Will of Pheby Levy, widow of Leicester Place, Leicester Square, Middlesex 1853

Date: 1841 to 1853
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Surnames/tags: Levy Barnett Solomons

[]Phebe Levy will 1853 of Leicester Place, Leicester Square, Middlesex Widow ^[1]

This is a transcription of the register office copy of the will of Pheby Levy. It was written on 31st August 1841and proved in the Prergative Court of Canterbury on 3 March 1853

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Paragraph breaks at change of bequest, and bold text are my own for ease of reading.

Persons mentioned (Names in the order in which they appear in the will)

• Pheby Levy testatrix
• my brother Myer Solomons deceased brother of testatrix
• Mr Nathaniel Levy my Executor of 32 Brompton Square^[2]
• Mrs Betsy Isaacs the wife of Michael Isaccs of St Georges in the East Watchmaker^[3]
• my Cousin Mr Isaac Barnett now residing at Bristol
  • his father Mr Barnett the reader of the Burial Service to the Saint Albans Place Synagogue
    • his daughter Matilda Barnett
• Solomon Fredman Susan Fredman and .... Fredman the children of Isaac and Jane Fredman of Romford
• Mr Daniel Levy of the Kent Road
• Mr Abraham Septimus Hart of Knightsbridge
  • Mrs Hart 'his wife first name not stated
• Mrs Hannah Aarons of the ..... Road of Paddington
• Mrs Betsy Sewell widow of the late Isaac Sewell
• Mts Hetty? Aarons daughter of the late ... Aarons
• Polly Aarons of the Minories in the City of London
• Mrs Catherine Levy of Brompton Square possibly the wife of Nathaniel Levy
• Miss Charlotte Levy of the Kent Road
• Miss Charlotte Hart of Knightsbridge
• Catherine Isaacs daughter of Michael and Betsy Isaacs
• Mrs Elizabeth Davis wife of Henry Davis of 33 ........ Street Goodmans Fields London
• Mrs Louisa Nathan the wife of Morris? Nathan
• Mr Henry Collins
• Jonas? Levy of 32 Brompton Square in the County of Middlesex and Lewis Levy of the same place and also of 77 King William'Street London principal legatees along with Issac Barnett - relationship not stated . THere is sa will for a Lewis Levy Esq who mentions a Jonas Levy^[4]
• Charles J. Naobald 27 Saint Andrew's Road Kensington witness
• W[illiam 'Townsend & Crescent Place Blackfriars London witness

In the name of God Amen
This is the last Will and Testament of me Pheby Levy' of
Leicester Place Leicester Square in the County of Middlesex widow First I give and bequeath to the Wardens and Treasurer for the time being of the Sy
nagogue now carries on at St Albans Place, Haymarket in the County of Middle
sex the sum of fifty pounds to be paid to the said Wardens or Treasurer within one
year after my decease and out of my personal estate and to be applied by them
for and towards the usual purposes of the said synagogue And I do request that
the reader of the said Synagogue will once in every year at the Jewish Festival
called Shiva ..... say on my behalf a Yizkor or prayer for the dead and I do
further bequeath unto the said Wardens or other officers for the time being the large
portrait of my brother Myer Solomons deceased which portrait I request may
be hung up and kept in the vestry now of the said Synagogue but in case the
said Congregation of the said Synagogue should be dissolved then I desire and re-
quest that the said portrait of my said brother may be delivered to the Wardens of
the New Synagogue situate in Saint Albans Place Bishopsgate in the City of
London and kept in the vestry room of the said Synagogue. And I also give and
bequeath unto the Treasurer for the time being of the Western Institution for the
aiding and educating Jewish boys the sum of fifty pounds to be paid to the Tea-
surer for the time being within one year from my decease from and out of my
personal estate and to be by him applied to and for the use and benefit and pur-
poses and intents of the said Charity and I do request Mr Nathaniel Levy my
Executor herinafter named to procure some fatherless boy to say the prayer for
me called Kaddish And I do give and bequeath unto such boy as shall be nom-
inated by the said Nathaniel Levy and shall say or use the Prayer called
Kaddish the sum of ten pounds to and for his own use which said sum the
said Nathaniel Levy shall be at liberty to pay over unto the said boy although
he may not be of age or unto any friend on his behalf.

And I give and be-
queath unto Mrs Betsy Isaacs the wife of Michael Isaccs of St Georges in
the East Watchmaker the sum of Nineteen guineas

And I give unto my
Cousin Mr Isaac Barnett now residing at Bristol one pair of silver candle-
sticks one pair od silver snuffers and tray and the portrait of my father and
also Ten pounds And I give and bequeath unto his father Mr
Barnett the reader of the Burial Service to the Saint Albans Place Synagogue
Nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and in case he should happen to depart this
life before me then I give the said sum of Nineteen pounds nineteen shillings
so bequeathed to him unto his daughter Matilda Barnett

And I give and be-
queath unto Solomon Fredman? Susan Fredman and .... Fredman the
children of Isaac and Jane Fredman of Romford ^[5] the sum of Nineteen pounds
nineteen shillings each and I do further give unto the said .... Fredman
who is now residing with me four silver table spoons marked R.D.S. a pair of
silver salt cellars gilt inside and standing on three legs with the spoons now
in my possession And I give and bequeath unto Mrs Jane Fredman his
wife the life sum of Nineteen guineas

And I give and bequeath unto Mr
Nathaniel Levy of Brompton Square Middlesex my Executor hereinafter appoin
ted a mourning ring two of my Hebrew books ..... a Passover Service and
a ....... and my pair of silver gilt salt cellars on bowls weighing about twelve
ounces

And I give unto Mr Daniel Levy of the Kent Road the following books ........
the five books of Moses three Hebrew books containing the prayers for the year
six silver table spoons one silver ladle six silver dessert spoons

I give to Mr
Abraham Septimus Hart of Knightsbridge a mourning ring And to Mrs Hart
his wife I give and bequeath the minature of my husband set in gold six table
spoons six table desert spoons one silver soup ladle

To Mrs Hannah Aarons of
the ..... Road of Paddington I give six silver tea spoons and one silver milk
pot

To Mrs Betsy Sewell widow of the late Isaac Sewell I give six silver
tea spoons and one silver milk pot

To Mts Hetty? Aarons daughter of the late
.... Aarons I give all my underclothes four flannel petticoats six chemises for
white petticoats four begs aprons and all my stockings night gowns night caps two

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..... and one brown cloak

To Polly Aarons of the Minories in the City of
London I give six silver tea spoons and one silver milk pot

To Mrs Cath-
erine Levy of Brompton Square I give my enamelled gold topaz ring one silver
..... box and one silver fruit knife

To Miss Charlotte Levy of the Kent Road I
give my large gold watch

To Miss Charlotte Hart of Knightsbridge I give my
other gold watch

To Catherine Isaacs daughter of Michael and Betsy Isaacs I give
a silver sugar basin and silver tongs

To Mrs Elizabeth Davis wife of Henry
Davis of 33 ........ Street Goodmans Fields London I give my mahogany set of
five drawers and ........ looking glass and also the sum of Ten Pounds

I give
unto Mrs Louisa Nathan the wife of Morris? Nathan the large portrait now
belonging to me of the late Mrs Solomons wife of my brother Myer Solomons
and another portrait of the Mrs Solomon
I give unto Mr Henry Collins

And as to all other family portraits or pictures of which I may be possessed I re-
quest that my Executor hereinafter appointed will not allow the same to be sold
but either retain them for his own use or give them unto such person or persons
as he may think proper. I give all such freehold or leasehold and other estates
and part and shares of freehold or leasehold and other estates as I am or may
by an Decree of the Court of Chancery or any other Court be declared to belon-
... of my late brother Myer Solomons late of Pall Mall in the County of
Middlesex deceased unto Jonas? Levy of 32 Brompton Square in the County
of Middlesex and Lewis Levy of the same place and also of 77 King William
Street London their heirs executors administrators and assigns in joint tenancy

And I nominate constitute and appoint Mr Nathaniel Levy of 32 Brompton
Square in the County of Middlesex sole Executor of this my Will and I
request that he will on the day of my funeral distribute or cause to be distri-
buted among poor persons of the Jewish persuasion the sum of Eight pounds
four shillings no individual tohave less than one shilling and six pence but
it shall be in the power of my Executor to extend the above sum of One shil-
ling and six pence to such person or persons as he shall think proper and I direct my
Executor to distribute the further sum of Eight pounds one shilling among
poor individuals the day my tombstone is set And I request to have a tomb
stone set for me as similar as possible to that of my dear brother Myer
Solomons And after payment and satisfaction of all the before mentioned leg-
cies and other bequests and all my debts and funeral testamentary and other ex-
penses I give and bequeath all the rest residue and remainder of my
goods chattells estate and effects of what nature kind or description soever not
hereinbefore given o bequeathed unto and equally between my Cousin the
said Isaac Barnett of Bristol the said Jonas Levy of Brompton Square and
the said Lewis Levy of Brompton Square and King William Street aforesaid
their heirs executors and assigns share and share alike

In witness whereof I
have hereunto set my hand this Thirty first day of August in the year
our our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty one - Pheby
Levy - PL in the presence of us present at the same time who at her request in
witness of the bequest to Mr Isaac Fredman in page 2 having been first
erased and the word Susman introduced instead of Susanah Fredman
Charles J. Naobald 27 Saint Andrew's Road Kensington = W[illiam]
Townsend & Crescent Place Blackfriars London

Proved at London the 3^rd March 1853 before the Worshipful Tho-
mas ........ Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oath of Nathaniel Levy the
sole Executor to whom adm[inistrati]on was granted having been first sworn duly to
administer

Sources

1. ↑ Will: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"
   The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 2169
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 5111 #382955 (accessed 25 August 2023)
   Will of Pheby Levy, granted probate on 8 Mar 1853. Died about 1853 in Leicester Square, Middlesex, England.
2. ↑ 1841 Census: "1841 England Census"
   Class: HO107; Piece: 690; Book: 11; Civil Parish: Kensington; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District: 4; Folio: 9; Page: 12; Line: 14; GSU roll: 438806
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 8978 #7570563 (accessed 26 August 2023)
   Nath Levy (50) in Kensington registration district in Middlesex, England. Born in Middlesex, England.

   1841 Census of England: Kensington, Middlesex, England

   Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Birth Place
   Nath Levy	M	50		Middlesex, England
   Sophia Levy	F	40		Middlesex, England
   Catharine Levy	F	20		Middlesex, England
   Rachael Levy	F	20		Middlesex, England
   Ellen Levy	F	15		Middlesex, England
   Elizabeth Levy	F	15		Middlesex, England
   Rasetta Levy	F	6		Middlesex, England
   Mary Dallison	F	30		Middlesex, England
   Anne Scarsebrook	F	30
   Hannah Hyams	F	25		Middlesex, England

3. ↑ 1841 Census: "1841 England Census"
   Class: HO107; Piece: 697; Book: 2; Civil Parish: St George Middlesex; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District: 4; Folio: 27; Page: 10; Line: 3; GSU roll: 438812
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 8978 #7682577 (accessed 26 August 2023)
   Michael Isaacs (70) in St George Middlesex in St George in the East registration district in Middlesex, England.

   1841 Census of England: St George Middlesex, Middlesex, England

   Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Birth Place
   Michael Isaacs	M	70
   Elizth Isaacs	F	60
   Cath Isaacs	F	35
   Sarah Isaacs	F	30

4. ↑ Will: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"
   The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 2244
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 5111 #143986 (accessed 26 August 2023)
   Will of Lewis Levy Esq, granted probate on 21 Jan 1857. Died about 1857 in Tavistock Square, Middlesex, England.
5. ↑ 1841 Census: "1841 England Census"
   Class: HO107; Piece: 330; Book: 14; Civil Parish: Romford; County: Essex; Enumeration District: 2; Folio: 4; Page: 2; Line: 16; GSU roll: 241368
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8978 #4202335 (accessed 25 August 2023)
   Isaac Friedman (62) in Romford registration district in Essex, England.

   1841 Census of England: Romford, Essex, England

   Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Birth Place
   Isaac Friedman	M	62
   Jane Friedman	F	46		Essex, England
   Caroline Friedman	F	17		Essex, England
   Flora Friedman	F	16		Essex, England
   Solomon Friedman	M	10		Essex, England