Reference
R6/19/3/77
Title
Office copy proof of will and codicil of William Cox
Date free text
23 March 1814
Production date
From: 1808 To: 1814
Scope and Content
Office copy proof of will and codicil of William Cox of Beaufort Buildings, Saint Clement Dane’s [Middlesex], esquire and covenant by William Routh and Robert Moser
will of 30 December 1808;
- bequeathing £3,000 and all plate, linen, china, household furniture, jewels in clothes and wearing apparel to his wife Susannah;
- bequeathing £9,000 4% bank annuities in trust to his sons William and Charles or, if there was less remaining at the time of his death, the difference to be made up from other property, his wife to receive the dividends therefrom for her life, after her death the stock to be divided equally between their children;
- bequeathing £2,000 to his sons William and Charles in trust for investment to pay dividends and interest to his daughter Elizabeth for her life, after her death the principal to be divided between her children or, if childless, to the uses of her will;
- bequeathing the residue of his personal estate equally between his children;
- devising to his son William all real estate;
- appointing his wife and son William executrix and executor;
- witnesses: Thomas Francis Jennings of Shire Lane, Lincoln’s Inn; John Collier; Richard Jennings
Codicil of 12 April 1811
- devising to his wife Susannah the lease of 22 Guilford Street, Saint Pancras [Middlesex] with its contents, remainder to their daughter Elizabeth, remainder to his grandson William Cox, remainder to his son Charles
Statement of 22 March 1814 by William Routh and Robert Moser, both of 39 Upper Thames Street, iron merchants that they knew William Cox who died on 14 March 1814 and recognised as his the writing of the codicil to his will
Probate at Archdeaconry Court of London 23 March 1814
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