Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X616/22
  • Title
    Will of John Harris, Baalzephon Street, Long Lane, Bermondsey, and of Cotton's Wharf, Southwark, Surrey, potato merchant.
  • Date free text
    11 Oct 1861, codicil 22 Aug 1865, proved 29 Dec 1865
  • Production date
    From: 1861 To: 1865
  • Scope and Content
    to wife, Sarah Harris …household furniture, plate, china, pictures, wines and all other effects in dwelling house …£400 for her own use to wife, brother Richard Harris, sons George Harris and John Maikin Harris …all freehold, copyhold and lease hold estates at Sandy and Eaton Ford and in Molesworth Square and Weston Place, Bermondsey …money, stocks, securities …all other estate, either in his own hands or jointly with his brother Richard Harris to hold in trust for sale and to invest the proceeds in Government stocks, funds or securities dividends to be paid to wife Sarah for life after wife's decease - £300 to daughter Mary Ann Harris - £150 to daughter [Sarah] wife of Thomas Wood Cox - £100 to son, John Maikin Harris - £100 to son, Richard Harris - £200 to son, William Harris residue in trust for them and their children provision for appointment of new trustees wife, brother Richard Harris, John Maikin Harris and George Harris appointed executors Will dated 11 Oct 1861 with codicil John Harris now of 47 Ashburnham Grove, Greenwich, Kent, gentleman bequest of £400 to wife revoked and instead he gives her £50 bequests after wife's death to Mary Ann, Sarah and William revoked and instead he gives - £500 to Mary Ann Harris - £500 to Sarah Cox - £500 to William Harris bequests of £100 each to John Maikin Harris and Richard Harris revoked Thomas Wood Cox appointed additional executor and trustee 22 Aug 1865 Will and codicils proved (Prerogative Court of Canterbury) by Sarah Harris, John Maikin Harris and Thomas Wood Cox as Richard Harris and George Harris renounced the executorship 29 Dec 1865
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