Will of Thomason Dike Gymingham
Occupation
- 207: Chemist, druggist
Location
Apothecary of Henley upon Thames
| Document reference: | TNA PROB11/688 |
| First date: | 17 February 1737/8 |
| Probate date: | 10 March 1737/8 |
| Probate court: | London |
Executors, Witnesses and Court Officials etc.
| Other: | Thomas Hackman |
| (Trustee and Overseer of will) | |
| Witness: | Thomas Hackman |
| Executrix: | Margaret Gymingham |
| (Widow of testator) | |
| Witness: | Jane Ovey |
| Witness: | Freeman Hill |
| Court Official: | John Bettesworth |
| (Doctor of Laws of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury) |
Bequests
To: Nelthorpe Gymingham ; Thomason Gymingham (Sons)
I give to my two sons Nelthorpe Gymingham and Thomason Gymingham my two meadows comprising about fourteen Acres, commonly called Summer Leazes, in Remenham in Berks, now occupied by Joseph Sills and James Herne and which I recently bought from the Mayor and Corporation of Henley, as tenants in common. If my two Sons should die before they reach twenty one, without leaving lawfully-begotten heirs, then I give these two meadows to my cousins Anne Fitters, Jasper Fitters, Sarah Fitters, Thomas Fitters, James Fitters and Silver Fitters and Catherine Rusden as tenants in common.
Bequest Types
Location of property
Names
To: Nelthorpe Gymingham ; Thomason Gymingham (Sons)
I give to my sons Nelthorpe Gymingham and Thomason Gymingham my property on the north side of New Street in Henley upon Thames now in my own possession as tenants in Common. If my sons should die before reaching the age of twenty one and leave no lawfully-begotten issue, then I give the property to my cousins Anne Fitters, Jasper Fitters, Sarah Fitters, Thomas Fitters, James Fitters and Silver Fitters and Katherine Rusden as tenants in common.
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Location of property
Names
To: Nelthorpe Gymingham ; Thomason Gymingham (Sons)
Whereas my late father in law Richard Nelthorpe (in a deed of 14 July 1721) assigned to Edward Nelthorpe and Henry Nelthorpe his interest in certain ground rents in the parish of Saint Martins in the Fields in Middlesex called Clarendon Ground in trust that they should apply the proceeds from these to his daughter Rebecca Nelthorpe, who married me and has since died, the interest in these ground rents is now vested in me. I now give this interest to my two sons Nelthorpe Gymingham and Thomason Gymingham as tenants in common.
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Location of property
Names
To: Nelthorpe Gymingham ; Thomason Gymingham (Sons)
By an agreement dated 9 March 1730 made between me, my present wife (by the name of Margaret Styles spinster), Francis Styles and Thomas Ovey eight hundred pounds was settled on me and my wife for our lives and that of the survivor of us and after our deaths to the lawfully-begotten children of both of us. If my wife should die without such issue, then I give this eight hundred pounds to my two sons Nelthorpe Gymingham and Thomason Gymingham in equal shares if they are alive at the time of my wife's death. If my two sons should die during my wife's lifetime without leaving lawfully-begotten issue of their own, then I give the eight hundred pounds to my wife for her own use, whether married or not, and disposal by her Will or similar document
Bequest Types
Names
To: Margaret Gymingham (Wife)
I give to my wife Margaret Gymingham all the rings she now holds and the ring that I had given me at Mr Ovey's burial and also ten pounds to buy her mourning
Bequest Types
Names
To: Nelthorpe Gymingham ; Thomason Gymingham (Sons)
I give to my son Nelthorpe Gymingham all my childbed linen; the rest of my linen shall be equally divided between my two sons.
Bequest Types
Names
To: Nelthorpe Gymingham (Son)
I give to my son Nelthorpe Gymingham my gold enamelled watch chain and Seal, my pearl necklace, all the furniture of the yellow room (except the chairs), all my plate which is marked with coats of arms, any of my books he shall choose, the India cabinet in my study and the black cabinet inlaid with silver. He is to pay to my son Thomason twenty pounds when he reaches the age of twenty one.
Bequest Types
Names
To: Thomason Gymingham (Son)
I give to my son Thomason Gymingham my silver watch and all my plate which is not marked with coats of arms.
Bequest Types
Names
To: Nelthorpe Gymingham ; Thomason Gymingham (Sons)
All the rest of my estate I give to my two sons in equal shares, but chargeable with the payment of three hundred pounds to my wife (about the same sum of money agreed to be paid to her on my death under the terms of an agreement)
Bequest Types
Names
To: Thomas Hackman
I give to [Thomas Hackman] one guinea to buy him a mourning ring
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Transcript
| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen |
| 0002: | I Thomason Dike Gymingham of Henley upon Thames in |
| 0003: | the County of Oxford apothecary being weak in body but of sound |
| 0004: | mind memory and understanding Do make publish and declare this |
| 0005: | to be my last Will and Testament in manner and form following |
| 0006: | that is to say First and Principally I com[m]end my Soul into the |
| 0007: | hands of Almighty God my Creator trusting through the alone |
| 0008: | merits and mediation of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to |
| 0009: | have remission of all my Sins and to be made partaker of |
| 0010: | Everlasting life and my body I commit to the Earth to be |
| 0011: | decently buryed at the discretion of my Executrix hereinafter |
| 0012: | named in as private a manner as Possible in the Parish |
| 0013: | Church of Henley upon Thames aforesaid near as may be |
| 0014: | to my Father and Mother and as for my worldly Estate I dispose |
| 0015: | thereof as followeth Imprimis I give devise and bequeath [↑unto my two Sons] Nelthrope |
| 0016: | Gymingham and Thomason Gymingham all those my two Closes |
| 0017: | of Meadow or Pasture Ground with their appurtenances containing |
| 0018: | by Estimation fourteen Acres (be the same more or less) com[m]only |
| 0019: | called or known by the name of Sum[m]er Leazes scituate lying and |
| 0020: | being in the Parish of Remenham in the County of Berks and now |
| 0021: | in the several tenures or occupac[i]ons of Joseph Sills and James |
| 0022: | Herne & which I lately bought and purchased of and from the Mayor |
| 0023: | and Corporac[i]on of Henley upon Thames aforesaid To hold unto my |
| 0024: | said Sons Nelthorpe Gymingham and Thomason Gymingham and their |
| 0025: | heirs as Tenants in Com[m]on and not as joynt Tenants Provided |
| 0026: | always and my Will and meaning is that in case my said two Sons |
| 0027: | shall happen to dye before they shall attaine their respective |
| 0028: | Ages of one and twenty years without any issue of their bodys |
| 0029: | lawfully to be begotten Then I give devise and bequeath the |
| 0030: | said two Closes of Meadow or Pasture Ground unto my Cousens |
| 0031: | Anne Fitters Jasper Fitters Sarah Fitters Thomas Fitters James Fitters |
| 0032: | and Silver Fitters (Brothers and Sisters and Catherine Rusden their |
| 0033: | heirs and assignes for ever as Tenants in Com[m]on and not as joynt |
| 0034: | Tenants Item I give devise and bequeath unto my said Sons |
| 0035: | Nelthrope Gymingham and Thomason Gymingham All that my |
| 0036: | Messuage or Tenement with the Garden and other appurtenances |
| 0037: | thereunto belonging scituate standing and being on the North side of |
| 0038: | New Street in Henley upon Thames aforesaid and now in my |
| 0039: | own possession To hold unto my said two sons Nelthorpe Gymingham |
| 0040: | and Thomason Gymingham and their heirs as Tenants in Com[m]on |
| 0041: | and not as joynt tenants provided always and my Will and |
| 0042: | meaning is that in case my said sons shall happen to dye before |
| 0043: | they shall attaine their respective Ages of one and twenty years |
| 0044: | without any issue of their bodys lawfully to be begotten Then |
| 0045: | I give devise and bequeath my said Messuage or Tenement and |
| 0046: | premisses in Henley aforesaid unto my Said Cousens Anne Fitters Jasper |
| 0047: | Fitters Sarah Fitters Thomas Fitters James Fitters and Silver Fitters |
| 0048: | and Katherine Rusden their and assignes for ever as Tenants |
| 0049: | in Com[m]on and not as joynt tenants Whereas my late Father in |
| 0050: | Law Richard Nelthorpe in and by a certaine Deed Poll or Instrument |
| 0051: | in Writing bearing date the Fourteenth day of July One Thousand |
| 0052: | Seven hundred and twenty one did bargain Sell assigne and set over |
| 0053: | unto Edward Nelthorpe and Henry Nelthorpe All his Estate and |
| 0054: | Interest of and in certaine Ground Rents in the Parish of Saint |
| 0055: | Martins in the Fields in the County of Middlesex called Clarendon |
| 0056: | Ground In Trust that they the said Edward Nelthorpe and Henry |
| 0057: | Nelthorpe should apply and dispose of the interest and proceed |
| 0058: | thereof to the use of his Daughter Rebecca Nelthorpe her Executors |
| 0059: | administrators and assignes And Whereas the said Rebecca Nelthorpe |
| 0060: | intermarryed with me the said Thomason Dike Gymingham and is |
| 0061: | since dead) whereby her Estate and interest of and in the said |
| 0062: | Ground rents became vested in me the said Thomason Dike |
| 0063: | Gymingham Now I do hereby give and bequeath all my Estate and |
| 0064: | interest in the said Ground rents unto my said two sons Nelthorpe |
| 0065: | Gymingham and Thomason Gymingham their heires Executors |
| 0066: | administrators and assignes as Tenants in Com[m]on and not as joynt |
| 0067: | Tenants and whereas by certaine Articles of Agreement indented |
| 0068: | bearing date the ninth day of March One Thousand Seven hundred |
| 0069: | and thirty made between me the said Thomason Dike Gymingham of |
| 0070: | the first part my now Wife (by the name of Margaret Styles Spinster) |
| 0071: | of the second part Francis Styles of the third part and Thomas Ovey |
| 0072: | of the fourth part there is settled the sume of eight hundred pounds |
| 0073: | on me and my said Wife for our lives and the life of the longest |
| 0074: | liver of us and after our several deceases To the use of all |
| 0075: | and every the child and children on the body of the said |
| 0076: | Margaret Styles by me the said Thomason Dike Gymingham |
| 0077: | lawfully to be begotten and in default of such issue to the use |
| 0078: | of the heirs and assignes of me [↑the said] Thomason [↑Dike] Gymingham Now in |
| 0079: | case my said Wife shall dye without leaving any issue of her |
| 0080: | body by me begotten then I give devise and bequeath the |
| 0081: | said sume of eight hundred pounds to my [↑said] two Sons Nelthorpe |
| 0082: | Gymingham and Thomason Gymingham their heirs Executors |
| 0083: | Administrators and Assignes equally to be divided between them |
| 0084: | share and share alike in case they shall be living at the time |
| 0085: | of my said Wife's decease but in case my said two sons |
| 0086: | shall happen to dye in the life time of my said Wife without |
| 0087: | leaving any issue of their bodys lawfully to be begotten Then |
| 0088: | I give devise and bequeath the said sume of eight hundred |
| 0089: | pounds unto my said Wife to and for her sole seperate and |
| 0090: | peculiar use behoofe benefit and disposal whether she shall be |
| 0091: | sole or covert and notwithstanding her Coverture by any Deed |
| 0092: | or Deeds in Writing by her signed sealed and executed in the |
| 0093: | presence of two or more credible Witnesses or by her last |
| 0094: | Will and Testament in Writing or any other Writing purporting |
| 0095: | to be her Last Will and Testament shall direct limit or |
| 0096: | appoint Item I give and bequeath unto my said dear and loving |
| 0097: | Wife the said Margaret Gymingham all the rings which she now |
| 0098: | hath in her own custody and possession and the ring that I |
| 0099: | had given me at Mr Ovey's buryall and also the sume of ten |
| 0100: | pounds of lawfull Brittish money to buy her mourning Item I |
| 0101: | give and bequeath unto my said Son Nelthorpe Gymingham all |
| 0102: | my Childbed Linnen of what nature kind or sort soever the same |
| 0103: | be and the rest of my Linnen my Will and desire is shall be |
| 0104: | equally divided between my said two Sons Share and Share alike |
| 0105: | Item I give and bequeath unto my said Son Nelthorpe Gymingham |
| 0106: | my gold enamelled Watch Chain and Seal my Pearl Necklace All the |
| 0107: | Furniture of the yellow room (except the Chairs) and all sorts of my |
| 0108: | Plate which is markt with Coats of Arms and also all such |
| 0109: | of my books as he shall think proper to have and Pick out |
| 0110: | the India Cabinet in my Study and the black Cabinet inlaid with |
| 0111: | silver he paying unto my said Son Thomason the sume of twenty pounds |
| 0112: | when my said son Thomason shall attaine his full age of one and |
| 0113: | twenty Years Item I give and bequeath unto my Son Thomason Gymingham |
| 0114: | my Silver Watch and all my Plate which is not markt with Coats |
| 0115: | of Arms Item all the rest and residue of my Reall and Personall Estate |
| 0116: | whatsoever (after my just debts Legacies and Funerall Expences are |
| 0117: | paid and discharged) I give and bequeath unto my said two Sons |
| 0118: | equally to be divided between them share and share alike Subject |
| 0119: | nevertheless and liable and chargeable with the payment of three |
| 0120: | hundred pounds to my said Wife (it being the same or like sume |
| 0121: | of money setled and agreed to be paid to her at the time of my |
| 0122: | decease in and by the said recited Articles reference being thereunto |
| 0123: | had more fully may and Will appear Item I constitute and |
| 0124: | appoint my said loving Wife Margaret Gymingham full and sole |
| 0125: | Executrix of this my last Will and Testament and do make and |
| 0126: | ordaine my loving Friend Thomas Hackman of Henley upon |
| 0127: | Thames aforesaid Gentleman Trustee and Overseer of this my last Will |
| 0128: | desiring him to be aiding and assisting to my said Wife and |
| 0129: | Children to the utmost of his power and I do hereby give unto |
| 0130: | him one guinea to buy him a mourning Ring Item my Will |
| 0131: | and meaning is that my said Executrix and Trustee shall and may |
| 0132: | deduct and to keep to her and himself out of my personall Estate |
| 0133: | all such Charges and expences which they or either of them shall |
| 0134: | be put unto for or by reason of this my Will or the Execuc[i]on of |
| 0135: | the Trust hereby reposed in them I revoak all Wills by me |
| 0136: | heretofore made and declare this to be my last Will and Testament |
| 0137: | only In Witness whereof I the said Thomason Dike Gymingham the |
| 0138: | Testator have to this my last Will and Testament (contained in three |
| 0139: | sheets of Paper affixed together) to each sheet set my hand and |
| 0140: | seal the seventeenth day of February in the eleventh Year of the |
| 0141: | reign of our sovereign Lord George the second by the grace of |
| 0142: | God of great Britaine France and Ireland king Defender of the |
| 0143: | Faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord God One thousand |
| 0144: | seven hundred and thirty seven. |
| 0145: | |
| 0146: | D Gymingham. |
| 0147: | |
| 0148: | Signed sealed |
| 0149: | published declared and delivered by the said Testator Thomason Dike |
| 0150: | Gymingham as and for his last Will and Testament in the |
| 0151: | presence of us who subscribe our names as Witnesses to the |
| 0152: | Execution hereof in his Presence and at his request and in the |
| 0153: | Presence of each other (the words) and Katherine Rusden being |
| 0154: | twice severally interlined in the first sheet |
| 0155: | |
| 0156: | Jane Ovey |
| 0157: | Tho[ma]s Hackman |
| 0158: | Freeman Hill |
| 0159: |
Preparation of this entry
| Post status: | Published |
| Transcript by: | the author |
| Author: | Tony Lynch |
| Checked by: | Cynthia Robinson |
| Date posted: | 05th February 2013 |
| Date modified: | 16th March 2014 |
Comments
Spellings of Nelthrope/Nelthorpe and Catherine/Katherine are inconsistent