Will of Kitty Staniford, spinster, 1846 (proved 1864)

Oxford Probate Registry

This is the last Will and Testament of me Kitty Staniford of Winslow in the County of Bucks, Singlewoman.  I give and devise unto my Daughter Mary the Wife of William Norman All the freehold copyhold and other messuages lands tenements and hereditaments and all other the real estate of which I may be seized at the time of my death with their respective rights members and appurtenances To hold the same and every part thereof unto and to the use of the said Mary Newman [sic] her heirs and assigns for ever And I give and bequeath unto the said Mary Newman all my ready money and securities for money and all other the personal estate and effects to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease To hold the same and every part thereof and all my Estate and interest therein and thereto unto the said Mary Norman her executors administrators and assigns absolutely Subject to the payment of all such debts as I may justly owe at the time of my death my funeral expences and the expences of proving and establishing this my Will And I hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said Mary Norman full and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament and revoke all former and other Wills by me heretofore made In Witness whereof I the said Kitty Staniford the Testatrix have hereunto set my hand the Seventh day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty six
Kitty Staniford [signature]
Signed by the said Testatrix Kitty Staniford in the joint presence of us who in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
Rich(ar)d Staniford [signature] Dav Tho. Willis [signature]

ON the Twenty fourth day of March 1864, the Will of Kitty Staniford late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Spinster, deceased, who died the Twenty sixth day of October1863, at Winslow aforesaid, was proved at the District Registry attached to Her Majesty’s Court of Probate at Oxford by the Oath of Mary Norman of Saint Albans in the County of Hertford, Widow, the sole Executrix therein named she having been first sworn duly to administer.
It is hereby certified that the above is a correct Copy. Dated this Thirty first day of March 1864.
Effects under £450.  No Leaseholds
Extracted by Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow, Bucks.

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Notes

Kitty Staniford (bap. 6 Jan 1776) was the sister of Richard Staniford (d.1857) and daughter of Richard Staniford (d.1813). Her illegitimate daughter Mary was baptised in 1799 and married William Norman of St Pancras in 1827. She seems to have been fully recognised by her very respectable family.