Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    V401
  • Title
    Copy of Will (Prerogative Court of Canterbury) William Wright of Aspley Guise
  • Date free text
    1806; 1807
  • Production date
    From: 1806 To: 1808
  • Scope and Content
    To be buried in tomb erected in churchyard of Aspley Guise To wife Mary £200 To brother-in-law Daniel Queenborough of Dunstable, grocer and friend Reverend Thomas Alston Warren of Kinsworth, Hertfordshire, clerk: -- all estates in Aspley Guise in trust for wife (who is to bring up and educate his several children until their marriage or majority) If she marry again £100 annuity to her; trustees to pay sum of money at discretion to each child as it attains majority, eldest excluded. Remainder to eldest son, William Queenborough Wright ; to convey estates to eldest son or in default to 2 daughters. Personal estate to trustees to be placed upon securities on trusts . . . “it is my wish that my School shall be carried on for the benefit of my said wife . . . until my eldest son shall attain 21 when it is my will that he shall carry on such school for his own use and benefit in case he is desirous of so doing but if he does not think proper to do so then until some one of my sons who is desirous of carrying on such school shall attain 21 . . . and it is my will that in any case my school is carried on . . .” empowers trustees to employ masters and assistants for properly conducting and superintending the said school and to pay them proper salaries for so doing. Witnesses: Katherine Reddall, R.A. Reddall, Jon Thornton 17 December 1806. Codicil. Appoints Reverend John Parry of Woburn a trustee jointly with above trustees. Witnesses: Henry Nicholson, Luke Valentine Davies, R.A. Reddall. 8 May 1807. Proved 8 February 1808 by Mary Wright, widow, Daniel Queneborough (by mistake in will spelt Queenborough), Reverend Thomas Alston Warren and Reverend John Parry.
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