A couple of weeks ago I received a will from England, Buckinghamshire to be exact. If you have ancestors that died in Buckinghamshire, you may want to search here to see if they left a will.
This
is the last Will and Testament of me Richard Price
of
Great Missenden in the County of Bucks Salesman which I make publish
and declare as such in manner following Whereas on the Sixteenth Day
of this Instant Month of March I Caused the Freehold Messuage or
Tenement in Great Missenden aforesaid wherein I now dwell with the
yard garden and appurtenances to the same belonging (Which Message or
Tenement I lately Erected and built on part of the ground of and
belonging to a Messauage or Tenement with the -
Appurtenances
some time since purchased by me of John Hoare and the greater
part wherof I have since sold and conveyed to Job Woodman) to
be offered for sale by Public Auction under certain Presented
Conditions of Sale then and there produced And as such sale Samuel
Stevens of Great Missenden aforesaid Higler became and was
declared the Purchaser of the same Hereditaments and Premises at the
Price of Two hundred and Sixty Pounds but no Conveyance hath yet been
Executed in
persuance
of the Contract so made Now I do herby give and devise All and
singular the Herediatments and Premises for the Sale whereof I have
Contracted in manner aforesaid And all other my Real Estate
whatsoever and wheresoever Unto and to the Use of my dear Wife Maria
Price and of her Heirs and Assigns for Ever But Subject
nevertheless to and to the intent and purpose that she my said Wife
(in Case I shall depart this Live without having performed and
completed such contract) do and shall perform and Carry the same into
Effect as fully and espechially to all intents and purposes as if I
were living to Execute and perform the same For which End I declare
that the Receipt or Receipts of her my said Wife her Heirs or Assigns
shall be a good and Effectual Discharge for such Purchase Money And
as to the Monies to be received as the Price or Consideration for the
Sale and Conveyance of the same Hereditaments and Premises And as to
all my Household Goods and
Furniture
Monies Securities Debts Rights Credits Goods Chattels and Personal
Estate whatsoever and wheresoever I give and bequeth the same to her
my said Wife to and for her own proper Use and Benefit she there and
satisfying all my just Debts and Funeral and Testamentary Expences
And I Constitute and appoint her my said Wife Sole Executrix of this
my Will In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the
twenty fourth Day of March In the Year of ou Lord One thousand Eight
hundred and fifteen
Richard Price (Seal)
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the
above named
Richard Price as and for his last Will and
Testament
in the presence of Us who in his Presence
and
in the Presence of Each other have attested and
subscribed
the Same
Isaac Stevens
Robert Harper
both of Great Missenden
Thos Marshall Amersham
1815
April 8th ----- The Executrix whithin named was Sworn as usual and
that the personal Estate of the deceased is under the value of Three
Hundred Pounds
Before
me
W.
Stockins Senr
Proved
the 8th day of April 1815 Before the Reverend William Stockins Clerk
Surrogate by the oath of Maria Price widow the sole Executrix to
whose administration was committed she being first sworn duly
to administer
For some reason Richard (my 4th great-grandfather) only mentioned his wife Maria (my 4th great-grandmother) and not his children's names. And why he referred to them as "her heirs" puzzles me. They had three surviving children at the time of his death, Martha, age 12; Louisa Maria, age 8; and my 3rd great-grandfather Simon, age 5.
Amanuensis Monday is an ongoing series created by John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch.
For some reason Richard (my 4th great-grandfather) only mentioned his wife Maria (my 4th great-grandmother) and not his children's names. And why he referred to them as "her heirs" puzzles me. They had three surviving children at the time of his death, Martha, age 12; Louisa Maria, age 8; and my 3rd great-grandfather Simon, age 5.
Amanuensis Monday is an ongoing series created by John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch.
Leslie
Ann