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Will of Mary Bradbury of Granborough, spinster, 1814 (proved 1815)
National Archives, PROB 11/1566/176
Whereas I Mary Bradbury of Grandborough in the County of Bucks Spinster have or do intended [sic] to surrender to the use of my Will All and every my Copyhold Messuages \Cottages/ Lands Tenements and Hered(itament)s to which I have been admitted and held by me by copy of Court Roll and lying in the Manor of Winslow with its Members in the \said/ County of Bucks Now I do hereby publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner following (that is to say) First I give and devise unto my Brother Robert Bradbury for and during the term of his natural Life All and every my freehold and Copyhold Messuages Cottages Closes Land Tenements and real Estate situate lying and being in the Parish of Grandborough aforesaid or elsewhere with the respective Members Rights and Appurt(enance)s thereunto belonging used or any wise appertaining with remainder to Samuel Greaves Dudley of Winslow in the said County of Bucks Lacemanufacturer and his Heirs during the Life of him the said Robert Bradbury In Trust to preserve the contingent Estates and remainders hereinafter limited from being defeated or destroyed with remainder to John Bradbury Son of the said Robert Bradbury for his Life with remainder to the said Samuel Greaves Dudley and his Heirs during the life of the said John Bradbury In Trust to preserve the contingent \remainders hereinafter limited with/ remainder to the Heirs of the Body of the said John Bradbury lawfully issuing And In Default of such Issue The remainder to Mary Bradbury and Eve Bradbury Daughters of my Late Brother Thomas Bradbury and the Heirs of the Body or Bodies of the said Mary Bradbury and Eve Bradbury lawfully issuing as tenants in common and not as Joint Tenants And for Default of Issue of either of them As to her share to the use of the Survivor or them the said Mary \Brabury & Eve/ Bradbury and the Heirs of her Body And in Default of such Issue to the use of my own right Heirs for ever And I give and bequeath the following Legacies unto the several and respective persons herein after named (that is to say) To my said Nephew John Bradbury two hundred pounds To my Nieces the said Mary Bradbury and Eve Bradbury two hundred pounds apiece To my Niece Elizabeth the Daughter of my said late Brother Thomas Bradbury One hundred pounds To Thomas Bradbury of Mursley in the said County of Bucks Labourer my Kingsman [sic] Richard Higgins and Mary Sanders my servants Ten pounds each and to the said Samuel Greaves Dudley nineteen pounds and nineteen Shillings All which said Legacies I do hereby direct to be paid to the said several and respective Legatees at the times and in the manner hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) To my said Nephew John Bradbury Samuel Greaves Dudley Richard Higgins and Mary Sanders within six Months next after my Decease & to my said Nieces the said Mary Bradbury Eve Bradbury and Elizabeth Bradbury when and as soon as they shall severally and respectively attain the Age of twenty one Years and in the mean time and until my said Nieces shall arrive to their said Age and Ages of twenty one Years I will and direct that the respective Legacies by me hereinbefore given and bequeathed to them shall be put and placed out and continued at Interest in the Names of my Ex(ecut)ors hereinafter named and the Interest thereof as the same shall from time to time becomes due and received by them paid and applied to the use and benefit of my several Nieces during their
[p.2] respective Minorities as they my Ex(ecut)ors shall think fit and proper And my Mind and Will is that in case of the Decease of either or any of my said Nephew or Nieces before his her or their Legacies by me hereinbefore given and bequeathed to them as aforesaid shall become due and payable leaving any Child or Children of his her or their Body or Bodies lawfully begotten that then the Legacies of him her or them so dying shall from time to time belong to such Child . . . of him . . . so dying and be paid to such Child . . . at the Age of twenty one Years respectively with benefit of Survivorship amongst them as to the Share of any such Children dying before such age And if . . . any of my said Nephew or Nieces shall have but one Child who live to attain such age Then I give the whole of his or her parents Legacy to such one Child for his . . . use and Benefit But in case of the Decease . . . of . . . any of my said Nephew or Nieces . . . without leaving any Issue of his . . . Body . . . Then that the Legacy of him . . . so dying . . . shall belong to the Surviving Brother or Sister of him . . . so dying and to be paid at such time and in such manner as hereinbefore expressed touching his . . . original Legacy . . . Also I give and bequeath unto my said Nieces Mary Bradbury and Eve Bradbury all my wearing Apparel and ornaments of my person of every Nature and kind soever to be divided between them as soon as conveniently may be after my Decease equally share and share alike Also I give and bequeath unto my said Niece Mary Bradbury one Feather Bed two pair of Sheets One Silver half pint two Silver Table Spoons six Chairs with circular tops now standing in my Parlour Tea Kettle and Stand my best set of China Cups Saucers Teapot and Basons six pewter plates and three pewter Dishes which I direct may be given and delivered to her as soon as conveniently may be after my Decease Also I give and bequeath unto my said Niece Eve Bradbury one Feather Bed two pair of Sheets two Silver Table Spoons a pair of Brown Chest of Drawers now standing in my blue Room my second best set of China Cups Saucers Teapot and Basons six pewter plates and three pewter Dishes which I also direct may be given and delivered to her as soon as conveniently may be after my Decease And as to the rest and residue of my Household Goods and Furniture Ready Money and Securities for Money Goods Chattels Rights Credits Personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever I give and bequeath the same and every part thereof and all my Estate and Interest therein and thereto unto my said Brother Robert Bra\d/bury his Ex(ecut)ors Adm(inistrat)ors and Assigns absolutely Subject nevertheless and charged and chargeable to and with the payment of all such Debts as I shall justly owe at the time of my Decease my Funeral and Testamentary Expences and the several and respective Legacies or Sums of Money by me hereinbefore given and bequeathed And I do hereby make constitute and appoint my said Brother Robert Bradbury and the said Samuel Greaves Dudley joint Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby annulling all former and other Wills and Codicils by me at any time heretofore made And my Will is and I do hereby direct that my said Ex(ecut)ors shall each of them be answerable for his own Acts and Deeds only and not the one of them for the other of them and that they or either of them shall not be answerable for more Monies than shall actually be received by them or come to their respective Hands or use nor for any loss or reduction therein without their or one of their wilful neglect or default And also that the said
[p.3] Samuel Greaves Dudley shall retain all his Cost Charges Damages and Expences in the Trusts or Executorship of this my Will out of the Estates and Effects in him vested by virtue thereof or out of the Monies arising therefrom In Witness whereof I the said Mary Bradbury the Testatrix have to this my last Will and Testament contained on three Sheets of paper at the bottom of each of the first two Sheets thereof set my Hand and to this third and last my Hand and Seal this eleventh day of February in the Year of our Lord Christ one thousand eight hundred and fourteen The mark and Seal of Mary Bradbury \the Testatrix/ Signed sealed published and declared by the said Mary Bradbury the Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto have subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereof the Interlineation appearing the first \sheet being first/ made Char. Willis Attorney Winslow John Manden James Tattam
Notes
Mary Bradbury was buried at Granborough on 26 April 1814, aged 69. The surname became very common at Granborough in the 19th century but is not found in the 18th-century parish registers. She was probably the daughter of Thomas and Mary Bradbury baptised at Great Horwood in 1746. That would make her the sister-in-law of Thomas Blake of Winslow (1715-84). She was the housekeeper of Richard Stevens, under whose will proved in 1799 she inherited land at Biggin.