Reference
R6/5/13/9
Title
Office copy will of Eleanor Cooke
Date free text
26 October 1833
Production date
From: 1833 To: 1837
Scope and Content
Office copy will of Eleanor Cooke of Bedford, Saint Paul, widow:
- devising her dwelling house with garden and buildings in Bedford, Saint Paul and all other real estate in Bedford to Francis, Baron Howland, Marquess of Tavistock;
- bequeathing all household goods and farming stock to the Marquess of Tavistock;
- bequeathing all stock called long annuities equally to her friends William Lawrence of the Bank of England living in Brompton Row, Knightsbridge [Middlesex] and his brother George of the Bank of England;
- bequeathing £100 to Thomas Gotobed, son of “my esteemed friend” Thomas Gotobed of Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury [Middlesex], esquire;
- bequeathing £50 to Mrs. Margaret Jones, sister of William Lawrence;
- bequeathing £100 to the treasurer for the use of the Bedford General Infirmary;
- bequeathing £2,300 stock, part of her 3½% bank annuities to Elizabeth Dyer, spinster, now residing with her brother-in-law David Thomas, esquire, of Gladsbury Hay [Brecon];
- bequeathing £20 to her servant Alice Bryant if living in her service at the time of the testatrix’s death;
- bequeathing all her plate to William Lawrence and remainder of her 3½% bank annuities and residue of her stocks and shares and the residue of her personal estate;
- appointing the Marquess of Tavistock and William Lawrence joint executors;
- witnesses: Theed Pearse of Bedford and his clerks R. H. Gibbon and George West;
- proved on 22 July 1837 in London
Level of description
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