• Reference
    H/DE346
  • Title
    (copy) Will of Francis Pym, Sandy, Esquire
  • Date free text
    will 24 Aug 1831; proved Prerogative Court of Canterbury 23 Jan 1834
  • Production date
    From: 1831 To: 1834
  • Scope and Content
    --- To wife Anne during widowhood, annuity (rent charge £200 on estate in London & Middlesex not settled at marriage; as much as she thinks proper to select of the household linen for own use, her executors to return the same at her decease, which ever of the carriages she prefers; £300, the annuity and legacy to be over and above the provision made in the marriage settlement --- four sons, Francis, William Wollaston, Robert & Charles, & 2 daughters Ann & Catherine, all except eldest son to have £2,000 each, over and above provision in marriage settlement, the £2,000 of William Wollaston to be in lieu of £2,000 in his marriage settlement --- to daughters, in case wife marries again leaving both or either single, annuity of £250 if both, £300 if one, until marriage or death, to be charged on estate in London & Middlesex --- if wife survives testator, to younger children interest @ 4% on rents and profits from unsettled estate London & Middlesex - £15,000 secured by marriage settlement for portions of younger children --- advowsons of Radwell & Willian, Hertfordshire, & Sandy to accompany possession of the family estate --- £10 in bread to poor of Sandy, £5 to poor of Charlton Abbots --- residue of real and personal estate to son Francis executors: wife and brother the Reverend Wollaston Pym, & son Francis witnesses: W.W Gardner, Biggleswade, surveyor, George Austin, Attorney, Shefford, C.T. Gardner, bookseller, Biggleswade codicil 14 Jan 1833 --- to son Charles rent charge of £200 on all real estate in London, Middlesex & elsewhere, for life, unless his income, over and above the annuity of £200 and portion of £5,000 provided for him, exceeds £200 witnesses: George King, Solicitor, Potton, John Race, Biggleswade, John Pedley, Potton instructions to executors 17 May 1833 --- £200 to be divided among the servants as they think fit; £60 to Bedford Infirmary, Day to have wearing apparel besides his share of £200; Perkins to be given back his note for £20 advanced when his son went out to America last year, besides his share in the £200 note: 'the testator died 4 Dec 1833' will 24 Aug 1831 proved Prerogative Court of Canterbury 23 Jan 1834
  • Level of description
    item