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Office Copy of Will (Prerogative Court of Canterbury); William Metcalfe of Fordham Abbey, Cambridgeshire, esquire

27 Oct 1778; codicil 23 Sep 1784; probate 23 Feb 1785

From: 1778 To: 1785

Reciting: paid £4,000 to daughter Katherine Metcalfe on marriage with William Symons, esquire and secured to William Symons by bond for his own use £2,000, the residue of the portion, payable at death of testator To be buried by wife at Fordham Church and a monument to be erected To daughter Katherine £100 Appoints William Symons and Henry Soame of Thurloe, Suffolk as trustees To daughter Charlotte £200 per annum for life from real estate in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Bedfordshire; £100 on testator's death To grandson William Symon £200 to be paid to mother Katherine for use during minority, if dead before 21 and no other child, legacy to go to mother To trustees William Symons and Henry Soame £50 each To son James Metcalfe all other real and personal estate Witnesses: John Swale of Lincolns Inn Thomas Swale of Milden Hall John Swale junior, Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury Codicil: to granddaughters Katherine and Louisa Symons £100 each Witnesses: James Weatherby Edward Weatherby

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Metcalfe, William,
Metcalfe, Katherine,
Symons, Katherine,
Symons, William,
Soame, Henry,
Metcalfe, Charlotte,
Metcalfe, James,
Symons, Louisa

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, wills, William will: Metcalfe, PROBATE, Fordham Abbey, family/personal financial affairs, marriage settlements, burials, money, general legal process, Great Thurlow, trustees, annuities, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, BEDFORDSHIRE