• Reference
    BS1465
  • Title
    Copy Probate Will of Honourable Frances Henley Ongley of Sandy, widow: 'My desire is to be buried at Sandy in the same grave wherein my late dear and lamented husband the Honourable Samuel Henley Ongley was buried.' Numerous bequests [details given]. Executors: Robert Ongley and Coventry Payne
  • Date free text
    12 Dec 1832, Codicils1832, 1833, 1835, proved 4 Feb 1841
  • Production date
    From: 1846 To: 1846
  • Admin/biog history
    BRA Stamp 500 from Farrer & Co
  • Scope and Content
    Details given: - To housekeeper Sarah Stackard, use of a sitting room and chamber in a cottage at Sandy in the occupation of Robert Whitfield, for life; remainder of cottage to Robert Whitfield; to both annuity of £10. - To Elizabeth Barker, widow, cottage she now occupies and annuity of £20. - All real estate in Sandy to sister Dame Mary Payne for life, then to nephew Coventry Payne. - To Coventry, the Sun Inn, Biggleswade. - To nephews Robert Henley Ongley, Lord Ongley, and Coventry Payne, £10,000 to be invested; dividends to sister Lucy Monoux for life, then to Coventry Payne. - To Lord Ongley and Coventry Payne, £5,000 to invest, dividends to niece Augusta Payne for life, then to her children. - To Sarah Phillimore, sister of late husband, all share in messuage in Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London, in the occupation of Walter Young, esquire, given by will of Honourable Anne Henley Ongley to late husband. - To Lord Ongley and brother George Henley Ongley, £4,000 each. - To said George, all silver plate. - To Coventry Payne, £3,000 due on a mortgage of an estate at Beeston. - To nieces Sarah and Marrianne, daughters of Sarah Phillimore, £500 each. - To Frances, Lady Ongley, and nephews and nieces Montague, Frederick, Frances and Charlotte Henley Ongley and William and Charles Phillimore and friend Samuel Wells, esquire, £200 each. - To niece Elizabeth Poole, to Joseph Francis Buckworth, esquire, Susan (widow, of Hugh Perry Keane, esquire) and her daughter Susan Keane, to Sarah Shaw Fawkes, and to friends Mrs Ann Cranmer Blencowe, Frances Gordon, Charles Gordon and Mary Ann Gordon, £100 each. - To Jane Nagel, daughter of Mrs A C Blencowe, £50. - To the Treasurer of the Bedford Infirmary, £50. - To the Treasurer of the Society for Relief of Small Debtors, £50. - To late servant Mary Usher, £19 19s. - To all servants, a year's wages. - To nieces Augusta Payne and Elizabeth Poole, all jewels, pearls, necklaces etc except locket hereinafter mentioned. - To Frances, Charles and Mary Ann Gordon 'my pianoforte which I purchased of Mr Logan'. - To sister Sarah Phillimore, gold locket containing husband's hair and chain. - To sister Mary Payne, all household goods. - To 'my own waiting maid', wearing apparel. Remainder to Coventry Payne.
  • Level of description
    item