Will Details

Will of Elizabeth Brown

Date of will 1 January 1841
Status Widow 
Abode when will written Yardley Gobion, Northamptonshire
Date of probate 26 December 1851
Summary of will Left entire estate to her son John Laurence, including farm stock and implements. 
Persons mentioned in will:
Name Relation Abode Role Notes
John Laurence Son    beneficiary executor    
Thomas Sanders     witness    
William Sanders     witness    
Notes Elizabeth was born about 1778/9 as Elizabeth Horton, married James Laurence in 1799 and after being widowed, married Richard Brown in 1814
Source:  Northampton Record Office,  reference 

This is the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth Brown of the Hamlet of Yardley Gobion in the County of Northampton Widow I give and devise to my son John Laurence All my household furniture linen plate wearing apparel live and dead farming stock implements of husbandry and all other my personal estate of whatever Kind the same may consist or wheresoever the same may be situate and I hereby constitute and appoint my said son John Laurence sole Executor to this my Will In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of January one thousand and eight hundred and forty one

Elizabeth Brown

Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Testatrix Elizabeth Brown as and for her last Will and Testament in our presence and attested and subscribed in her presence and in the presence of each other

Thos Sanders

William Sanders

In the Archdeaconry Court of Northampton

On the 26th day of December 1851 John Laurence of Yardley Gobion in the parish of Potterspury in the County of Northampton Farmer the sole Executor named in the within written Will was then sworn well and faithfully to perform and fulfil the same according to Law and that the deceased at the time of her death (which happened on the 29th day of June 1851) was not possessed of goods chattels and credits of the Value of Two hundred Pounds

Before me Charles West Surrogate