Will of Margery Skinner
Occupation
- 414: Status only, no stated occupation. Use for Widow, Gentleman, Esquire, Indweller etc., if no occupation is given.
Location
Widow of Henley upon Thames
| Document reference: | TNA PROB 11/607 |
| First date: | 12 April 1717 |
| Probate date: | 17 February 1725 |
| Probate court: | London |
Executors, Witnesses and Court Officials etc.
| Executor: | Mary Cooper |
| (Additional executors/trustees appointed for the interim period) | |
| Executor: | Thomas Stevens |
| (Appointed with Thomas Taylor and John Wells to act as executors and trustees until Mary Cooper capable of taking on execution of the will) | |
| Executor: | Thomas Taylor |
| (Appointed with Thomas Stevens and John Wells to act as executors and trustees until Mary Cooper capable of taking on execution of the will) | |
| Executor: | John Wells |
| (Appointed with Thomas Stevens and Thomas Taylor to act as executors and trustees until Mary Cooper capable of taking on execution of the will) | |
| Witness: | Mary Stevens |
| Witness: | Mary Atkins |
| Witness: | Francis Blandy |
| Other: | Thomas Ovey |
| Relationship: | Grand son |
| (Administrator. Husband and executor of testatrix's granddaughter and executrix, deceased.) |
Bequests
To: Mary Cooper (Grand daughter)
All my lands in Dirty Bottom in Rotherfield Grays now in the occupation of John Williams, the Elder, to my grandaughter Mary Cooper and her lawful heirs, and in the absence of heirs to Anne Clarke, daughter of my nephew Jeremiah Clarke and her heirs
Bequest Types
Location of property
Names
To: Mary Cooper (Grand daughter)
Three tenements in Friday Street in the occupation of Elizabeth Briggs widow, John Bond and John Pound to my grandaughter Mary Cooper and her heirs and if no issue to William Clarke the son of my nephew Jeremiah Clarke and his heirs
Bequest Types
Location of property
Names
To: William Clarke (Great nephew)
To William Clarke, son of my nephew Jeremiah Clarke, twenty pounds
Bequest Types
Names
To: Mary Clarke (Niece)
To my niece Mary Clarke, twenty pounds
Bequest Types
Names
To: Anne Clarke (Great neice)
To Anne Clarke, daughter of my nephew Jeremiah Clarke, twenty pounds
Bequest Types
Names
To: Thomas Skinner (Grand son)
To my grandson Thomas Skinner, ten pounds
Bequest Types
Names
To: Mary Cooper (Grand daughter)
My property at Northfield End in the occupation of William Lee, Gardener, purchased from John Wells and Thomas Messenger, to my grandaughter Mary Cooper and her heirs, and if she dies without issue and before my grandson is twenty one then to my niece Mary Clarke to hold until my grandson Thomas Skinner is twenty one when he shall be given the property; but if he dies before the age of twenty one then to my niece Mary Clarke
Bequest Types
Location of property
Names
To: Sarah Lane (Friend)
To my friend Sarah Lane, spinster, twenty shillings to buy her a ring
Bequest Types
Names
To: Poor
To the poor of the town of Henley, five pounds
Bequest Types
To: Mary Cooper (Grand daughter)
To my grandaughter Mary Cooper and her heirs the residue of my estate
Bequest Types
Names
To: Thomas Stevens; Thomas Taylor; John Wells (Friends)
To my friends Thomas Stevens, Thomas Taylor and John Wells the sum of five pounds each for undertaking the execution of this will in trust should my grandaughter Mary Cooper be incapable of taking on the execution herself until she is so capable
Bequest Types
Names
Transcript
| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen |
| 0002: | I Margery Skinner of Henley upon Thames in the County of |
| 0003: | Oxon Widow being of sound and perfect health and disposing |
| 0004: | Mind and memory thanks be given to God therefore and calling to |
| 0005: | mind the certainty of Death and uncertainty of the time when and to |
| 0006: | avoid all disputes which may happen after my decease concerning my |
| 0007: | Estate which I shall leave behind me do make and ordain this my last |
| 0008: | Will and Testament in manner following that is to say first I commend |
| 0009: | my soul into the hands of Almighty God [↑who gave it] trusting to obtain Salvation through |
| 0010: | the merits Death and passion of Jesus Christ my ever blessed Saviour and |
| 0011: | Redeemer and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be decently |
| 0012: | buried at the discretion of my Executrix hereinafternamed and as for |
| 0013: | that Worldly Estate which God in his mercy hath bestowed on me I |
| 0014: | dispose thereof as followeth Imprimis I give and devise all those my |
| 0015: | Lands lying and being in a certain Place called dirty bottom in the parish |
| 0016: | of Rotherfield Graies in the County of Oxon and now in the tenure or |
| 0017: | Occupation of John Williams the Elder unto my Grandaughter Mary |
| 0018: | Cooper and to the heirs of her body lawfully to be begotten but if my said |
| 0019: | Grandaughter shall happen to dye without Issue of her body then I do |
| 0020: | give and devise the said Lands unto Anne Clarke Daughter of my Nephew |
| 0021: | Jeremiah Clarke and to her heirs for ever Item I do give all those my three |
| 0022: | Tenements lying in a certaine Street in Henley upon Thames aforesaid |
| 0023: | commonly called Fryday Street and now in the severall tenures or |
| 0024: | occupations of Elizabeth Briggs Widow John Bond and John Pound unto |
| 0025: | my said Grandaughter Mary Cooper and to the heirs of her body |
| 0026: | lawfully to be begotten but if my said Grandaughter Mary Cooper shall |
| 0027: | happen to dye without Issue of her body then I do give and devise the |
| 0028: | same Messuages or Tenements unto William Clarke son of my Nephew |
| 0029: | Jeremiah Clarke and to his heirs and assigns for ever Item I do give unto |
| 0030: | the said William Clarke the sume of twenty pounds and to my Neice |
| 0031: | Mary Clarke I give the like sume of twenty pounds and to Anne Clarke |
| 0032: | Daughter of my Nephew Jeremiah Clarke I give the like sume of twenty |
| 0033: | pounds of lawfull money of Great Britain to be paid to each of them |
| 0034: | within six months next after my decease Item I do give to my Grandson |
| 0035: | Thomas Skinner the sume of ten pounds of like lawfull money to be paid |
| 0036: | him with in one Month next after my decease Item I do give and devise |
| 0037: | all that my Messuage or Tenement and Lands Scituate lying and being |
| 0038: | at Northfield End in the parish of Henley upon Thames aforesaid and |
| 0039: | now in the occupation of one William Lee Gardener and which I |
| 0040: | sometime since purchased of John Wells and Thomas Messenger unto |
| 0041: | my said Grandaughter Mary Cooper and to the heirs of her body |
| 0042: | lawfully to be begotten but if my said Grandaughter shall happen to |
| 0043: | dye without Issue of her body and before my said Grandson shall attaine |
| 0044: | his age of one and twenty years then I do give and devise the said |
| 0045: | Messuage and Lands unto my aforesaid Neice Mary Clarke To hold |
| 0046: | to her and her Assigns untill my said Grandson Thomas Skinner shall |
| 0047: | attain his age of one and twenty years and when he shall have attained |
| 0048: | his age of one and twenty years then I give and devise [↑the same] to him and his |
| 0049: | heirs for ever But if my said Grandson Thomas SKinner shall happen |
| 0050: | to dye before he shall attain his age of one and twenty years then I |
| 0051: | give and devise the same unto my said Neice Mary Clerke and her |
| 0052: | heirs for ever Item I give to my loving friend Sarah Lane of Henley |
| 0053: | aforesaid Spinster the sume of twenty shillings to buy her a Ring and I |
| 0054: | also give the sume of five pounds of lawfull money of Great Britaine |
| 0055: | to be disposed of to such poor persons living within the Town of Henley |
| 0056: | upon Thames aforesaid as my Trustees herein after named shall think |
| 0057: | fit and lastly I do give and bequeath all the rest of my Estate whatsoever |
| 0058: | both real and personal not be me herein before given and disposed of |
| 0059: | after my Debts and legacies paid and Funerall Expences discharged |
| 0060: | unto my said Grandaughter Mary Cooper and her heirs whom I |
| 0061: | make and ordain the full and sole Executrix of this my last Will |
| 0062: | and Testament and if it shall happen that my said Grandaughter |
| 0063: | Mary Cooper at the time of my Death shall not by Law be capable |
| 0064: | of taking upon her Self the Execution of this my Will that then I do |
| 0065: | hereby constitute ordain and appoint my loving friends Thomas |
| 0066: | Stevens of Henley upon Thames aforesaid Gentleman Thomas |
| 0067: | Taylor of the same Malster and John Wells of the same |
| 0068: | Cordwainer the full and joynt Executors of this my last Will and |
| 0069: | Testament In trust for my said Grandaughter Mary Cooper untill |
| 0070: | such time as she shall by Law be capable of taking the Execution |
| 0071: | thereof upon herself and for their Care and pains therein I give to each |
| 0072: | of them five pounds and my Will and meaning is and I do hereby order |
| 0073: | and direct that my Executors in Trust as aforesaid and the Survivor |
| 0074: | of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivour |
| 0075: | shall and may be saved harmless and deduct to themselves by |
| 0076: | and out of my said Estate so devised unto my said Grandaughter |
| 0077: | Mary Cooper as aforesaid all such Costs Charges Damages |
| 0078: | and Expenses as they or either of them shall bear pay sustain |
| 0079: | or be put unto by reason of the premisses and the trust by |
| 0080: | me herein in them reposed or the Execution and management |
| 0081: | thereof or in any wise concerning the same and I do hereby |
| 0082: | revoke all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made and |
| 0083: | do publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament |
| 0084: | and no other In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand |
| 0085: | and Seal the twelfth day of April in the third year of [↑the Reign of] our |
| 0086: | Soveraign Lord George by the Grace of God of Great Britain |
| 0087: | France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith etc annoq[ue] |
| 0088: | Dom[ini] 1717 |
| 0089: | The mark of Margery Skinner |
| 0090: | Signed sealed published |
| 0091: | declared and delivered by the said Margery Skinner the Testatrix |
| 0092: | as and for her last Willl and Testament in the presence of us |
| 0093: | and then attested by us in her preence |
| 0094: | Mary Stevens |
| 0095: | Mary Atkins |
| 0096: | Fran[cis] Blandy |
Preparation of this entry
| Post status: | Published |
| Transcript by: | the author |
| Author: | Cynthia |
| Checked by: | Anthony Lynch |
| Date posted: | 01st May 2013 |
| Date modified: | 25th May 2014 |
Comments
Administration granted to Thomas Ovey, husband and executor of Mary Ovey, formerly Cooper, deceased.