Reference
AN29/41
Title
Copy will of William Metcalfe of Fordham [Cambridgeshire], esquire
Date free text
27 October 1778
Production date
From: 1778 To: 1785
Scope and Content
- desiring to be privately buried in the same grave as his wife in Fordham church, with a monument to be erected to their memory by their son;
- all debts, legacies etc to be paid if possible from his personal estate;
- on the marriage of his daughter Katharine with William Symons he had settled £4,000 in trust for her, her husband and issue and secured to Symons for his own use £2,000 which he confirmed;
- bequeathing £100 to Katharine Symons;
- bequeathing an annuity of £200 to William Symons and Henry Soame of Thurloe [Suffolk] and survivor of them in trust for his daughter Charlotte for her life;
- bequeathing £100 to Charlotte;
- bequeathing a legacy of £200 to his grandson William Symons “now a tender infant” to be used by his daughter during his grandson’s minority;
- bequeathing £50 each to William Symons and Henry Soame;
- bequeathing the residue of his personal estate and devising all his real estate to his son James ;
- appointing James Metcalfe, William Symons and Henry Soame as executors;
- witnesses: John Swale of Lincoln’s Inn [Middlesex], Thomas Swale of Mildenhall [Suffolk] and John Swale junior of Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury [Middlesex]
Codicil of 23 September 1784 bequeathing £100 to his granddaughters Katherine and Louisa Symons; witnesses James Weatherby and Edward Weatherby
Proved in PCC on 23 February 1785
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