BS2142

(Copy) Will of Elizabeth Bevan, Colworth House, widow.

Will – 5 June 1834; codicil - 22 October 1838.

From: 1834 To: 1838

-- personal estate, money in public funds, bonds and securities to be divided equally among brothers and sisters – George Hutchins, master brickmaker, near Marlborough, Wiltshire; Jonas and Joseph Hutchins, brickmakers Marlborough and Kimbury Wiltshire; Sarah Snooks wife of William Snooks, Marlborough; children of late sister Mary Gillett, late Mary Mattison, late Sheffield, widow deceased; sister Ann Bailey wife of John Bailey, Great Bedwin near Marlborough; sister Rachael Bailey wife of James Bailey, Ogbourn near Marlborough woodman; legacies to niece Elizabeth Tunn widow By Town, Upper Canada (daughter of Sarah Snooks); Jane Darnell wife of William Darnell Colworth, labourer; ministers of Sharnbrook and Souldrop – to divide among the elderly poor; residue to be divided among brothers and sisters or to their children. To be buried in the parish where she dies Executors. John Lee, Doctors Commons; Charles Short, Bedford, surgeon. Codicil (now living at Hartwell, Buckinghamshire) revoking legacies to nephews John and William Gillett and bequeaths same to niece Harriet Gillett; further legacies to John May, Hartwell, Sarah Thompson, Francis Bignal and Ann Sare, Hartwell; Mrs. Elizabeth Kirby; revoking former disposition among the five children of Mary Gillett – to be divided among three – Mary, George and Harriet. Witnesses: John Lee, Hartwell, James Epps, Hartwell

Gift from A.C. Benedict Eyre esquire Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire., via British Records Accociation.

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Bevan, Elizabeth,
Hutchins, George,
Hutchins, Jonas,
Hutchins, J,
Snooks, Sarah,
Snooks, William,
Gillett, Mary,
Mattison, Mary,
Bailey, Ann,
Bailey, John,
Bailey, Rachel,
Bailey, James,
Tunn, Elizabeth,
Darnell, Jane,
Darnell, William,
Lee, John,
Short, Charles,
Gillett, Harriet,
May, John,
Thompson, Sarah,
Bignal, Francis,
Sare, Ann,
Kirby, Elizabeth,
Epps, James

Colworth House, wills, stocks, brick maker, Marlborough, Canada, SHARNBROOK, SOULDROP, Hartwell