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| Introduction | Trees | ||||
| Tracing the Higgss | |||||
| Proofs | |||||
| The records | |||||
| Introduction | Introduction | ||||
| Tracing | Tracing the Higgss | ||||
| Proofs | Proofs | ||||
| PP_139 | Sarah Higgs (139), the mother of Catherine Nevill (69) | ||||
| Children | |||||
| Catherine Nevill daughter of Bartholomew Nevill, tallow chandler, and Sarah was baptised on 14 September 1768 in Christchurch Spitalfields. | PP_69 | ||||
| Bartholomew and Sarah Nevill baptised 8 children in Christchurch Spitalfields between 1767 and 1783 - Sarah Ann in 1767, Catherine in 1768, Bartholmew in 1770, Sophia in 1772, Sarah in 1773, John in 1776, Margaret Elizabeth in 1778, and Esther in 1783. | |||||
| Marriage | |||||
| Sarah Higgs of St. Michael Cornhill and Bartholomew Nevill of Christchurch Spitalfields married in Christchurch Spitalfields on 28 September 1766. | Marriage | ||||
| The admission of Thomas Higgs to the Company of Clothworkers in 1768 was withnessed by Bartholome Nevill, skinner. | Admission | ||||
| Catherine Higgs in her will of 1781 mentions her 'daughter Neville'. | Will | ||||
| Death | |||||
| Sarah Nevill aged 56 was buried in Bunhill Fields on 9 April 1797 (born c. 1741). | |||||
| Birth | |||||
| Sarah daughter of Thomas Higgs and Catherine was baptised in St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London on 14 June 1741. | Birth | ||||
| Parents | |||||
| The maiden name of Catherine Higgs was unknown to us for many years - no marriage of a Thomas Higgs and Sarah could be found any where near the 1730s. Finally, in 2010, a search on Ancestry.co.uk showed a marriage on 2 January 1737 between Thomas Higgs and Katherine Sedgwick at St. Mary at Lambeth - a perfect fit to their children's baptisms. | Marriage | ||||
| So the mother of Catherine Nevill (69), | |||||
| Sarah Higgs (139), born in 1741 in Bishopsgate, | |||||
| married to Bartholomew Nevill (138) in 1766 in Spitalfields, | |||||
| died in >1781 in , was the daughter of | |||||
| Thomas Higgs (278), and Catherine Sedgwick (279). | PP_278 | ||||
| PP_278 | That Thomas Higgs (278) was the father of Sarah Higgs (139) | ||||
| Children | |||||
| Sarah daughter of Thomas Higgs and Catherine was baptised in St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London on 14 June 1741. | PP_139 | ||||
| Thomas and Catherine Higgs had 9 children between 1738 and 1754, Sarah in 1738, Catherine in 1739, Sarah in 1741, John in 1742, Thomas in 1743 (died before 1746), Eusebia in 1745, Thomas in 1746, William in 1752, and Margaret Mary in 1754 (died in 1757) | B_1741 | ||||
| Marriage | |||||
| Thomas Higgs and Katherine Sedgwick were married on 2 January 1737 at St. Mary at Lambeth. | Marriage | ||||
| Death | |||||
| Thomas Higgs of St. Michael Cornhill was buried on 16 March 1768 aged 58 (born c. 1710). | Death | ||||
| Thomas Higgs, Citizen and Clothworker of St. Michael Cornhill left a will proved on 14 March 1768 in which he leaves everything to his wife Catherine. | Will | ||||
| Birth | |||||
| Thomas son of John Higgs and Martha was baptised on 17 October 1709 in St. Botolph Bishopsgate, London. | Birth | ||||
| Parents | |||||
| The will of Martha Higgs, widow, of Long Alley, St. Leonard, Shoreditch, Mdsx. Leaves bequests to her sons Thomas Higgs and John Bagwell, and daughter Martha wife of Abraham Toft. She also leaves to her daughter Elizabeth Whitehead "wife of that sorry villain Abel Whitehead the sum of four pence to buy a psalter for her wicked rogue of a husband who robbed me of a sum of money and plate to the value of £100 on the 29th day of September 1740". | Will | ||||
| This will indicates that the testator is Martha Warren, who married Isaac Bagwell in 1701, and after his death in 1707, married John Higgs. John Bagwell and Martha Toft were her children by her first marriage, and John Higgs, and Elizabeth Whitehead children by her second. | |||||
| So the father of Sarah Higgs (139), | |||||
| Thomas Higgs (278), born in 1709 in Bishopsgate, | |||||
| married to Catherine Sedgwick (279) in 1737 in Lambeth, | PP_279 | ||||
| died in 1768 in Cornhill, was the son of | |||||
| John Higgs (556), and Martha Warren (557). | PP_556 | ||||
| PP_556 | That John Higgs (556) was the father of Thomas Higgs (278) | ||||
| Records | The Records | ||||
| M_1701 | 1701-10-16 Marriage in St. Helens, Bishopsgate (EMW, Ancestry.co.uk) | Martha (557) | 1701 | ||
| Isaack Baggwell in Nortonfollgate Baker and Martha Warren of this parish were married October the sixteenth | |||||
| 1702-09-13 Baptism in St. Giles (EMW, Ancestry.co.uk) | Martha (557) | 1702 | |||
| John s. Isaac Bagwell Drapr & Martha bo. 11th | |||||
| 1706-03-03 Baptism in St. Dunstan, Stepney (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2010) | Martha (557) | 1706 | |||
| Martha dau. of Isaac & Martha Bagwell Spitelf. Baker March 3 1705 | |||||
| D_1707 | 1707-03-07 Burial in St. Botolph Bishopgate London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2010) | Family (557) | 1707 | ||
| Isaac Baggwell | |||||
| B_1709 | 1709-10-17 Baptism in St. Botolph Bishopgate London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2009) | John (556) | 1709 | ||
| Thomas son of John Higgs & Martha | Martha (557) | ||||
| Thomas (278) | |||||
| 1713-03-28 Baptism in St. Leonard, Shoreditch Middlesex (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2016) | John (556) | 1713 | |||
| Elizabeth d. of John Higgs & Martha, Hog Lane | Martha (557) | ||||
| 1716-01-01 Baptism in St. Leonard, Shoreditch Middlesex (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2016) | John (556) | 1716 | |||
| Frances d. of John Higgs & Martha, Hog Lane | Martha (557) | ||||
| 1718-10-23 Burial in St. Leonard, Shoreditch Middlesex (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2016) | Family (556) | 1718 | |||
| Frances Higgs, Hog Lane | |||||
| I_1724 | 1724-11-24 Indenture as Apprentice in the Clothworkers Company (GUIL, EMW) | Thomas (278) | |||
| Thomas Higgs apprenticed to Ralph Toon, Citizen and Clothworker of London for 7 years from 3 November 1723 at the standard fee of 5s. payable to the Company. Notes as the son of John Higgs, late of the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex, Woolcomber, deceased. | John (556) | ||||
| 1730-12-31 Marriage in St. Mary, Islington, Middlesex (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2016) | Family (557) | 1730 | |||
| Abel Whitehead & Eliza: Higgs both of this parish | |||||
| A_1731 | 1731-02 Admission to the Freedom of the Clothworkers Company (GUIL, EMW) | Thomas (278) | 1731 | ||
| Thomas Higgs - Citizen and Clothworker by apprenticeship, at the standard ex-apprentice's fee of 5s. payable to the Company. No tests are named. | |||||
| M_1737 | 1737-01-02 Marriage in St. Mary at Lambeth (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2010) | Thomas (278) | 1737 | ||
| Thomas Higgs and Katherine Sedgwick January 2 1736 | Catherine (279) | ||||
| 1738-06-25 Baptism in St. Botolph Bishopgate London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2010) | Thomas (278) | 1738 | |||
| Sarah Higgs da. of Thomas & Catherine | Catherine (279) | ||||
| 1739-09-09 Baptism in St. Botolph Bishopgate London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2010) | Thomas (278) | 1739 | |||
| Catherine Higgs da. of Thomas & Catherine | Catherine (279) | ||||
| 1740-07-02 Indenture as Apprentice in the Clothworkers Company (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2013). | Thomas (278) | 1740 | |||
| Thomas Scott son of Thomas Scott of Fulham in the County of Middlesex Bricklayer doth put himself Apprentice to Tho. Higgs Citizen and Clothworker of London … seven years … in consideration of eighty pounds. Signed Thomas Higgs | |||||
| B_1741 | 1741-06-14 Baptism in St. Botolph Bishopgate London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2009) | Thomas (278) | 1741 | ||
| Sarah Higgs son (sic.) of Thomas & Catherine | Catherine (279) | ||||
| Sarah (139) | |||||
| 1742-06-27 Baptism in St. Botolph Bishopgate London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2010) | Thomas (278) | 1742 | |||
| John Higgs son of Thomas & Catherine | Catherine (279) | ||||
| 1742-07-14 Election as Liveryman in the Clothworkers Company (GUIL, EMW). | Thomas (278) | ||||
| Thomas Higgs first appears as paying quarterly dues or Quarterage in the year midsummer 1741 to midsummer 1742. He appears in the Company's oldest surviving printed Livery Book, dated (implicitely, 12 December) 1760, as a Liveryman of 'Without Bishopsgate'. He paid Quarterage in the year midsummer 1765 to 1766, when the recording system altered, and appears in the earliest hand-written list of Liverymen, dated 18 December 1767, when he is shown as 'of Cornhill'. He does not appear in later annual lists, whether as Liveryman, Warden, or Assistant, and had presumably died between 18 December 1767 and 16 December 1768. | |||||
| D_1742 | 1742-10-26 Burial in St. Leonard Shoreditch (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2013) | Martha (557) | 1742 | ||
| Martha Higgs from Long Alley 69 years | |||||
| W_1742 | 1742-10-26 Will (GUIL, LMA, EMW) | 1742 | Martha (557) | ||
| Testator: Martha Higgs, widow, of Long Alley, St. Leonard, Shoreditch, Mdsx. | Thomas (278) | ||||
| Executors: sons John Bagwell and Thomas Higgs | |||||
| Witnesses: John Smith, Alexander Flint | |||||
| Date: 21 September 1741, proved 26 October 1742 | |||||
| Will: - £10 to sons John Bagwell and Thomas Higgs | |||||
| - £5 to daughter Martha, wife of Abraham Toft | |||||
| - to daughter Elizabeth Whitehead "wife of that sorry villain Abel Whitehead the sum of four pence to buy a psalter for her wicked rogue of a husband who robbed me of a sum of money and plate to the value of £100 on the 29th day of September 1740". | |||||
| 1743-10-04 Baptism in St. Botolph Bishopgate London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2013) | Thomas (278) | 1743 | |||
| Thomas Higgs son of Tho: & Catherine | Catherine (279) | ||||
| 1745-03-10 Baptism in St. Botolph Bishopgate London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2013) | Thomas (278) | 1745 | |||
| Eusabia Higgs da. of Thomas & Catherine | Catherine (279) | ||||
| 1746-05-25 Baptism in St. Botolph Bishopgate London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2010) | Thomas (278) | 1746 | |||
| Thomas Higgs son of Tho: & Catherine | Catherine (279) | ||||
| 1747-09-22 Marriage at St Pancras Old Church, London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2010) | 1747 | ||||
| Andrew Planche & Sarah Stone by banns | |||||
| 1752-04-21 Baptism in St. Botolph Bishopgate London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2013) | Thomas (278) | 1752 | |||
| William Higgs son of Thomas & Catherine | Catherine (279) | ||||
| 1752-05-06 Indenture as Apprentice in the Clothworkers Company (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2013). | Thomas (278) | ||||
| Richard Bagwell son of John Bagwell Citizen and Draper of London doth put himself Apprentice to Thomas Higgs Citizen and Clothworker of London … seven years … in consideration of nine pounds Charity Money that is to say five pounds from Christ Hospital and four pounds from the Drapers Company | |||||
| 1754-11-01 Baptism in St. Botolph Bishopgate London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2013) | Thomas (278) | 1754 | |||
| Margaret Mary Higgs da. of Thomas & Catherine | Catherine (279) | ||||
| 1757-07-14 Burial in St. Leonard Shoreditch (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2013) | Family (278) | 1757 | |||
| Margaret Mary Higgs St. Botolph Bishopgate 2 years | |||||
| M_1757a | 1757-03-27 Marriage at St Michael Cornhill (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2011) | Family (278) | 1757 | ||
| Robert Stone of this parish batchelor & Catherine Higgs of the parish of St. Botolph Bishopgate, London, spinster a minor were married in this church by Licence with consent of parents this twenty seventh day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred fifty seven by me Arnold King Rector | |||||
| This marriage was solemnized between us Robt Stone | |||||
| Cathne Higgs | |||||
| In the presence of Thomas Higgs | |||||
| John Clarke | |||||
| M_1757b | 1757-06-15 Marriage at the Parish Church of St Botolph Bishopsgate, London (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2012) | 1757 | |||
| Banns of Marriage between George Slater & Mary Sedgwick were published on Sunday May 22, 29 & June 5th 1757 – Tho: Skinner | Catherine (279) | ||||
| The said George Slater of the parish of St Botolph Bishopsgate London Bachelor and Mary Sedgwick of the same parish Spinster were married in this church by banns this fifteenth day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty seven by me, Tho: Skinner M.A. | |||||
| This marriage was solemnized between us George Slater | |||||
| The mark of Mary Sedgwick O | |||||
| In the presence of Cath: Higgs | |||||
| James Hackert Catherine Stone | |||||
| M_1766L | 1766-09-27 Marriage Bond (EMW) | Bartholomew (138) | 1766 | ||
| Appeared personally Bartholomew Nevill an made oath that he is of the parish of Christ Church in the County of Middlesex Aged twenty one years and upwards a bachelor and intendeth to marry with Sarah Higgs of the parish of Saint Michael Cornhill aged twenty four years and upwards a spinster | Sarah (139) | ||||
| M_1766 | 1766-09-28 Marriage in Christchurch, Spitalfields (EMW, Ancestry.co.uk) | Bartholomew (138) | 1766 | ||
| Bartholomew Nevill of this parish Bachelor and Sarah Higgs of St. Micheal Cornhill spinster were married in this church by licence this twenty-eighth day of September in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty six by me R. Anwyl A. M. | Sarah (139) | ||||
| This marriage was solemnized between us Bartholomew Nevill | |||||
| Sarah Higgs | |||||
| In the presence of Jn Lee | |||||
| John Nevill | |||||
| 1767-01-27 Thomas Higgs of Newmans Court, Cornhill listed as Stockbroker, discharged 13 | Thomas (278) | ||||
| June (?, EMW) | |||||
| W_1768 | 1768-03-14 Will (TNA, PROB 11/937/181) | 1768 | Thomas (278) | 1768 TNA | |
| Testator: Thomas Higgs, Citizen and Clothworker, of St. Michael Cornhill, London. | Catherine (279) | 1768 BoE | |||
| Executrix: wife Catherine Higgs | |||||
| Date: 18 March 1767, proved 14 March 1768 | |||||
| Will: - all possessions to wife Catherine | |||||
| D_1768 | 1768-03-16 Burial at St. Leonard, Shoreditch (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2010) | Thomas (278) | 1768 | ||
| Thomas Higgs of St Michael Cornhill aged 58 years | |||||
| A_1768 | 1768-04-13 Admission to the Freedom of the Clothworkers Company (GUIL, EMW) | Thomas (278) | |||
| Thomas Higgs - Citizen and Clothworker by patrimony. Son of Thomas Higgs, Citizen and Clothworker admitted to the freedom in February 1731. May 3 - admitted as a stockbroker, address 2, Newmans Court, Cornhill. Tests (originally witnesses to the new Freeman's competence to work as a Clothworker) were Charles Norres, joiner, and Bartholomew Nevill, skinner. | |||||
| M_1773 | 1773-08-22 Marriage at St Michael Cornhill (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2012) | Family (278) | 1773 | ||
| Thomas Higgs of this parish batchelor & Mary Whitehead of the parish of Edmonton, spinster were married in this church by Licence this twenty second day of August in the year one thousand seven hundred seventy three by me R. D. Frick Rect | Catherine (279) | ||||
| This marriage was solemnized between us Thomas Higgs | |||||
| Mary Whitehead | |||||
| In the presence of John Richards | |||||
| Cath: Higgs | |||||
| M_1774 | 1774-08-04 Marriage at St Michael Cornhill (Ancestry.co.uk, Copy, 2012) | Family (278) | 1774 | ||
| John Higgs of this parish batchelor and Rebecca Winspeare of the parish of Waltham, Essex, spinster were married in this church by Licence the twenty third day of August in the year one thousand seven hundred seventy four by me R. D. Frick Rect | Catherine (279) | ||||
| This marriage was solemnized between us John Higgs | |||||
| Rebecceah Winspeare | |||||
| In the presence of Cath: Higgs | |||||
| Henry Baldwin Ann Baldwin | |||||
| 1776-08-23 Admission into the Livery of the Clothworkers Company (GUIL, EMW) | Family (278) | ||||
| Thomas Higgs subject to the usual fines and fees of £30 payable to the Company in cash. He first appears in the list of Liverymen on 17 December 1776 and his address is given as Hoxton Square. He appears thereafter in the annual lists and at the same address until 3 December 1794. In the lists dated 2 December 1795, 7 December 1796 and 6 December 1797 his address is given as Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell. | |||||
| W_1777 | 1777-02-28 Will (TNA, PROB 11/1028/345) | 1777 | Family (278) | 1777 | |
| Testator: Abel Whitehead, gentleman, of Edmonton, Mdsx. | |||||
| Executors: wife Elizabeth Whitehead, son Edmund Whitehead | |||||
| Date: 20 September 1773, Codicil 11 January 1777, proved 28 February 1777 | |||||
| Will: - Income from properties to wife for her lifetime, thereafter | |||||
| - at least 12 houses or buildings to son Edmund Whitehead | |||||
| - 11 houses to daughter Elizabeth Smith | |||||
| - 1 house to grandson William Smith | |||||
| - 7 houses to daughter Mary Higgs | |||||
| - rest to son Edmund Whitehead and daughter Mary Higgs equally | |||||
| - codicil: 2 houses in Edmonton to son Edmund Whitehead | |||||
| 1778 Release (LMA, ACC/0401/040) | Family (278) | ||||
| Description: | |||||
| EDMONTON - in Church Street and in High Road near Seven Mile Stone on Edmonton-Ponders End Road; in Winchmore Hill in Manor of Edmonton. | |||||
| ST. LEONARD'S SHOREDITCH - in Webb Street and in Hoxton Square and Crown Street in Hoxton. | |||||
| BETHNAL GREEN - in Dog Row, Cambridge Heath, Fleet Street, Hill and Weever St. | |||||
| WHITECHAPEL (St. Mary Matfellon) - in Great and Little Three Tun Alley, Wentworth Street. | |||||
| ST. LUKE (Mx.) - in Chequer Street. | |||||
| CHRISTCHURCH (Mx.) - in Brick Lane. | |||||
| CITY OF LONDON - freehold in Philip Lane. | |||||
| Parties: (1) Elizabeth Whitehead, widow of Abel Whitehead of Edmonton | |||||
| (2) Edmund, her son, | |||||
| (3) William Smith of St. Leonard Shoreditch weaver, and Elizabeth his wife (nee Whitehead), | |||||
| (4) Thomas Higgs of the same, gent. and wife Mary (nee Whitehead) | |||||
| (5) Henry Burrough of Hoxton, gent. | |||||
| Date: 1778 | |||||
| Held by: London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives | |||||
| 1780-04-18 Marriage at St Philip & St. Jacob, Bristol, Glocs, England (FamilySearch, 2013) | Family (278) | ||||
| Andrew Planche & Catharine Stone | |||||
| D_1781 | 1781-05-17 Burial at Weston All Saints, Bath (Ancestry.co.uk, Somerset CoE BMD 1531-1812, 2020) | Catherine (279) | 1781 | ||
| Mrs. Catharine Higgs | |||||
| W_1781 | 1781-03-27 Will (TNA, PROB 11/1079/142) | 1781 | Catherine (279) | 1781 | |
| Testator: Catherine Higgs, City of Bath, Somerset, Widow | |||||
| Executors: son Thomas Higgs, son-in-law Andrew Planche Floor | |||||
| Date: 27 March 1781, proved 15 June 1781 | |||||
| Will: - £600 to sons John & William Higgs owed on Bond | |||||
| - £5 for mourning and Ring to sons John, William and Thomas | |||||
| - £105 to daughter Catherine owed on Bond | |||||
| - £5 for mourning and ring to 'my daughter Neville' | |||||
| - money owed by George Slater Shopkeeper and Weaver of Saint Leonards Shoreditch to Andrew Planche Floor | |||||
| - mourning ring to much valued friend Lady Lyde | |||||
| - £100 owed by M A? Morrit of Chandos Street London to executors for paying debts and fulfilling bequests, the rest to be divided equally between children John, William, Thomas and Catherine | |||||
| - £10 to son Thomas for executing will | |||||
| - residue of possessions to daughter Catherine | |||||
| 1793-12-17 Marriage License of Thomas Higgs (GUIL, EMW) | Family (278) | ||||
| Husband: Thomas Higgs, widower, St. Leonard, Shoreditch | |||||
| Wife: Mary Foster, spinster aged 30 years, St. Mary Aldermanbury, London (signed) | |||||
| Conditions: to marry in St. Mary Aldermanbury | |||||
| M_1793 | 1793-12-21 Marriage in St. Mary Aldermanbury (Harleian Society, EMW) | Family (278) | |||
| Thomas Higgs of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, Co. Middx., widower, and Mary Foster, of this parish, spinster. L. By D. Batwell, Curate pro hac vice. Witn. John Chambers, Wm Reynolds | |||||
| 1798-08-15 Assistant of the Clothworkers Company (Clothworkers Company, EMW) | Family (278) | ||||
| Thomas Higgs, without taking the usual first step for a Liveryman of acting as one of the Company's four Wardens for two years, swore the oath of an Assistant of the Company at the Court meeting on 15 August 1798 and thus became a member of its Court of Assistants, or governing body. He appears as the most junior Assistant and as of 'Bishopsgate Street Without' in the list of Assistants dated 5 December 1798. He attended practically every Court meeting up to and including that on 2 September 1801, but his name is not shown among those attending thereafter, nor does it appear on the list of Assistants dated 2 December 1801, nor in any later list. Names are given in strict order of seniority, so his absence is obvious. It would not be usual to find any record of illness or death, but he presumably died between 2 September 1701 and 2 December 1701, and was never Master of the Company. | |||||
| W_1801 | 1801-05-06 Will (TNA PROB 11/1365/115) | 1801 | Family (278) | 1801 | |
| Testator: Thomas Higgs, gentleman, of Hoxton Square, St. Leonard, Shoreditch | |||||
| Executor: wife Mary Higgs | |||||
| Date: 30 January 1794, proved 6 May 1801 | |||||
| Witnesses: George Bonington, George Thorpe, Red Lion Street, Cabinetmaker, Thomas | |||||
| Whithan? | |||||
| Will: - everything to dear wife Mary | |||||
| A_1804 | 1804-05-04 Deed of Settlement (Q/HAL/387 G.L.R.O., EMW) | Family (278) | |||
| Between: Mary Higgs of London Field, parish of St. John, Hackney, Middx., widow | |||||
| possessed of property etc. in Dog Row near Bethnal Green and Webb Square, | |||||
| parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and of £1500 3% consolidated annuities, etc. | |||||
| James Lawson of Bishopgate Street, London, Esq. | |||||
| John Capell and William Daniel Cordell | |||||
| Conditions: She is to retain rights in her property - receipts and disposal - even after her | |||||
| marriage. | |||||
| M_1804 | 1804-05-17 Marriage in St. John Hackney, Middlesex (Ancestry.co.uk) | Family (278) | 1804 | ||
| James Lawson of the parish of St. Botolph Bishopsgate London Widower and Mary Higgs of this parish Widow were married in this church by Licence this seventh day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and four by me ? Paroissien Curate | |||||
| This marriage was solemnized between us J Lawson | |||||
| M Higgs | |||||
| In the presence of Willm Dan Colsell | |||||
| Bery Crook | |||||
| 1804-06-02 Marriage at Hackney (Oxford Journal) | Family (278) | ||||
| At Hackney Church, Mr. Lawson, to Mrs. Mary Higgs, widow of Thomas Higgs, Esq., of London House, London Field, Hackney | |||||
| 1831-11-31 Death in St. Matthew, Bethnal Green (O/35/72 G.L.R.O, EMW) | Family (278) | ||||
| Mary Lawson of Howards Place, Hackney Road in the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green | |||||
| W_1831 | 1831-12-24 Will (PROB 11/1793/135) | 1831 | Family (278) | 1831-1 | |
| Testator: Mary Lawson of London Fields in the parish of St. John, Hackney, widow and relict of James Lawson, late of Bishopgate Street, London, Gentleman, and formerly the wife of Thomas Higgs of Hoxton Square in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, Middx., Gentleman, deceased | Thomas (34) | 1831-2 | |||
| Executors: John Capell, Royal Exchange, Esq. | |||||
| William Daniel Cordell, Union Court, Broad Street, Surgeon | |||||
| Date: 2 August 1825, codicil 11 April 1828, proved 24 December 1831 | |||||
| Will: - all messuages etc. in Dog Row, Bethnal Green upon trust to executors for ... | |||||
| Thomas Higgs Hudson, Church Street, Bethnal Green, schoolmaster ... such | |||||
| person as he may marry ... in default of his issue ... their children ... to go to Sarah Hope, the wife of Joseph Hope of Bethnal Green, 4 children of Sarah | |||||
| Hope - Dulcibella, Joseph John, George William & Mary Ann, all under 21 | |||||
| - £200 to Mary wife of Joseph Gooderam of --, shoemaker | |||||
| - £100 to Catherine wife of Robert Sadler of Wilmot Square, Bethnal Green, | |||||
| cabinetmaker | |||||
| - god-daughter Mary Lawson | |||||
| - James Lawson, now of Hackney (?) Road, Gent. and | |||||
| - his sister Elizabeth Lawson | |||||
| Codicil: late of London Fields, Hackney, now of Paradise Fields in the same parish | |||||
| Proved: Sworn under £1500 and that the testator died 30 November 1831. She was late | |||||
| of Howards Place, Hackney Road in the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green | |||||
| CRW: records deleted for privacy | |||||
| © C. R. Watts 2020 created 10.12.1999, revised 09.03.2023 | |||||
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