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Will of Ann Lightboun

18 Jun 1747, proved 24 Dec 1748

From: 1747 To: 1748

Will of Ann Lightboun of Great Ormond Street [Middlesex], widow; - to be privately buried in the parish in which she died; - charging her estate at Moston and Newton, Manchester [Lancashire] with payment of an annuity of £60 per annum clear of taxes to her sister-in-law Elizabeth Illingworth; - devising her Lancashire estates to her cousin James Lightboun of Manchester, son of Samuel Lightboun of Manchester, deceased, remainder to Elizabeth Illingworth if she outlived James Lightboun, otherwise remainder to her nieces Mary Illingworth and Zenobey Ann Bowker, wife of Benjamin Bowker, daughter of Elizabeth Illingworth; - devising her estates in Pinner and Ruislip [Middlesex] to John Stracy and Edward Woodcock upon trust for sale paying half the money raised to Mary Illingworth, £1,000 to Benjamin Bowler and the residue used to purchase government securities the interest being paid to Benjamin Bowker and Zenobey Ann, his wife, for their lives and on the decease of the survivor the principal to be paid to their children; - devising the Saint Leonard’s Estate, Bedford, charged with payment of an annuity of £12 which her husband James Lightboun was liable to pay to Hannah Davis, wife of Edward Davis of Saint Thomas’, Southwark [Surrey] and an annuity of £70 to her cousin William Lightboun of Ironmonger Lane, London, to Edward Woodcock on Inner Temple, London, gentleman; - bequeathing £500 to her cousin Thomas Pigot of Manchester; - bequeathing £100 to Elizabeth Minshull of Cork Street near Burlington Gardens, spinster; - bequeathing £100 to Ann Isted of Northampton, spinster; - bequeathing £1,000 to her Goddaughter Ann Bowker, daughter of Zenobey Ann Bowker on her 21st birthday; meanwhile the money to be laid out in government securities and the interst paid to Ann’s father for her maintenance; - bequeathing £500 to her cousin, widow of Richard Rigby, late of London, merchant and now residing in Cockermouth [Cumberland] - bequeathing £1,000 each to her Goddaughter Ann Rigby, daughter of Richard Rigby and also to her sister Mary Rigby; - bequeathing £1,000 to her cousin Eleanour Sugdin of Manchester, widow of Rev. Sugdin, and her children to be divided equally between them; - bequeathing £200 to her cousin Elizabeth Lightboun; - bequeathing £500 to John Stracey if he acted as her executor; - bequeathing £1,000 each to her cousin Ann, wife of John Fridenberg of Ironmonger Lane, warehouseman and Margaret her sister, wife of [blank] Rummington of Ironmonger Lane, daughter of William Lightboun; - bequeathing £100 to Philip Aldyn of Pinner Marsh [Middlesex]; - bequeathing £100 to Philip Aldyn, son of Philip Aldyn to be laid out in government securities, the interest being used to buy more, the whole lot to be given to him at age 21; - bequeathing £50 to Joseph Johnson of Newton near Manchester “in consideration of his faithful service as steward”; - bequeathing £100 and all her clothes to her maid servant Mary Galloway, if living with her at the time of her death; - bequeathing to all her other servants living with her at her death one year’s wages; - additionally bequeathing mourning to all her servants; - bequeathing £20 to the poor of Moston; - bequeathing £20 to the poor of Saint John’s, Bedford; - bequeathing £20 to the poor of Pinner; - bequeathing £20 to the poor of the parish in which she died; - her husband James Lightboun deceased bequeathed to his two nieces Mary Illingworth and Zenobey Ann Bowker £500 each payable on the testatrix’s decease, charging his copyhold land at Ruislip with its payment; she directed that Mary Illingworth, Benjamin Bowker and Zenobey Ann, his wife, within two months of her death deliver a release of all demands against her estate respecting these legacies to her executors, if they did not she revoked bequests and devises made to them in this will; - devising and bequeathing the residue of her estate to Rachel, widow of Francis Dickins, late of Middle Temple, esquire; - nominating John Stracey, esquire, Recorder of London, Rachel Dickins, Thomas Pigot and Edward Woodcock as her executors and bequeathing them each £20 mourning; - witnesses: Edward North; William Hulls; James Hunt, gentlemen, who were shown the will during their examinations on behalf of Edward Woodcock and Elizabeth Illingworth against Sir Dudley Ryder, Attorney General on behalf of John Spooner by J. Turner.

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Lightboun, Ann,
Illingworth, Elizabeth,
Lightboun, James,
Lightboun, Samuel,
Illingworth, Mary,
Bowker, Zenobey Ann,
Illingworth, Zenobey Ann,
Bowker, Benjamin,
Stracey, John,
Woodcock, Edward,
Davis, Hannah,
Davis, Edward,
Lightboun, William,
Woodcock, Edward,
Pigot, Thomas,
Minshull, Elizabeth,
Bowker, Ann,
Rigby, Richard,
Rigby, Ann,
Rigby, Mary,
Sugdin, Eleanour,
Sugdin,
Lightboun, Elizabeth,
Fridenberg, Ann,
Fridenberg, John,
Rummington,
Rummington, Margaret,
Lightboun, William,
Lightboun, Margaret,
Aldyn, Philip,
Johnson, Joseph,
Galloway, Mary,
Dickins, Francis,
Dickens, Rachel,
North, Edward,
Hulls, Richard,
Hunt, James,
Ryder, Dudley,
Spooner, John,
Turner, J,
Isted, Ann

BEDFORD, Bedford Saint Leonard's Farm, wills, widow, Moston, Manchester, Newton [Manchester], Pinner, Ruislip, Southwark, City of London Ironmonger Lane, merchant, clergy names index, warehouseman, steward, clothing, servants, mourning, Saint John Bedford, Recorder of City of London, annuities