Will of Mary Waters
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 11/610 |
| First date: | 18 January 1725/6 |
| Probate date: | 19 July 1726 |
| Probate court: | London |
Executors, Witnesses and Court Officials etc.
| Executor: | John Waters |
| Relationship: | Son |
| Witness: | W[illia]m House |
| Witness: | Jona[than] Sayer |
| Witness: | D Gymingham |
| Court Official: | Edward Kinaston |
| Court Official: | John Bettesworth |
| Witness: | John Horton |
| (codicil only) | |
| Witness: | Mary Almond |
| (codicil only) |
Bequests
To: William Waters, James Waters, Joshua Waters (Sons)
I give to my son, William, £150; to my son James, £50; to my son Joshua, £50 and to my son Robert £40. All these to be paid within one year of my decease. James is to have a further £10 from the sale of the property at Cheshunt.
Bequest Types
Names
To: Jarvis (Daughter)
I give to my daughter Jarvis £100 to be paid within one year of my decease.
Bequest Types
Names
To: Mary Fennell (Grand daughter)
To my grandaughter Mary Fennell £10 to be paid within one year of my decease
Bequest Types
Names
To: Grandchildren (Grand children)
To my grandchildren £5 each to be paid within one year of my decease
Bequest Types
To: William, Robert, Joshua, James Waters, Jarvis, Mary Fennell (Children)
I give to my sons William, Robert, Joshua, and James and their respective wives, and my daughter Jarvis and her husband, and grandaughter, Mary Fennell, £5 each to buy mourning.
Bequest Types
Names
To: Mary Fennell, Sarah Fennell, Mary Jarvis (Grand children)
To my grandaughter Mary Fennell I give my household goods and wearing apparel. In a codicil dated 12 February 1725 these to remain in the custody of daughter Jarvis until Mary Fennell's marriage. Should Mary Fennell die before receiving them they are to go to 1)grandaughter Sarah Fennell 2) grandaughter Mary Jarvis on the same conditions.
Bequest Types
Names
To: John Waters (Son)
I give to my son John Waters my messuage in Cheshunt, Hertford. This is to be sold to pay the legacies, debts and to pay out £40 for my funeral. The rest of the personal estate to go to John Waters.
Bequest Types
Location of property
Names
Transcript
| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen |
| 0002: | I Mary Waters of Henley upon Thames in the County of Oxon widow |
| 0003: | do make publish and declare my last Will and Testament in manner |
| 0004: | following and First and principally I commend my Soule into the hands |
| 0005: | of God Almighty hopeing for Salvation through the merits and |
| 0006: | mediation of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and my body I com[m]itt |
| 0007: | to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor |
| 0008: | herein after named And as for my worldly Estate I dispose thereof |
| 0009: | as followeth Imprimis my Will is that the sum[m]e of Fourty pounds |
| 0010: | be laid out upon my Funerall charges Item I give to my Sonn |
| 0011: | William Waters the sum[m]e of One hundred and Fifty pounds Item |
| 0012: | I give unto my Sonns James and Joshua the sum[m]e of [erasure |
| 0013: | erasure] Fiftie pounds apeice Item I give to my daughter Jarvis |
| 0014: | the sum[m]e of One hundred pounds Item I give unto my Grandaughter |
| 0015: | Mary Fennell the sum[m]e of Tenn pounds and to all my other Grand= |
| 0016: | children the sum[m]e of Five pounds apeice Item I give unto my sonn |
| 0017: | Robert the sum[]me of Forty pounds All which said legacies I appoint |
| 0018: | to be paid within one yeare next after my decease Item I give |
| 0019: | unto my said Sonns William Robert Joshua and James and to |
| 0020: | their respective wifes and to my daughter Jarvis and her |
| 0021: | husband and to my said Grandaughter Mary Fennell the sum[m]e of Five |
| 0022: | pounds apeice to buy each of them mourning Item I give to my said |
| 0023: | Grandaughter Mary Fennell All my household goods and wearing |
| 0024: | apparell Item I give unto my Sonn John Waters All that my Messuage |
| 0025: | or Tenement or Farme and lands lying and being att Chesthunt in the |
| 0026: | County of Hertford and all other my reall Estate whatsoever and |
| 0027: | wheresoever To have and to hold the same unto my said sonn John |
| 0028: | Waters his heires and assignes forever Butt nevertheless charged and |
| 0029: | chargeable with And I do hereby charge my said Messuage or |
| 0030: | Tenement and lands and all other my reall Estate with the payment |
| 0031: | of all the money lagacies herein before given by me and my Will is that |
| 0032: | my said Messuage or Tenement Farme and lands and all other my |
| 0033: | reall Estate be imediately Sold for payment of such legacies Item |
| 0034: | I constitute and appoint my said Sonn John Waters full and Sole |
| 0035: | Executor of this my last Will and Testament to whome after payment |
| 0036: | of my debts legacies and Funerall Expences I give and devise all |
| 0037: | the rest and residue of my personall Estate whatsoever and |
| 0038: | wheresoever Item I further give unto my said Sonn James the |
| 0039: | further sum[m]e of Tenn pounds to be paid out of my said Messuage |
| 0040: | or Tenement Farme and lands I revoke all Wills by me heretofore |
| 0041: | made And publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament |
| 0042: | only In testimony whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand and Seale |
| 0043: | the Eighteenth day of January Anno D[omi]ni 1725 |
| 0044: | |
| 0045: | Mary Waters her marke |
| 0046: | |
| 0047: | |
| 0048: | Memorandum that on the 18th day of January 1725 |
| 0049: | this Will being written on two Sheets of paper and each Sheete |
| 0050: | signed by the Testatrix Mrs Waters was then Signed Sealed |
| 0051: | published and declared by her to be her last Will and Testament |
| 0052: | the word Hertford in the first Sheete and the word with in the |
| 0053: | second Sheete being first interlined in the presence of us who |
| 0054: | Subscribe our names in her presence |
| 0055: | |
| 0056: | W[illia]m House |
| 0057: | Jona[than] Sayer |
| 0058: | D Gymingham |
| 0059: | |
| 0060: | |
| 0061: | I the within named Mary Waters the Testatrix do make |
| 0062: | publish and declare this to be Codicill to my within written Will |
| 0063: | and do desire that the same may be accepted and taken as such |
| 0064: | to all intents and purposes whatsoever Whereas I have in and |
| 0065: | by my within written will given unto my Grandaughter Mary |
| 0066: | Fennell all my household goods and wearing apparell Now my |
| 0067: | will and meaning is that my said Grandaughter shall not have |
| 0068: | the possession of or be intituled to my said household goods or |
| 0069: | wearing apparell untill the day of her marriage but that the |
| 0070: | same shall remaine in the Custody and possession of my daughter |
| 0071: | Jarvis untill the day of the marriage of my said Grandaughter |
| 0072: | and then and not before to be delivered to her and in case my said |
| 0073: | Grandaughter dyes before marriage then I give my said household |
| 0074: | goods and wearing apparell unto my Grandaughter Sarah |
| 0075: | Fennell in case she lives to be married and then and not before |
| 0076: | to be delivered to her and in the meane time to remaine in the |
| 0077: | custody of my said daughter Jarvis and in case my said Grand= |
| 0078: | daughter Sara Fennell also dyes before marriage I give my said |
| 0079: | household goods and wearing apparell unto my Grandaughter |
| 0080: | Mary Jarvis All other things in my within written will conteined |
| 0081: | I do hereby ratifie and confirme In Testimony whereof I have |
| 0082: | hereunto sett my hand Seale the Twelveth day of February |
| 0083: | Anno D[omi]ni 1725 |
| 0084: | |
| 0085: | Mary Waters her marke |
| 0086: | |
| 0087: | Signed Sealed published |
| 0088: | and declared by the Testatrix Mary Waters as and for a Codicill to |
| 0089: | her within written Will in the presence of us who all Subscribe our |
| 0090: | names in her presence the words Grand and Mary being first |
| 0091: | severally interlined |
| 0092: | |
| 0093: | Jona[than] Sayer |
| 0094: | John Norton |
| 0095: | Mary Almond her marke |
Preparation of this entry
| Post status: | Published |
| Transcript by: | Adele |
| Author: | Adele |
| Checked by: | Cynthia Robinson |
| Date posted: | 20th November 2013 |
| Date modified: | 27th June 2014 |