• Reference
    WG1331
  • Title
    Will of Easter Ashcroft of Bushmead, spinster (copy). [Details of personal bequests] Executor: Charles Gery. Witnesses: Ann Towyer, Mary Burlington, John Waller
  • Date free text
    8 Sep 1770
  • Production date
    From: 1770 To: 1770
  • Scope and Content
    Details of personal bequests: -- to sister Mary, £10 per annum out of personal estate. -- residue of money to Rev Charles Gery of Bushmead, in trust to invest for purchase of fee-farm rent of £20 per annum out of estate of William Gery at Bushmead, and convey to William Gery. -- to friend Mrs Eleanor Gery of Bushmead, best diamond ring and needlework. -- to Mary wife of William Gery, piece of silk 'now by me for a gown'. -- to William Gery, 2 cabinets in my lodging room. -- to 3 daughters of William Gery, a diamond ring each. -- to 2 nieces Easter Ashcroft and Mary Godfrey, widow, rest of clothing. -- to Charles Gery, gold watch and chain, gold ring and his late sister's hair set round with garnets, and books.
  • Level of description
    item