Will of Christopher Rockall
Occupation
- 414: Status only, no stated occupation. Use for Widow, Gentleman, Esquire, Indweller etc., if no occupation is given.
Location
Gentleman of Henley upon Thames
| Document reference: | ORO MSS Wills Oxon 57/3/39 |
| First date: | 21 December 1739 |
| Probate date: | 23 May 1740 |
| Probate court: | Henley |
Executors, Witnesses and Court Officials etc.
| Executrix: | Deborah Rockall |
| (Jointly with son Charles Rockall) | |
| Executor: | Charles Rockall |
| (Jointly with mother Deborah Rockall) | |
| Witness: | Thomas Bartlett |
| Witness: | Thomas Cooper |
| Witness: | Thomas] Hackman |
| Court Official: | Thomas Tenison |
| Court Official: | Herbert Beaver |
| Court Official: | Thomas Secker |
| (Bishop of Oxford) |
Bequests
To: Deborah Rockall (Wife)
Two properties in Henley in the possession or occupation of Henry Garter for her life and after her death the properties to pass to my son Charles Rockall and his heirs for ever
Bequest Types
Location of property
Names
To: Deborah Rockall (Wife)
To my wife Deborah all the furniture of the chamber over the parlour and all the plate
Bequest Types
Names
To: Elianor and Anna Rockall (Daughters)
The furniture of the two rooms they now use or enjoy shared equally
Bequest Types
Names
To: John Rockall (Son)
If my wife and/or my son Charles hold the house I now live in for three years after my death under the present rent, then he, she or they shall provide for my son John Rockall food, drink, washing, and lodging their own expense for the three years and John Rockall shall hold and enjoy the shop and rooms as at present
Bequest Types
Location of property
Names
To: Christopher Rockall (Son)
I commend the care of my son Christopher Rockall to my wife
Bequest Types
Names
To: Deborah Rockall;Charles Rockall (Wife)
The residue of my personal estate I give equally to my wife Deborah Rockall and son Charles Rockall
Bequest Types
Names
Transcript
| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen I Christopher Rockall of |
| 0002: | Henley upon Thames in the County of Oxon Gentleman being |
| 0003: | weake in Body but of sound mind memory and understanding doe |
| 0004: | make publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament in |
| 0005: | manner and form following (that is to say) First and principally I |
| 0006: | commend my Soule into the Hands of Allmighty God my Creator |
| 0007: | trusting through the meritts death and passion of my Lord and Saviour |
| 0008: | Jesus Christ to have remission of all my Sins and to be made pertaker |
| 0009: | of ever lasting life and my Body I commit to the Earth to be buryed |
| 0010: | at the discretion of my Executors herein after named and as for my |
| 0011: | worldly Estate which the Lord out of his mercy has bestowed upon me |
| 0012: | I dispose of as followeth Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my |
| 0013: | Dear Wife Deborah Rockall All those my two Messuages or Tenements |
| 0014: | and Hereditaments with the appurtenances Situate and being in Henley |
| 0015: | aforesaid in the possession or occupation of Henry Garter his Assigne or |
| 0016: | Assignes undertennant or undertennants To Hold unto my said Wife |
| 0017: | and her Assignes for and during the Terme of her Naturall life and |
| 0018: | from and immediately after her death then I give and devise the said |
| 0019: | two [↑messuages or] Tenements and Hereditaments with the appurtenances unto |
| 0020: | my Son Charles Rockall his Heires and Assignes for ever Item I give |
| 0021: | and bequeath unto my said Wife Deborah Rockall All the Furniture of |
| 0022: | the Chamber over the parlour and all my plate of what kind or sort |
| 0023: | soever Item I give and bequeath unto my two daughters Elianor |
| 0024: | Rockall and Anna Rockall the Furniture of the two Roomes which |
| 0025: | they now use or enjoy equally to be divided between them Share and |
| 0026: | Share alike Item my Will and meaneing is that in Case my said wife |
| 0027: | and my said son Charles or either of them do hold and enjoy the House |
| 0028: | I now live in for the Terme of Three Yeares after my death under |
| 0029: | the present Yearely Rent that then my said Wife and my said son |
| 0030: | Charles shall and will find and provide for my son John Rockall good |
| 0031: | and Sufficient meat drink washing and Lodgeing at his her and their |
| 0032: | own expences and Charges dureing the said Terme of Three Yeares |
| 0033: | and that also my said son John Rockall at free cost dureing the |
| 0034: | said Term [↑shall] hold and enjoy the Shop and Roomes with the same |
| 0035: | priviledges which he now enjoys Item I recommend the care of my |
| 0036: | son Christopher Rockall to my said Dear Wife not doubting her goodness |
| 0037: | to him Item all the rest and residue of my personall Estate not herein |
| 0038: | before given and bequeathed (after my debts Legacys and Funerall |
| 0039: | Expences be paid and discharged) I give and bequeath equally to my |
| 0040: | said Wife and [↑son] Charles who I make Joynt Executors of this my last Will |
| 0041: | and Testament And I do hereby revoke all former Wills by me |
| 0042: | heretofore made and declare this to be my last Will and Testament |
| 0043: | only In Wittness whereof I the said Christopher Rockall the |
| 0044: | Testator have to this my last Will and Testament Set my Hand & |
| 0045: | seale this Twenty first day of December in the Yeare of our |
| 0046: | Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Nine |
| 0047: | |
| 0048: | Christopher Rockall |
| 0049: | Chrip Rkall |
| 0050: | his marke |
| 0051: | |
| 0052: | Signed Sealed published [↑delivered] and declared |
| 0053: | by the said Testator Christopher Rockall |
| 0054: | as and for his last Will and Testament in the |
| 0055: | p[re]sents of us who subscribed our names in the |
| 0056: | p[re]sents of the said Testator |
| 0057: | Tho[mas] Bartlett |
| 0058: | Tho[mas] Cooper |
| 0059: | Tho[mas] Hackman |
Preparation of this entry
| Post status: | Published |
| Transcript by: | the author |
| Author: | Cynthia |
| Checked by: | Anthony Lynch |
| Date posted: | 13th January 2013 |
| Date modified: | 14th May 2014 |
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