CATHERINE SUTHERY WIDOW WILL WRITTEN AND PROVED 1820. See research notes below.
Says she of sound mind and whole understanding.
All wearing apparel to her servant Mary Loftin.
After debts and funeral expenses paid everything left equally to John Mossenton cordwainer of Great Marlow and Thomas Rolls draper of the same and their heirs forever. Includes the house where testator lived and a cottage next to it occupied by Widow Davis.
John and Thomas are the will's executors.
Catherine made a mark rather than signed.
Witnesses: Francis Hickman, William Westbrook and Henry Goldsmith.
Research notes:
Catherine was the widow of Chapel Street grocer Joseph Suthery. The cottages referred to in the will were in Chapel Street. Her husband left them to her for life then to his Anderson nephews. It isn't clear then why Catherine leaves the property to Mossenton and Rolls as they weren't within her ability to bequeath. A widow Anderson occupied the former Suthery home in 1833.
Catherine was Catherine Bird at marriage.
Thomas Rolls had premises in the High Street. John Mossenton was based in Chapel Street. William Westbrook was a Market Square butcher. Henry Goldsmith was an attorney.
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Transcribed by me from a will held at the National Archives Kew and summarised here.
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