Will summary for George Trash, surgeon of Great Marlow, proved 1796. (NB If you are seeking George Trash of Marlow, painter/plumber/glazier/ironmonger, whose will was proved 1777, a summary of that will follow when time allows!)
Will written 1795.
George says that he is sick weak in body but sound in mind and memory.
All messuages, land, tenements wherever they be go to wife Ann until such time as she remarries or dies. She also to receive all household goods, chattels, furniture, ready money, book debts, notes [credit notes], and mortgages. After her death or re marriage, whichever shall first "happily" occur, all of the above shall be divided equally between all surviving of their children, or their children's heirs if they dead with property to be held as tenants in common.
Executors: (All of Great Marlow)
George Davenport of Court Garden, John Hone, esq and Robert Goldsmith, attorney.
Witnessed by:
Sarah Sneath and James Chappell who signed their names and Ann G......s who made her mark.
Transcribed by me from a P.C.C will kept at the National Archives, Kew.
George was a surgeon and apothecary, the usual combination at the time. He was in partnership with surgeon William Sneath, and after William's death continued alone. In 1781 George took out advertisements in the local papers to say that six years after William's death he was now moving his "shop" and business to his own home within Marlow. The same notice tells us that George had attended the usual course of lectures in physick, anatomy, chemistry, and midwifery at St Thomas and St Guys hospitals. All patients "carefully and diligently" attended to.
Note: Widow Ann Trash died 7 Oct 1830 age 73, at her then residence in Welwyn.
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Call the apothecary- Early medical care in Marlow here.
Will Sarah Sneath here
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