Will of Roger Blackman
Occupation
- 218: Maltster
Location
Maltster of Henley upon Thames
| Document reference: | TNA PROB 11/606 |
| First date: | 17 September 1723 |
| Probate date: | 20 December 1725 |
| Probate court: | London |
Executors, Witnesses and Court Officials etc.
| Witness: | Richard Withers |
| Witness: | Richard Talor |
| Witness: | Francis Blandy |
| Court Official: | John Bettesworth |
| Executrix: | Sarah Blackman |
| (The wife of Roger Blackman; also a beneficiary and trustee with Richard Fisher) | |
| Other: | Richard Fisher |
| (Trustee with Sarah Blackman) |
Bequests
To: Elizabeth Wheeler (Daughter)
To my Wife Sarah Blackman and to my loving friend Richard Fisher of Henley two hundred pounds to be invested by them or the survivor of them in their names to pay the interest to my Daughter Elizabeth Wheeler for life and not to her husband or any other husband and after her death unless she has made provision otherwise then the trustees shall stand possessed of the securities and for the money due for the sole use and benefit of the children of my daughter Elizabeth in equal shares to be paid when they attain the age of twenty one and if any of them should die before that age then that share should pass to the survivors
Bequest Types
Names
To: John Blackman (Son)
I give to my son John Blackman the sum of seventy pounds to be paid immediately after the decease of my dear and loving wife.
Bequest Types
Names
To: Thomas Blackman (Son)
I give to my son Thomas Blackman the sum of fifty pounds to be paid him immediately after the decease of my dear and loving wife
Bequest Types
Names
To: Sarah Blackman (Wife)
I give to my dear and loving wife Sarah Blackman all the rest and residue of my estate, goods and chattels after my debts, legacies and funeral expenses have been paid.
Bequest Types
Names
Transcript
| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen |
| 0002: | I Roger Blackman of Henley upon Thames in the County of |
| 0003: | Oxon Malster do make and ordain this my last Will and |
| 0004: | Testament in manner following (vizt) Imprimis I give and |
| 0005: | bequeath unto my Dear and loving Wife Sarah Blackman |
| 0006: | and to my loving friend Richard Fisher of Henley aforesaid |
| 0007: | Malster the Sume of two hundred pounds of lawfull money of |
| 0008: | Great Brittain to be by them placed out at Interest in their |
| 0009: | Names or in the name of the Survivor of them upon the best |
| 0010: | Security or Securityes that they can get for the same to the |
| 0011: | intent and purpose that they the said Sarah Blackman and |
| 0012: | Richard Fisher and the Survivor of them and the Executors and |
| 0013: | Administrators of the Survivor of them shall and may stand |
| 0014: | and be possessed thereof and of the Securities that shall from |
| 0015: | time to time be had and taken for the same and of the |
| 0016: | moneys thereon due to and for the Severall uses and Subject |
| 0017: | to the Trusts and Conditions herein after mentioned |
| 0018: | concerning the same two hundred pounds (that is to say) |
| 0019: | that the said Trustees and the survivor of them and the |
| 0020: | Executors and Administrators of such survivor shall and |
| 0021: | Will pay the interest and product of the said two hundred |
| 0022: | pounds unto my loving Daughter Elizabeth Wheeler for |
| 0023: | and during the Term of her Naturall life Seperate and apart |
| 0024: | from her Husband or any other Husband hereafter to be |
| 0025: | taken and so as the Same or any part thereof shall not be |
| 0026: | Subject to the debts Dispositions forfeitures Engagements |
| 0027: | or Contracts of her said Husband or any other Husband |
| 0028: | hereafter to be taken but that all such Sumes of money as |
| 0029: | shall be her paid unto her during her Coverture shall be paid |
| 0030: | into her own hands and that her receipt shall be a sufficient |
| 0031: | discharge for the same and that from and after the death of |
| 0032: | my said Daughter Elizabeth Wheeler then my said Trustees |
| 0033: | and the survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators |
| 0034: | of such survivor shall stand and be possessed of the said two |
| 0035: | hundred pounds and of the Securities that shall be then had |
| 0036: | and taken for the same and of the money thereon due to and |
| 0037: | for such use or uses intents or purposes as my said Daughter |
| 0038: | Elizabeth Wheeler whether Covert or Sole by any Deed in |
| 0039: | Writing under her hand and Seale attested in the presence of |
| 0040: | two or more Credible Witnesses or by her last Will and |
| 0041: | Testament in Writing duly attested and executed as aforesaid |
| 0042: | shall limitt direct and appoint and for want of Such limitation |
| 0043: | direction or appointment their my said Trustees and the Survivor |
| 0044: | of them and the Executors and Administrators of Such Survivor |
| 0045: | shall stand and be possessed thereof and of the Securities that |
| 0046: | shall be then had and taken for the same and of the moneys |
| 0047: | thereon due to and for the sole use benefitt and behoofe of the |
| 0048: | Children of my said Daughter Elizabeth Wheeler share and |
| 0049: | share alike and to be paid to them as they shall Severally attain |
| 0050: | the age of one and twenty years and if any of them shall |
| 0051: | depart this life before they shall have attained that age that |
| 0052: | then the part therein of him or her so dying Shall remaine to the |
| 0053: | Survivors or Survivor of them Item I give and bequeath unto |
| 0054: | my Son John Blackman the Sume of Seventy pounds to be paid |
| 0055: | imediately after the decease of my Said dear and loving |
| 0056: | Wife Item I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Blackman |
| 0057: | the Sume of Fifty pounds to be paid him imediately after the |
| 0058: | Decease of my said dear and loving Wife and Lastly all the |
| 0059: | rest and Residue of my Estate goods and Chattells wheresoever |
| 0060: | and whatsoever after my debts Legacies and Funerall Expenses |
| 0061: | are paid and Satisfyed I give Devise and bequeath unto my |
| 0062: | said Dear and loving Wife Sarah Blackman whom I make and |
| 0063: | ordain the full and Sole Executrix of this my last Wll and Testament |
| 0064: | and I doe hereby revoke all former Wills by me at any time |
| 0065: | heretofore made and do publish and Declare this to be my last |
| 0066: | Will and Testament and no other in Witness whereof I have |
| 0067: | to this my last Will and Testament sett my hand and Seale this |
| 0068: | Seventeenth day of September Anno Domini 1723 |
| 0069: | Roger Blackman |
| 0070: | Signed Sealed published Declared and Delivered by the Said Roger |
| 0071: | Blackman the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament |
| 0072: | in the presence of us and then attested by us in his presence |
| 0073: | Rich[ar]d Withers |
| 0074: | Richard Talor |
| 0075: | Fran[cis] Blandy |
Preparation of this entry
| Post status: | Published |
| Transcript by: | Viv Greenwood |
| Author: | Viv Greenwood |
| Checked by: | Not checked |
| Date posted: | 23rd February 2013 |
| Date modified: | 26th January 2014 |