Reference
X311/46
Title
Will of Rowland Rugeley of St Ives, gent.
Date free text
29 March 1766
Production date
From: 1766 To: 1766
Scope and Content
Recites: marriage settlement with wife Elizabeth, 5 September 1732.
To executors (son Henry, and Philip Bull of St Ives, grocer) £600 under marriage settlement.
To son Henry freehold & copyhold property in Somersham in trust, to let wife Elizabeth receive rents for life; then £1,000 to be divided between sons William & Matthew and daughters Elizabeth and Frances; or he can sell at wife's death and divide among all five.
To daughter Mary, wife of John Margetts, 30 acres land and meadow in Holywell with Needingworth purchased of John Croxton;
To daughter Ann, wife of Thomas Houghton esq, messuage, close & 20 acres in same purchased of Samuel Wishton Mansfield, late Bentleys;
To daughter Elizabeth messuage and lands in Swavesey, Cambs.
To daughter Frances messuage in St Ives where testator dwells, & premises in Pidley; (but wife to live in messuage @ £12 per annum rent);
To son Rowland, Crown close, St Ives, copyhold, purchased of Thomas Houghton;
To executors 2/40 of tolls of road from St Ives to Stratton to pay to daughter Ann Houghton.
Monetary bequests: wife £200, son Rowland £200, son William £200, son Henry £350 +£350 "which he has in the malt trade", son Matthew £600, daughter Elizabeth "100, daughter Frances £100;
Bequests also to brother Henry Rugeley, sister Ann Livett, sister Frances Rugeley, sister Susan Huske (?), friend Philip Bull;
Witnesses William Barnes, Ann Stephenson, W Stephenson.
Level of description
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