives (UK) has a document 1936 M/L/138 dated 1671 which has the following information 1. John Bluett, 2. Mary Clarke and William Franckpitt, Holcombe Rogus. Premises: Alexander Stone’s messuage Term: 1 life, Rent: 1 s 4 d, Fine £10
Searched through the PCC wills looking for the Stone, Helling, Knowell, Merch and Manning families mentioned above but did not see anything worth pursuing at this time. It does lend credence to the idea that the Moggeridge family was back and forth between North Devon and West Somerset.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/177/35
Testator: Joan Moggeridge, Widow
Place: Nettlecombe, Somerset, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 28 Nov 1637, probated 4 May 1638
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament] Joanne
[Margin]: Moggeridge
1 Memorandum that in the moneth
2 of November in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred thirtie
3 seaven and on or about the eight and twentieth day of the same moneth Johan Moggeridge
4 late whilest shee lived of Nettlecombe in the Countie of Som[er]set widow deceased
5 being sicke in bodie but of p[er]fect minde memory and understanding and being
6 desirous to make her last will and Testament and therby settle her estate did
7 utter and speake theis words or the like in effect following viz[ a vi]t First shee
8 gave and bequeathed unto Alexander Stone sonne of Thomas Stone of
9 Holcome Rogus her brother the som[m]e of ten pounds of lawfull money of England
10 Item she gave unto Grace Mannyng daughter of John Mannyng of Nettlecombe
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11 aforesaid gent the som[m]e of eight pounds of lawfull money of England one coffer or chest
12 and her safeguard Alsoe she gave unto Radigon Merch daughter of Katherine Merch of
13 Chipstable in the Countie aforesaid widdowe one coffer two wastcotes and all such
14 implemente and houshouldstuff as she then had in the house and custodie of the said
15 Katherine and likewise all such ymplement and houshouldstuff as she then had in the house
16 and custodie of R[ue]ben Potter and Grace his wife of Cleanger in the Countie of
17 Devon Alsoe she gave unto Johan Knowell the wife of Thomas Knowell of
18 Milverton in the Countie of Som[er]set aforenamed one peece of greene woolen cloth
19 Alsoe she gave unto Elizabeth Helling her sister the wife of John Helling of Holcombe
20 aforesaid one smock Alsoe she gave unto Elizabeth Pugslie one peece of red
21 woolen cloath All the rest and residue of her goods and chattles not before herein
22 given and bequeathed she gave and bequeathed unto the foresaid John Manning
23 whome she made and no[mi]nated her whole and sole executor of this her last will and
24 Testament All such words or the like in effect were spoken by the said Johan
25 w[i]th an intent and purpose to make and declare her last will Att all and singular
26 which premises shee the said Joan was of good and p[er]fect memory in the p[re]sence
27 and heareing of the witnesses whole names are hereunder subscribed The m[ar]ke
28 of Margaret Webb witn[ess] the marke of Elizabeth Pougslie witness
29 Probatum fuit testamentum suprascriptumn apud London coram venli
30 viro dno Henrico Marten inte legume dcore Curia Prerogative Cantuar
31 viro Custode sino Comtie litime constituto Quarto die Mensis Maij anno d[omi]ni
32 millimo sexcemo tricesimo octano Juramento Johannis Manning gen of executoris
33 vinci in humoi teste noiat Cui commissa fuit admistrato bonorum unium et creditorium
34 defci de bene et fidelr admstrando ead Ad sca dei Evangelia Coram Roberto
35 Gaie clico vigore Comissoinis Jurat
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Will of Isaac Blake, Chandler, New Sarum, Wiltshire - The National Archives PROB 11/573/227, probated 29 Mar 1720
Isaac Blake is the Testator. There is a baptism for an Ann Blake daughter of Isaac and Ann Blake baptized at St Thomas Salisbury 10 May 1693.
Isaac identifies his sister as Ann King and his uncle as Nicholas Blake with sons William, Thomas, Edward and Benjamin.
Children baptized to Benjamin and Ann King at Saint Thomas Salisbury (Family Search):
Ann baptized 11 Mar 1676
Elizabeth baptized 18 Jul 1680
Mary baptized 19 Mar 1681
Children of his sister Ann King mentioned in the will Ann, Elizabeth and Mary in that order when they are listed together although listed differently as well within the will.
There is a Benjamin Blake baptized 9 Apr 1679 at St Edmunds Salisbury with father Nicholas and mother Mary.
Other children baptized to this couple at St Edmunds Salisbury:
Thomas baptized 22 Jan 1674
James baptized June 1676
I did not find a William or an Edward as sons of Nicholas.
There is a Nicholas Blake baptized 16 Feb 1639 at St Edmunds Salisbury with father Thomas Blake. There is also a Thomas Blake baptized 8 Nov 1650 at St Edmunds Salisbury with parents Thomas and Ann Blake and a Sara Blake baptized 22 Apr 1644 at St Edmunds Salisbury with father Thomas.
I need to do a little research on the sons of Nicholas Blake (uncle of the testator) who would presumably have been contemporaries of Isaac since they would be his first cousins. There are 23 wills for Blake family members at Salisbury on the Wiltshire Record Office website.
Ref No Title Date Name Occupation Community
P1/1817/25 Will, wrapper 1817 Blake, George Innholder Salisbury
P1/4Reg/276 Will 1708 Blake, Isaac Chandler Salisbury
P1/B/1232 Administration bond 1750 Blake, John Salisbury
P31/1/3/275 Will 1860 Blake, James, junior Farmer and maltster Salisbury
P4/1679/15 Inventory, will 1679 Blake, Robert Glover Salisbury
P4/1683/7 Will 1683 Blake, Thomas Wheelwright Salisbury
P4/1685/5 Will 1685 Blake, Richard Hellier Salisbury
P4/1687/5 Administration bond, inventory 1697 Blake, Richard [Draper] Salisbury
P4/1692/17 Bond to secure goods 1693 Blake, Thomas Salisbury
P4/1693/11 Administration bond, inventory, renunciation, will 1693
Blake, Thomas Chandler Salisbury
P4/1693/13 Administration bond, inventory, will 1694 Blake, Joan Widow Salisbury
P4/1709/11 Will 1709 Blake, Nicholas Stay maker Salisbury
P4/1719/15 Will 1719 Blake, Hester Widow Salisbury
P4/1724/16 Will 1724 Blake, Elizabeth Widow Salisbury
P4/1735/7 Will 1736 Blake, Jane Widow Salisbury
P4/1738/13 Will 1738 Blake, Edward Weaver Salisbury
P4/1748/17 Administration bond, will 1749 Blake, Elizabeth Spinster Salisbury
P4/1765/12 Will 1765 Blake, Edward Rector Salisbury
P4/1767/8 Administration bond, renunciation 1767 Blake, Kitty Spinster Salisbury
P4/1803/7 Will 1803 Blake, James [Innkeeper] Salisbury
P4/1824/1 Account, will, wrapper 1824 Blake, Samuel Poulterer
Salisbury
P4/1693/11 Administration bond, inventory, renunciation, will 1693 Blake, Thomas Chandler Salisbury and the entry just above which perhaps deals with this same will and is perhaps the most interesting in that the name of the possible father of Isaac was Thomas and this Thomas was also a Chandler. Is Nicholas Blake the stay maker at Salisbury his Uncle?
These wills are downloadable online and will keep them in mind when a family member asks for a Christmas gift suggestion :) . Of the 267 wills listed for Wiltshire, 131 are available for download. I shall spend a little time marking the ones that I particularly want to acquire. Certainly I do not need any more wills as I already have more than I can accomplish in a couple of years already but I also do not need any other Christmas presents. We are downsizing!
I need to spend some time on my Blake one name study website and hope to do that over Christmas when I will take a break from transcription for a week or so.
I did find a will for Mary Blake of Pinhills, Calne, Wiltshire and widow of Roger Blake. I will be posting it tomorrow and it rather answered a question of mine posed earlier. Was William Blake married to Avice Ripley a son of Roger and Mary Blake as claimed in the large pedigree chart held for the Blake Family at the Swindon and Wiltshire Record office?
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 2 Dec 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/573/227
Testator: Isaac Blake, Chandler
Place: New Sarum (Salisbury), Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 11 Sep 1703, probated 29 Mar 1720
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[esta]m[ent]
[Margin]: Isaac Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Isaac Blake of the City of New Sarum in the County of Wilts
3 Chandler being sick and weak in body but of sound and perfect sence
4 mind and memory thanks be given to Almighty God for it do make
5 and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament in manner following
6 revoking all former Will or Wills by me made Imprimis I give and
7 bequeath my soul into the hands of Almighty God hoping through the
8 merits of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to have and obtain eternal
9 life when this life shall have an end and for my Worldly estate
10 which God Almighty hath blessed me withal I give and dispose thereof
11 in such manner as is herein after mentioned Item I give devise and
12 bequeath unto my daughter Ann Blake the summe of one thousand
13 pounds of good and lawfull money of England to be paid to her at
14 her attainment to the age of one and twenty years and in the mean
15 time and until she attaine to the said age my will and desire is that
16 she be paid yearly the sum of five and twenty pounds for her
17 Education and maintenance and whereas my sister Ann King ow[e]s
18 me on bond fifty pounds and Interest now my Will and desire is and
19 I do give my said Sister King the said fifty pounds and Interest due to
20 me on the said Bond and do by this my will order my Executrix to
21 deliver up to her the said Bond cancelled Item I give devise and
22 bequeath unto my Cousins Ann King and Mary King the sum of
23 thirty pounds a piece and to their Sister my Cousen Elizabeth King
24 the Sum of fifty pounds to be paid to them in eighteen Months next
25 after my decease and my will and desire is that if my said daughter
26 shall happen to dye or depart this life before she shall attain to the age
27 of one and twenty years that then I give devise and bequeath two
28 hundred pounds of the said sum of one Thousand pounds to be divided
29 between my said kinswomen Ann Elizabeth and Mary King or to
30 such of them as shall be living at my daughters decease Item I give to
31 my Fathers daughter which he had born by his second Wife five
32 shillings Item I give devise and bequeath unto my Cousin James
33 Meatyard five pounds and to John Markes fifty shillings and I give
34 to all my other servants which shall be with me at my decease five
35 shillings a piece Item I give to the poor of the said City of New Sarum
36 the sum of three pounds to be disposed of by my Executrix twenty
37 shillings to each parish and I do desire my Cousin Daniel Yerbury to
38 be aiding and assisting unto my Executrix in the performance of this
39 my Will and for his trouble and pains which he may have therewith
40 give him the Summ of two pounds Item I give devise and bequeath unto
41 such person or persons mentioned in the Coidicil or Writing to this my
42 Will annexed all such Legacy or Legacys Summ or Summes of money by me
43 therein mentioned to be given All the rest of my goods Chattels money
44 and plate whatsoever I do give devise and bequeath unto my dear and
45 loving Wife Ann whom I make sole and whole Executrix of this my
46 last Will and Testament hoping she will do her best endeavor to perform
47 this my Will In witness whereof I the said Isaac Blake have hereunto set
48 my hand and seal the eleventh day of September in the second year of the
49 reign of our Soveraign Lady Ann by the grace of God of England Scotland
50 France and Ireland Queen defender of the Faith etc Annoqz Dom[ini] 1703
51 Isaac Blake Signed Sealed published and declared to be the last Will
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52 and Testament of the said Isaac Blake in presence of us whose
53 names are hereunto subscribed as witnesses Rob[er]t Button, Gerard
54 Webb, Mary Barow
55 A Codicil or Writing to which the last will
56 and Testament of Isaac Blake of the City of New Sarum in
57 the County of Wilts Chandler and which is hereunto or
58 herewith annext doth refer
59 Item I give to my Cousens William Thomas Edward and
60 Benjamin Blake the Sons of my Uncle Nicholas Blake one shilling
61 a piece Item my will and desire is that if my daughter Ann should
62 happen to depart this life before she happen to attain to the age of one
63 and twenty years and my wife being before her dead that then I give
64 devise and bequeath eight hundred pounds besides the aforesaid two
65 hundred pounds to my said
66 kinswomen Ann Elizabeth and Mary King or to such of them as shall
67 be then living equally to be divided between them
Isaac identifies his sister as Ann King and his uncle as Nicholas Blake with sons William, Thomas, Edward and Benjamin.
Children baptized to Benjamin and Ann King at Saint Thomas Salisbury (Family Search):
Ann baptized 11 Mar 1676
Elizabeth baptized 18 Jul 1680
Mary baptized 19 Mar 1681
Children of his sister Ann King mentioned in the will Ann, Elizabeth and Mary in that order when they are listed together although listed differently as well within the will.
There is a Benjamin Blake baptized 9 Apr 1679 at St Edmunds Salisbury with father Nicholas and mother Mary.
Other children baptized to this couple at St Edmunds Salisbury:
Thomas baptized 22 Jan 1674
James baptized June 1676
I did not find a William or an Edward as sons of Nicholas.
There is a Nicholas Blake baptized 16 Feb 1639 at St Edmunds Salisbury with father Thomas Blake. There is also a Thomas Blake baptized 8 Nov 1650 at St Edmunds Salisbury with parents Thomas and Ann Blake and a Sara Blake baptized 22 Apr 1644 at St Edmunds Salisbury with father Thomas.
I need to do a little research on the sons of Nicholas Blake (uncle of the testator) who would presumably have been contemporaries of Isaac since they would be his first cousins. There are 23 wills for Blake family members at Salisbury on the Wiltshire Record Office website.
Ref No Title Date Name Occupation Community
P1/1817/25 Will, wrapper 1817 Blake, George Innholder Salisbury
P1/4Reg/276 Will 1708 Blake, Isaac Chandler Salisbury
P1/B/1232 Administration bond 1750 Blake, John Salisbury
P31/1/3/275 Will 1860 Blake, James, junior Farmer and maltster Salisbury
P4/1679/15 Inventory, will 1679 Blake, Robert Glover Salisbury
P4/1683/7 Will 1683 Blake, Thomas Wheelwright Salisbury
P4/1685/5 Will 1685 Blake, Richard Hellier Salisbury
P4/1687/5 Administration bond, inventory 1697 Blake, Richard [Draper] Salisbury
P4/1692/17 Bond to secure goods 1693 Blake, Thomas Salisbury
P4/1693/11 Administration bond, inventory, renunciation, will 1693
Blake, Thomas Chandler Salisbury
P4/1693/13 Administration bond, inventory, will 1694 Blake, Joan Widow Salisbury
P4/1709/11 Will 1709 Blake, Nicholas Stay maker Salisbury
P4/1719/15 Will 1719 Blake, Hester Widow Salisbury
P4/1724/16 Will 1724 Blake, Elizabeth Widow Salisbury
P4/1735/7 Will 1736 Blake, Jane Widow Salisbury
P4/1738/13 Will 1738 Blake, Edward Weaver Salisbury
P4/1748/17 Administration bond, will 1749 Blake, Elizabeth Spinster Salisbury
P4/1765/12 Will 1765 Blake, Edward Rector Salisbury
P4/1767/8 Administration bond, renunciation 1767 Blake, Kitty Spinster Salisbury
P4/1803/7 Will 1803 Blake, James [Innkeeper] Salisbury
P4/1824/1 Account, will, wrapper 1824 Blake, Samuel Poulterer
Salisbury
P4/1693/11 Administration bond, inventory, renunciation, will 1693 Blake, Thomas Chandler Salisbury and the entry just above which perhaps deals with this same will and is perhaps the most interesting in that the name of the possible father of Isaac was Thomas and this Thomas was also a Chandler. Is Nicholas Blake the stay maker at Salisbury his Uncle?
These wills are downloadable online and will keep them in mind when a family member asks for a Christmas gift suggestion :) . Of the 267 wills listed for Wiltshire, 131 are available for download. I shall spend a little time marking the ones that I particularly want to acquire. Certainly I do not need any more wills as I already have more than I can accomplish in a couple of years already but I also do not need any other Christmas presents. We are downsizing!
I need to spend some time on my Blake one name study website and hope to do that over Christmas when I will take a break from transcription for a week or so.
I did find a will for Mary Blake of Pinhills, Calne, Wiltshire and widow of Roger Blake. I will be posting it tomorrow and it rather answered a question of mine posed earlier. Was William Blake married to Avice Ripley a son of Roger and Mary Blake as claimed in the large pedigree chart held for the Blake Family at the Swindon and Wiltshire Record office?
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 2 Dec 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/573/227
Testator: Isaac Blake, Chandler
Place: New Sarum (Salisbury), Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 11 Sep 1703, probated 29 Mar 1720
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[esta]m[ent]
[Margin]: Isaac Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Isaac Blake of the City of New Sarum in the County of Wilts
3 Chandler being sick and weak in body but of sound and perfect sence
4 mind and memory thanks be given to Almighty God for it do make
5 and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament in manner following
6 revoking all former Will or Wills by me made Imprimis I give and
7 bequeath my soul into the hands of Almighty God hoping through the
8 merits of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to have and obtain eternal
9 life when this life shall have an end and for my Worldly estate
10 which God Almighty hath blessed me withal I give and dispose thereof
11 in such manner as is herein after mentioned Item I give devise and
12 bequeath unto my daughter Ann Blake the summe of one thousand
13 pounds of good and lawfull money of England to be paid to her at
14 her attainment to the age of one and twenty years and in the mean
15 time and until she attaine to the said age my will and desire is that
16 she be paid yearly the sum of five and twenty pounds for her
17 Education and maintenance and whereas my sister Ann King ow[e]s
18 me on bond fifty pounds and Interest now my Will and desire is and
19 I do give my said Sister King the said fifty pounds and Interest due to
20 me on the said Bond and do by this my will order my Executrix to
21 deliver up to her the said Bond cancelled Item I give devise and
22 bequeath unto my Cousins Ann King and Mary King the sum of
23 thirty pounds a piece and to their Sister my Cousen Elizabeth King
24 the Sum of fifty pounds to be paid to them in eighteen Months next
25 after my decease and my will and desire is that if my said daughter
26 shall happen to dye or depart this life before she shall attain to the age
27 of one and twenty years that then I give devise and bequeath two
28 hundred pounds of the said sum of one Thousand pounds to be divided
29 between my said kinswomen Ann Elizabeth and Mary King or to
30 such of them as shall be living at my daughters decease Item I give to
31 my Fathers daughter which he had born by his second Wife five
32 shillings Item I give devise and bequeath unto my Cousin James
33 Meatyard five pounds and to John Markes fifty shillings and I give
34 to all my other servants which shall be with me at my decease five
35 shillings a piece Item I give to the poor of the said City of New Sarum
36 the sum of three pounds to be disposed of by my Executrix twenty
37 shillings to each parish and I do desire my Cousin Daniel Yerbury to
38 be aiding and assisting unto my Executrix in the performance of this
39 my Will and for his trouble and pains which he may have therewith
40 give him the Summ of two pounds Item I give devise and bequeath unto
41 such person or persons mentioned in the Coidicil or Writing to this my
42 Will annexed all such Legacy or Legacys Summ or Summes of money by me
43 therein mentioned to be given All the rest of my goods Chattels money
44 and plate whatsoever I do give devise and bequeath unto my dear and
45 loving Wife Ann whom I make sole and whole Executrix of this my
46 last Will and Testament hoping she will do her best endeavor to perform
47 this my Will In witness whereof I the said Isaac Blake have hereunto set
48 my hand and seal the eleventh day of September in the second year of the
49 reign of our Soveraign Lady Ann by the grace of God of England Scotland
50 France and Ireland Queen defender of the Faith etc Annoqz Dom[ini] 1703
51 Isaac Blake Signed Sealed published and declared to be the last Will
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52 and Testament of the said Isaac Blake in presence of us whose
53 names are hereunto subscribed as witnesses Rob[er]t Button, Gerard
54 Webb, Mary Barow
55 A Codicil or Writing to which the last will
56 and Testament of Isaac Blake of the City of New Sarum in
57 the County of Wilts Chandler and which is hereunto or
58 herewith annext doth refer
59 Item I give to my Cousens William Thomas Edward and
60 Benjamin Blake the Sons of my Uncle Nicholas Blake one shilling
61 a piece Item my will and desire is that if my daughter Ann should
62 happen to depart this life before she happen to attain to the age of one
63 and twenty years and my wife being before her dead that then I give
64 devise and bequeath eight hundred pounds besides the aforesaid two
65 hundred pounds to my said
66 kinswomen Ann Elizabeth and Mary King or to such of them as shall
67 be then living equally to be divided between them
Monday, November 25, 2013
Will of Ann Blake, Spinster, Lucknam, Wiltshire - The National Archives PROB 11/1709/467, probated 31 Mar 1826
Ann Blake is the testatrix. She lives at Lucknam which lies within the parish of Colerne with North Wraxall being 2.4 miles North, Castle Combe being 4 miles NNE and West Littleton lying 5 miles WNW.
There is a Blake family that has been placed online that lived at Tormarton, West Littleton and Marshfield and I have been entering this family into a Legacy file in case the webpage disappears. It is perhaps a collateral line to this particular one since I do not find any of the undernamed individuals in the website.
http://www.payman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gloucestershire/descendants-of-william-blake-1742-to-1826.htm/odyframe.htm
The marriage of William Blake and Elizabeth Davis took place 15 Aug 1774 at West Littleton and they had nine children (most of the lines are traced down so I do not think this couple is the particular ancestor of the grouping below). Marshfield is 4 miles WNW of Colerne and Tormarton is 6 miles NNW. I came across this webpage by chance and decided to capture it for the Blake one name study. I have not yet attempted to discover the parents of William Blake married to Elizabeth Davis but perhaps this would be a good way to look at this particular will.
There was a William Blake born at North Wraxall and baptized there 31 Jul 1743 son of Abraham and Frances Blake. An Abraham Blake married a Frances Brown in 1737 at North Wraxall (Family Search M15251-1). An Abraham Blake was baptized 2 May 1708 at North Wraxall son of William Blake.
Children baptized to Abraham and Frances Blake at North Wraxall:
Sarah baptized 7 May 1738
Elizabeth baptized 3 Aug 1740
William baptized 31 Jul 1743
Hannah baptized 10 Aug 1746
June Jane baptized 25 May 1749
Ann baptized 13 May 1753
Interestingly this does fit the family grouping in the will of Ann with brother William and sisters Sarah and Elizabeth (Hannah and June Jane are not mentioned). The publisher of the family history of the William Blake and Elizabeth Davis did not take his family further back but some genealogists look only at the descendants of a particular couple.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 23 Nov 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1709/467
Testator: Ann Blake, Spinster
Place: Lucknam, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 21 Feb 1820, probated 31 Mar 1826
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Ann
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 4
1 I Ann Blake of Lucknam Wiltshire Spinster being of
2 sound disposing mind and memory do publish and declare this as my last Will and
3 Testament revoking all others in manner following viz I give and bequeath the
4 yearly Interest or dividend of the whole of my three percent consolidater
5 annuities equally between my brother and my two Sisters equally share and
6 share alike viz To William Blake of West Littleton laborer one third part for his
7 life and in case of his decease to his Wife for her life and to my Sister Elizabeth
8 Webb of Castle Combe Wilts Widow a third part for her life and to my Sister
9 Mary Bullock Wife of Edward Bullock of North Wraxall Labourer a third part
10 for her life and after her decease to descend to her husband for his life and should my
11 brother and his Wife had died first then their part to descend to the other two
12 Survivors if any Sister Eliz[abe]th Webb died first her part to descend to Mary Bullock and
13 my Brother and if my Sister Mary Bullock and her husband dies first then their
14 part to descend between my brother and Eliz Webb and when all the before
15 mentioned persons are deceased I give devise and bequeath one fourth part of my three
16 per cent consolidated Annuities between my brother William Blake’s children
17 equally share and share alike I give and bequeath the other fourth part or share
18 of my three per cent consols equally between my Sister Eliz[abe]th Webbs children share
19 and share alike Likewise I give and bequeath another fourth part or share of
20 my three per cent consols equally between my Sister Mary Bullocks children
21 share and share alike and the other fourth part or share I give and bequeath
22 to my three Nephews Will[ia]m Wait Henry Wait and George Wait all of North Wraxall
23 equally between them share and share alike In Witness whereof I have put my
24 hand and seal this twenty first day of February in the Year of our Lord One thousand
25 Eighteen hundred and twenty Ann Blake Signed Sealed and
26 delivered in the presence of Witness John Tippett Jane Tippett
27 On 31st March 1826 Administration with the Will annexed of the Goods Chattels and
28 Credits of Ann Blake late of Lucknam in the County of Wilts Spinster deceased was granted
29 to Mary Bullock (wife of Edward Bullock) the Sister and one of the next of kin being first sworn
30 by Commission duly to Administer No Executor or Residuary Legatee
31 On the 2nd day of June 1848 Admon (with the Will annexed) of the Goods Chattels
32 and Credits of Ann Blake late of Lucknam in the County of Wilts Spinster deceased
33 left unad[ministere]d by a Mary Bullock, Wife of Edward Bullock) deceased whilst living the
34 natural and lawful Sister and one of the next of kin of the said deceased was granted to
35 William Wait the lawful Nephew and one of the persons entitled in distribution to the
36 undisposer of Residuary Personal Estate and effects of the said deceased having been first
37 sworn by Commission duly to Administer. No Executor or Residuary Legatee named
38 in the said Will. William Blake and Elizabeth Webb Widow the natural and lawful
39 Brother and Sister and only other next of kin of the said deceased having died without having
40 taken upon themselves the Letters of Admon with the said Will annexed of the Goods
41 left unad[ministere]d of the said deceased
There is a Blake family that has been placed online that lived at Tormarton, West Littleton and Marshfield and I have been entering this family into a Legacy file in case the webpage disappears. It is perhaps a collateral line to this particular one since I do not find any of the undernamed individuals in the website.
http://www.payman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gloucestershire/descendants-of-william-blake-1742-to-1826.htm/odyframe.htm
The marriage of William Blake and Elizabeth Davis took place 15 Aug 1774 at West Littleton and they had nine children (most of the lines are traced down so I do not think this couple is the particular ancestor of the grouping below). Marshfield is 4 miles WNW of Colerne and Tormarton is 6 miles NNW. I came across this webpage by chance and decided to capture it for the Blake one name study. I have not yet attempted to discover the parents of William Blake married to Elizabeth Davis but perhaps this would be a good way to look at this particular will.
There was a William Blake born at North Wraxall and baptized there 31 Jul 1743 son of Abraham and Frances Blake. An Abraham Blake married a Frances Brown in 1737 at North Wraxall (Family Search M15251-1). An Abraham Blake was baptized 2 May 1708 at North Wraxall son of William Blake.
Children baptized to Abraham and Frances Blake at North Wraxall:
Sarah baptized 7 May 1738
Elizabeth baptized 3 Aug 1740
William baptized 31 Jul 1743
Hannah baptized 10 Aug 1746
June Jane baptized 25 May 1749
Ann baptized 13 May 1753
Interestingly this does fit the family grouping in the will of Ann with brother William and sisters Sarah and Elizabeth (Hannah and June Jane are not mentioned). The publisher of the family history of the William Blake and Elizabeth Davis did not take his family further back but some genealogists look only at the descendants of a particular couple.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 23 Nov 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1709/467
Testator: Ann Blake, Spinster
Place: Lucknam, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 21 Feb 1820, probated 31 Mar 1826
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Ann
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 4
1 I Ann Blake of Lucknam Wiltshire Spinster being of
2 sound disposing mind and memory do publish and declare this as my last Will and
3 Testament revoking all others in manner following viz I give and bequeath the
4 yearly Interest or dividend of the whole of my three percent consolidater
5 annuities equally between my brother and my two Sisters equally share and
6 share alike viz To William Blake of West Littleton laborer one third part for his
7 life and in case of his decease to his Wife for her life and to my Sister Elizabeth
8 Webb of Castle Combe Wilts Widow a third part for her life and to my Sister
9 Mary Bullock Wife of Edward Bullock of North Wraxall Labourer a third part
10 for her life and after her decease to descend to her husband for his life and should my
11 brother and his Wife had died first then their part to descend to the other two
12 Survivors if any Sister Eliz[abe]th Webb died first her part to descend to Mary Bullock and
13 my Brother and if my Sister Mary Bullock and her husband dies first then their
14 part to descend between my brother and Eliz Webb and when all the before
15 mentioned persons are deceased I give devise and bequeath one fourth part of my three
16 per cent consolidated Annuities between my brother William Blake’s children
17 equally share and share alike I give and bequeath the other fourth part or share
18 of my three per cent consols equally between my Sister Eliz[abe]th Webbs children share
19 and share alike Likewise I give and bequeath another fourth part or share of
20 my three per cent consols equally between my Sister Mary Bullocks children
21 share and share alike and the other fourth part or share I give and bequeath
22 to my three Nephews Will[ia]m Wait Henry Wait and George Wait all of North Wraxall
23 equally between them share and share alike In Witness whereof I have put my
24 hand and seal this twenty first day of February in the Year of our Lord One thousand
25 Eighteen hundred and twenty Ann Blake Signed Sealed and
26 delivered in the presence of Witness John Tippett Jane Tippett
27 On 31st March 1826 Administration with the Will annexed of the Goods Chattels and
28 Credits of Ann Blake late of Lucknam in the County of Wilts Spinster deceased was granted
29 to Mary Bullock (wife of Edward Bullock) the Sister and one of the next of kin being first sworn
30 by Commission duly to Administer No Executor or Residuary Legatee
31 On the 2nd day of June 1848 Admon (with the Will annexed) of the Goods Chattels
32 and Credits of Ann Blake late of Lucknam in the County of Wilts Spinster deceased
33 left unad[ministere]d by a Mary Bullock, Wife of Edward Bullock) deceased whilst living the
34 natural and lawful Sister and one of the next of kin of the said deceased was granted to
35 William Wait the lawful Nephew and one of the persons entitled in distribution to the
36 undisposer of Residuary Personal Estate and effects of the said deceased having been first
37 sworn by Commission duly to Administer. No Executor or Residuary Legatee named
38 in the said Will. William Blake and Elizabeth Webb Widow the natural and lawful
39 Brother and Sister and only other next of kin of the said deceased having died without having
40 taken upon themselves the Letters of Admon with the said Will annexed of the Goods
41 left unad[ministere]d of the said deceased
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Will of Richard Buller, Yeoman, Long Compton, Warwickshire - The National Archives PROB 11/323/635, probated 15 May 1667
Will of Richard-5 Buller. This Richard Buller family continues at Long Compton and has the property in Halford. Again he has named a son Richard but also has sons William, John and Robert. His daughters, both married, are named as Elizabeth Jefferis and Anne Joiner (although I can not tell if Anne Joiner has died as he ony mentions her daughters with respect to inheritance). He mentions his brother Water Webb and his sister Anne Webb and perhaps Water is his brother in law.
With so many dangling lines I do wonder if this is my Buller line back from Christopher born circa 1763 and his birthplace is unknown only his death place is known. I feel there are two potential lines for my Christopher Buller having transcribed so many Buller wills. The one is the line at Long Compton/Halford and the second is the line at Halesworth Suffolk. I do not know the origin of either one. I am not sure when the Buller surname was assumed or whether it was a singleton name. That research still needs to be done and must admit I am hoping that someone would take it on. Would most willingly share all the material that I have acquired on the family to anyone interested in registering the name with the Guild of One Name Studies.
I am coming to the end of the Buller wills with six more wills transcribed and ready to post and two remaining to be transcribed. I also have the will of Samuel Hucks which just plain interested me because of his location and the middle name of the infant brother of my Henry Christopher Buller. He did not survive infancy but his middle name has left a question mark with regard to why that surname. The other unusual surname with which Henry's sibling Emma was blessed was Hemsley and that was the surname of their grandmother (the wife of Henry Beard parents of Mary Beard, wife of Christopher Buller). It is a lengthy document although compared to some it is not so long - five pages in total. I have never read it but it was probated in 1788 and Samuel Hucks, the testator, lived in the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey the very parish where my Henry Christopher Buller was baptized (and Robert Hucks Buller his younger brother).
My first business to do on returning to my Blake one name study is the updating of my mediaeval file on the le Blak/le Blake surname since I did complete proofreading the material. The changes are typos only but do wish to get that done. I will then carry on with my other projects for the Blake family and Pincombe family.
There is one other Buller will at Long Compton. Joane Buller, widow, and wife of the present testator left her will which was probated 5 May 1677. But then they cease and there are none for a Buller family at Halford. The next wills in Warwickshire are for the Buller family that is living at Stratford upon Avon and Clifford Chambers. Is this the same line? I have not yet been able to link the two Buller families. There is over one hundred years separating them. However, it is worthy to note that William Buller (son of the testator) does inherit his father's malt business and tools and the Buller families in Stratford upon Avon and clifford Chambers are maltsters.
Ancestry.co.uk (plus World Membership) has the records of Warwickshire online. It is possible to follow this family in the parish records which I shall likely do on one of my Buller research days. But at a quick glance the Buller family continues at Long Compton into the 1700s. Gradually there is a Buller family at Coventry which is rather interesting as my Grandmother visited "family" in Coventry when she went back to England in 1939.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 Mar 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/323/635
Testator: Richard Buller, Yeoman
Place: Long Compton, Warwickshire
Date of document: 30 Oct 1666, probated 15 May 1667
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[esta]m[ent] Richirdi
[Margin]: Buller
[Top]: October the thirtith day 1666
1 In the name of God Amen I Richard Buller
2 the elder of Long compton in the County of Warwicke yeoman doe make and
3 ordaine this my last Will and testament in manner and forme as followeth
4 Imprimis I give and bequeath my soule to Allmightie God my maker
5 and my body to be buried at the discretion of my Executor and freinds
6 And as for my worldly Good I dispose of them as followeth Imprimis
7 I give and bequeath three pounds in money to be paid to my wife within one
8 half yeare after my decease and three Bedds and furniture for them and
9 the wood as shall be aboute the backside at my decease and the hovills
10 and Scaffolds and Garners and Furnace and Malt mill and table bords
11 frames and Beddsteads and Cupbords and Chaires and Coffers and Cheasts
12 and Stooles and Benches to remaine for the use of my wife so long as it
13 may please god She shall live and afterwards the hovills and scaffolds
14 and otheir goods above mentioned to remaine as Standers to Richard Buller
15 my Sonne or to his wife or sonne if it may please god that hee may have
16 any sonne and if hee or his sonne if he shall have any may come to injoye
17 my house and Lande other wise to remaine to my Sonne William or to his
18 sonne if it please God that either of them may come to injoye it or
19 to either of my Sonnes or Sonnes Sonnes that may come to inioye mye
20 house and Land and the pewter and brases and Cowles and pailes and
21 brewing vessells and Convenient things for brewing and bakeing and the
22 dayrie within doores to remaine for the use of my wife dureing her life
23 Item I give to my Sonne John Buller five pounds to be paid within one yeare
24 after my decease and a paire of sheetes and one blanckett Item I give
25 to my sonne Robert Buller tenn pounds to be paid within one yeare
26 after my decease Item I give to my daughter Elizabeth Jefferis forty
27 shillings to be paid within one yeare after my decease and a paire of
28 sheetes and one blanckett Item I give to my daughter Anne Joiners
30 three daughters four pounds apeece to be paid to them when they come
31 to Age to give a discharge by Lawe if they shall bee then liveing Item I give
32 to all the rest of my Grandchildren that are now liveing forty shillings
33 a peece to be paid to them when they come to Age if they be then liveing
34 Item I give to my sonne Richard Buller my sillver bowle and my best suite
35 of Apparell and a paire of Sheetes and one blankett and the biggest brasse
36 pann Item I give to my Brother Water Webb my next best suit of
37 apparell and my best stockins and one shirt Item I give to my sonne
38 Robert Buller my best gray Coate and my best hatt and next best paire
39 of Stockins and a paire of Sheets and one blankett Item I dispose of three
40 yeares rent for the yardland at Halford after my decease two yeares and
41 a halfes rent to bee paid to my sonne Robert Buller and the last halfe years
42 rent of the three I give to my sonne John Buller Item I give to my
43 Sister Anne Webb twenty shillings to be paid within one month after my
44 decease Item I give to my three servants three shillings Item to my sonne William
45 Buller I give and bequeath all the rest of my goods and stocke of Cropp and
46 Cattell and implements of husbandry and my yardland at halford after the
47 three yeares before expressed to him and his heyres for ever and all my
48 money
[Page 2]
49 Money with my bonds and bills that I have or shall have at my decease whome
50 I make my full and whole Executor of this my last Will and Testament
51 And in witnes hereof I Sett to my hand and Seale in the sight and presence
52 of my Brother Water Webb and my Sonne in Law John Joyner whome I
53 make Overseers of this my laste Will and for their paines I give them
54 tenn shillings a peece by me Richard Buller Water Webb his marke
55 John Joinere his marke
With so many dangling lines I do wonder if this is my Buller line back from Christopher born circa 1763 and his birthplace is unknown only his death place is known. I feel there are two potential lines for my Christopher Buller having transcribed so many Buller wills. The one is the line at Long Compton/Halford and the second is the line at Halesworth Suffolk. I do not know the origin of either one. I am not sure when the Buller surname was assumed or whether it was a singleton name. That research still needs to be done and must admit I am hoping that someone would take it on. Would most willingly share all the material that I have acquired on the family to anyone interested in registering the name with the Guild of One Name Studies.
I am coming to the end of the Buller wills with six more wills transcribed and ready to post and two remaining to be transcribed. I also have the will of Samuel Hucks which just plain interested me because of his location and the middle name of the infant brother of my Henry Christopher Buller. He did not survive infancy but his middle name has left a question mark with regard to why that surname. The other unusual surname with which Henry's sibling Emma was blessed was Hemsley and that was the surname of their grandmother (the wife of Henry Beard parents of Mary Beard, wife of Christopher Buller). It is a lengthy document although compared to some it is not so long - five pages in total. I have never read it but it was probated in 1788 and Samuel Hucks, the testator, lived in the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey the very parish where my Henry Christopher Buller was baptized (and Robert Hucks Buller his younger brother).
My first business to do on returning to my Blake one name study is the updating of my mediaeval file on the le Blak/le Blake surname since I did complete proofreading the material. The changes are typos only but do wish to get that done. I will then carry on with my other projects for the Blake family and Pincombe family.
There is one other Buller will at Long Compton. Joane Buller, widow, and wife of the present testator left her will which was probated 5 May 1677. But then they cease and there are none for a Buller family at Halford. The next wills in Warwickshire are for the Buller family that is living at Stratford upon Avon and Clifford Chambers. Is this the same line? I have not yet been able to link the two Buller families. There is over one hundred years separating them. However, it is worthy to note that William Buller (son of the testator) does inherit his father's malt business and tools and the Buller families in Stratford upon Avon and clifford Chambers are maltsters.
Ancestry.co.uk (plus World Membership) has the records of Warwickshire online. It is possible to follow this family in the parish records which I shall likely do on one of my Buller research days. But at a quick glance the Buller family continues at Long Compton into the 1700s. Gradually there is a Buller family at Coventry which is rather interesting as my Grandmother visited "family" in Coventry when she went back to England in 1939.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 Mar 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/323/635
Testator: Richard Buller, Yeoman
Place: Long Compton, Warwickshire
Date of document: 30 Oct 1666, probated 15 May 1667
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[esta]m[ent] Richirdi
[Margin]: Buller
[Top]: October the thirtith day 1666
1 In the name of God Amen I Richard Buller
2 the elder of Long compton in the County of Warwicke yeoman doe make and
3 ordaine this my last Will and testament in manner and forme as followeth
4 Imprimis I give and bequeath my soule to Allmightie God my maker
5 and my body to be buried at the discretion of my Executor and freinds
6 And as for my worldly Good I dispose of them as followeth Imprimis
7 I give and bequeath three pounds in money to be paid to my wife within one
8 half yeare after my decease and three Bedds and furniture for them and
9 the wood as shall be aboute the backside at my decease and the hovills
10 and Scaffolds and Garners and Furnace and Malt mill and table bords
11 frames and Beddsteads and Cupbords and Chaires and Coffers and Cheasts
12 and Stooles and Benches to remaine for the use of my wife so long as it
13 may please god She shall live and afterwards the hovills and scaffolds
14 and otheir goods above mentioned to remaine as Standers to Richard Buller
15 my Sonne or to his wife or sonne if it may please god that hee may have
16 any sonne and if hee or his sonne if he shall have any may come to injoye
17 my house and Lande other wise to remaine to my Sonne William or to his
18 sonne if it please God that either of them may come to injoye it or
19 to either of my Sonnes or Sonnes Sonnes that may come to inioye mye
20 house and Land and the pewter and brases and Cowles and pailes and
21 brewing vessells and Convenient things for brewing and bakeing and the
22 dayrie within doores to remaine for the use of my wife dureing her life
23 Item I give to my Sonne John Buller five pounds to be paid within one yeare
24 after my decease and a paire of sheetes and one blanckett Item I give
25 to my sonne Robert Buller tenn pounds to be paid within one yeare
26 after my decease Item I give to my daughter Elizabeth Jefferis forty
27 shillings to be paid within one yeare after my decease and a paire of
28 sheetes and one blanckett Item I give to my daughter Anne Joiners
30 three daughters four pounds apeece to be paid to them when they come
31 to Age to give a discharge by Lawe if they shall bee then liveing Item I give
32 to all the rest of my Grandchildren that are now liveing forty shillings
33 a peece to be paid to them when they come to Age if they be then liveing
34 Item I give to my sonne Richard Buller my sillver bowle and my best suite
35 of Apparell and a paire of Sheetes and one blankett and the biggest brasse
36 pann Item I give to my Brother Water Webb my next best suit of
37 apparell and my best stockins and one shirt Item I give to my sonne
38 Robert Buller my best gray Coate and my best hatt and next best paire
39 of Stockins and a paire of Sheets and one blankett Item I dispose of three
40 yeares rent for the yardland at Halford after my decease two yeares and
41 a halfes rent to bee paid to my sonne Robert Buller and the last halfe years
42 rent of the three I give to my sonne John Buller Item I give to my
43 Sister Anne Webb twenty shillings to be paid within one month after my
44 decease Item I give to my three servants three shillings Item to my sonne William
45 Buller I give and bequeath all the rest of my goods and stocke of Cropp and
46 Cattell and implements of husbandry and my yardland at halford after the
47 three yeares before expressed to him and his heyres for ever and all my
48 money
[Page 2]
49 Money with my bonds and bills that I have or shall have at my decease whome
50 I make my full and whole Executor of this my last Will and Testament
51 And in witnes hereof I Sett to my hand and Seale in the sight and presence
52 of my Brother Water Webb and my Sonne in Law John Joyner whome I
53 make Overseers of this my laste Will and for their paines I give them
54 tenn shillings a peece by me Richard Buller Water Webb his marke
55 John Joinere his marke
Monday, March 18, 2013
Will of Richard Buller, Yeoman, of Long Compton, Warwickshire - The National Archives PROB 11/153/33, probated 8 Jan 1628
In the will Richard-4 mentions that his wife's property was at Hocknorton. I did find a Hook Norton 10 miles SE of Halford. Apparently the village was called Hocnertune in 922 in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle and Hochenartone in the Domesday Book.
He mentions a number of seemingly unrelated people an Ann Tymes and an Elizabeth Bidle. Not sure if his wife's surname was Hodges or Townsend or something else but he does mention two brothers in law. His son is Richard-5 and his daughters are Anne and Margaret. His wife's first name is Mary.
His father's will is the one probated at Worcester and he mentions sons Richard, Walter and Thomas. Walter has died in 1625. This Buller family still has the property in Halford.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 Mar 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/153/33
Testator: Richard Buller, Yeoman
Place: Long Compton, Warwickshire
Date of document: 30 Sep 1625, probated 8 Jan 1628
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Document quality: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament] Richirdi
[Margin]: Buller
1 In the name of God Amen I
2 Richard Buller of Long Compton in the Coun[tie] of War[wic]k[shire] Yeoman and the
3 last daie of September in the first yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord
4 King Charles of England Fraunce and Ireland etc Anno dom[ini] One thousand
5 sixe hundred and twentie five being in good and p[er]fect memory thankes bee given to god
6 doe make and ordayne this my last will and testament in manner and forme following
First and before all other things I commend my soule to allmightie god my maker and
7 Redeemer And my body to bee buried in the Church of Long Compton at the discretion
8 of my Executor and friends (As concerning my worldly goods I distribute them in
9 manner and forme as followeth Imprimis I give and bequeath towards the repayring of
10 the Causewaye in Long Compton viz [a vi]t to bee paid when the parish shall bestowe any further
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11 Reparation Item I give xx d to the poore of Long Compton to bee distributed as my Executor and
12 Overseers shall thinke it fitt at my decease Item I give to every godchild I have then liveing xij d Item
13 I give to every child then liveing of Ann Tymes ev[er]y one v s a peece and soe likewise of Elizabeth
14 Bidle her sister to bee paid within one yeare next after my decease at the discretion of my Executor
15 Item I give to my daughters Anne and Margerit twentie pounds of lawfull money apeece
16 if they or either of they shal[l ]be liveing at such tyme and it shal[l ]be due to bee paid That is to saie, to
17 Margeret xx li within one yeare to Anne within two yeares Item I give to every child that my
18 three daughters have that shal[l ]be borne before my decease if they live to the age of seaven yeares
19 and soe by degrees to bee paid and to bee sett foarth to the best advantage by theire parents untill they
20 come to the age of eighteene yeares to every one of them five pounds in manner afores[ai]d It[e]m
21 I give and bequeath to Mary Buller my wife the use and occupa[t]ion of all such houshold stuffe
22 and corne that she shall growe and bee ended about her house in Hocknorton That was her owne
23 before I married her during her life and afterward to remaine to my Executor and further
24 for her maintenance I give hir during her life keeping her soul and unmarried makeing nor
25 causing to bee made noe manner of waest, such rents and p[ro]fitts as shall yearely growe and
26 issue foorth of my two mylls in Halford in such sort as I myselfe now hath or hereafter
27 maie have by any lease made for money or corne to any Tenants in such sorte and manner
28 as I shall lett for my selfe p[er]forming such covenants as I myselfe doe coven[an]t to p[er]forme to any
30 Tenant during her life in manner above said and further for her maintenance she shall have
31 three of the beast whych kine that I have at my decease my desire is she should remaine and
32 continue with my sonne in Long Compton and my sonne shall manure and plowe bring home
33 to her house the makeing and p[ro]viding all things ready to the Cart and her seeds to bee sowen as
34 if it were for myselfe during her life It[e]m all the rest of my goods Cattles Chattells moveable
35 and unmoveable whatsoever unbequeathed I geve and bequeath to Richard Buller my
36 Sonne whom I make my whole and soul Executor to receive my debts and to paie my debts
37 and for my funerall discharged the Overseers of this my last will and testament I entreate
38 my Brother in lawe Mr Anthony Hodges and my Brother in lawe Mr Charles
39 Townsend to bee the best assistance to my Executor and for theire paines I geve them tenn
40 shillings apeece In witnes whereof I the said Richard Buller the elder have putte my
41 hand and seal the daie and yeare first above written p[er] me Richardi Buller Witnes
42 hereunto Gyles Compton his m[ar]ke Walter Webb his m[ar]ke Anthony Hodges
43 Michaell Freeman Memorandu[m] that it is meant by the Testator that x li of the
44 xx li w[hi]ch is given to his daughter Margarett is that x li w[hi]ch he promised in his life
45 tyme
He mentions a number of seemingly unrelated people an Ann Tymes and an Elizabeth Bidle. Not sure if his wife's surname was Hodges or Townsend or something else but he does mention two brothers in law. His son is Richard-5 and his daughters are Anne and Margaret. His wife's first name is Mary.
His father's will is the one probated at Worcester and he mentions sons Richard, Walter and Thomas. Walter has died in 1625. This Buller family still has the property in Halford.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 Mar 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/153/33
Testator: Richard Buller, Yeoman
Place: Long Compton, Warwickshire
Date of document: 30 Sep 1625, probated 8 Jan 1628
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament] Richirdi
[Margin]: Buller
1 In the name of God Amen I
2 Richard Buller of Long Compton in the Coun[tie] of War[wic]k[shire] Yeoman and the
3 last daie of September in the first yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord
4 King Charles of England Fraunce and Ireland etc Anno dom[ini] One thousand
5 sixe hundred and twentie five being in good and p[er]fect memory thankes bee given to god
6 doe make and ordayne this my last will and testament in manner and forme following
First and before all other things I commend my soule to allmightie god my maker and
7 Redeemer And my body to bee buried in the Church of Long Compton at the discretion
8 of my Executor and friends (As concerning my worldly goods I distribute them in
9 manner and forme as followeth Imprimis I give and bequeath towards the repayring of
10 the Causewaye in Long Compton viz [a vi]t to bee paid when the parish shall bestowe any further
[Page 2]
11 Reparation Item I give xx d to the poore of Long Compton to bee distributed as my Executor and
12 Overseers shall thinke it fitt at my decease Item I give to every godchild I have then liveing xij d Item
13 I give to every child then liveing of Ann Tymes ev[er]y one v s a peece and soe likewise of Elizabeth
14 Bidle her sister to bee paid within one yeare next after my decease at the discretion of my Executor
15 Item I give to my daughters Anne and Margerit twentie pounds of lawfull money apeece
16 if they or either of they shal[l ]be liveing at such tyme and it shal[l ]be due to bee paid That is to saie, to
17 Margeret xx li within one yeare to Anne within two yeares Item I give to every child that my
18 three daughters have that shal[l ]be borne before my decease if they live to the age of seaven yeares
19 and soe by degrees to bee paid and to bee sett foarth to the best advantage by theire parents untill they
20 come to the age of eighteene yeares to every one of them five pounds in manner afores[ai]d It[e]m
21 I give and bequeath to Mary Buller my wife the use and occupa[t]ion of all such houshold stuffe
22 and corne that she shall growe and bee ended about her house in Hocknorton That was her owne
23 before I married her during her life and afterward to remaine to my Executor and further
24 for her maintenance I give hir during her life keeping her soul and unmarried makeing nor
25 causing to bee made noe manner of waest, such rents and p[ro]fitts as shall yearely growe and
26 issue foorth of my two mylls in Halford in such sort as I myselfe now hath or hereafter
27 maie have by any lease made for money or corne to any Tenants in such sorte and manner
28 as I shall lett for my selfe p[er]forming such covenants as I myselfe doe coven[an]t to p[er]forme to any
30 Tenant during her life in manner above said and further for her maintenance she shall have
31 three of the beast whych kine that I have at my decease my desire is she should remaine and
32 continue with my sonne in Long Compton and my sonne shall manure and plowe bring home
33 to her house the makeing and p[ro]viding all things ready to the Cart and her seeds to bee sowen as
34 if it were for myselfe during her life It[e]m all the rest of my goods Cattles Chattells moveable
35 and unmoveable whatsoever unbequeathed I geve and bequeath to Richard Buller my
36 Sonne whom I make my whole and soul Executor to receive my debts and to paie my debts
37 and for my funerall discharged the Overseers of this my last will and testament I entreate
38 my Brother in lawe Mr Anthony Hodges and my Brother in lawe Mr Charles
39 Townsend to bee the best assistance to my Executor and for theire paines I geve them tenn
40 shillings apeece In witnes whereof I the said Richard Buller the elder have putte my
41 hand and seal the daie and yeare first above written p[er] me Richardi Buller Witnes
42 hereunto Gyles Compton his m[ar]ke Walter Webb his m[ar]ke Anthony Hodges
43 Michaell Freeman Memorandu[m] that it is meant by the Testator that x li of the
44 xx li w[hi]ch is given to his daughter Margarett is that x li w[hi]ch he promised in his life
45 tyme
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Richard Buller Wills - Warwickshire
This next set of four wills to be transcribed I will refer to as the Richard Buller wills and they are labeled Richard-1, Richard-2, Richard-4, and Richard-5. They will appear over the next couple of days but I will probably not add much to the transcription of them. It all appears in this writeup. The National Archives information on these four wills:
Richard[-1] Buller, Long Compton, Warwickshire, PROB 11/22/381, probated 8 Nov 1527
Richard[-2] Buller, Long Compton, Warwickshire, PROB 11/83/388, probated 6 May 1594
Richard[-4] Buller, Yeoman, Long Compton, Warwickshire, PROB 11/153/33, probated 8 Jan 1628
Richard[-5] Buller, Yeoman, Long Compton, Warwickshire, PROB 11/323/635, probated 15 May 1667
I have added [-number] for ease in identification for me as I work through these wills. The Richard[-3] will which appears to be missing in the list is not found on the Wills of The National Archives site but rather in the documents available when you search on their Discovery search engine. More on this to follow.
British History online for Halford has the following information on the Buller family at Halford where they owned watermills and other land:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57047
........ In 1564 Bartholomew Hales and Mary his wife (in whose right he held the manor of Snitterfield) (fn. 24) sold two watermills and land in Halford to Richard[-2] Buller. (fn. 25) He died in 1593, seised of the mills and fishery, leaving a son Richard[-3], (fn. 26) who was succeeded by his son Richard[-4] in 1628. (fn. 27)
fn 24 Victoria County Histories Warw. iii, 168
fn 25 Feet of Fines. Warw. Hil. 6 Eliz.
fn 26 Chancery. Inquisition post mortem. (Ser. 2), ccxxxviii, 16.
fn 27 Fine Rolls. 4 Chas. I, pt. 1, no. 20.
My continuing search for Richard Buller at Halford Warwickshire on Google brought up an abstract of this will for a Richard Buller of Halford with the original document held at Shakespeare Centre Library and Archives (folder dated 11 Sep 1611 (ER 3/2237 Halford Estate Records)):
Copy will of Richard[-3] Buller the elder of Halford containing the following bequests: to Halford Church 3s 4d; to the great stone bridge at Halford 3s 4d; to every godchild, 1s. 0d.; to the poor of the parish, 3s 4d.; to each of his servants in his house, 1s.0d.; to his second son Walter Buller, the messuage with appurtenances then in the occupation of John Bearne, Henry Treene, William Savage, Philip Rose and William Alice with appurtenances, with one close by the Mill House; to his eldest son, Richard[-4], and his heirs, one malt house of three bays, one barn of four bays and a 'cutte end', and one court between the said barn and malthouse with the closes thereto belonging (the houses aforesaid lying at the overend of the testator's court towards the church) upon condition that the said Richard[-4] Buller the younger should at any time after the testator's death, if so required, release to the said Walter Buller all the estate, right and title which he, Richard[-4] Buller the younger, had in the premises thereby devised to the said Walter Buller to the said Walter Buller, after the death of William Mushin, one house and close then in the occupation of Richard Townsend, one close lying between the houses of William Rose and John Nibbes and also two yard lands in the common fields of Halford (being parcel of three yard lands and a half in the occupation of William Mushin) with a proviso that the said two yard lands should be chargeable with a legacy of £400, devised by the testator to his daughters, if such sum should not be discharged out of lands devised to Richard Buller the younger before his death; and to Thomas Buller his son the house occupied by William Mushin with barns thereto belonging and one yard land and a half in the common fields of Halford (being the residue of the said three yard lands and a half), in the occupation of William Mushin, provided that, if the testator's son, Richard[-4] Buller, should educate and maintain the said Thomas Buller until he should reach the age of fourteen years or thereabouts, and thereafter apprentice him to a trade in London until he was twenty one years old at his own cost and pay to the said Thomas £100 on his attaining twenty one years, then the said devise to the said Thomas should be void and the premises so devised to the said Thomas remain remain over to the said Richard[-4] Buller the younger, and provided that, if the said Richard[-4] should educate and maintain the said Walter until the said Walter attained the age of eighteen years, he, the said Richard[-4] the younger, should have the use and profit of the premises devised to the said Walter until the said Walter attained eighteen years. Appointment of Thomas Buller to be executor, and Richard Savage of Idlicote, Robert Halford of Halford the elder and Mr. William Thornhill, parson of Halford, overseers of his will.
Witnesses: Robert Halford and John Rose.
Proved at Worcester.
A Walter Buller is mentioned as his second son and the parish records for Halford show a Richard[-4] Buller baptized 1584 and a Walter Buller baptized 1596. This Walter Buller's will was transcribed on blog:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/02/will-of-walter-buller-citizen-and.html
Parish records at Halford which is nine miles from Long Compton:
Richard[-3] Buller married Marie Hall 12 Jun 1584 at Halford
Richard[-4] Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 7 Oct 1584 at Halford
John Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 24 Mar 1585 at Halford; buried 24 Mar 1595
Marie Buller daughter of Richard Buller baptized 6 Aug 1587 at Halford.
Elizabeth Buller daughter of Richard Buller baptized 22 Apr 1592 at Halford
John Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 31 Oct 1593 at Halford, buried 24 Mar 1595
Katherine Buller daughter of Richard Buller baptized 16 Mar 1594 at Halford
Walter Buller son of Rychard Buller baptized 6 Mar 1596 at Halford
Susanna Buller daughter of Richard Buller baptized 21 Jul 1599 at Halford
Thomas Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 23 May 1605 at Halford
Richard[-3] Buller the elder died and buried at Halford 21 Jul 1610
Richard Buller gent died at Halford 22 May 1614 (buried in the church inside near his seat 23 May 1614), will probated 1614 (#232)
Elizabeth daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Buller born 23 June baptized 1 Jul 1654
Thomas son of Richard and Elizabeth Buller baptized 2 Feb 1658
Parish Registers at Long Compton:
Richard[-5] Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 18 Jan 1628
William Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 14 Nov 1630
John Buller son of Richard Buller[-4] baptized 9 Dec 1632
Anna Buller daughter of Richard Buller baptized 24 May 1635
Elizabetha Buller daughter of Richard Buller and Anne baptized 9 Feb 1639
Richard and Thomas twins of Richard junior and Margarett Buller baptized 17 Feb 1687
I then proceeded to review the Halford lEstate File in which this will was found and the following documents pertained to the Richard Buller families in this time period.
Moving back slightly in time to a record in the Halford Estate file (ER 3/2234, 25 March 1531.32):
Release by Thomas Dode of Coventry, mercer, and Alice his wife (one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William Banwell formerly of Coventry, deceased) to Richard Buller of Halford, husbandman (reciting that the said Richard Buller, by deed of 7 March 1531/2, had purchased of the said Thomas Dode and Alice his wife the share and portion of the said Alice as co-heiress of her father, William Banwell, namely a fourth part of all the lands, messuages and tenements which they, the said Thomas Dode and Alice his wife held in Halford and Over Ettington, formerly belonging to William Banwell), whereby it was witnessed that the said Thomas Dode and Alice his wife released and quitclaimed the said Richard Buller and his heirs for ever from all their claim, interest or demand whatsoever in the said share or portion of the said premises. (1-B-S)
Halford Estate file (ER 3/2235, 26 Apr 1544):
Grant by Anthony Coope of Hardwick, co. Oxon., esq., to John Buller of Halford of one half part of a messuage in Halford (between the messuage of the said John Buller on the west side and the messuage of Elizabeth Mason, widow, on the east side, and extending in length from the highway to the messuage of John Smyth) and two virgates of land and one quarter of land in Halford, which premises the grantor purchased of Anthony Lee of Brydeston, co. Bucks., knight, by deed of 4 April 1544. Appointment by Anthony Coope of Edward Coope, his son, to be his lawful attorney to deliver seisin of the premises.
Memorandum endorsed of livery of seisin in the presence of Edward Dalby of Brookhampton, gent., Henry Warde of Over Pillerton, John Smyth, Richard Smyth, Richard Wright, William Elderton, Thomas Colyns and Nicholas Egynton, all of Halford, and Robert Millys of Stratford. Also endorsed with note of enrollment in the presence of Sir Richard Catesby, knight, and William Wallington, Justices of the Peace for the county of Warwick, and in the presence of Richard Hawes, clerk of the peace, at the session held at Warwick, 10 June 1544.
Halford Estate file (ER 3/2236, 20 Sep 1584):
Settlement made between Richard Buller of Halford, yeoman, of the one part and Richard Hawll of Idlicote, gent., and Richard Gybbs of Honington, gent., of the other part, whereby Richard Buller granted to Richard Hawll and Richard Gybbs all his messuages, houses, seven yard lands and other premises in the common fields of Halford, then in possession of Richard Buller, John Rooke and Thomas Tasker, to the use of Richard Buller and Mary his wife during their lives and the life of the survivor of them, with remainder to the use of the heirs male of the said Richard Buller by Mary his wife, and with remainder, in default of such issue, to the use of the heirs female of the said Richard Buller by Mary his said wife.
Memorandum of delivery of seisin in the presence of Anthony Gybbs, A. Ingram, Edward Bentley, Stephen Hawford, Thomas Rose and Thomas Ashworth.
Memorandum endorsed: 'John Rooke, tenant of a third part the right of Anne his wife, mother to Richard Buller, is contented that the said third part after his wife's decease, shall go and be according to the purport of this deed, which assent was given in the presence of Anth. Gybbs, Thomas Callowe and John Haines, clerk.'
The will mentioned above was the next record in the Estate file.
The next entry in the Halford Estate File (ER 3/2238 24 September 1624):
Lease from Walter Buller, citizen and salter of London, to William Pewe of Halford, husbandman, for £16 10s 0d, of a cottage containing two bays of houses with outhouses, stables, orchard, backside and easements thereto belonging and eight arable lands with appurtenances in the common fields of Halford, and common of pasture for one rother beast in the said common fields of Halford (except and reserved to the landlord the bodies of the three best elms upon the premises, with liberty to cut and carry the same) for a term of 80 years from the Feast of St. Michael then next if the said William Pewe, Joan his then wife, and Thomas Boyes son of Thomas Boyes of Halford, deceased, or either of them, should so long live, at a yearly rent of 20 shillings and one strike of apples and three parts of the Wardens [a particular type of cooking pear] that should be yearly growing upon the trees then in and upon the premises.
Witnesses: William Baldwyn, John Underesill, Richard Boyes and Joseph Bradford.
(Walter in his will of 1625 mentions his sisters: Marye Underhill, Alice Mayall, Elizabeth Aynge and Katherine Newberry. )
And the story continues in the Halford Estate file (ER 3/2239-40, 20 February 1627/8):
Appointment, with counterpart, and declaration of uses between Richard Newbery of Halford, mercer, and Richard Boys of Halford, yeoman, of the one part, and Thomas Buller of Halford, gent., of the other part (reciting that Thomas Buller, in Hilary Term then last past, had in the court of Common Pleas levied a fine of his hereditaments in Halford to Richard Newbery and Richard Boys) whereby it was witnessed that the fine aforesaid should enure to the use of Thomas Buller and his heirs and assigns for ever.
Witnesses: John Brent, William Brent and Roger Brent.
Halford estate (ER 3/2241-42 Hilary Term 1627/28):
Indenture and counterpart of fine made in the Court at Westminster, 3 February 1627/8, before Thomas Richardson, Richard Hulton, Francis Harvye, George Croke and Henry Yelverton, H.M. Justices, between Richard Newbery and Richard Boys, plaintiffs, and Thomas Buller, gent., deforciant, of one messuage, one garden, one orchard, seventy acres of land, fourteen acres of meadow, twenty acres of pasture, four acres of furze and heath, and common of pasture for all cattle in Halford.
Halford Estate (ER 3/2244 9 Apr 1629):
Mortgage from Thomas Buller of Halford, gent. to Job Dighton of the Middle Temple, London, esq., for £100 of the messuage wherein he, the said Thomas Buller, then dwelt situate in Halford, with a close or pasture thereto adjoining, a close called Well Close, and four yard lands of arable meadow and pasture in the common fields of Halford, then or late in the possession of the said Thomas Buller.
Witnesses: Francis King and Joseph Parker.
Halford Estate (ER 3/2245 29 Jul 1630):
Assignment from Job Dighton of the Middle Temple, London, esq., to Jarvis Hall of Wolverhampton, co. Staffs., gent., (reciting no. ER 3/2244 and that the said £108 had been paid by Thomas Buller to Job Dighton) for £100 of all his interest in the mortgage described in no. ER 3/2244.
Witnesses: Francis King, John Parker, Thomas Royser, John Lockleys and Thomas Buller.
Halford Estate ER 3/2246 30 Jul 1630):
Conveyance from Thomas Buller of Halford, gent., to Sir Hercules Underhill of Idlicote, knight, for £620, of the messuage in which he then dwelt in Halford, with a close thereto adjoining, closes called Well Close and Long Close, another close near the church, then in possession of William Mushen, four yard lands of arable meadow and pasture in the common fields of Halford then in the tenure of Thomas Buller, and three messuages in Halford with appurtenances then in the several tenures of John Burnam, William Pewe and Walter Duke.
Witnesses: Ger.Hall, John Lockley and Thomas Royser.
Halford Estate (ER 3/2248 Hilary Term 1630/1):
Exemplification of a fine suffered in the Court at Westminster in the octave of St. Hilary 1630/1, in the presence of Thomas Richardson, Richard Hulton, Francis Harvye and Humphrey Davenport, H.M. Justices, between Hercules Underhill, knight, plaintiff, and Thomas Buller and Elizabeth his wife, deforciants, of four messuages, two barns, one dove-house, four gardens, four orchards, seventy acres of land, seven acres of meadow, ten acres of pasture and common of pasture for all cattle in Halford.
Halford Estate (ER 3/2249 12 May 1656):
Assignment of mortgage from Sir Hercules Underhill of Idlicote, knight, and John Rudd of Idlicote, gent., to Richard Aynge of Stratford-upon-Avon, gent., (reciting that by an indenture, dated 2 May 1653, Sir Hercules Underhill mortgaged to John Rudd his mansion house with orchard, gardens, dovecote, courtyard, barns and stables in Halford, together with the close adjoining called Conygree containing three acres, a close called Parking Close containing one acre, a close called the Well containing one acre, eight acres of meadow in the Nether Ham, one acre of meadow in Over Ham, three acres in Downe Meadow, closes called Mornehill Close and Downehill Close, three platts or pieces of arable land containing fifteen acres on Downehill, and a close newly enclosed containing three acres, all which premises were in the occupation of the said Sir Hercules, to secure £220) for £220 paid to John Rudd by Richard Ayinge and £200 advanced to Sir Hercules Underhill by Richard Ayinge of the residue of the said term of 1000 years in the said premises.
Witnesses: Thomas Fletcher, Ralph Gibbs, Robert Rowse (by his mark), James Leppington.
Endorsement, dated 20 June 1666, that the mortgage money had been supplied by Henry Gibbs for whom Richard Ayinge was a trustee.
Witnesses: Edmund Tidsall and Edward Somervile.
The last mention of the Buller family is in Halford Estate (ER 3/2252-3 Hilary Term 1656):
Indenture and counterpart of a fine levied in the Court at Westminster on the morrow of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, before Oliver St. John, Edward Atkyns, Matthew Hale and Hugh Wyndham, H.M. Justices, between Henry Gibbes, gent., John Willes, gent., Richard Dyer and Katherine his wife, and Robert Pancridge and Frances his wife, plaintiffs, and Hercules Underhill, knight, John Smyth and Alice his wife, Richard Buller and Elizabeth his wife, Thomas Walton and Katherine his wife, and Katherine Walton, widow, deforciants, of six messuages, five gardens, five orchards, 150 acres of land, thirty acres of meadow, fifty acres of pasture and ten acres of furze and heath with common of pasture for all cattle in Halford.
The first mention of Richard Buller in the Halford Estate records was 1531/32. There isn't anything in this record to indicate who this Richard Buller is. I do not know if he is related to the Richard who I refer to as Richard-1. I do know from the will of Richard-1 that he has a brother John Buller, he doesn't appear to have any sons and there is another John Buller at Sutton which is not far from Long Compton and Harford. You can not tell from the will of Richard-1 how old his daughters are except that they are not yet 21 years of age because he appoints his brother John as guardian. The remaining wills that I have are in the 19th century principally so do not aid me with this set of Richard Buller wills. There are no wills of a John Buller living in Warwickshire on The National Archives will portion of their website. There are several documents pertaining to John Buller in the Warwickshire area which could be investigated some time in the future if this looks like my line. At the moment that is pretty wide open.
Richard Buller in the Halford Estate record of 1531/32 is quitclaimed by Thomas Dode and Alice (relatives perhaps (aunt)). The Richard-1 will is not really going to enter into the following conversation. I do wonder if the Richard Buller of 1531/32 is the Richard Buller whose will was probated in 1594 (i.e. Richard-2). It would then be his son/grandson Richard-3 Buller who married Marie Hall in 1584 and who left his will which was probated in 1611 and Richard[-3] Buller the elder died and was buried at Halford 21 Jul 1610. No idea on who the Richard Buller gent was who died in 1614 but we will ignore him since he did not leave a will. He is referred to as a gent rather than husbandman/yeoman which was the designation for the other Richard Buller men. The 1544 estate record refers to a John Buller acquiring land at Halford and there is the remote possibility that he is the son of Richard-2 and the father of Richard-3. The next record of 1584 is clearly Richard-3 and his wife Marie/Mary Hall and Richard-3 is taking possession of his land following his marriage and the impression might be that he is relatively young so that the possibility that he is a grandson of Richard-2 and son of John Buller has added possibilities. The mother of this Richard was Anne and this document tells that she has remarried and her married name is now Anne Rooke.
The next record was the will of 1611 probate for Richard-3. Mentioned in this will are his eldest son Richard-4, second son Walter (baptized 1596) and third son Thomas (baptized 1605) and he does mention that both Walter and Thomas are underage. Richard-4 (baptized in 1584) is 26 years of age at the time of the death of his father. Richard-3 does not mention any siblings. Since he married in 1584 and likely 21 years of age he is now at his death in 1610 around 47 years of age or more. He appoints Thomas Buller as Executor but I rather think it was because that was the custom of the time to appoint the youngest son as Executor to protect his inheritance.
The next entry in the Halford Estate record is from 1624 and involved Walter Buller whose will was probated earlier and he was a citizen and salter of London. He has rented his property at Halford so that it appears Richard-4 did not assume this property as was entitled to do for payment. Walter Buller died in 1625 but no mention of that in the Halford Estate record.
In the record of 1627/28 Thomas Buller gent is mentioned and he is presumably a brother to Richard-4 Buller. He too has retained his property given to him by his father Richard-3. In 1629 Thomas Buller has mortgaged his property but he has repaid the mortgage by 1630. Thomas then conveys this property in 1630 to possibly his cousin as his sister Mary married (unknown) Underhill. More family names are mentioned in the record of 1656 with Elizabeth Aynge also a sister to Thomas Buller. The last record in 1666 mentioned Richard-5 and his wife Elizabeth. At this point the property has moved out of the Richard Buller family.
Richard-4 in his will of 1628 mentions two sisters (Ann Tymes and Elizabeth Bidle). He also mentions his daughters Anne and Margerit. His wife was Mary (as was his mother). He still owns the mills in Halford and his wife formerly lived at Hocknorton (now known as Hook Norton). He mentions his son Richard-5. He also mentions his brother in law Mr. Anthony Hodges and Mr Charles Townsend. There were Hodges living at Hook Norton. I did not find baptisms particularly for this Richard-4, nor did I find a marriage. The will of his father in 1611 does mention Richard and his heirs and he would have been 27 years of age.
Richard-5 in his will of 1667 does mention he is Richard the elder and his sons are married so they are likely the group of children baptized at Long Compton as the children of Richard namely Richard, William, John and Anna. He also mentions a son Robert and a daughter Elizabeth. His will order is Richard, William, John, Robert, Elizabeth Jefferis and Anne Joiner (she is perhaps deceased as he mentions her children rather than herself). He mentions his brother Water Webb and sister Anne Webb (possibly his brother in law). As his father Richard-4 mentions his daughter Anne sister to Richard-5.
Did I learn anything new about the Buller family? I did acquire a lot of information on the Buller family of Warwickshire. I still have a few wills to transcribe at a later date in Warwick. Still to do Warwick wills for the Buller family - Arthur, William-1, William-2. There is another will which I do not have for William Buller, Yeoman of Sandford, Oxfordshire probated 27 Jun 1600 which may fit into this family and provide information.
Still to come the wills of William-1 and William-2 and Arthur Buller all of Warwickshire. The last of the Buller wills which I purchased earlier and did not include in Middlesex John Buller and Richard Buller are next. Also a Frederick William Buller and that one was more a curiosity; he was a Lieutenant General and I know he is not likely in my ancestral line but thought I would read it through. Then Samuel Hucks because of the middle name of Robert Hucks Buller (son of Christopher Buller and Mary Beard). I also have a paper copy of the will of Sir Francis Buller (Judge of the Court of Common Pleas). Again none of these have been transcribed but on completion I will then move back to the Blake one name study and the Pincombe one name study principally.
Richard[-1] Buller, Long Compton, Warwickshire, PROB 11/22/381, probated 8 Nov 1527
Richard[-2] Buller, Long Compton, Warwickshire, PROB 11/83/388, probated 6 May 1594
Richard[-4] Buller, Yeoman, Long Compton, Warwickshire, PROB 11/153/33, probated 8 Jan 1628
Richard[-5] Buller, Yeoman, Long Compton, Warwickshire, PROB 11/323/635, probated 15 May 1667
I have added [-number] for ease in identification for me as I work through these wills. The Richard[-3] will which appears to be missing in the list is not found on the Wills of The National Archives site but rather in the documents available when you search on their Discovery search engine. More on this to follow.
British History online for Halford has the following information on the Buller family at Halford where they owned watermills and other land:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57047
........ In 1564 Bartholomew Hales and Mary his wife (in whose right he held the manor of Snitterfield) (fn. 24) sold two watermills and land in Halford to Richard[-2] Buller. (fn. 25) He died in 1593, seised of the mills and fishery, leaving a son Richard[-3], (fn. 26) who was succeeded by his son Richard[-4] in 1628. (fn. 27)
fn 24 Victoria County Histories Warw. iii, 168
fn 25 Feet of Fines. Warw. Hil. 6 Eliz.
fn 26 Chancery. Inquisition post mortem. (Ser. 2), ccxxxviii, 16.
fn 27 Fine Rolls. 4 Chas. I, pt. 1, no. 20.
My continuing search for Richard Buller at Halford Warwickshire on Google brought up an abstract of this will for a Richard Buller of Halford with the original document held at Shakespeare Centre Library and Archives (folder dated 11 Sep 1611 (ER 3/2237 Halford Estate Records)):
Copy will of Richard[-3] Buller the elder of Halford containing the following bequests: to Halford Church 3s 4d; to the great stone bridge at Halford 3s 4d; to every godchild, 1s. 0d.; to the poor of the parish, 3s 4d.; to each of his servants in his house, 1s.0d.; to his second son Walter Buller, the messuage with appurtenances then in the occupation of John Bearne, Henry Treene, William Savage, Philip Rose and William Alice with appurtenances, with one close by the Mill House; to his eldest son, Richard[-4], and his heirs, one malt house of three bays, one barn of four bays and a 'cutte end', and one court between the said barn and malthouse with the closes thereto belonging (the houses aforesaid lying at the overend of the testator's court towards the church) upon condition that the said Richard[-4] Buller the younger should at any time after the testator's death, if so required, release to the said Walter Buller all the estate, right and title which he, Richard[-4] Buller the younger, had in the premises thereby devised to the said Walter Buller to the said Walter Buller, after the death of William Mushin, one house and close then in the occupation of Richard Townsend, one close lying between the houses of William Rose and John Nibbes and also two yard lands in the common fields of Halford (being parcel of three yard lands and a half in the occupation of William Mushin) with a proviso that the said two yard lands should be chargeable with a legacy of £400, devised by the testator to his daughters, if such sum should not be discharged out of lands devised to Richard Buller the younger before his death; and to Thomas Buller his son the house occupied by William Mushin with barns thereto belonging and one yard land and a half in the common fields of Halford (being the residue of the said three yard lands and a half), in the occupation of William Mushin, provided that, if the testator's son, Richard[-4] Buller, should educate and maintain the said Thomas Buller until he should reach the age of fourteen years or thereabouts, and thereafter apprentice him to a trade in London until he was twenty one years old at his own cost and pay to the said Thomas £100 on his attaining twenty one years, then the said devise to the said Thomas should be void and the premises so devised to the said Thomas remain remain over to the said Richard[-4] Buller the younger, and provided that, if the said Richard[-4] should educate and maintain the said Walter until the said Walter attained the age of eighteen years, he, the said Richard[-4] the younger, should have the use and profit of the premises devised to the said Walter until the said Walter attained eighteen years. Appointment of Thomas Buller to be executor, and Richard Savage of Idlicote, Robert Halford of Halford the elder and Mr. William Thornhill, parson of Halford, overseers of his will.
Witnesses: Robert Halford and John Rose.
Proved at Worcester.
A Walter Buller is mentioned as his second son and the parish records for Halford show a Richard[-4] Buller baptized 1584 and a Walter Buller baptized 1596. This Walter Buller's will was transcribed on blog:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/02/will-of-walter-buller-citizen-and.html
Parish records at Halford which is nine miles from Long Compton:
Richard[-3] Buller married Marie Hall 12 Jun 1584 at Halford
Richard[-4] Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 7 Oct 1584 at Halford
John Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 24 Mar 1585 at Halford; buried 24 Mar 1595
Marie Buller daughter of Richard Buller baptized 6 Aug 1587 at Halford.
Elizabeth Buller daughter of Richard Buller baptized 22 Apr 1592 at Halford
John Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 31 Oct 1593 at Halford, buried 24 Mar 1595
Katherine Buller daughter of Richard Buller baptized 16 Mar 1594 at Halford
Walter Buller son of Rychard Buller baptized 6 Mar 1596 at Halford
Susanna Buller daughter of Richard Buller baptized 21 Jul 1599 at Halford
Thomas Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 23 May 1605 at Halford
Richard[-3] Buller the elder died and buried at Halford 21 Jul 1610
Richard Buller gent died at Halford 22 May 1614 (buried in the church inside near his seat 23 May 1614), will probated 1614 (#232)
Elizabeth daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Buller born 23 June baptized 1 Jul 1654
Thomas son of Richard and Elizabeth Buller baptized 2 Feb 1658
Parish Registers at Long Compton:
Richard[-5] Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 18 Jan 1628
William Buller son of Richard Buller baptized 14 Nov 1630
John Buller son of Richard Buller[-4] baptized 9 Dec 1632
Anna Buller daughter of Richard Buller baptized 24 May 1635
Elizabetha Buller daughter of Richard Buller and Anne baptized 9 Feb 1639
Richard and Thomas twins of Richard junior and Margarett Buller baptized 17 Feb 1687
I then proceeded to review the Halford lEstate File in which this will was found and the following documents pertained to the Richard Buller families in this time period.
Moving back slightly in time to a record in the Halford Estate file (ER 3/2234, 25 March 1531.32):
Release by Thomas Dode of Coventry, mercer, and Alice his wife (one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William Banwell formerly of Coventry, deceased) to Richard Buller of Halford, husbandman (reciting that the said Richard Buller, by deed of 7 March 1531/2, had purchased of the said Thomas Dode and Alice his wife the share and portion of the said Alice as co-heiress of her father, William Banwell, namely a fourth part of all the lands, messuages and tenements which they, the said Thomas Dode and Alice his wife held in Halford and Over Ettington, formerly belonging to William Banwell), whereby it was witnessed that the said Thomas Dode and Alice his wife released and quitclaimed the said Richard Buller and his heirs for ever from all their claim, interest or demand whatsoever in the said share or portion of the said premises. (1-B-S)
Halford Estate file (ER 3/2235, 26 Apr 1544):
Grant by Anthony Coope of Hardwick, co. Oxon., esq., to John Buller of Halford of one half part of a messuage in Halford (between the messuage of the said John Buller on the west side and the messuage of Elizabeth Mason, widow, on the east side, and extending in length from the highway to the messuage of John Smyth) and two virgates of land and one quarter of land in Halford, which premises the grantor purchased of Anthony Lee of Brydeston, co. Bucks., knight, by deed of 4 April 1544. Appointment by Anthony Coope of Edward Coope, his son, to be his lawful attorney to deliver seisin of the premises.
Memorandum endorsed of livery of seisin in the presence of Edward Dalby of Brookhampton, gent., Henry Warde of Over Pillerton, John Smyth, Richard Smyth, Richard Wright, William Elderton, Thomas Colyns and Nicholas Egynton, all of Halford, and Robert Millys of Stratford. Also endorsed with note of enrollment in the presence of Sir Richard Catesby, knight, and William Wallington, Justices of the Peace for the county of Warwick, and in the presence of Richard Hawes, clerk of the peace, at the session held at Warwick, 10 June 1544.
Halford Estate file (ER 3/2236, 20 Sep 1584):
Settlement made between Richard Buller of Halford, yeoman, of the one part and Richard Hawll of Idlicote, gent., and Richard Gybbs of Honington, gent., of the other part, whereby Richard Buller granted to Richard Hawll and Richard Gybbs all his messuages, houses, seven yard lands and other premises in the common fields of Halford, then in possession of Richard Buller, John Rooke and Thomas Tasker, to the use of Richard Buller and Mary his wife during their lives and the life of the survivor of them, with remainder to the use of the heirs male of the said Richard Buller by Mary his wife, and with remainder, in default of such issue, to the use of the heirs female of the said Richard Buller by Mary his said wife.
Memorandum of delivery of seisin in the presence of Anthony Gybbs, A. Ingram, Edward Bentley, Stephen Hawford, Thomas Rose and Thomas Ashworth.
Memorandum endorsed: 'John Rooke, tenant of a third part the right of Anne his wife, mother to Richard Buller, is contented that the said third part after his wife's decease, shall go and be according to the purport of this deed, which assent was given in the presence of Anth. Gybbs, Thomas Callowe and John Haines, clerk.'
The will mentioned above was the next record in the Estate file.
The next entry in the Halford Estate File (ER 3/2238 24 September 1624):
Lease from Walter Buller, citizen and salter of London, to William Pewe of Halford, husbandman, for £16 10s 0d, of a cottage containing two bays of houses with outhouses, stables, orchard, backside and easements thereto belonging and eight arable lands with appurtenances in the common fields of Halford, and common of pasture for one rother beast in the said common fields of Halford (except and reserved to the landlord the bodies of the three best elms upon the premises, with liberty to cut and carry the same) for a term of 80 years from the Feast of St. Michael then next if the said William Pewe, Joan his then wife, and Thomas Boyes son of Thomas Boyes of Halford, deceased, or either of them, should so long live, at a yearly rent of 20 shillings and one strike of apples and three parts of the Wardens [a particular type of cooking pear] that should be yearly growing upon the trees then in and upon the premises.
Witnesses: William Baldwyn, John Underesill, Richard Boyes and Joseph Bradford.
(Walter in his will of 1625 mentions his sisters: Marye Underhill, Alice Mayall, Elizabeth Aynge and Katherine Newberry. )
And the story continues in the Halford Estate file (ER 3/2239-40, 20 February 1627/8):
Appointment, with counterpart, and declaration of uses between Richard Newbery of Halford, mercer, and Richard Boys of Halford, yeoman, of the one part, and Thomas Buller of Halford, gent., of the other part (reciting that Thomas Buller, in Hilary Term then last past, had in the court of Common Pleas levied a fine of his hereditaments in Halford to Richard Newbery and Richard Boys) whereby it was witnessed that the fine aforesaid should enure to the use of Thomas Buller and his heirs and assigns for ever.
Witnesses: John Brent, William Brent and Roger Brent.
Halford estate (ER 3/2241-42 Hilary Term 1627/28):
Indenture and counterpart of fine made in the Court at Westminster, 3 February 1627/8, before Thomas Richardson, Richard Hulton, Francis Harvye, George Croke and Henry Yelverton, H.M. Justices, between Richard Newbery and Richard Boys, plaintiffs, and Thomas Buller, gent., deforciant, of one messuage, one garden, one orchard, seventy acres of land, fourteen acres of meadow, twenty acres of pasture, four acres of furze and heath, and common of pasture for all cattle in Halford.
Halford Estate (ER 3/2244 9 Apr 1629):
Mortgage from Thomas Buller of Halford, gent. to Job Dighton of the Middle Temple, London, esq., for £100 of the messuage wherein he, the said Thomas Buller, then dwelt situate in Halford, with a close or pasture thereto adjoining, a close called Well Close, and four yard lands of arable meadow and pasture in the common fields of Halford, then or late in the possession of the said Thomas Buller.
Witnesses: Francis King and Joseph Parker.
Halford Estate (ER 3/2245 29 Jul 1630):
Assignment from Job Dighton of the Middle Temple, London, esq., to Jarvis Hall of Wolverhampton, co. Staffs., gent., (reciting no. ER 3/2244 and that the said £108 had been paid by Thomas Buller to Job Dighton) for £100 of all his interest in the mortgage described in no. ER 3/2244.
Witnesses: Francis King, John Parker, Thomas Royser, John Lockleys and Thomas Buller.
Halford Estate ER 3/2246 30 Jul 1630):
Conveyance from Thomas Buller of Halford, gent., to Sir Hercules Underhill of Idlicote, knight, for £620, of the messuage in which he then dwelt in Halford, with a close thereto adjoining, closes called Well Close and Long Close, another close near the church, then in possession of William Mushen, four yard lands of arable meadow and pasture in the common fields of Halford then in the tenure of Thomas Buller, and three messuages in Halford with appurtenances then in the several tenures of John Burnam, William Pewe and Walter Duke.
Witnesses: Ger.Hall, John Lockley and Thomas Royser.
Halford Estate (ER 3/2248 Hilary Term 1630/1):
Exemplification of a fine suffered in the Court at Westminster in the octave of St. Hilary 1630/1, in the presence of Thomas Richardson, Richard Hulton, Francis Harvye and Humphrey Davenport, H.M. Justices, between Hercules Underhill, knight, plaintiff, and Thomas Buller and Elizabeth his wife, deforciants, of four messuages, two barns, one dove-house, four gardens, four orchards, seventy acres of land, seven acres of meadow, ten acres of pasture and common of pasture for all cattle in Halford.
Halford Estate (ER 3/2249 12 May 1656):
Assignment of mortgage from Sir Hercules Underhill of Idlicote, knight, and John Rudd of Idlicote, gent., to Richard Aynge of Stratford-upon-Avon, gent., (reciting that by an indenture, dated 2 May 1653, Sir Hercules Underhill mortgaged to John Rudd his mansion house with orchard, gardens, dovecote, courtyard, barns and stables in Halford, together with the close adjoining called Conygree containing three acres, a close called Parking Close containing one acre, a close called the Well containing one acre, eight acres of meadow in the Nether Ham, one acre of meadow in Over Ham, three acres in Downe Meadow, closes called Mornehill Close and Downehill Close, three platts or pieces of arable land containing fifteen acres on Downehill, and a close newly enclosed containing three acres, all which premises were in the occupation of the said Sir Hercules, to secure £220) for £220 paid to John Rudd by Richard Ayinge and £200 advanced to Sir Hercules Underhill by Richard Ayinge of the residue of the said term of 1000 years in the said premises.
Witnesses: Thomas Fletcher, Ralph Gibbs, Robert Rowse (by his mark), James Leppington.
Endorsement, dated 20 June 1666, that the mortgage money had been supplied by Henry Gibbs for whom Richard Ayinge was a trustee.
Witnesses: Edmund Tidsall and Edward Somervile.
The last mention of the Buller family is in Halford Estate (ER 3/2252-3 Hilary Term 1656):
Indenture and counterpart of a fine levied in the Court at Westminster on the morrow of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, before Oliver St. John, Edward Atkyns, Matthew Hale and Hugh Wyndham, H.M. Justices, between Henry Gibbes, gent., John Willes, gent., Richard Dyer and Katherine his wife, and Robert Pancridge and Frances his wife, plaintiffs, and Hercules Underhill, knight, John Smyth and Alice his wife, Richard Buller and Elizabeth his wife, Thomas Walton and Katherine his wife, and Katherine Walton, widow, deforciants, of six messuages, five gardens, five orchards, 150 acres of land, thirty acres of meadow, fifty acres of pasture and ten acres of furze and heath with common of pasture for all cattle in Halford.
The first mention of Richard Buller in the Halford Estate records was 1531/32. There isn't anything in this record to indicate who this Richard Buller is. I do not know if he is related to the Richard who I refer to as Richard-1. I do know from the will of Richard-1 that he has a brother John Buller, he doesn't appear to have any sons and there is another John Buller at Sutton which is not far from Long Compton and Harford. You can not tell from the will of Richard-1 how old his daughters are except that they are not yet 21 years of age because he appoints his brother John as guardian. The remaining wills that I have are in the 19th century principally so do not aid me with this set of Richard Buller wills. There are no wills of a John Buller living in Warwickshire on The National Archives will portion of their website. There are several documents pertaining to John Buller in the Warwickshire area which could be investigated some time in the future if this looks like my line. At the moment that is pretty wide open.
Richard Buller in the Halford Estate record of 1531/32 is quitclaimed by Thomas Dode and Alice (relatives perhaps (aunt)). The Richard-1 will is not really going to enter into the following conversation. I do wonder if the Richard Buller of 1531/32 is the Richard Buller whose will was probated in 1594 (i.e. Richard-2). It would then be his son/grandson Richard-3 Buller who married Marie Hall in 1584 and who left his will which was probated in 1611 and Richard[-3] Buller the elder died and was buried at Halford 21 Jul 1610. No idea on who the Richard Buller gent was who died in 1614 but we will ignore him since he did not leave a will. He is referred to as a gent rather than husbandman/yeoman which was the designation for the other Richard Buller men. The 1544 estate record refers to a John Buller acquiring land at Halford and there is the remote possibility that he is the son of Richard-2 and the father of Richard-3. The next record of 1584 is clearly Richard-3 and his wife Marie/Mary Hall and Richard-3 is taking possession of his land following his marriage and the impression might be that he is relatively young so that the possibility that he is a grandson of Richard-2 and son of John Buller has added possibilities. The mother of this Richard was Anne and this document tells that she has remarried and her married name is now Anne Rooke.
The next record was the will of 1611 probate for Richard-3. Mentioned in this will are his eldest son Richard-4, second son Walter (baptized 1596) and third son Thomas (baptized 1605) and he does mention that both Walter and Thomas are underage. Richard-4 (baptized in 1584) is 26 years of age at the time of the death of his father. Richard-3 does not mention any siblings. Since he married in 1584 and likely 21 years of age he is now at his death in 1610 around 47 years of age or more. He appoints Thomas Buller as Executor but I rather think it was because that was the custom of the time to appoint the youngest son as Executor to protect his inheritance.
The next entry in the Halford Estate record is from 1624 and involved Walter Buller whose will was probated earlier and he was a citizen and salter of London. He has rented his property at Halford so that it appears Richard-4 did not assume this property as was entitled to do for payment. Walter Buller died in 1625 but no mention of that in the Halford Estate record.
In the record of 1627/28 Thomas Buller gent is mentioned and he is presumably a brother to Richard-4 Buller. He too has retained his property given to him by his father Richard-3. In 1629 Thomas Buller has mortgaged his property but he has repaid the mortgage by 1630. Thomas then conveys this property in 1630 to possibly his cousin as his sister Mary married (unknown) Underhill. More family names are mentioned in the record of 1656 with Elizabeth Aynge also a sister to Thomas Buller. The last record in 1666 mentioned Richard-5 and his wife Elizabeth. At this point the property has moved out of the Richard Buller family.
Richard-4 in his will of 1628 mentions two sisters (Ann Tymes and Elizabeth Bidle). He also mentions his daughters Anne and Margerit. His wife was Mary (as was his mother). He still owns the mills in Halford and his wife formerly lived at Hocknorton (now known as Hook Norton). He mentions his son Richard-5. He also mentions his brother in law Mr. Anthony Hodges and Mr Charles Townsend. There were Hodges living at Hook Norton. I did not find baptisms particularly for this Richard-4, nor did I find a marriage. The will of his father in 1611 does mention Richard and his heirs and he would have been 27 years of age.
Richard-5 in his will of 1667 does mention he is Richard the elder and his sons are married so they are likely the group of children baptized at Long Compton as the children of Richard namely Richard, William, John and Anna. He also mentions a son Robert and a daughter Elizabeth. His will order is Richard, William, John, Robert, Elizabeth Jefferis and Anne Joiner (she is perhaps deceased as he mentions her children rather than herself). He mentions his brother Water Webb and sister Anne Webb (possibly his brother in law). As his father Richard-4 mentions his daughter Anne sister to Richard-5.
Did I learn anything new about the Buller family? I did acquire a lot of information on the Buller family of Warwickshire. I still have a few wills to transcribe at a later date in Warwick. Still to do Warwick wills for the Buller family - Arthur, William-1, William-2. There is another will which I do not have for William Buller, Yeoman of Sandford, Oxfordshire probated 27 Jun 1600 which may fit into this family and provide information.
Still to come the wills of William-1 and William-2 and Arthur Buller all of Warwickshire. The last of the Buller wills which I purchased earlier and did not include in Middlesex John Buller and Richard Buller are next. Also a Frederick William Buller and that one was more a curiosity; he was a Lieutenant General and I know he is not likely in my ancestral line but thought I would read it through. Then Samuel Hucks because of the middle name of Robert Hucks Buller (son of Christopher Buller and Mary Beard). I also have a paper copy of the will of Sir Francis Buller (Judge of the Court of Common Pleas). Again none of these have been transcribed but on completion I will then move back to the Blake one name study and the Pincombe one name study principally.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Will of Elizabeth Blake widow of Rederith Surrey - The National Archives PROB 11/234/255, probated 11 Sep 1654
Always interesting when two wills fit together. The testator Elizabeth Blake is the wife of Peter Blake who was uncle to James and John Blake named in the will of their father John Blake mariner brother to Peter:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/11/will-of-john-blake-mariner-redderith.html
This earlier will was probated in 1636 so 18 years earlier and we can see that both of the sons of John have survived and each have four children still living. The children of John being namely Peter, James, Margaret and Anne and the children of James being namely John, James, Margerie and Margaret. One is left to surmise that Peter and Elizabeth did not have any children or at least none surviving to this date. Elizabeth says that she is aged and certainly John the Mariner in the earlier will was already a grandfather in 1638 so possibly over 40 years of age or more and his brother Peter would have been the same at that time likely. Elizabeth is likely close to 60 years or more at the time of her writing in 1651/52. Again I have used double dating just to ensure that the timing of the will is readily understood by readers.
Peter Blake does not leave a will that is probated at Westminster or at PCC.
Moving on to the wills of Sussex for Blake family members and again just one will and it was the second earliest found there in the PCC. Will of John Blake of Yeoman of Slindon, Sussex and probated 23 May 1579. The earliest will at the PCC for a Blake in Sussex was by John Blake of Beryghelmenston, Sussex probated 3 Jul 1487. At some point I need to acquire this will. I suspect this is Brighthelmstone Sussex now known as Brighton, Sussex. Who was this early Blake member living in present day Brighton in the mid 1400s? As I continue my search backwards into the Blake family and its origins there is always new information that provides yet many more details on this ancient family of the British Isles. Brighton of course is in East Sussex near the border with West Sussex but the distance from Hampshire is not great being the county on the other side of West Sussex.
The newest member of the Blake yDNA study matches exactly on 12 markers to the individual that matches my paternal line 8/12. Since our markers are so far out and the latest discussion on I2a2b indicates that this particular haplogroup split thousands of years ago with one section going into northern England and the other into southern England. But our markers are so distinct that I continue to place all three of us into the grouping "British Isles" since our roots likely extend back into the mists that were first seen by the Romans as they crossed the Channel to England centuries ago. It is somewhat appealing to think that my Blake ancestors were there already on the shores of England watching as the grandeur of Rome came to the British Isles.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Dec 2012
Source: The National Archives PROB 11/234/255
Testator: Elizabeth Blake, widow
Place: Rederith, Surrey, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 12 Mar 1651/52, probated 11 Sep 1654
Read: Electronic copy images
Condition: middle English writing fine, good contrast copy
[Margin] Elizab: Blake
1 In the name of God Amen The
2 twelveth Day of Marche in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six
3 hundred fifty and one I Elizabeth Blake of the parish of Rederith in the
4 County of Surrey Widdowe being at this present sicke and weake in Body But
5 I humbly thanke God in good and perfect Mind and Memory And not knowing
6 how soone and sudden my departure may be out of this transitory world by
7 Reason of my Age therefore now while God hath lent mee time and space
8 that I may dispose of my Estate and worldly meanes which hee hath lent mee
9 for avoyding all suites and contention about the same w[hi]ch may arise after my
10 decease doe therefore make and declare this my last Will and testament in
11 manner and forme following that is to say First and principally I give be-
12 queath and Comend my soule after the dissolu[t]ion thereof from thro' my sin-
13 full and fraile Body into the mercifull hands and protection of the holy and
14 blessed Trinity hoping and assuredly trusting by and through the Deathe payn-
15 full Passion and Resurrection of the second person in the same Trinity namely
16 Jesus Christ and by none other nor other meanes to obteine free pardon and
17 Remission of and for all my sinns together w[i]th the fruition of his heavenlye
18 kingdome whereunto I beseech him to (to) bring mee for his mercies sake my
19 body I Comitt to the Earthe from whence it Came where I will shal[l ]be decentlye
20 buried in the parish Church of Rederith aforesaid and neare as conveniently
21 may be to the Body of my late deceased husband Peter Blake Inprimis
22 I give unto the poore of the parish of Rederith forty shillings of lawfull
23 money of England to be distributed at the discretion of my Executor and
24 Overseers
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25 Overseers hereafter named Item I give unto Mr Thomas Gattacker our Minister
26 if he be living at the time of my decease twenty shillings and for the same I
27 desire him to preach my funerall Sermon Item I give unto my Cozen John
28 Blake forty shillings to buy him a Ring Item I give unto my Cozen James
29 Blake other forty shillings to buy him a Ring to weare for a Remembrance
30 Item I give unto my said Cozen John Blake his foure children namely
31 Peter James Margaret and Anne Blake forty shillings a peece Item I
32 give unto my sayd Cozen James Blake his foure children namely John
33 James Margarie and Margaret Blake to every of them forty shillings a-
34 peece Item I give to my two Nephews Beniamin and Mary Baincroft
35 the children of my cozen Beniamin Baincroft three pounds a peece to
36 buy either of them a peece of plate to keepe for a Remembrance Item I
37 give unto Margaret Kilbury formerly my maid servant twenty shillings
38 for a Remembrance I give unto Elizabeth Barter the daughter of Beniamine
39 Barter my maid servant the summe of three pounds Item I give unto my
40 good freind Maudlyn Needs widdowe the summe of twenty shillings Item
41 I give unto my cozen George Baincroft the summe of forty shillings to
42 buy him a Ring to weare for a Remembrance Item I give unto my cozen
43 Ralph Holmes the like summe of forty shillings to buy him a Ring to weare
44 for a Remembrance All the aforesaid Legacies by mee given and bequeathed
45 I will to be payed by my Executor thereafter named within one yeare next
46 after my decease And that the Acquittance of every Legatee which shal[l ]be
47 within Age of twenty and one yeares shal[l ]be a sufficient discharge and for
48 my Executor for theire severall Legacies upon the Receipt and payment thereof
49 The Rest and Residue of my goods and Chattles plate Ready money and
50 debts whatsoever unbequeathed and w[hi]ch shall remaine after all Legacies in
51 and by this my will bequeathed shal[l ]be fully paied and discharged I give
52 and bequeathe unto my kinsman Beniamine Baincroft of Rederith afores[ai]d
53 Cordwainer and to Mary his wife my kinswoman whome I make ordeine
54 and appoint full and sole Executors of this my last will and testam[en]t
55 desiring them truly to performe the same in all things according to my trust
56 in them reposed And I make and appoint my good freinds Thomas
57 Waren and John Caterall Overseers of the same desiring them to be ayding
58 and assisting to my said Executors in and about the execu[t]ion thereof and
59 to see this my will in all things performed according to my true Intent and
60 meaning herein before playnely sett forthe and declared And for theire paines
61 I give unto my sayd Overseers Rings of Gould worth forty shillings a peece
62 at the least to weare for a Remembrance And soe I end my present testam[en]t
63 And doe hereby revoke all other Wills by mee formerly made And doe
64 publish and declare this and none other to be and soe to stand for my last
65 Will and Testament beseeching the high incomprehensible Creator of all
66 things to have mercy upon mee And in my end (and in the end of all things
67 to comfort mee In witnesse that this is my true mind and Will I have
68 caused the same to be faire written in this paper Booke conteyning in all
69 w[i]th this last leafe five sheetes of paper all written upon one side and to e-
70 very sheete or leafe I have subscribed my marke with my owne hand and sett
71 my seale being fixed at a peece of blew tape drawne through the toppe
72 of this Booke the day and yeare first above written The parties hereafter
73 being witnesses which by mee were specially called hereunto The marke
74 of
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75 of Elizabeth Blake Sealed Subscribed published and delivered by the sayd
76 Elizabeth Blake the sayd twelveth Day of March ibed for her last Will and
77 Testament in the presence of us Henry Overton John Webb and of mee
78 Tho: Waren Scr:
79 This Will was proved at Westminster the eleaventh Day of September
80 in the yeare of our Lord God according to the Corpora[t]ion of the Churche of
81 England one thousand six hundred fifty foure before the Judges for
82 Probate of Wills and granting Administra[t]ions lawfully authorized by the
83 oathe of Beniamine Baincroft one of the Executors named in the said Will to
84 whome the administra[t]ion was comitted of all and singuler the Goods Chattles
85 and Debts of the said deceased hee the sayd Beniamine Baincroft being
86 first sworne truly to administer the same power being reserved for Mary
87 Bayncroft wife of the sayd Benjamine to make like propate thereof when
88 shee shall in due forme of lawe require the same
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/11/will-of-john-blake-mariner-redderith.html
This earlier will was probated in 1636 so 18 years earlier and we can see that both of the sons of John have survived and each have four children still living. The children of John being namely Peter, James, Margaret and Anne and the children of James being namely John, James, Margerie and Margaret. One is left to surmise that Peter and Elizabeth did not have any children or at least none surviving to this date. Elizabeth says that she is aged and certainly John the Mariner in the earlier will was already a grandfather in 1638 so possibly over 40 years of age or more and his brother Peter would have been the same at that time likely. Elizabeth is likely close to 60 years or more at the time of her writing in 1651/52. Again I have used double dating just to ensure that the timing of the will is readily understood by readers.
Peter Blake does not leave a will that is probated at Westminster or at PCC.
Moving on to the wills of Sussex for Blake family members and again just one will and it was the second earliest found there in the PCC. Will of John Blake of Yeoman of Slindon, Sussex and probated 23 May 1579. The earliest will at the PCC for a Blake in Sussex was by John Blake of Beryghelmenston, Sussex probated 3 Jul 1487. At some point I need to acquire this will. I suspect this is Brighthelmstone Sussex now known as Brighton, Sussex. Who was this early Blake member living in present day Brighton in the mid 1400s? As I continue my search backwards into the Blake family and its origins there is always new information that provides yet many more details on this ancient family of the British Isles. Brighton of course is in East Sussex near the border with West Sussex but the distance from Hampshire is not great being the county on the other side of West Sussex.
The newest member of the Blake yDNA study matches exactly on 12 markers to the individual that matches my paternal line 8/12. Since our markers are so far out and the latest discussion on I2a2b indicates that this particular haplogroup split thousands of years ago with one section going into northern England and the other into southern England. But our markers are so distinct that I continue to place all three of us into the grouping "British Isles" since our roots likely extend back into the mists that were first seen by the Romans as they crossed the Channel to England centuries ago. It is somewhat appealing to think that my Blake ancestors were there already on the shores of England watching as the grandeur of Rome came to the British Isles.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Dec 2012
Source: The National Archives PROB 11/234/255
Testator: Elizabeth Blake, widow
Place: Rederith, Surrey, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 12 Mar 1651/52, probated 11 Sep 1654
Read: Electronic copy images
Condition: middle English writing fine, good contrast copy
[Margin] Elizab: Blake
1 In the name of God Amen The
2 twelveth Day of Marche in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six
3 hundred fifty and one I Elizabeth Blake of the parish of Rederith in the
4 County of Surrey Widdowe being at this present sicke and weake in Body But
5 I humbly thanke God in good and perfect Mind and Memory And not knowing
6 how soone and sudden my departure may be out of this transitory world by
7 Reason of my Age therefore now while God hath lent mee time and space
8 that I may dispose of my Estate and worldly meanes which hee hath lent mee
9 for avoyding all suites and contention about the same w[hi]ch may arise after my
10 decease doe therefore make and declare this my last Will and testament in
11 manner and forme following that is to say First and principally I give be-
12 queath and Comend my soule after the dissolu[t]ion thereof from thro' my sin-
13 full and fraile Body into the mercifull hands and protection of the holy and
14 blessed Trinity hoping and assuredly trusting by and through the Deathe payn-
15 full Passion and Resurrection of the second person in the same Trinity namely
16 Jesus Christ and by none other nor other meanes to obteine free pardon and
17 Remission of and for all my sinns together w[i]th the fruition of his heavenlye
18 kingdome whereunto I beseech him to (to) bring mee for his mercies sake my
19 body I Comitt to the Earthe from whence it Came where I will shal[l ]be decentlye
20 buried in the parish Church of Rederith aforesaid and neare as conveniently
21 may be to the Body of my late deceased husband Peter Blake Inprimis
22 I give unto the poore of the parish of Rederith forty shillings of lawfull
23 money of England to be distributed at the discretion of my Executor and
24 Overseers
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25 Overseers hereafter named Item I give unto Mr Thomas Gattacker our Minister
26 if he be living at the time of my decease twenty shillings and for the same I
27 desire him to preach my funerall Sermon Item I give unto my Cozen John
28 Blake forty shillings to buy him a Ring Item I give unto my Cozen James
29 Blake other forty shillings to buy him a Ring to weare for a Remembrance
30 Item I give unto my said Cozen John Blake his foure children namely
31 Peter James Margaret and Anne Blake forty shillings a peece Item I
32 give unto my sayd Cozen James Blake his foure children namely John
33 James Margarie and Margaret Blake to every of them forty shillings a-
34 peece Item I give to my two Nephews Beniamin and Mary Baincroft
35 the children of my cozen Beniamin Baincroft three pounds a peece to
36 buy either of them a peece of plate to keepe for a Remembrance Item I
37 give unto Margaret Kilbury formerly my maid servant twenty shillings
38 for a Remembrance I give unto Elizabeth Barter the daughter of Beniamine
39 Barter my maid servant the summe of three pounds Item I give unto my
40 good freind Maudlyn Needs widdowe the summe of twenty shillings Item
41 I give unto my cozen George Baincroft the summe of forty shillings to
42 buy him a Ring to weare for a Remembrance Item I give unto my cozen
43 Ralph Holmes the like summe of forty shillings to buy him a Ring to weare
44 for a Remembrance All the aforesaid Legacies by mee given and bequeathed
45 I will to be payed by my Executor thereafter named within one yeare next
46 after my decease And that the Acquittance of every Legatee which shal[l ]be
47 within Age of twenty and one yeares shal[l ]be a sufficient discharge and for
48 my Executor for theire severall Legacies upon the Receipt and payment thereof
49 The Rest and Residue of my goods and Chattles plate Ready money and
50 debts whatsoever unbequeathed and w[hi]ch shall remaine after all Legacies in
51 and by this my will bequeathed shal[l ]be fully paied and discharged I give
52 and bequeathe unto my kinsman Beniamine Baincroft of Rederith afores[ai]d
53 Cordwainer and to Mary his wife my kinswoman whome I make ordeine
54 and appoint full and sole Executors of this my last will and testam[en]t
55 desiring them truly to performe the same in all things according to my trust
56 in them reposed And I make and appoint my good freinds Thomas
57 Waren and John Caterall Overseers of the same desiring them to be ayding
58 and assisting to my said Executors in and about the execu[t]ion thereof and
59 to see this my will in all things performed according to my true Intent and
60 meaning herein before playnely sett forthe and declared And for theire paines
61 I give unto my sayd Overseers Rings of Gould worth forty shillings a peece
62 at the least to weare for a Remembrance And soe I end my present testam[en]t
63 And doe hereby revoke all other Wills by mee formerly made And doe
64 publish and declare this and none other to be and soe to stand for my last
65 Will and Testament beseeching the high incomprehensible Creator of all
66 things to have mercy upon mee And in my end (and in the end of all things
67 to comfort mee In witnesse that this is my true mind and Will I have
68 caused the same to be faire written in this paper Booke conteyning in all
69 w[i]th this last leafe five sheetes of paper all written upon one side and to e-
70 very sheete or leafe I have subscribed my marke with my owne hand and sett
71 my seale being fixed at a peece of blew tape drawne through the toppe
72 of this Booke the day and yeare first above written The parties hereafter
73 being witnesses which by mee were specially called hereunto The marke
74 of
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75 of Elizabeth Blake Sealed Subscribed published and delivered by the sayd
76 Elizabeth Blake the sayd twelveth Day of March ibed for her last Will and
77 Testament in the presence of us Henry Overton John Webb and of mee
78 Tho: Waren Scr:
79 This Will was proved at Westminster the eleaventh Day of September
80 in the yeare of our Lord God according to the Corpora[t]ion of the Churche of
81 England one thousand six hundred fifty foure before the Judges for
82 Probate of Wills and granting Administra[t]ions lawfully authorized by the
83 oathe of Beniamine Baincroft one of the Executors named in the said Will to
84 whome the administra[t]ion was comitted of all and singuler the Goods Chattles
85 and Debts of the said deceased hee the sayd Beniamine Baincroft being
86 first sworne truly to administer the same power being reserved for Mary
87 Bayncroft wife of the sayd Benjamine to make like propate thereof when
88 shee shall in due forme of lawe require the same
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Will of Thomas Blake Barrow - PROB 11/1695/36, probated 10 Feb 1825
The object of transcribing the will of Thomas Blake Barrow was to understand the notation in the will of James Blake Brewer of Gosport now living at Greatbridge in the Parish of Romsey Extra. Looking at all of these parishes Gosport is 0.9 miles from Portsea, and Romsey is 22 miles southeast of Gosport. James is living a good distance from Gosport by the time he is writing his will. If indeed Thomas Blake Barrow did offer a special deal to James Blake it does not appear in the final version of his probated will online. Or I have the wrong Thomas Blake Barrow. Thomas Blake Barrow son of Thomas Blake Barrow was baptized 17 Feb 1799 and so would have been 48 years of age when this will was written. I have presumed that James was referring to the will of Thomas Blake Barrow written in the 1820s but possibly he was referring to the will of Thomas Blake also available at the National Archives and dated 14 Jun 1844. Was this the Thomas Barrow living at Carisbrook, Isle of Wight? I may wait a bit before I purchase it.
Background on the Barrow family in the will below. There was a Thomas Blake Barrow christened 15 Oct 1769 at Saint Marys Portsea son of Thomas Barrow (C06261-1 Family Search). I find a marriage 1 Sep 1768 of Thomas Barrow and Elizabeth Blake at Saint Marys Portsea. He appears to have been buried 27 Nov 1824 at Alverstoke (I04160-3 Family Search) in St Marys Gosport churchyard (http://www.knightroots.co.uk/transcriptions/Parishes_G/Gosport/Burials/burials.htm) at the age of 56 years. Elizabeth (widow of Thomas Blake Barrow) was buried at St Marys Gosport 7 Mar 1828 at the age of 54 years (so date of birth circa 1774). A William Blake also living at Forton was buried 7 Aug 1831 at the age of 73 years (so date of birth circa 1757).
The children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Blake) Barrow include:
Thomas Blake Barrow baptized 15 Oct 1769 Saint Marys Portsea
Robert Barrow baptized 12 Jan 1772 Saint Marys Portsea
Elizabeth Barrow baptized 23 Jan 1774 Saint Marys Portsea
Susannah Barrow baptized 8 Aug 1781 Saint Thomas Portsmouth
William Barrow baptized 14 Feb 1783 Saint Thomas Portsmouth
James Barrow baptized 14 Feb 1783 Saint Thomas Portsmouth
James Barrow baptized 4 Jun 1785 Saint Marys Portsea
Sally Barrow born 16 Jul 1787, baptized 2 Nov 1787 Saint Thomas Portsmouth
And perhaps the most helpful in my searching thus far is this particular document:
coastlinemarch2011.pdf
which states: Of the breweries which no longer remain, the most significant must be that of James Blake and Thomas Barrow: South Cross Street Brewery, c. 1814 to 1935, the largest commercial brewery formerly on the site of Gosport’s Police Station and Magistrates’ Court." Which rather answers the question of how Thomas Barrow was involved with James Blake. He was his brother in law. Discovering who James Blake is in terms of his parents will have to wait for the moment.
Thomas Blake Barrow married Elizabeth Grout 7 Jun 1790 at Saint Marys Portsea. Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (primarily RG4_0401 the genealogist.co.uk):
Elizabeth Barrow baptized 17 Mar 1793 at Gosport
James Barrow baptized 8 Nov 1794 at Gosport
Sarah Barrow born 8 Feb 1797, baptized 9 Apr 1797 at Gosport (High Street Independent Gosport)
Thomas Blake Barrow baptized 17 Feb 1799 at Gosport
Charles Barrow born 7 Apr 1801, baptized 14 Jun 1801 at Gosport (High Street Independent Gosport)
Ann Blake Barrow baptized 17 Jul 1804 at Gosport
Lydia Barrow born 28 Dec 1805, baptized 21 Mar 1806 (High Street Independent Gosport)
Jane Barrow baptized 8 Aug 1818 at Gosport
Bishop of Winchester Marriage allegations: 24 May 1785 Lawson, John, of Bread Street, in the City of London, wholesale draper son of William and Catharine Lawson of Silchester baptized at Silchester 4 Feb 179 and Anne Barrow of Forton spinster, minor, born 3 Jan and baptized at Gosport 17 July 1804 with consent of her parents Thomas Blake Barrow of Forton Lodge, brewer and Elizabeth his wife at Alverstoke 1 Jan 1823.
Children mentioned in the will: Elizabeth Webb, Ann Lawson, Lydia Barrow. It is not unusual for sons to be missing from a will as they would have already received their inheritance in their education and setting up in whatever occupation they were destined to become. I will try and determine if they have died though. Thomas' mother Elizabeth (Blake) Barrow is still living and she is likely an aunt to James Blake Brewer but could be his sister. Still to be determined.
Thomas Blake Barrow in his Codicil mentions a copyhold which he purchased in Sussex in the parish of Pagham and in the Manor of Nytimber. The name of the farm of 40 acres is Trotts which I discovered reading through some of the information at The National Archives as it was very difficult to read on the will.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 4-9 Oct 2012
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1695/36
Name of testator: Thomas Blake Barrow
Place: Alverstoke, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 26 Feb 1823, 2 Codicils, probated 10 Feb 1825
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: cramped English writing, 19th century, bold copy
[In margin] Thomas
[In margin] Blake
[In margin] Barrow Esquire III fo
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Thomas Blake Barrow of Forton Lodge in the Parish of Alverstoke
3 in the County of Southampton Esquire as follows that is to say In the first place I direct
4 all my just debts Funeral and testamentary expences to be paid and satisfied out of my
5 personal Estate onely I give and bequeath unto my Brother Jam: Barrow of Portsmouth
6 in the said County Mariner One Annuity or clear yearly sum of five pounds five shillings
7 for and during the term of his natural life and which I direct my Executors hereinafter
8 named and appointed to pay him weekly and every weekly payments of two shillings
9 per week on every Monday Morning Also I give and bequeath unto my Sister
10 Susannah Peel the Wife of Richard Peel a Gunner in his Majestys Navy the Sum
11 of thirty pounds unto my Brother William Barrow of Gosport in the s[ai]d parish of
12 Alverstoke Carpenter and Joiner the Sum of twenty pounds Unto my Sister Sarah
13 Dunn the Wife of Allen Dunn Surgeon of the Ayrshire Militia the Sum of ten
14 pounds unto my Brother in law James Grout of Gosport aforesaid Grocer the
15 sum of ten pounds unto my brother in law Thomas James Grout of Gosport aforesaid
16 Grocer the sum of ten pounds unto my brother in law London Musician the
17 sum of ten pounds Unto the London Missionary Society in the Old Jewry the
18 the sum of thirty pounds to be paid to the treasurer of the said Society for the time
19 being for the use and benefit of such Society Unto the poor of the congregation of the
20 Reverand Jarvis Bogues Chapel in Gosport the sum of twenty pounds to be distributed
21 amongst them according to the direction of the then Minister Jarvis and trustees of such
22 Chapel unto my son in law John Webb of London Schoolmaster the sum of five pounds
23 all which Eight last mentioned Legacies I direct my Executors hereinafter named to
24 pay within six months next after my decease Also I give and bequeath unto my
25 said Brother in law the said James Grout the use and occupation of a dwelling house
26 and storehouse thereto adjoining situate in Kings Street in Gosport aforesaid and now
27 in his own occupation for and during the term of the natural life of the said James
28 Grout he keeping the same in good and tenantable repair And from and immediately
29 after
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30 after the decease of the said James Grout the said Messuage or Dwelling house
31 and Storehouse and the Rents and profits thereof are to link into and form a part
32 of my residuary Estate herein after given devised and bequeathed to my trustees
33 Upon the trusts hereinafter appearing Also I give and bequeath unto my Son
34 in law John Lawson of the City of London Gentleman and to my friends John
35 Meredith of Forton in the said parish of Alverstoke Gentleman and Erasmus
36 Jackson of Portsmouth in the said County of Southampton Gentleman the trustees of
37 this my Will and also my Executors hereinafter named each the sum of ten
38 pounds as a small acknowledgement to them for the trouble they will have in
39 carrying this my Will and the trusts thereof into execution And all the rest residue
40 and Remainder of my personal Estate and Effects of every sort kind and description
41 whatsoever whether Monies in the public Stocks or Funds on Mortgage Bank
42 Note or other Security And also all and every my Messuages Lands Tenements
43 hereditaments and real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever situated in the town
44 of Gosport in the Parish of Alverstoke in the County of Sussex or elsewhere which
45 are now or shall be at the time of my decease seized possessed of interested in or
46 entitled unto in possession re[v]ersion remainder or upon contingency with their
47 every of their respective rights members and appurtenances I give devise and bequeath
48 the same and every part thereof unto the said John Lawson, John Meredith
49 and Erasmus Jackson To hold the same and every part thereof unto the said
50 John Lawson, John Meredith, Jackson Erasmus Jackson their heirs Executors
51 administrators and Assigns respectively guarding to the different natures and qual[it]y
52 thereof and for all my Estate term and Interest herein respectively But never
53 the loss Upon the trusts and to and for the several uses ends intents and purposes
54 under and subject to the several uses and interests and purposes and under and subject to
55 the several powers provisoes Limitations declarations and directions hereinafter
56 mentioned expressed and declared of and concerning the same that is to say Upon
57 trust in the first place that they my said trustees and the Survivors and Survivor
58 of them and the heirs Executors and Administrators respectively of such survivor
59 be and shall permit and suffer my dear Wife Elizabeth Barrow to have the
60 use and usage of all or such part of my household goods and furniture plate
61 linen and china as she may chuse to select for and during the term of her
62 natural life And from and immediately after her decease such household
63 Goods and Furniture Plate Linen and China shall sink into and become a part
64 of my said residuary Estate hereinafter disposed of And also that they my said
65 trustees and the Survivor of them and the heirs Executors or Administrators of
66 such Survivor do and shall by and out of the Rents Issues Profits and proceeds of
67 my said Real and personal Estates well and truly pay or raise to be paid unto
68 my said dear Wife Elizabeth Barrow or otherwise to permit and suffer her to have
69 receive and take to and for her own sole use and benefit one Annuity or clear
70 yearly Sum of two hundred pounds free and clear of and from all deductions
71 whatsoever to be paid her yearly and every year for and during the term of
72 her natural life by equal half yearly payments that is to say at and upon
73 the twenty fifth day of March and the twenty ninth day of September in
74 each and every year during her life the first payment thereof to begin and be
75 made on such of the said days as shall first happen next after my decease for
76 her own sole and separate and peculiar use and benefit independent of any
77 husband or husbands she may hereafter happen to marry and to not to be
78 subject or liable to his or their debts control Engagements or Encumbrances and
79 for which and every part and parcel thereof her Receipt or Receipts alone
80 shall Notwithstanding coverture from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge
81 and discharges to my said trustees for the payment of the same and I do hereby
82 declare that such Annuity of two hundred pounds per annum shall be in lieu
83 clear and complete satisfaction of all or any dower or thirds which at the common
84 law she my said dear Wife might could or ought to have claim challenge
85 or demand in or out of my real or personal Estates or any part or parcel thereof
86 respectively And also upon further to trust that they my said trustees or the Sur[viv]or
87 of
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88 of them or the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor respectively in the
89 next place do and shall by and out of the Rents Issues and profits of my said real
90 and personal Estates respectively also well and truly pay of cause to be paid unto my
91 Mother Elizabeth Barrow of Portsea in the said County of Southampton Widow
92 one Annuity of clear yearly sum of twenty pounds free and clear of and from all
93 deductions whatsoever to be paid her yearly and every year thenceforward for and
94 during the term of her natural life by equal half yearly payments that is to say
95 on the twenty fifth day of March and the twenty ninth day of September in each and
96 every year the first payment thereof to begin and be made on such of the said days
97 as shall first happen next after my decease and upon further trust that they
98 my said trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the heirs Executors
99 or administrators of such Survivor be and shall stand seized possessed of and
100 interested in all my said real and personal Estates property and Effects Subject
101 to the payment of the before mentioned Legacies Bequest and Annuities Upon
102 trust as to one equal third part of share thereof the whole into three equal parts or
103 shares to be divided to pay apply and dispose of the Rent and Profits Interest or
104 Dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto my daughter Elizabeth Webb Wife
105 of the said John Webb for and during the term of her natural life for her own sole
106 use and benefit separate from and exclusive of the said John Webb and so and
107 in such manner as that the same or any part thereof may not be under the control
108 or disposition or Subject or liable to the debts contracts intermedling forfeitures or
109 Engagements of the said John Webb or any future husband or husbands of my
110 said daughter Elizabeth Webb and for which her receipt or receipts alone
111 Notwithstanding coverture shall from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge
112 or need and sufficient discharges to my said trustees or trustee or for as which thereof as
113 is any such receipt or receipts shall be acknowledged or expressed to be received And
114 now and after the decease of my said daughter Elizabeth Webb then upon
115 further trust that they my said trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them
116 and the heirs Executors Administrators or Assignes of such Survivor be and shall
117 stand and be possessed of and interested in the said one third part of share of and in
118 the said trust Money products and Effects constituting my said Residuary Estate
119 In trust for all and every the child and children of my said daughter Elizabeth
120 Webb whether Sons of daughters equally to be divided between or amongst them
121 if more than one share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint
122 tenants And if but one such child Then to such only child his or her Executors and
123 Administrators the share and shares of such Child and Children of my said daughter
124 Elizabeth Webb to be paid assigned or transferred to him her of them respectively
125 at his her or their age of respective ages of twenty one years my said daughter Elizabeth Webb shall
126 be then dead but if my said daughter Elizabeth Webb shall be living at the time any
127 or either of her said Children shall attain the age of twenty one years then upon
128 trust that they my said trustees or the Survivor of them or the Executors Administrators
129 or Assigns of such Survivor do and shall by and out of the said one third part of
130 share of and in my said Residuary Estate reserve for and pay unto my said daughter
131 the said Elizabeth Webb for and during the term of her natural life a yearly Sum not
132 exceeding sixty pounds per annum to be paid to her by equal half yearly payments
133 that is to say on the twenty fifth day of March and the twenty ninth day of September
134 in every year And the Residue of the said one third part or share of and in my said
135 Residuary Estate after providing for the said Sum of Sixty pounds per annum
136 to be paid to her by equal half yearly payments that is to say on the twenty fifth
137 day of March and the twenty ninth day of September in every year and the
138 for the my said daughter the said Elizabeth Webb for her life to be paid assigned
139 and transferred unto and equally between her said children when and as they
140 shall so severally attain their said age or respective ages of twenty one years
141 provided always that Notwithstanding a part of the said shares and proportions
142 of such child or children shall be withheld until the decease of my said daughter
143 Elizabeth Webb Yet it is my Will and intention that such part as retained for her
144 use during her life as aforesaid shall be and be deemed and considered as a vested
145 interest
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146 Interest or vested Interests in such of them respectively as shall attain the age
147 of twenty one years as and when he she or they shall be respectively attain such
148 age. Although the same shall happen during the lifetime of my said daughter
149 Elizabeth Webb and shall in case of her or other of their deaths or death be transferrable
150 and transmissible to their respective Representatives provided also and it is my further
151 Will and intention that if any such child or children shall depart this life before
152 he she or they shall attain his her of their age or respective ages of twenty one years
153 Then the part share or proportion of him her or their so dying Shall from time to time
154 accrue belong to and rest in the Survivors or Survivor of such children and his
155 her or their executors of Administrators and be assyned transferred and paid unto
156 him her or them if more than equally share and share alike at such and the same
157 time and in the same manner as his her or their original share or shares are
158 hereby directed to be Assigned transferred and paid and the like benefit of Survivors
159 shall be and take place from time to time in regard to such accruing or accrued part
160 or parts shares and proportions in favour of the still remaining surviving child or
161 children as long as there shall be any such as in regard to the original part or
162 proportion of such child of children And it is my Will and desire and I do hereby
163 authorize and Empower my said trustees immediately from and after the decease of
164 my said daughter Elizabeth Webb and until the part or parts shares and proportion
165 of such child or children of and in the said one third part or share of my said
166 residuary Estate shall become assignable transferrable or payable under this
167 my Will to pay apply and dispose of the Interest dividends and proceeds thereof
168 or of so much thereof as may be kept thought necessary in and for the maintenance
169 and Education or Advancement in the world of the said Child or Children
170 respectively in such manner as they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his
171 Executors or Administrators shall think fit provided always And I do hereby
172 declare it to be my Will and meaning that if my said daughter Elizabeth Webb
173 should happen to die without leaving any child or children surviving her or
174 leaving any such child or Children respectively shall die before attaining his
175 her or their age or respective ages of twenty one years Then and in that case I
176 direct that they my said trustees or the Survivor of them or the Executors
177 administrators or Assigns of such Survivor shall and do stand possessed of and
178 interested in the said one third part or share of my said daughter Elizabeth
179 Webb of and in my said Money property and Effects constituting my said Residuary
180 Estate In trust for and to the use and benefit of my daughter and the Wife of
181 the said John Lawson and my daughter Lydia Barrow equally for and during
182 their respective lives and after their respective deaths then to and for the
183 use and benefit of their respective Children to be equally divided between and
184 amongst such said several children of my said two daughters respectively share
185 and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and to be vested
186 and payable to them respectively at the said ages and terms as their original share or shares
187 legacy or legacies hereinafter bequeathed to the children of my said two last
188 mentioned daughters respectively Subject to the provisoes and declarations
189 hereinafter contained concerning the same And as to for and concerning another
190 equal their part or share of and in my said Money property and Effects constituting
191 my said Residuary Estate the whole into three equal parts or shares to be
192 divided I do hereby direct that my said trustees or the Survivors or Survivor
193 of them or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Survivor shall and
194 do stand and be possessed of and interested in the share Upon hereof to pay apply and
195 dispose of the Rents and profits Interest Dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto
196 my daughter Ann Lawson Wife of the said Charles John Lawson for and
197 during the term of her natural life for her own sole use and benefit separate
198 apart from and exclusive of the said John Lawson and so and in such manner
199 as that the same or any part thereof may not be under the control or disposition
200 or subject or liable to the debts contracts Intermeddling forfeitures or Engagements of
201 the said John Lawson or any future husband or husbands of my said daughter
202 Ann Lawson and for which her Receipt or Receipts alone Notwithstanding
203 Coverture
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204 Coverture shall from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge or good and
205 sufficient discharges to my said trustees or trustee or for so much thereof as in any such
206 Receipt or Receipts shall be acknowledged or expressed to be received And from and after
207 the decease of my said daughter Ann Lawson Then upon further trust that they my
208 said trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the heirs Executors
209 administrators or Assigns of such Survivor be and shall stand and be possessed of
210 and interested in the said one third part or share of and with the said trust Money
211 property and Effects constituting my said Residuary Estate In trust for all and
212 every the Childrens Children of my said daughter Ann Lawson Upon further trust
213 that they my said Trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the heirs
214 Executors Administrators or Assigns of each Survivor so and shall stand and be
215 possessed of and interested in the said one third whether Sons or Daughters equally
216 to be divided between or amongst them if more than one share and share
217 alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants And if but one such child Then
218 to such only Child his or her Executors and Administrators the share and share
219 of such child and children of my said daughter Ann Lawson to be paid Assigned or
220 transferred to him her or them respectively at his her or their age or respective ages
221 of of twenty one years if my said daughter Ann Lawson shall be then dead But
222 if my said daughter Ann Lawson shall be living at the time any child of her
223 said children shall attain the age of twenty one years Then upon trust that they
224 my said trustes or the Survivor of them of the Executors Administrators and Assigns
225 of such Survivor do and shall by and out of the said one third part or share of and in
226 my said Residuary Estate reserve for and pay unto my said daughter the said Ann
227 Lawson for and during the term of her natural life a yearly Sum not exceeding
228 Sixty pounds per annum to be paid to her by equal half yearly payments that
229 is to say on the twenty fifty day of March and the twenty ninth day of September in
230 every year and the Residue of the said one third part of share of and in my said
231 Residuary Estate after providing for the said Sum of Sixty pounds per Annum for my
232 said daughter the said Ann Lawson for her life to be paid assigned and transferred
233 unto and equally between her said children when and as they shall so severally
234 attain their said age or respective ages of twenty one years provided always that
235 Notwithstanding a part of the shares and proportions of such child or children
236 shall be withheld until the decease of my said daughter Ann Lawson yet it is
237 my will and intention that such part so retained for her use during her life as aforesaid
238 shall be and be deemed and considered as a vested Interest or vested Interests in such of
239 them respectively as shall attain the age of twenty one years as and when he she
240 or they shall so respectively attain such age Although the same shall happen
241 during the lifetime of my said daughter Ann Lawson and shall in case of their or
242 either of their deaths or death be transferrable and transmissible to their respective
243 testamentaries provided also And it is my further Will and Intention that if any
244 such Child or Children shall depart this life before he she or they shall attain his her
245 or their age or respective ages of twenty one years Then the part share or proportion
246 of him her of them so dying shall from time accrue belong to and vest in the
247 Survivors or Survivor of such children and his her ortheir Executors age or
248 respective ages of twenty one years Then the part share or proportion of him her or
249 them so dying shall from time to time accrue belong to and vest in the Survivors or
250 Survivor of such children and his her or their Executors or Administrators and be
251 assigned transferred and paid unto him her or them if more than one equally share
252 and share alike at such and the same time and in the same manner as his her or
253 their original share and shares are hereby directed to be assigned transferred and
254 paid and the like benefit of Survivors shall be and take place from time to time
255 in regard to such accruing of accrued part or parts shares and proportions in favour
256 of the still remaining survivng child or children as long as there shall be any
257 such as in regard to the Original part or proportion of such child or children And it
258 is my will and desire And I do hereby authorize and empower unpaid trustees
259 Immediately from and after the decease of my said daughter Ann Lawson and
260 until the part or parts shares and proportions of such child or children of and in the
261 said
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262 said last mentioned one third part of share of my said Residuary Estate shall
263 become assignable transferrable or payable under this my Will to pay apply and
264 dispose of the Interest Devidends and proceeds thereof or of so much as thereof as
265 may be thought necessary in and for the maintenance and Education or advantage
266 in the World of the said Child or Children respectively in such manner as they
267 my said trustees or the Survivor them his Executors or Administrators shall
268 think fit provided always and I do hereby declare it to be my Will and meaning
269 that if my said daughter the said Ann Lawson should happen to die without
270 leaving any child or children surviving her or leaving any such child or children
271 respectively should die before attaining his her or their age or respective ages of
272 twenty one years Then and in that case I direct that they my said trustees or the
273 Survivor of them of the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such
274 Survivor shall and do stand possessed of and interested in the said last mentioned
275 one third part or share of my said daughter Ann Lawson of and in my said
276 Money property and Effects constituting my said Residuary Estate In trust for
277 and to the use and benefit of my daughter of the said Elizabeth Webb and my
278 daughter Lydia Barrow equally for and during their respective lives and after their
279 respective deaths then to and for the use and benefit of their respective children to
280 be equally divided between and amongst such said several children of my said
281 two daughters respectively share and share alike as tenants in common and
282 not as joint tenants and to be vested and payable to them respectively at the same
283 ages and times as their original share or shares Legacy or Legacies herein after
284 and hereinbefore bequeathed to the children of my said two last mentioned dau[ghter]s
285 respectively and subject to the provisoes and declarations hereinafter contained
286 concerning the same And as to for and concerning the remaining one other equal
287 third part of share of and in my said Money property and Effects constituting my
288 said Residuary Estate the whole into three equal parts or shares to be divided
289 I do hereby direct that they my said Trustees or the Survivors or Survivor of them or
290 the Executors Administrators and Assigns of such Survivor shall and do stand and
291 be possessed of and interested in the same upon trust to pay apply and dispose of the
292 Rents and profits Interest Dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto my said dau[ghte]r
293 Lydia Barrow for and during the term of her natural life for her own sole use
294 and benefit separate and apart from and exclusive of any husband or husbands she
295 may happen to marry and so and in such manner as that the same or any part
296 thereof may not be under the control or disposition or subject or liable to the
297 debts contracts Intermeddling forfeitures or Engagements of any husband or
298 husbands she my said daughter Lydia Barrow may happen to marry and
299 for which her Receipt or Receipts alone Notwithstanding coverture shall
300 from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge or good and sufficient discharges
301 to my said trustees or trustee or for so much thereof as in such receipt or receipts
302 shall be acknowledged or expressed to be received and from and after the decease
303 of the said daughter Lydia Barrows. Then upon further trust that they my
304 said trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the heirs Executors
305 Administrators or Assigns of such Survivor do and shall stand and be
306 possessed of and interested in the said one third part or share of and in the said
307 one third trust Money property and Effects constituting my said Residuary
308 Estate Intrust for all and every the child and child and children of my said
309 daughter Lydia Barrow whether Sons or daughters equally to be divided
310 between or amongst them if more than one share and share alike as tenants
311 in common and not as joint tenants And if but one such child then to such
312 only child his or her Executors and Administrators the share and shares
313 of such child and children of my said daughter Lydia Barrow to be paid
314 assigned or transferred to him her or them respectively at his her or their age or
315 respective ages of twenty one years if my said daughter Lydia Barrow shall be then
316 dead but if my said daughter Lydia Barrow shall be living at the time any or
317 either of her said children shall attain the age of twenty one years then Upon
318 trust that they my said trustees or the Survivor of them or the Executors
319 Admors
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320 Administrators and Assigns of such Survivor be and shall by and out of the
321 said one third part of share of and in my said Residuary reserve for and
322 pay unto my said daughter the said Lydia Barrow for and during the term
323 of her natural life a yearly Sum not exceeding sixty pounds per annum to be
324 paid to her by equal half yearly payments that is to say on the twenty fifth day
325 of March and the twenty Ninth day of September in every year And the
326 Residue of the said one third part or share of and in my said Residuary Estate
327 after providing for the said Sum of Sixty pounds per annum for my said
328 daughter the said Lydia Barrow for her life to be paid Assigned and transferred
329 unto and equally between her said Children when and as they shall so severally
330 attain their said age or respective ages of twenty one years provided always that
331 Notwithstanding a part of the shares and proportions of such child or children shall
332 be withheld until the decease of my said daughter Lydia Barrow yet it is my will
333 and Intention that such part so retained for her use during her life life as afores[ai]d
334 shall be and Be deemed and considered as a vested Interest or vested Interests in such
335 of them respectively as shall attain the age of twenty one years as and when he
336 she or they shall so respectively attain such age Although the same shall happen
337 during the life time of my said daughter Lydia Barrow and shall in case of
338 their or either of their deaths or death be transferrable and transmissible to their
339 respective representatives provided also and it is my further Will and intention
340 that if any such child or children shall depart this life before he she or they shall
342 attain his her or their age or respective ages of twenty one years Then the part share
343 or proportion of his her or them so dying shall from time to time accrue belong to
344 and vested in the Survivors or Survivor of such children and his her or their Ex[ecut]ors
345 or Administrators and be Assigned transferred and paid unto him her or them if more
346 than one equally share and share alike at such and the same time and in the same
347 manner as his her or their original share and shares are hereby directed to be assigned
348 transferred and paid and the like benefit of Survivorship shall be and take place from
349 time to time in regard to such accruing or accrued part or parts shares and proportions
350 in favour of the still remaining surviving child or children as long as there shall
351 be any such as in regard to the original part or proportion of such child or
352 children it is my Will and desire and it is my Will and desire And I do hereby
353 authorize and Empower my said trustees immediately from and after the decease of my
354 said daughter Lydia Barrow and until the part or parts shares and proportions
355 of such child or children of and in the said last mentioned one third part of share
356 of my said Residuary Estate shall become assignable transferrable or payable under
357 them my Will to pay apply and dispose of the Interest dividends and proceeds
358 hereof or of so much thereof as may be thought necessary in and for the Maintenance
359 and Education or advancement in the World of the said Child or children respectively
360 in such manner as they my said trustees or the Survivor of them his Executors or
361 administrators shall think fit provided always and I do hereby declare it to be my
362 Will and Meaning that if my said daughter the said daughter the said Lydia
363 Barrow should happen to die without leaving any child or children surviving
364 her or leaving any such child or children respectively should die before attaining
365 his her or their age or respective ages of twenty one years Then and in that case
366 I direct that they my said trustees or the Survivor of them or the Executors
367 Administrators or Assigns of such Survivor shall and do stand possessed of and
368 interested in the said last mentioned one third part or share of my said daughter
369 Lydia Barrow of and in my said Money property and Effects constituting my said
370 Residuary Estate Interest for and to the use and benefit of my daughter the said
371 Elizabeth Webb and my daughter the said Ann Lawson equally for and during their respective
372 lives and after their respective deaths then to and for the use and benefit of their
373 respective children to be equally divided between and amongst them such said several
374 children of my said two daughters respectively share and share alike as tenants
375 in common and not as joint tenants and to be vested and payable to them resp[ective]ly at
376 the same ages and times as their original share or shares Legacy or Legacies
377 hereinbefore bequeathed to the children of my said two last mentioned daughters
378 respectively
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378 respectively and subject to the privisoes and declarations herein contained concerning
380 the same children on the marriage of my said daughter Ann with the said John Lawson
381 I advanced and settled on her and her Issue in the Event of her having any the principal or
382 capital Sum of One thousand pounds which has been laid out in the purchase of One
383 thousand two hundred and fifty pounds three per cent Reduced Bank Annuities and is
384 now standing in the hands of them my said trustees the said John Lawson John
385 Meredith and Erasmus Jackson in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank
386 of England Upon the trusts declared in the Settlement which was executed on the marriage
387 of my said daughter Ann with the said J[o]hn Lawson Now I hereby declare it to
388 be my Will and Meaning that my said daughter the said Ann Lawson is not to have
389 and receive the said Sum of One thousand two hundred and fifty pounds three per cent reduced
390 Bank Annuities besides and in addition to the said third part or share of and in my
391 said Residuary Estate property and Effects hereinbefore given and bequeathed or intended
392 for her use and benefit It being my desire that the same should be considered as a
393 part thereof and I do accordingly direct my said trustees and the Survivor of them
394 and the Executors Administrators and Assigns of such Survivor to deduct such Sum
395 of One thousand two hundred and fifty pounds three per cent Bank Annuities from
396 the said one third part or share hereinbefore given and bequeathed or intended for
397 the benefit of my said daughter the said Ann Lawson in order that her share
398 may be equalized with those of her sisters thes Elizabeth Webb and Lydia Barrow
399 it being my Mind that all my said three daughters shall share equally in
400 my property whether given to them before or after my decease provided always
401 and I do hereby declare it to be my will and Meaning that it shall and may be
402 lawful to and for trustees their heirs Executors and Administrators respectively
403 at any time to make sale and absolutely sell and dispose of all or any part of my
404 said Real Estates and the Residue of my said personal Estate either on public
405 auction or private contract or partly by public Auction and partly by private
406 contract when and in their discretion they shall see fit and deem it most
407 advantageous to their said trust Estate and either together or in parcels for such
408 price and prices in Money as to my said trustees shall seem reasonable and to grant
409 release convey assign and assure the same respectively unto and to the use of the
410 respective purchaser and purchasers thereof his her or their heirs Executors
411 Administrators and Assigns respectively And upon payment of the Money
412 arising by any such sale or sales to sign and give proper Receipts for the Monies
413 for which the said Estates and Interests or any part of parts thereof shall be
414 so sold which Receipt or Receipts of my said trustees shall be a sufficient
415 discharge and sufficient discharges to the purchaser and purchasers for the purchase
416 Money or Monies therein respectively acknowledged or expressed to be received
417 and that such purchaser or purchasers shall not be afterwards answerable
418 accountable for any loss Missapplication or Nonapplication of the purchase
419 Money or respective purchase Monies which in or by such Receipt or Receipts
420 shall be acknowledged or expressed to be received and I do hereby further declare
421 my Will to be that my said trustees shall and do as soon as conveniently may be
422 after any such sale or sales lay out and invest the Money arising thereby in same or one of the
423 public Stocks or funds of Great Britain or on other good real Security at Interest
424 and from time to time to call in or make sale of and transfer the same monies
425 so invested or placed out as aforesaid or any part thereof as well as any other
426 of the personal Estate which may be then invested as often as they shall think
427 proper fit and again to place out and transpose the same from time to time as to them
428 shall seem meet And I do hereby also declare that the Interest dividends and proceeds
429 of the Money arising by such sale or sales as aforesaid and of the Stocks Funds and
430 Securities wherein or upon which the same or any part of parts thereof shall
431 be so respectively invested or placed out as aforesaid shall from time to time go and
432 be paid by my said trustees to and be received and taken by such person or
433 persons in such proportions and be applied to and for such Intents and purposes
434 and in such course order and manner as the Rents Issues and profits dividends
435 Interest and proceeds of the said Estates and Interests so to be sold as aforesaid would go
436 and
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437 and be payable and applicable in case such sale or sales thereof had not then
438 taken place or as near thereto as charge of property and circumstances will
439 from time to time admit provided always and I do hereby declare it to be my Will
440 and meaning that if the said John Lawson John Meredith and Erasmus Jackson
441 or any trustee or trustees to be appointed in the stead or place of them or any or either of
442 them in pursuance of this my Will shall die or be desirous to be discharged from
443 or refuse or decline or become uncapable to act in the trusts hereby in them
444 reposed as aforesaid before the said trusts shall be fully executed performed
445 discharged or determined or delivered Then and in such case and what and as
446 often as the same shall happen it shall and may be lawful to and for the
447 surviving and Remaining trustees or trustee by any Writing or Writings under
448 their or his hand and Seals or hand and seal to be attested by two or more
449 credible Witnesses from time to nominate and appoint any other person or
450 persons to be a trustee or trustees in the stead or place of the trustee or trustees so
451 dying or desiring to be discharged or refusing declining or becoming incapable to act
452 as aforesaid And that then and as often as any such new trustee or trustees shall
453 be nominated and appointed as aforesaid All the Estates Monies and Interests
454 which shall be so vested in the trustee or trustees so dying or desiring to be discharged
455 or refusing declining or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid either solely or jointly
456 with the other trustee or trustees shall be thereupon with all convenient speed
457 conveyed assigned and transferred in such sort and manner and so as that the same
458 shall and may be legally and effectually vested in the Surviving or Continuing
459 trustee or Trustees but there shall be no such continuing trustee or trustees then in
460 such new trustees and upon the same trusts as are hereinbefore declared of and concerning
461 the same estates Monies and Interests respectively or such of them as shall or may
462 then be subsisting and capable of taking effect and that any such new trustee or trustees shall
463 and may in all things act and assist in the Management carrying on and Execution
464 of the trusts to which he or they shall be so appointed in conjunction with the other
465 his or their surviving or continuing trustee or trustees But if not that by themselves
466 receiving and effectually and with all the same power and powers authority and
467 authorities whatsoever to all intents and purposes as if he or they had been originally
468 in and by this my will appointed trustee or trustees for the purposes for which such
469 new trustee or trustees respectively shall be appointed trustee or trustees herein or his heirs
470 Executors or Administrators in or to whom place such now trustee or trustees shall wholy
471 come or succeed are or is Enabled to do or could or might have done under and By
472 virtue of this my Will if then living or continuing to act in the trusts hereby reposed
473 in him or there anything herebefore contained to the contrary thereof in any wise
474 Notwithstanding provided also And it is my Will and Meaning that it shall and
475 may be lawful to and for the several trustees constituted or to be constituted by virtue
476 of this my Will and to and for each and every of them their and each and every of
477 their heirs Executors and Assigns respectively by and out of the Monies which by virtue
478 hereof shall or may come to their hands respectively to deduct and reimburse to him-
479 self and themselves and to allow to his and their co trustee and co trustees from time to
480 time respectively all such costs charges damages and expences as they and every or
481 any of them shall be put into pay suffer and sustain by reason of any of the trusts hereby
482 in them reposed or the Management or Execution thereof or by reason of any other
483 matter or thing in any wise relating thereto the allowance of which costs charges and
484 expences shall be regulated by the Method practised between Attorney and client and
485 not as between party and party and that none of the said trustees their heirs Executors
486 or Administrators shall be answerable or accountable for any other Manner Money
487 then what they shall respectively actually receive by virtue of the trusts aforesaid nor
488 shall any of them be charged or chargeable with or accountable for the receipt or
489 receipts of the other of them but each for his own acts Receipt and wilful defaults
490 only nor shall they or any or either of them be answerable or attainable for any
491 Involuntary loss which may hapen to my said Estates Monies or Interests unless the
492 same shall happen through their or his or her then wilful neglect or default And I do
493 hereby Nominate and appoint the said John Lawson John Meredith and Erasmus
494 Jackson
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495 Jackson joint Executors of this my Will and hereby revoking all former and other
496 Wills by me at any time heretofore made I do declare this only to be and contain my
497 true last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and
498 Testament contained in sixteen sheets of paper set my hand and seal in
499 manner following that is to say my hand to the fifteen sheets hereto annexed
500 and my hand and seal to this sixteenth and last Sheet thereof this twenty sixth day of
501 February in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and twenty three T B
502 Barrow [signed] [seal] Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said Testator Thomas
503 Blake Barrow as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his
504 presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
505 our Names D M Weddell Sol[icitor] Gosport Will[ia]m Spain Cha[rle]s Barker [signed]
506 his Clerks
507 Whereas I Thomas Blake Barrow [signed] of Forton Lodge in the
508 Parish of Alverstoke in the County of Southampton Esquire since makeing my last
509 Will and Testament bearing date the twenty sixth day of February last past have
510 purchased a Farm containing about forty acres of Copyhold land held of the
511 Manor of Nytimber in the parish of Pagham in the county of Sussex occupied
512 by one William Porwell and I have also since purchased a Tenement Garden and
513 Gate Room thereto belonging called Trotts Hold of the same manor and now in the
514 occupation of William Adams together with the Rights privileges and appurtenances
515 to the same Estates property and premises belonging or in any wise appertaining Now I
516 do by this writing which I declare to be a Codicil to my said last Will and Testament and
517 direct to be considered as part thereof give and devise the said copyhold Lands Messuages
518 hereditaments and premises hereinbefore mentioned and described with their respective
519 Rights Members and Appurtenaunces and all my Estate Right title and Interest therein
520 and thereto respectively unto and to the use of my Son in Law John Lawson of the
521 City of London Gentleman and to my friends John Meredith late of Forton in the said
522 parish of Alverstoke but now of Southsea near Portsmouth in the said County of
523 Southampton Gentleman and Erasmus Jackson of Portsea in the said County of
524 Southampton Gentleman the trustees and Executors appointed in and by my said last Will
525 and Testament their heirs and Assigns for ever Upon the several trusts Nevertheless and
526 to and for the several Ends, Intends and purposes and under and subject and liable to the
527 several directions limitations and appointments mentioned Expressed and declared in and by
528 my said Will of and concerning the Residue of my real and personal Estates and Effects
529 To the Intent that the same Copyhold Estates above described may go and be disposed of in
530 all respects in the same way as if I had purchased the said Copy hold Estates hereditaments
531 and premises above described previous to the Execution of my said Will and had
532 thereby given or devised the same to my said trustees Upon the trust thereof or therein
533 expressed And Whereas in and by my said last Will and Testament I have given
534 and bequeathed or directed that they my said trustees subject to the payment of certain legacies
535 Bequests and Annuities in my said Will particularly mentioned shall stand seized and
536 be possessed of and interested in one equal third part or share of and in all my real and
537 personal Estates and Effects the whole into three equal parts or shares to be divided
538 Upon request to pay apply and dispose of the Rents Issues and profits dividends and annual
539 proceeds thereof unto my daughter Elizabeth Webb the wife of John Webb of London
540 Schoolmaster to and for her own sole use and benefit and for the use and benefit of her
541 children independent of the said John Webb or of his debts or Engagements in such
542 proportions manner and form and payable and assignable at such ages and times and
543 subject to such benefit of Survivorship as in and by my said Will is particularly mentioned
544 and set forth Now I do by this Writing which I declare to be a Codicil to my said last
545 Will and Testament and desire it to be considered as further part thereof give and bequeath
546 unto the said John Lawson John Meredith and Erasmus Jackson the said trustees
547 and Executors appointed in and by my said last Will and Testament the sum of One
548 thousand five hundred pounds to be applied by them for the joint and equal use and
549 benefit of the children of my said daughter Elizabeth Webb as hereinafter mentioned And I
550 do hereby direct that they my said trustees and the Survivor and Survivors of them and
551 the
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552 the Executors Administrators and Assigns of such Survivor shall and do stand
553 and be possessed of and interested in the Sum of One thousand five thousand
554 five hundred pounds Upon trust for the joint and equal use and benefit of all and
555 any the child and children of my said daughter the said Elizabeth Webb whether
556 sons or daughters to be laid out by them my said trustees in the lifetime of my said
557 daughter the said Elizabeth Webb to and for the joint and equal Maintenance and
558 Education or advancement in the world of such children respectively of her my said dau[ghte]r
559 the said Elizabeth Webb in such way and manner of such times and for such purposes
560 as they my said trustees shall in their or his discretion think proper and as to any
561 Surplus of the said Sum of One thousand pounds five hundred pounds which may
562 remain unapplied by my said trustees for the joint and equal use and profit of the said
563 children respectively in the life time of my said daughter the said Elizabeth Webb
564 in the manner and for the purposes aforesaid I do direct that they my said trustees
565 or the survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such
566 Survivor shall and do stand possessed of and interested in the same Surplus (if any such
567 there shall be) Upon such and the same trusts and to and for such and the same intents
568 and purposes and under and subject and liable to such and the like directions limitations
569 as appropriate and be payable and assignable at such times and in such manner
570 and subject to such benefit of Survivorship as is and are mentioned expressed and
571 declared in and by my said Will of and concerning the said one third part or share of
572 and in my said Real and personal Estates and Effects so given or Intended for the benefit
573 of the benefit of my said daughter the said Elizabeth Webb and the said children
574 wholy and Whereas in and by my said last Will and testament I have made no
575 provision for my son in Law the said John Webb except giveing him a legacy of Five
576 pounds which be I have divided directed to be paid within Six Months next after
577 my decease Now I do by this Writing which I again declare to be a Codicil to my
578 said last Will and Testament and direct to be considered a further part thereof
579 give and bequeath unto the said John Webb one Annuity or clear yearly Sum
580 of twenty five pounds free and clear of and from all deductions whatsoever to be paid to
581 him yearly and every year for and during the term of his Natural life by equal half
582 yearly payments that is to say at or upon the twenty fifth day of March and the twenty
583 Ninth day of September in each and every year for and during the term of his natural
584 life the first payment thereof to begin and be made on such of the said days as shall first
585 happen next after the decease of my said daughter the said Elizabeth Webb if he
586 shall be then living but not otherwise And I do hereby direct my said trustees and
587 the Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor to pay
588 the said Annuity of twenty five pounds per Annum to the said John Webb for and
589 during the term of his natural life on the days and times and in the manner above
590 by me mentioned out the Residue and Remainder of my real and personal Estates
591 and Effects as given devised given and bequeathed to them my said trustees in and by
592 my said last Will and Testament And I do hereby in all other Respects ratify and
593 confirm my said last Will and Testament and the several gifts devises Matters and things
594 therein contained and not hereby altered or revoked In Witness whereof I the said
595 Thomas Blake Barrow have to this codicil to my said last Will and Testament contained
596 in four sheets of paper set my hand and seal in manner following that is to say to the
597 first three Sheets thereof my hand and to this fourth and last sheet thereof my
598 hand and seal this tenth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand
599 Eight hundred and twenty three Th B Barrow [signed] [seal] This Writing was Signed
600 Sealed published and declared by the said Thomas Blake Barrow as and for a
601 Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in
602 his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our Names
603 as Witnesses D W Weddell Sol[icito]r Gosport Will[ia]m Spain Cha[rle]s Barker
604 his Clerks
605 Whereas I Thomas Blake Barrow of Forton Lodge in the
606 parish of Alverstoke in the County of Southampton Esquire have made my last Will and
607 testament bearing date the twenty six day of February One thousand Eight hundred and
608 twenty
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609 twenty three and I have also made a Codicil thereto bearing date the twenty sixth tenth day
610 of February one thousand Eight hundred December last Now I do by this Writing whi[ch]
611 I declare to be a further codicil to be my said last Will and testament and direct to be
612 considered as part thereof give and bequeath unto my dear Wife Elizabeth Barrow
613 a further Annuity or yearly Sum of one thou hundred pounds free and clear of
614 from all deductions whatsoever to be paid to her half yearly for and during the term
615 of her natural life on the same days and in the same manner and upon the same
616 conditions as the annuity of two hundred per annum which I have given her
617 in and my said last Will and Testament is directed to be paid to her Also I give and devise unto
618 my said dear Wife Elizabeth Barrow all that my Capital Messuage or dwellinghouse
619 called Forton Lodge with the Outhouses Buildings Yards Gardens Lands Sides and Appurtenances
620 thereto belonging and situate at Forton in the said parish of Alverstoke and in which
621 I now reside To hold the same unto her and her assigns for and during the term of her
622 natural life to and for her own sole use and benefit but should my said dear Wife at any
623 time during her life with the countenance of the trustees under my said last Will and
624 Testament think proper to join or concur in any Sale or disposition of the said Messuage
625 and hereditaments called Forton Lodge she my said dear Wife is at full liberty
626 to do so and in the Event of a sale thereof I direct the trustees under my said Will
627 to invest the Monies arising therefrom in same or or one of the public Stocks of Funds of
628 Great Britain and not elsewhere at Interest in the said names of my said trustees and
629 to pay the dividends Interest and produce thereof unto my said dear Wife for and during
630 the term of her natural life for her own sole and separate and peculiar use and benefit
631 independent of any husband or husbands she may hereafter happen to marry and not
632 to be subject or liable to his or their debts control engagements of Incumbrances and
633 for which and every part and parcel thereof her receipt or Receipts alone shall
634 Notwithstanding coverture from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge and
635 discharges to the trustees under my said Will for the payment of the same and
636 from and Immediately after the decease of my said dear Wife I do direct that the
637 said Capital Messuage or dwellinghouse called Forton Lodge or the Monies which
638 should be produced by and from the sale thereof should the same have taken
639 place in the lifetime of my said dear Wife shall sink into and become part of the
640 Residuary Estate and Effects given and devised by me to the trustees under my said
641 last Will and Testament and the same shall go and be applied paid and assumed
642 to and for the same persons and a payout for the same trusts as are therein and
643 thereby declared of and concerning the same Also I give and bequeath unto my
644 Sister Susannah Peel and her husband Richard Peel for their joint natural lives
645 and the life of the Survivor of them One Annuity or clear yearly Sum of thirteen
646 pounds to be paid to them respectively either by quarterly or weekly payments of five
647 shillings per week as the trustees under my said last Will and Testament in their
648 direction may think proper and from and after the decease of the Survivor of them
649 my said Sister Susannah Peel and her said husband Richard Peel the said
650 Annuity or yearly Sum of thirteen pounds to sink into and become a part of the
651 Residuary Estate given and devised to the trustees under my said last Will
652 and Testament But I hereby then give and bequeath unto each of the children
653 of the said Susannah Peel the Sum of thirty pounds to and for his and their own
654 proper use and benefit Also I give and bequeath unto my Brother William
655 Barrow and [missing] his Wife for their joint natural lives and the life of the
656 Survivor of them one Annuity or clear yearly Sum of thirteen pounds to be paid
657 to them respectively either by quarterly or weekly payments of five shillings per
658 week as the trustees under my said Will and testament in their direction may think
659 proper and from and after the decease of the Survivor of them my said Brother William Barrow
660 and .... his Wife the said last mentioned Annuity or Yearly Sum of thirteen pounds
661 to sink into and become a part of the Residuary Estate given and devised unto the
662 trustees in and by my said last Will and Testament Also I give and bequeath unto
663 my Brother in Law Mr. James Grout One Annuity or clear yearly Sum of Seven
664 pounds to be paid to him quarterly for and during the term of his natural life Also
665 I give and bequeath unto Mr. Thomas Grout and his Wife for and during the term of
666 their
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667 their joint Natural lives and the Life of the Survivor of them One Annuity or clear
668 yearly Sum of thirteen pounds to be paid to them respectively either by quarterly or
669 weekly payments of five shillings per week as the trustees under my said last Will
[margin] and from and immediately after the decease of the survivor of them the said Thomas Grout and .... his wife the said last mentioned annuities of seven pounds and thirteen pounds respectively to sink into and become a part of the said residuary Estate and given and bequeathed unto the Trustees in and by my said last Will and Testament also I give and bequeath unto my sister Sarah Dunn the wife of Allen Dunn an annuity or clear yearly sum of ten pounds eight shillings to be paid to her quarterly or by weekly payments of four shillings per week for and during the term of her natural life as the trustees under my said last Will and Testament in their direction may think proper
670 and Testament in their direction may think proper ^ Also I give and bequeath unto my
671 foreman John Wurth who has lived with us many years One Annuity or clear yearly
672 Sum of Seven pounds sixteen shillings to be paid to him quarterly or by weekly payments
673 of three shillings per week for and during the term of his natural life as the trustees under
674 my said Will may in their direction think proper and from and Immediately after the
675 respective deaths of the said Sarah Dunn and the said John Wurth the said
676 last mentioned Annuities or yearly Sums of ten pounds eight shillings and Seven pounds
677 sixteen shillings to sink into and become part of the Residuary Estate given and devised
678 unto the trustees in and by my said last Will and Testament And I do hereby in all other
679 respects ratify and confirm my said last Will and Testament and the several gifts devises
680 matters and things therein contained and not hereby altered or revoked In Witness whereof
681 I the said Thomas Blake Barrow now to this further Codicil to my said last Will
682 and Testament in three sheets of paper set my hand and seal in manner
[margin] and to this third and last Sheet thereof my hand
683 following that is to say to the first two sheets thereof my hand ^ and Seal this twenty
684 first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Seventieth
685 twenty four Th B Barrow [signed] [seal] This Writing was signed sealed published and
686 declared by the said Thomas Blake Barrow to and for a further codicil to his the
687 Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in
688 the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses E M
689 Weddell of Gosport Sol[icito]r Will[ia]m Spain Cha[rle]s Barker both of So[licitor] Clerks
690 Proved at London with two Codicils 10th February 1825 Before the Judge by the
691 Oath of John Lawson John Meredith and Erasmus Jackson the Executors to whom
692 administration was granted being sworn by Commission duly to administer
Background on the Barrow family in the will below. There was a Thomas Blake Barrow christened 15 Oct 1769 at Saint Marys Portsea son of Thomas Barrow (C06261-1 Family Search). I find a marriage 1 Sep 1768 of Thomas Barrow and Elizabeth Blake at Saint Marys Portsea. He appears to have been buried 27 Nov 1824 at Alverstoke (I04160-3 Family Search) in St Marys Gosport churchyard (http://www.knightroots.co.uk/transcriptions/Parishes_G/Gosport/Burials/burials.htm) at the age of 56 years. Elizabeth (widow of Thomas Blake Barrow) was buried at St Marys Gosport 7 Mar 1828 at the age of 54 years (so date of birth circa 1774). A William Blake also living at Forton was buried 7 Aug 1831 at the age of 73 years (so date of birth circa 1757).
The children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Blake) Barrow include:
Thomas Blake Barrow baptized 15 Oct 1769 Saint Marys Portsea
Robert Barrow baptized 12 Jan 1772 Saint Marys Portsea
Elizabeth Barrow baptized 23 Jan 1774 Saint Marys Portsea
Susannah Barrow baptized 8 Aug 1781 Saint Thomas Portsmouth
William Barrow baptized 14 Feb 1783 Saint Thomas Portsmouth
James Barrow baptized 14 Feb 1783 Saint Thomas Portsmouth
James Barrow baptized 4 Jun 1785 Saint Marys Portsea
Sally Barrow born 16 Jul 1787, baptized 2 Nov 1787 Saint Thomas Portsmouth
And perhaps the most helpful in my searching thus far is this particular document:
coastlinemarch2011.pdf
which states: Of the breweries which no longer remain, the most significant must be that of James Blake and Thomas Barrow: South Cross Street Brewery, c. 1814 to 1935, the largest commercial brewery formerly on the site of Gosport’s Police Station and Magistrates’ Court." Which rather answers the question of how Thomas Barrow was involved with James Blake. He was his brother in law. Discovering who James Blake is in terms of his parents will have to wait for the moment.
Thomas Blake Barrow married Elizabeth Grout 7 Jun 1790 at Saint Marys Portsea. Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (primarily RG4_0401 the genealogist.co.uk):
Elizabeth Barrow baptized 17 Mar 1793 at Gosport
James Barrow baptized 8 Nov 1794 at Gosport
Sarah Barrow born 8 Feb 1797, baptized 9 Apr 1797 at Gosport (High Street Independent Gosport)
Thomas Blake Barrow baptized 17 Feb 1799 at Gosport
Charles Barrow born 7 Apr 1801, baptized 14 Jun 1801 at Gosport (High Street Independent Gosport)
Ann Blake Barrow baptized 17 Jul 1804 at Gosport
Lydia Barrow born 28 Dec 1805, baptized 21 Mar 1806 (High Street Independent Gosport)
Jane Barrow baptized 8 Aug 1818 at Gosport
Bishop of Winchester Marriage allegations: 24 May 1785 Lawson, John, of Bread Street, in the City of London, wholesale draper son of William and Catharine Lawson of Silchester baptized at Silchester 4 Feb 179 and Anne Barrow of Forton spinster, minor, born 3 Jan and baptized at Gosport 17 July 1804 with consent of her parents Thomas Blake Barrow of Forton Lodge, brewer and Elizabeth his wife at Alverstoke 1 Jan 1823.
Children mentioned in the will: Elizabeth Webb, Ann Lawson, Lydia Barrow. It is not unusual for sons to be missing from a will as they would have already received their inheritance in their education and setting up in whatever occupation they were destined to become. I will try and determine if they have died though. Thomas' mother Elizabeth (Blake) Barrow is still living and she is likely an aunt to James Blake Brewer but could be his sister. Still to be determined.
Thomas Blake Barrow in his Codicil mentions a copyhold which he purchased in Sussex in the parish of Pagham and in the Manor of Nytimber. The name of the farm of 40 acres is Trotts which I discovered reading through some of the information at The National Archives as it was very difficult to read on the will.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 4-9 Oct 2012
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1695/36
Name of testator: Thomas Blake Barrow
Place: Alverstoke, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 26 Feb 1823, 2 Codicils, probated 10 Feb 1825
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: cramped English writing, 19th century, bold copy
[In margin] Thomas
[In margin] Blake
[In margin] Barrow Esquire III fo
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Thomas Blake Barrow of Forton Lodge in the Parish of Alverstoke
3 in the County of Southampton Esquire as follows that is to say In the first place I direct
4 all my just debts Funeral and testamentary expences to be paid and satisfied out of my
5 personal Estate onely I give and bequeath unto my Brother Jam: Barrow of Portsmouth
6 in the said County Mariner One Annuity or clear yearly sum of five pounds five shillings
7 for and during the term of his natural life and which I direct my Executors hereinafter
8 named and appointed to pay him weekly and every weekly payments of two shillings
9 per week on every Monday Morning Also I give and bequeath unto my Sister
10 Susannah Peel the Wife of Richard Peel a Gunner in his Majestys Navy the Sum
11 of thirty pounds unto my Brother William Barrow of Gosport in the s[ai]d parish of
12 Alverstoke Carpenter and Joiner the Sum of twenty pounds Unto my Sister Sarah
13 Dunn the Wife of Allen Dunn Surgeon of the Ayrshire Militia the Sum of ten
14 pounds unto my Brother in law James Grout of Gosport aforesaid Grocer the
15 sum of ten pounds unto my brother in law Thomas James Grout of Gosport aforesaid
16 Grocer the sum of ten pounds unto my brother in law London Musician the
17 sum of ten pounds Unto the London Missionary Society in the Old Jewry the
18 the sum of thirty pounds to be paid to the treasurer of the said Society for the time
19 being for the use and benefit of such Society Unto the poor of the congregation of the
20 Reverand Jarvis Bogues Chapel in Gosport the sum of twenty pounds to be distributed
21 amongst them according to the direction of the then Minister Jarvis and trustees of such
22 Chapel unto my son in law John Webb of London Schoolmaster the sum of five pounds
23 all which Eight last mentioned Legacies I direct my Executors hereinafter named to
24 pay within six months next after my decease Also I give and bequeath unto my
25 said Brother in law the said James Grout the use and occupation of a dwelling house
26 and storehouse thereto adjoining situate in Kings Street in Gosport aforesaid and now
27 in his own occupation for and during the term of the natural life of the said James
28 Grout he keeping the same in good and tenantable repair And from and immediately
29 after
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30 after the decease of the said James Grout the said Messuage or Dwelling house
31 and Storehouse and the Rents and profits thereof are to link into and form a part
32 of my residuary Estate herein after given devised and bequeathed to my trustees
33 Upon the trusts hereinafter appearing Also I give and bequeath unto my Son
34 in law John Lawson of the City of London Gentleman and to my friends John
35 Meredith of Forton in the said parish of Alverstoke Gentleman and Erasmus
36 Jackson of Portsmouth in the said County of Southampton Gentleman the trustees of
37 this my Will and also my Executors hereinafter named each the sum of ten
38 pounds as a small acknowledgement to them for the trouble they will have in
39 carrying this my Will and the trusts thereof into execution And all the rest residue
40 and Remainder of my personal Estate and Effects of every sort kind and description
41 whatsoever whether Monies in the public Stocks or Funds on Mortgage Bank
42 Note or other Security And also all and every my Messuages Lands Tenements
43 hereditaments and real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever situated in the town
44 of Gosport in the Parish of Alverstoke in the County of Sussex or elsewhere which
45 are now or shall be at the time of my decease seized possessed of interested in or
46 entitled unto in possession re[v]ersion remainder or upon contingency with their
47 every of their respective rights members and appurtenances I give devise and bequeath
48 the same and every part thereof unto the said John Lawson, John Meredith
49 and Erasmus Jackson To hold the same and every part thereof unto the said
50 John Lawson, John Meredith, Jackson Erasmus Jackson their heirs Executors
51 administrators and Assigns respectively guarding to the different natures and qual[it]y
52 thereof and for all my Estate term and Interest herein respectively But never
53 the loss Upon the trusts and to and for the several uses ends intents and purposes
54 under and subject to the several uses and interests and purposes and under and subject to
55 the several powers provisoes Limitations declarations and directions hereinafter
56 mentioned expressed and declared of and concerning the same that is to say Upon
57 trust in the first place that they my said trustees and the Survivors and Survivor
58 of them and the heirs Executors and Administrators respectively of such survivor
59 be and shall permit and suffer my dear Wife Elizabeth Barrow to have the
60 use and usage of all or such part of my household goods and furniture plate
61 linen and china as she may chuse to select for and during the term of her
62 natural life And from and immediately after her decease such household
63 Goods and Furniture Plate Linen and China shall sink into and become a part
64 of my said residuary Estate hereinafter disposed of And also that they my said
65 trustees and the Survivor of them and the heirs Executors or Administrators of
66 such Survivor do and shall by and out of the Rents Issues Profits and proceeds of
67 my said Real and personal Estates well and truly pay or raise to be paid unto
68 my said dear Wife Elizabeth Barrow or otherwise to permit and suffer her to have
69 receive and take to and for her own sole use and benefit one Annuity or clear
70 yearly Sum of two hundred pounds free and clear of and from all deductions
71 whatsoever to be paid her yearly and every year for and during the term of
72 her natural life by equal half yearly payments that is to say at and upon
73 the twenty fifth day of March and the twenty ninth day of September in
74 each and every year during her life the first payment thereof to begin and be
75 made on such of the said days as shall first happen next after my decease for
76 her own sole and separate and peculiar use and benefit independent of any
77 husband or husbands she may hereafter happen to marry and to not to be
78 subject or liable to his or their debts control Engagements or Encumbrances and
79 for which and every part and parcel thereof her Receipt or Receipts alone
80 shall Notwithstanding coverture from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge
81 and discharges to my said trustees for the payment of the same and I do hereby
82 declare that such Annuity of two hundred pounds per annum shall be in lieu
83 clear and complete satisfaction of all or any dower or thirds which at the common
84 law she my said dear Wife might could or ought to have claim challenge
85 or demand in or out of my real or personal Estates or any part or parcel thereof
86 respectively And also upon further to trust that they my said trustees or the Sur[viv]or
87 of
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88 of them or the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor respectively in the
89 next place do and shall by and out of the Rents Issues and profits of my said real
90 and personal Estates respectively also well and truly pay of cause to be paid unto my
91 Mother Elizabeth Barrow of Portsea in the said County of Southampton Widow
92 one Annuity of clear yearly sum of twenty pounds free and clear of and from all
93 deductions whatsoever to be paid her yearly and every year thenceforward for and
94 during the term of her natural life by equal half yearly payments that is to say
95 on the twenty fifth day of March and the twenty ninth day of September in each and
96 every year the first payment thereof to begin and be made on such of the said days
97 as shall first happen next after my decease and upon further trust that they
98 my said trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the heirs Executors
99 or administrators of such Survivor be and shall stand seized possessed of and
100 interested in all my said real and personal Estates property and Effects Subject
101 to the payment of the before mentioned Legacies Bequest and Annuities Upon
102 trust as to one equal third part of share thereof the whole into three equal parts or
103 shares to be divided to pay apply and dispose of the Rent and Profits Interest or
104 Dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto my daughter Elizabeth Webb Wife
105 of the said John Webb for and during the term of her natural life for her own sole
106 use and benefit separate from and exclusive of the said John Webb and so and
107 in such manner as that the same or any part thereof may not be under the control
108 or disposition or Subject or liable to the debts contracts intermedling forfeitures or
109 Engagements of the said John Webb or any future husband or husbands of my
110 said daughter Elizabeth Webb and for which her receipt or receipts alone
111 Notwithstanding coverture shall from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge
112 or need and sufficient discharges to my said trustees or trustee or for as which thereof as
113 is any such receipt or receipts shall be acknowledged or expressed to be received And
114 now and after the decease of my said daughter Elizabeth Webb then upon
115 further trust that they my said trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them
116 and the heirs Executors Administrators or Assignes of such Survivor be and shall
117 stand and be possessed of and interested in the said one third part of share of and in
118 the said trust Money products and Effects constituting my said Residuary Estate
119 In trust for all and every the child and children of my said daughter Elizabeth
120 Webb whether Sons of daughters equally to be divided between or amongst them
121 if more than one share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint
122 tenants And if but one such child Then to such only child his or her Executors and
123 Administrators the share and shares of such Child and Children of my said daughter
124 Elizabeth Webb to be paid assigned or transferred to him her of them respectively
125 at his her or their age of respective ages of twenty one years my said daughter Elizabeth Webb shall
126 be then dead but if my said daughter Elizabeth Webb shall be living at the time any
127 or either of her said Children shall attain the age of twenty one years then upon
128 trust that they my said trustees or the Survivor of them or the Executors Administrators
129 or Assigns of such Survivor do and shall by and out of the said one third part of
130 share of and in my said Residuary Estate reserve for and pay unto my said daughter
131 the said Elizabeth Webb for and during the term of her natural life a yearly Sum not
132 exceeding sixty pounds per annum to be paid to her by equal half yearly payments
133 that is to say on the twenty fifth day of March and the twenty ninth day of September
134 in every year And the Residue of the said one third part or share of and in my said
135 Residuary Estate after providing for the said Sum of Sixty pounds per annum
136 to be paid to her by equal half yearly payments that is to say on the twenty fifth
137 day of March and the twenty ninth day of September in every year and the
138 for the my said daughter the said Elizabeth Webb for her life to be paid assigned
139 and transferred unto and equally between her said children when and as they
140 shall so severally attain their said age or respective ages of twenty one years
141 provided always that Notwithstanding a part of the said shares and proportions
142 of such child or children shall be withheld until the decease of my said daughter
143 Elizabeth Webb Yet it is my Will and intention that such part as retained for her
144 use during her life as aforesaid shall be and be deemed and considered as a vested
145 interest
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146 Interest or vested Interests in such of them respectively as shall attain the age
147 of twenty one years as and when he she or they shall be respectively attain such
148 age. Although the same shall happen during the lifetime of my said daughter
149 Elizabeth Webb and shall in case of her or other of their deaths or death be transferrable
150 and transmissible to their respective Representatives provided also and it is my further
151 Will and intention that if any such child or children shall depart this life before
152 he she or they shall attain his her of their age or respective ages of twenty one years
153 Then the part share or proportion of him her or their so dying Shall from time to time
154 accrue belong to and rest in the Survivors or Survivor of such children and his
155 her or their executors of Administrators and be assyned transferred and paid unto
156 him her or them if more than equally share and share alike at such and the same
157 time and in the same manner as his her or their original share or shares are
158 hereby directed to be Assigned transferred and paid and the like benefit of Survivors
159 shall be and take place from time to time in regard to such accruing or accrued part
160 or parts shares and proportions in favour of the still remaining surviving child or
161 children as long as there shall be any such as in regard to the original part or
162 proportion of such child of children And it is my Will and desire and I do hereby
163 authorize and Empower my said trustees immediately from and after the decease of
164 my said daughter Elizabeth Webb and until the part or parts shares and proportion
165 of such child or children of and in the said one third part or share of my said
166 residuary Estate shall become assignable transferrable or payable under this
167 my Will to pay apply and dispose of the Interest dividends and proceeds thereof
168 or of so much thereof as may be kept thought necessary in and for the maintenance
169 and Education or Advancement in the world of the said Child or Children
170 respectively in such manner as they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his
171 Executors or Administrators shall think fit provided always And I do hereby
172 declare it to be my Will and meaning that if my said daughter Elizabeth Webb
173 should happen to die without leaving any child or children surviving her or
174 leaving any such child or Children respectively shall die before attaining his
175 her or their age or respective ages of twenty one years Then and in that case I
176 direct that they my said trustees or the Survivor of them or the Executors
177 administrators or Assigns of such Survivor shall and do stand possessed of and
178 interested in the said one third part or share of my said daughter Elizabeth
179 Webb of and in my said Money property and Effects constituting my said Residuary
180 Estate In trust for and to the use and benefit of my daughter and the Wife of
181 the said John Lawson and my daughter Lydia Barrow equally for and during
182 their respective lives and after their respective deaths then to and for the
183 use and benefit of their respective Children to be equally divided between and
184 amongst such said several children of my said two daughters respectively share
185 and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and to be vested
186 and payable to them respectively at the said ages and terms as their original share or shares
187 legacy or legacies hereinafter bequeathed to the children of my said two last
188 mentioned daughters respectively Subject to the provisoes and declarations
189 hereinafter contained concerning the same And as to for and concerning another
190 equal their part or share of and in my said Money property and Effects constituting
191 my said Residuary Estate the whole into three equal parts or shares to be
192 divided I do hereby direct that my said trustees or the Survivors or Survivor
193 of them or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Survivor shall and
194 do stand and be possessed of and interested in the share Upon hereof to pay apply and
195 dispose of the Rents and profits Interest Dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto
196 my daughter Ann Lawson Wife of the said Charles John Lawson for and
197 during the term of her natural life for her own sole use and benefit separate
198 apart from and exclusive of the said John Lawson and so and in such manner
199 as that the same or any part thereof may not be under the control or disposition
200 or subject or liable to the debts contracts Intermeddling forfeitures or Engagements of
201 the said John Lawson or any future husband or husbands of my said daughter
202 Ann Lawson and for which her Receipt or Receipts alone Notwithstanding
203 Coverture
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204 Coverture shall from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge or good and
205 sufficient discharges to my said trustees or trustee or for so much thereof as in any such
206 Receipt or Receipts shall be acknowledged or expressed to be received And from and after
207 the decease of my said daughter Ann Lawson Then upon further trust that they my
208 said trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the heirs Executors
209 administrators or Assigns of such Survivor be and shall stand and be possessed of
210 and interested in the said one third part or share of and with the said trust Money
211 property and Effects constituting my said Residuary Estate In trust for all and
212 every the Childrens Children of my said daughter Ann Lawson Upon further trust
213 that they my said Trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the heirs
214 Executors Administrators or Assigns of each Survivor so and shall stand and be
215 possessed of and interested in the said one third whether Sons or Daughters equally
216 to be divided between or amongst them if more than one share and share
217 alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants And if but one such child Then
218 to such only Child his or her Executors and Administrators the share and share
219 of such child and children of my said daughter Ann Lawson to be paid Assigned or
220 transferred to him her or them respectively at his her or their age or respective ages
221 of of twenty one years if my said daughter Ann Lawson shall be then dead But
222 if my said daughter Ann Lawson shall be living at the time any child of her
223 said children shall attain the age of twenty one years Then upon trust that they
224 my said trustes or the Survivor of them of the Executors Administrators and Assigns
225 of such Survivor do and shall by and out of the said one third part or share of and in
226 my said Residuary Estate reserve for and pay unto my said daughter the said Ann
227 Lawson for and during the term of her natural life a yearly Sum not exceeding
228 Sixty pounds per annum to be paid to her by equal half yearly payments that
229 is to say on the twenty fifty day of March and the twenty ninth day of September in
230 every year and the Residue of the said one third part of share of and in my said
231 Residuary Estate after providing for the said Sum of Sixty pounds per Annum for my
232 said daughter the said Ann Lawson for her life to be paid assigned and transferred
233 unto and equally between her said children when and as they shall so severally
234 attain their said age or respective ages of twenty one years provided always that
235 Notwithstanding a part of the shares and proportions of such child or children
236 shall be withheld until the decease of my said daughter Ann Lawson yet it is
237 my will and intention that such part so retained for her use during her life as aforesaid
238 shall be and be deemed and considered as a vested Interest or vested Interests in such of
239 them respectively as shall attain the age of twenty one years as and when he she
240 or they shall so respectively attain such age Although the same shall happen
241 during the lifetime of my said daughter Ann Lawson and shall in case of their or
242 either of their deaths or death be transferrable and transmissible to their respective
243 testamentaries provided also And it is my further Will and Intention that if any
244 such Child or Children shall depart this life before he she or they shall attain his her
245 or their age or respective ages of twenty one years Then the part share or proportion
246 of him her of them so dying shall from time accrue belong to and vest in the
247 Survivors or Survivor of such children and his her ortheir Executors age or
248 respective ages of twenty one years Then the part share or proportion of him her or
249 them so dying shall from time to time accrue belong to and vest in the Survivors or
250 Survivor of such children and his her or their Executors or Administrators and be
251 assigned transferred and paid unto him her or them if more than one equally share
252 and share alike at such and the same time and in the same manner as his her or
253 their original share and shares are hereby directed to be assigned transferred and
254 paid and the like benefit of Survivors shall be and take place from time to time
255 in regard to such accruing of accrued part or parts shares and proportions in favour
256 of the still remaining survivng child or children as long as there shall be any
257 such as in regard to the Original part or proportion of such child or children And it
258 is my will and desire And I do hereby authorize and empower unpaid trustees
259 Immediately from and after the decease of my said daughter Ann Lawson and
260 until the part or parts shares and proportions of such child or children of and in the
261 said
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262 said last mentioned one third part of share of my said Residuary Estate shall
263 become assignable transferrable or payable under this my Will to pay apply and
264 dispose of the Interest Devidends and proceeds thereof or of so much as thereof as
265 may be thought necessary in and for the maintenance and Education or advantage
266 in the World of the said Child or Children respectively in such manner as they
267 my said trustees or the Survivor them his Executors or Administrators shall
268 think fit provided always and I do hereby declare it to be my Will and meaning
269 that if my said daughter the said Ann Lawson should happen to die without
270 leaving any child or children surviving her or leaving any such child or children
271 respectively should die before attaining his her or their age or respective ages of
272 twenty one years Then and in that case I direct that they my said trustees or the
273 Survivor of them of the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such
274 Survivor shall and do stand possessed of and interested in the said last mentioned
275 one third part or share of my said daughter Ann Lawson of and in my said
276 Money property and Effects constituting my said Residuary Estate In trust for
277 and to the use and benefit of my daughter of the said Elizabeth Webb and my
278 daughter Lydia Barrow equally for and during their respective lives and after their
279 respective deaths then to and for the use and benefit of their respective children to
280 be equally divided between and amongst such said several children of my said
281 two daughters respectively share and share alike as tenants in common and
282 not as joint tenants and to be vested and payable to them respectively at the same
283 ages and times as their original share or shares Legacy or Legacies herein after
284 and hereinbefore bequeathed to the children of my said two last mentioned dau[ghter]s
285 respectively and subject to the provisoes and declarations hereinafter contained
286 concerning the same And as to for and concerning the remaining one other equal
287 third part of share of and in my said Money property and Effects constituting my
288 said Residuary Estate the whole into three equal parts or shares to be divided
289 I do hereby direct that they my said Trustees or the Survivors or Survivor of them or
290 the Executors Administrators and Assigns of such Survivor shall and do stand and
291 be possessed of and interested in the same upon trust to pay apply and dispose of the
292 Rents and profits Interest Dividends and annual proceeds thereof unto my said dau[ghte]r
293 Lydia Barrow for and during the term of her natural life for her own sole use
294 and benefit separate and apart from and exclusive of any husband or husbands she
295 may happen to marry and so and in such manner as that the same or any part
296 thereof may not be under the control or disposition or subject or liable to the
297 debts contracts Intermeddling forfeitures or Engagements of any husband or
298 husbands she my said daughter Lydia Barrow may happen to marry and
299 for which her Receipt or Receipts alone Notwithstanding coverture shall
300 from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge or good and sufficient discharges
301 to my said trustees or trustee or for so much thereof as in such receipt or receipts
302 shall be acknowledged or expressed to be received and from and after the decease
303 of the said daughter Lydia Barrows. Then upon further trust that they my
304 said trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the heirs Executors
305 Administrators or Assigns of such Survivor do and shall stand and be
306 possessed of and interested in the said one third part or share of and in the said
307 one third trust Money property and Effects constituting my said Residuary
308 Estate Intrust for all and every the child and child and children of my said
309 daughter Lydia Barrow whether Sons or daughters equally to be divided
310 between or amongst them if more than one share and share alike as tenants
311 in common and not as joint tenants And if but one such child then to such
312 only child his or her Executors and Administrators the share and shares
313 of such child and children of my said daughter Lydia Barrow to be paid
314 assigned or transferred to him her or them respectively at his her or their age or
315 respective ages of twenty one years if my said daughter Lydia Barrow shall be then
316 dead but if my said daughter Lydia Barrow shall be living at the time any or
317 either of her said children shall attain the age of twenty one years then Upon
318 trust that they my said trustees or the Survivor of them or the Executors
319 Admors
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320 Administrators and Assigns of such Survivor be and shall by and out of the
321 said one third part of share of and in my said Residuary reserve for and
322 pay unto my said daughter the said Lydia Barrow for and during the term
323 of her natural life a yearly Sum not exceeding sixty pounds per annum to be
324 paid to her by equal half yearly payments that is to say on the twenty fifth day
325 of March and the twenty Ninth day of September in every year And the
326 Residue of the said one third part or share of and in my said Residuary Estate
327 after providing for the said Sum of Sixty pounds per annum for my said
328 daughter the said Lydia Barrow for her life to be paid Assigned and transferred
329 unto and equally between her said Children when and as they shall so severally
330 attain their said age or respective ages of twenty one years provided always that
331 Notwithstanding a part of the shares and proportions of such child or children shall
332 be withheld until the decease of my said daughter Lydia Barrow yet it is my will
333 and Intention that such part so retained for her use during her life life as afores[ai]d
334 shall be and Be deemed and considered as a vested Interest or vested Interests in such
335 of them respectively as shall attain the age of twenty one years as and when he
336 she or they shall so respectively attain such age Although the same shall happen
337 during the life time of my said daughter Lydia Barrow and shall in case of
338 their or either of their deaths or death be transferrable and transmissible to their
339 respective representatives provided also and it is my further Will and intention
340 that if any such child or children shall depart this life before he she or they shall
342 attain his her or their age or respective ages of twenty one years Then the part share
343 or proportion of his her or them so dying shall from time to time accrue belong to
344 and vested in the Survivors or Survivor of such children and his her or their Ex[ecut]ors
345 or Administrators and be Assigned transferred and paid unto him her or them if more
346 than one equally share and share alike at such and the same time and in the same
347 manner as his her or their original share and shares are hereby directed to be assigned
348 transferred and paid and the like benefit of Survivorship shall be and take place from
349 time to time in regard to such accruing or accrued part or parts shares and proportions
350 in favour of the still remaining surviving child or children as long as there shall
351 be any such as in regard to the original part or proportion of such child or
352 children it is my Will and desire and it is my Will and desire And I do hereby
353 authorize and Empower my said trustees immediately from and after the decease of my
354 said daughter Lydia Barrow and until the part or parts shares and proportions
355 of such child or children of and in the said last mentioned one third part of share
356 of my said Residuary Estate shall become assignable transferrable or payable under
357 them my Will to pay apply and dispose of the Interest dividends and proceeds
358 hereof or of so much thereof as may be thought necessary in and for the Maintenance
359 and Education or advancement in the World of the said Child or children respectively
360 in such manner as they my said trustees or the Survivor of them his Executors or
361 administrators shall think fit provided always and I do hereby declare it to be my
362 Will and Meaning that if my said daughter the said daughter the said Lydia
363 Barrow should happen to die without leaving any child or children surviving
364 her or leaving any such child or children respectively should die before attaining
365 his her or their age or respective ages of twenty one years Then and in that case
366 I direct that they my said trustees or the Survivor of them or the Executors
367 Administrators or Assigns of such Survivor shall and do stand possessed of and
368 interested in the said last mentioned one third part or share of my said daughter
369 Lydia Barrow of and in my said Money property and Effects constituting my said
370 Residuary Estate Interest for and to the use and benefit of my daughter the said
371 Elizabeth Webb and my daughter the said Ann Lawson equally for and during their respective
372 lives and after their respective deaths then to and for the use and benefit of their
373 respective children to be equally divided between and amongst them such said several
374 children of my said two daughters respectively share and share alike as tenants
375 in common and not as joint tenants and to be vested and payable to them resp[ective]ly at
376 the same ages and times as their original share or shares Legacy or Legacies
377 hereinbefore bequeathed to the children of my said two last mentioned daughters
378 respectively
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378 respectively and subject to the privisoes and declarations herein contained concerning
380 the same children on the marriage of my said daughter Ann with the said John Lawson
381 I advanced and settled on her and her Issue in the Event of her having any the principal or
382 capital Sum of One thousand pounds which has been laid out in the purchase of One
383 thousand two hundred and fifty pounds three per cent Reduced Bank Annuities and is
384 now standing in the hands of them my said trustees the said John Lawson John
385 Meredith and Erasmus Jackson in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank
386 of England Upon the trusts declared in the Settlement which was executed on the marriage
387 of my said daughter Ann with the said J[o]hn Lawson Now I hereby declare it to
388 be my Will and Meaning that my said daughter the said Ann Lawson is not to have
389 and receive the said Sum of One thousand two hundred and fifty pounds three per cent reduced
390 Bank Annuities besides and in addition to the said third part or share of and in my
391 said Residuary Estate property and Effects hereinbefore given and bequeathed or intended
392 for her use and benefit It being my desire that the same should be considered as a
393 part thereof and I do accordingly direct my said trustees and the Survivor of them
394 and the Executors Administrators and Assigns of such Survivor to deduct such Sum
395 of One thousand two hundred and fifty pounds three per cent Bank Annuities from
396 the said one third part or share hereinbefore given and bequeathed or intended for
397 the benefit of my said daughter the said Ann Lawson in order that her share
398 may be equalized with those of her sisters thes Elizabeth Webb and Lydia Barrow
399 it being my Mind that all my said three daughters shall share equally in
400 my property whether given to them before or after my decease provided always
401 and I do hereby declare it to be my will and Meaning that it shall and may be
402 lawful to and for trustees their heirs Executors and Administrators respectively
403 at any time to make sale and absolutely sell and dispose of all or any part of my
404 said Real Estates and the Residue of my said personal Estate either on public
405 auction or private contract or partly by public Auction and partly by private
406 contract when and in their discretion they shall see fit and deem it most
407 advantageous to their said trust Estate and either together or in parcels for such
408 price and prices in Money as to my said trustees shall seem reasonable and to grant
409 release convey assign and assure the same respectively unto and to the use of the
410 respective purchaser and purchasers thereof his her or their heirs Executors
411 Administrators and Assigns respectively And upon payment of the Money
412 arising by any such sale or sales to sign and give proper Receipts for the Monies
413 for which the said Estates and Interests or any part of parts thereof shall be
414 so sold which Receipt or Receipts of my said trustees shall be a sufficient
415 discharge and sufficient discharges to the purchaser and purchasers for the purchase
416 Money or Monies therein respectively acknowledged or expressed to be received
417 and that such purchaser or purchasers shall not be afterwards answerable
418 accountable for any loss Missapplication or Nonapplication of the purchase
419 Money or respective purchase Monies which in or by such Receipt or Receipts
420 shall be acknowledged or expressed to be received and I do hereby further declare
421 my Will to be that my said trustees shall and do as soon as conveniently may be
422 after any such sale or sales lay out and invest the Money arising thereby in same or one of the
423 public Stocks or funds of Great Britain or on other good real Security at Interest
424 and from time to time to call in or make sale of and transfer the same monies
425 so invested or placed out as aforesaid or any part thereof as well as any other
426 of the personal Estate which may be then invested as often as they shall think
427 proper fit and again to place out and transpose the same from time to time as to them
428 shall seem meet And I do hereby also declare that the Interest dividends and proceeds
429 of the Money arising by such sale or sales as aforesaid and of the Stocks Funds and
430 Securities wherein or upon which the same or any part of parts thereof shall
431 be so respectively invested or placed out as aforesaid shall from time to time go and
432 be paid by my said trustees to and be received and taken by such person or
433 persons in such proportions and be applied to and for such Intents and purposes
434 and in such course order and manner as the Rents Issues and profits dividends
435 Interest and proceeds of the said Estates and Interests so to be sold as aforesaid would go
436 and
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437 and be payable and applicable in case such sale or sales thereof had not then
438 taken place or as near thereto as charge of property and circumstances will
439 from time to time admit provided always and I do hereby declare it to be my Will
440 and meaning that if the said John Lawson John Meredith and Erasmus Jackson
441 or any trustee or trustees to be appointed in the stead or place of them or any or either of
442 them in pursuance of this my Will shall die or be desirous to be discharged from
443 or refuse or decline or become uncapable to act in the trusts hereby in them
444 reposed as aforesaid before the said trusts shall be fully executed performed
445 discharged or determined or delivered Then and in such case and what and as
446 often as the same shall happen it shall and may be lawful to and for the
447 surviving and Remaining trustees or trustee by any Writing or Writings under
448 their or his hand and Seals or hand and seal to be attested by two or more
449 credible Witnesses from time to nominate and appoint any other person or
450 persons to be a trustee or trustees in the stead or place of the trustee or trustees so
451 dying or desiring to be discharged or refusing declining or becoming incapable to act
452 as aforesaid And that then and as often as any such new trustee or trustees shall
453 be nominated and appointed as aforesaid All the Estates Monies and Interests
454 which shall be so vested in the trustee or trustees so dying or desiring to be discharged
455 or refusing declining or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid either solely or jointly
456 with the other trustee or trustees shall be thereupon with all convenient speed
457 conveyed assigned and transferred in such sort and manner and so as that the same
458 shall and may be legally and effectually vested in the Surviving or Continuing
459 trustee or Trustees but there shall be no such continuing trustee or trustees then in
460 such new trustees and upon the same trusts as are hereinbefore declared of and concerning
461 the same estates Monies and Interests respectively or such of them as shall or may
462 then be subsisting and capable of taking effect and that any such new trustee or trustees shall
463 and may in all things act and assist in the Management carrying on and Execution
464 of the trusts to which he or they shall be so appointed in conjunction with the other
465 his or their surviving or continuing trustee or trustees But if not that by themselves
466 receiving and effectually and with all the same power and powers authority and
467 authorities whatsoever to all intents and purposes as if he or they had been originally
468 in and by this my will appointed trustee or trustees for the purposes for which such
469 new trustee or trustees respectively shall be appointed trustee or trustees herein or his heirs
470 Executors or Administrators in or to whom place such now trustee or trustees shall wholy
471 come or succeed are or is Enabled to do or could or might have done under and By
472 virtue of this my Will if then living or continuing to act in the trusts hereby reposed
473 in him or there anything herebefore contained to the contrary thereof in any wise
474 Notwithstanding provided also And it is my Will and Meaning that it shall and
475 may be lawful to and for the several trustees constituted or to be constituted by virtue
476 of this my Will and to and for each and every of them their and each and every of
477 their heirs Executors and Assigns respectively by and out of the Monies which by virtue
478 hereof shall or may come to their hands respectively to deduct and reimburse to him-
479 self and themselves and to allow to his and their co trustee and co trustees from time to
480 time respectively all such costs charges damages and expences as they and every or
481 any of them shall be put into pay suffer and sustain by reason of any of the trusts hereby
482 in them reposed or the Management or Execution thereof or by reason of any other
483 matter or thing in any wise relating thereto the allowance of which costs charges and
484 expences shall be regulated by the Method practised between Attorney and client and
485 not as between party and party and that none of the said trustees their heirs Executors
486 or Administrators shall be answerable or accountable for any other Manner Money
487 then what they shall respectively actually receive by virtue of the trusts aforesaid nor
488 shall any of them be charged or chargeable with or accountable for the receipt or
489 receipts of the other of them but each for his own acts Receipt and wilful defaults
490 only nor shall they or any or either of them be answerable or attainable for any
491 Involuntary loss which may hapen to my said Estates Monies or Interests unless the
492 same shall happen through their or his or her then wilful neglect or default And I do
493 hereby Nominate and appoint the said John Lawson John Meredith and Erasmus
494 Jackson
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495 Jackson joint Executors of this my Will and hereby revoking all former and other
496 Wills by me at any time heretofore made I do declare this only to be and contain my
497 true last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and
498 Testament contained in sixteen sheets of paper set my hand and seal in
499 manner following that is to say my hand to the fifteen sheets hereto annexed
500 and my hand and seal to this sixteenth and last Sheet thereof this twenty sixth day of
501 February in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and twenty three T B
502 Barrow [signed] [seal] Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said Testator Thomas
503 Blake Barrow as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his
504 presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
505 our Names D M Weddell Sol[icitor] Gosport Will[ia]m Spain Cha[rle]s Barker [signed]
506 his Clerks
507 Whereas I Thomas Blake Barrow [signed] of Forton Lodge in the
508 Parish of Alverstoke in the County of Southampton Esquire since makeing my last
509 Will and Testament bearing date the twenty sixth day of February last past have
510 purchased a Farm containing about forty acres of Copyhold land held of the
511 Manor of Nytimber in the parish of Pagham in the county of Sussex occupied
512 by one William Porwell and I have also since purchased a Tenement Garden and
513 Gate Room thereto belonging called Trotts Hold of the same manor and now in the
514 occupation of William Adams together with the Rights privileges and appurtenances
515 to the same Estates property and premises belonging or in any wise appertaining Now I
516 do by this writing which I declare to be a Codicil to my said last Will and Testament and
517 direct to be considered as part thereof give and devise the said copyhold Lands Messuages
518 hereditaments and premises hereinbefore mentioned and described with their respective
519 Rights Members and Appurtenaunces and all my Estate Right title and Interest therein
520 and thereto respectively unto and to the use of my Son in Law John Lawson of the
521 City of London Gentleman and to my friends John Meredith late of Forton in the said
522 parish of Alverstoke but now of Southsea near Portsmouth in the said County of
523 Southampton Gentleman and Erasmus Jackson of Portsea in the said County of
524 Southampton Gentleman the trustees and Executors appointed in and by my said last Will
525 and Testament their heirs and Assigns for ever Upon the several trusts Nevertheless and
526 to and for the several Ends, Intends and purposes and under and subject and liable to the
527 several directions limitations and appointments mentioned Expressed and declared in and by
528 my said Will of and concerning the Residue of my real and personal Estates and Effects
529 To the Intent that the same Copyhold Estates above described may go and be disposed of in
530 all respects in the same way as if I had purchased the said Copy hold Estates hereditaments
531 and premises above described previous to the Execution of my said Will and had
532 thereby given or devised the same to my said trustees Upon the trust thereof or therein
533 expressed And Whereas in and by my said last Will and Testament I have given
534 and bequeathed or directed that they my said trustees subject to the payment of certain legacies
535 Bequests and Annuities in my said Will particularly mentioned shall stand seized and
536 be possessed of and interested in one equal third part or share of and in all my real and
537 personal Estates and Effects the whole into three equal parts or shares to be divided
538 Upon request to pay apply and dispose of the Rents Issues and profits dividends and annual
539 proceeds thereof unto my daughter Elizabeth Webb the wife of John Webb of London
540 Schoolmaster to and for her own sole use and benefit and for the use and benefit of her
541 children independent of the said John Webb or of his debts or Engagements in such
542 proportions manner and form and payable and assignable at such ages and times and
543 subject to such benefit of Survivorship as in and by my said Will is particularly mentioned
544 and set forth Now I do by this Writing which I declare to be a Codicil to my said last
545 Will and Testament and desire it to be considered as further part thereof give and bequeath
546 unto the said John Lawson John Meredith and Erasmus Jackson the said trustees
547 and Executors appointed in and by my said last Will and Testament the sum of One
548 thousand five hundred pounds to be applied by them for the joint and equal use and
549 benefit of the children of my said daughter Elizabeth Webb as hereinafter mentioned And I
550 do hereby direct that they my said trustees and the Survivor and Survivors of them and
551 the
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552 the Executors Administrators and Assigns of such Survivor shall and do stand
553 and be possessed of and interested in the Sum of One thousand five thousand
554 five hundred pounds Upon trust for the joint and equal use and benefit of all and
555 any the child and children of my said daughter the said Elizabeth Webb whether
556 sons or daughters to be laid out by them my said trustees in the lifetime of my said
557 daughter the said Elizabeth Webb to and for the joint and equal Maintenance and
558 Education or advancement in the world of such children respectively of her my said dau[ghte]r
559 the said Elizabeth Webb in such way and manner of such times and for such purposes
560 as they my said trustees shall in their or his discretion think proper and as to any
561 Surplus of the said Sum of One thousand pounds five hundred pounds which may
562 remain unapplied by my said trustees for the joint and equal use and profit of the said
563 children respectively in the life time of my said daughter the said Elizabeth Webb
564 in the manner and for the purposes aforesaid I do direct that they my said trustees
565 or the survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such
566 Survivor shall and do stand possessed of and interested in the same Surplus (if any such
567 there shall be) Upon such and the same trusts and to and for such and the same intents
568 and purposes and under and subject and liable to such and the like directions limitations
569 as appropriate and be payable and assignable at such times and in such manner
570 and subject to such benefit of Survivorship as is and are mentioned expressed and
571 declared in and by my said Will of and concerning the said one third part or share of
572 and in my said Real and personal Estates and Effects so given or Intended for the benefit
573 of the benefit of my said daughter the said Elizabeth Webb and the said children
574 wholy and Whereas in and by my said last Will and testament I have made no
575 provision for my son in Law the said John Webb except giveing him a legacy of Five
576 pounds which be I have divided directed to be paid within Six Months next after
577 my decease Now I do by this Writing which I again declare to be a Codicil to my
578 said last Will and Testament and direct to be considered a further part thereof
579 give and bequeath unto the said John Webb one Annuity or clear yearly Sum
580 of twenty five pounds free and clear of and from all deductions whatsoever to be paid to
581 him yearly and every year for and during the term of his Natural life by equal half
582 yearly payments that is to say at or upon the twenty fifth day of March and the twenty
583 Ninth day of September in each and every year for and during the term of his natural
584 life the first payment thereof to begin and be made on such of the said days as shall first
585 happen next after the decease of my said daughter the said Elizabeth Webb if he
586 shall be then living but not otherwise And I do hereby direct my said trustees and
587 the Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor to pay
588 the said Annuity of twenty five pounds per Annum to the said John Webb for and
589 during the term of his natural life on the days and times and in the manner above
590 by me mentioned out the Residue and Remainder of my real and personal Estates
591 and Effects as given devised given and bequeathed to them my said trustees in and by
592 my said last Will and Testament And I do hereby in all other Respects ratify and
593 confirm my said last Will and Testament and the several gifts devises Matters and things
594 therein contained and not hereby altered or revoked In Witness whereof I the said
595 Thomas Blake Barrow have to this codicil to my said last Will and Testament contained
596 in four sheets of paper set my hand and seal in manner following that is to say to the
597 first three Sheets thereof my hand and to this fourth and last sheet thereof my
598 hand and seal this tenth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand
599 Eight hundred and twenty three Th B Barrow [signed] [seal] This Writing was Signed
600 Sealed published and declared by the said Thomas Blake Barrow as and for a
601 Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in
602 his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our Names
603 as Witnesses D W Weddell Sol[icito]r Gosport Will[ia]m Spain Cha[rle]s Barker
604 his Clerks
605 Whereas I Thomas Blake Barrow of Forton Lodge in the
606 parish of Alverstoke in the County of Southampton Esquire have made my last Will and
607 testament bearing date the twenty six day of February One thousand Eight hundred and
608 twenty
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609 twenty three and I have also made a Codicil thereto bearing date the twenty sixth tenth day
610 of February one thousand Eight hundred December last Now I do by this Writing whi[ch]
611 I declare to be a further codicil to be my said last Will and testament and direct to be
612 considered as part thereof give and bequeath unto my dear Wife Elizabeth Barrow
613 a further Annuity or yearly Sum of one thou hundred pounds free and clear of
614 from all deductions whatsoever to be paid to her half yearly for and during the term
615 of her natural life on the same days and in the same manner and upon the same
616 conditions as the annuity of two hundred per annum which I have given her
617 in and my said last Will and Testament is directed to be paid to her Also I give and devise unto
618 my said dear Wife Elizabeth Barrow all that my Capital Messuage or dwellinghouse
619 called Forton Lodge with the Outhouses Buildings Yards Gardens Lands Sides and Appurtenances
620 thereto belonging and situate at Forton in the said parish of Alverstoke and in which
621 I now reside To hold the same unto her and her assigns for and during the term of her
622 natural life to and for her own sole use and benefit but should my said dear Wife at any
623 time during her life with the countenance of the trustees under my said last Will and
624 Testament think proper to join or concur in any Sale or disposition of the said Messuage
625 and hereditaments called Forton Lodge she my said dear Wife is at full liberty
626 to do so and in the Event of a sale thereof I direct the trustees under my said Will
627 to invest the Monies arising therefrom in same or or one of the public Stocks of Funds of
628 Great Britain and not elsewhere at Interest in the said names of my said trustees and
629 to pay the dividends Interest and produce thereof unto my said dear Wife for and during
630 the term of her natural life for her own sole and separate and peculiar use and benefit
631 independent of any husband or husbands she may hereafter happen to marry and not
632 to be subject or liable to his or their debts control engagements of Incumbrances and
633 for which and every part and parcel thereof her receipt or Receipts alone shall
634 Notwithstanding coverture from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge and
635 discharges to the trustees under my said Will for the payment of the same and
636 from and Immediately after the decease of my said dear Wife I do direct that the
637 said Capital Messuage or dwellinghouse called Forton Lodge or the Monies which
638 should be produced by and from the sale thereof should the same have taken
639 place in the lifetime of my said dear Wife shall sink into and become part of the
640 Residuary Estate and Effects given and devised by me to the trustees under my said
641 last Will and Testament and the same shall go and be applied paid and assumed
642 to and for the same persons and a payout for the same trusts as are therein and
643 thereby declared of and concerning the same Also I give and bequeath unto my
644 Sister Susannah Peel and her husband Richard Peel for their joint natural lives
645 and the life of the Survivor of them One Annuity or clear yearly Sum of thirteen
646 pounds to be paid to them respectively either by quarterly or weekly payments of five
647 shillings per week as the trustees under my said last Will and Testament in their
648 direction may think proper and from and after the decease of the Survivor of them
649 my said Sister Susannah Peel and her said husband Richard Peel the said
650 Annuity or yearly Sum of thirteen pounds to sink into and become a part of the
651 Residuary Estate given and devised to the trustees under my said last Will
652 and Testament But I hereby then give and bequeath unto each of the children
653 of the said Susannah Peel the Sum of thirty pounds to and for his and their own
654 proper use and benefit Also I give and bequeath unto my Brother William
655 Barrow and [missing] his Wife for their joint natural lives and the life of the
656 Survivor of them one Annuity or clear yearly Sum of thirteen pounds to be paid
657 to them respectively either by quarterly or weekly payments of five shillings per
658 week as the trustees under my said Will and testament in their direction may think
659 proper and from and after the decease of the Survivor of them my said Brother William Barrow
660 and .... his Wife the said last mentioned Annuity or Yearly Sum of thirteen pounds
661 to sink into and become a part of the Residuary Estate given and devised unto the
662 trustees in and by my said last Will and Testament Also I give and bequeath unto
663 my Brother in Law Mr. James Grout One Annuity or clear yearly Sum of Seven
664 pounds to be paid to him quarterly for and during the term of his natural life Also
665 I give and bequeath unto Mr. Thomas Grout and his Wife for and during the term of
666 their
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667 their joint Natural lives and the Life of the Survivor of them One Annuity or clear
668 yearly Sum of thirteen pounds to be paid to them respectively either by quarterly or
669 weekly payments of five shillings per week as the trustees under my said last Will
[margin] and from and immediately after the decease of the survivor of them the said Thomas Grout and .... his wife the said last mentioned annuities of seven pounds and thirteen pounds respectively to sink into and become a part of the said residuary Estate and given and bequeathed unto the Trustees in and by my said last Will and Testament also I give and bequeath unto my sister Sarah Dunn the wife of Allen Dunn an annuity or clear yearly sum of ten pounds eight shillings to be paid to her quarterly or by weekly payments of four shillings per week for and during the term of her natural life as the trustees under my said last Will and Testament in their direction may think proper
670 and Testament in their direction may think proper ^ Also I give and bequeath unto my
671 foreman John Wurth who has lived with us many years One Annuity or clear yearly
672 Sum of Seven pounds sixteen shillings to be paid to him quarterly or by weekly payments
673 of three shillings per week for and during the term of his natural life as the trustees under
674 my said Will may in their direction think proper and from and Immediately after the
675 respective deaths of the said Sarah Dunn and the said John Wurth the said
676 last mentioned Annuities or yearly Sums of ten pounds eight shillings and Seven pounds
677 sixteen shillings to sink into and become part of the Residuary Estate given and devised
678 unto the trustees in and by my said last Will and Testament And I do hereby in all other
679 respects ratify and confirm my said last Will and Testament and the several gifts devises
680 matters and things therein contained and not hereby altered or revoked In Witness whereof
681 I the said Thomas Blake Barrow now to this further Codicil to my said last Will
682 and Testament in three sheets of paper set my hand and seal in manner
[margin] and to this third and last Sheet thereof my hand
683 following that is to say to the first two sheets thereof my hand ^ and Seal this twenty
684 first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Seventieth
685 twenty four Th B Barrow [signed] [seal] This Writing was signed sealed published and
686 declared by the said Thomas Blake Barrow to and for a further codicil to his the
687 Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in
688 the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses E M
689 Weddell of Gosport Sol[icito]r Will[ia]m Spain Cha[rle]s Barker both of So[licitor] Clerks
690 Proved at London with two Codicils 10th February 1825 Before the Judge by the
691 Oath of John Lawson John Meredith and Erasmus Jackson the Executors to whom
692 administration was granted being sworn by Commission duly to administer
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