Will And Research Sarah Coombs

Will of Sarah Coombs of Great Marlow, Widow. Will written 1830. Proved 1836.

Appoints James Brooks, baker of Great Marlow and George Wilson of ....Middlesex, gentleman executors and gives them £20 each for their trouble.

Niece Elizabeth Wilson wife of said George Wilson £50.

Nephew Thomas Belton the elder of Sheerness in the county of Kent shipwright son of my brother William Belton £50.

Mary Belton wife of late brother Thomas Belton the of Sheerness £10.

£20 divided equally between all children of James Richards of Sheerness, clerk living at time of testator's death.

Wearing apparel and linen divided equally between the said Elizabeth Wilson and Mary Belton.

Her plate [silver] divided between said Elizabeth Wilson and said Thomas Belton the elder.

All furniture to be sold and the money from that and anything else left in her estate to be divided between said Elizabeth Wilson, Mary Belton, Thomas Belton the elder and the then living children of James Richards.

Will witnessed by Samuel Carter of Great Marlow and Ralph Spicer of Great Marlow.

Notes:

Sarah Coombs was 85 when she died. She was buried with her husband Jonathan who had died in 1812. Their grave can be seen on the blog here. She lived on the Causeway Great Marlow in 1835 a few doors from her executor James Bird Brooks. A clock was stolen from her in a burglary that year. She did not head her own household in 1833. A George Wilson has recently left a house on the Causeway then, this could be the man of that name in her will or another relative.

Nee Belton, Sarah married Jonathan at St Botolphs, Aldgate, London in 1796. ["England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJ7C-LLF : 12 March 2020), Jonathan Coombs, 1796.]

The probate entry for the will says that the executor named in the will as James Brooks was correctly James Bird Brooks. More on him here.

Ralph Spicer was a lawyer. More on him here.

There were three men in Marlow called Samuel Carter in the 1830s - a blacksmith in the High Street, a shoe maker and a carpenter.

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Will is held in the National Archives Kew. Will transcribed by Charlotte Day and then summarised here by her.

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