Humphrey Aram (bef. 1701 - bef. 1771)

Born before 22 May 1701 in South Molton, Devon, England

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Died before 22 Aug 1771 at about age 70 in Chawleigh, Devon, England

Biography

Humphrey Aram was a Devon lawyer and landowner who lived at Chawleigh. Baptised on 22 May 1701 at South Molton, he was the elder son of Edmund Aram and his wife Sarah Shobrook.^[1]

On 24 Aug 1718 he was apprenticed to Moses Fitch, a "gentleman of Chawleigh", and on 5 Oct 1723 swore an oath of loyalty in the parish church of Witheridge as a "gentleman of Chawleigh". He took Thomas Ridler as an apprentice on 24 Apr 1731, and was heir to his relation Thomas Aram in 1737. On 11 Aug 1740 he was elected a freeman of Exeter, where he practised. As "attorney, of Chawleigh", he took Thomas Gage as an apprentice on 3 Feb 1740, subsequently taking William Widgery as an apprentice in 1745. In 1748 he was a contributor to the Devon & Exeter Hospital. He was a tenant of the Badminton estate in the nearby parish of Chulmleigh, and in 1767 rented part of a house in his birthplace of South Molton.

He was buried at Chawleigh on 22 Aug 1771, ^[2] and his will was proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 19 Feb 1772.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Date and place of baptism and name of father recorded at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NB34-X9W
2. ↑ Date and place of burial at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGWT-T3MJ
3. ↑ The National Archives, Kew, England, Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions, Will Registers, Class PROB 11, Piece 974, page 278