Will of Priscilla Sarah Bradley (1795-1879)

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Marylebone, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Surname/tag: Bradley

Contents 1 Introduction 2 People List 3 Property List 4 Will Transcript 5 Proving Transcript 6 Research Notes 7 Sources

Introduction

This is a transcription of the Last Will and Testament of Priscilla Sarah Bradley, spinster, of 80 Wimpole Street, Marylebone, Middlesex, who died on 4 February 1879.^[1]

Spelling, punctuation, line breaks, gaps, and big bold text are as per the register copy. Abbreviations are expanded and additions noted in [square brackets]. Paragraph breaks (where added) and bold text for names are my own for ease of reading.

Individuals in the people list are linked to their profile if the profile exists, or are coloured red if not.

People List

People in the will, in the order that they are mentioned:

1. Priscilla Sarah Bradley, testator, 80 Wimpole Street
2. Edmund Humphrey Woolrych, friend, executor, 91 Piccadilly
3. John Thompson, friend, executor, Circus Road, St Johns Wood
4. Augustus Oldershaw, friend, executor, Harewood Square, Regents Park
5. Francis Bradley, the Elder, nephew (see Research Notes)
6. Frederick Gilman Bradley, nephew
7. Francis Thomas Bradley, nephew, son of half-brother Christie
8. Christie Bradley, half brother
9. William Edward White, son of Lieutenant Colonel William Edward White
10. Edith Priscilla White, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel William Edward White
11. Juliana Rose White, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel William Edward White
12. William Edward White (bef.1824-1883), Lieutenant Colonel
13. Eliza Ann White, niece
14. Emma Mary Selina Baker, daughter of niece Emma Baker
15. Emma Baker, niece
16. Christine Sophia White, great niece
17. Caroline Oliver, wife of James Oliver, the younger
18. James Oliver, the younger
19. Mary Marriott, wife of Cornelius Marriott
20. Cornelius Marriott
21. William Thomas Wessell, Esquire
22. Rebecca Perrett, late servant
23. Jane Halfpenny, present servant
24. John Knight, late coachman
25. M Knight, Mrs, needlewoman
26. George Smith, of Hampstead Road, nephew of the late Mrs Veal
27. ? Veal, Mrs, late
28. Francis Hicks, Esquire, medical attendant
29. ? Heath, Miss, now living with Mr Reid Jeweller of Regent Street
30. ? Reid, Mr, Jeweller, of Regent Street
31. M Sinclair, Mrs, wife of Doctor Sinclair
32. ? Sinclair, Doctor, of Vicarage Gardens, Kensington
33. George William White, great nephew
34. Fanny Weeden, Mrs, of 8 Robertson Terrace, Hastings
35. John Rice Byrne, Reverend
36. Charles McCabe, previous owner of oil paintings and gold watch
37. Mary Rose Scatcherd, daughter of the late James Scatcherd
38. James Scatcherd, late
39. Daniel Charles de Medewe, witness, Solicitor, Hastings
40. James Gooch, witness, Solicitors Clerk, Hastings

Property List

Properties in the will, in the order that they are mentioned:

1. 80 Wimpole Street, leasehold house

Will Transcript

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This is the last Will and Testament
of me Priscilla Sarah Bradley of number 80 Wimpole Street in
the parish of Saint Marylebone in the county of Middlesex Spinster In the first place I
appoint my friends Edmund Humphrey Woolrych of number 91 Piccadilly in the County
of Middlesex Esquire & Barrister at Law John Thompson of Circus Road Saint Johns
Wood in the same County Esquire and Augustus Oldershaw of Harewood Square Regents
Park in the same County Esquire Executors and Trustees of this my Will And I give
to each of them the sum of two hundred pounds if he accept that appointment for his
trouble in the execution of this my Will And I direct all my just debts and funeral
and testamentary expenses to be paid as soon as convenient after my decease I give to
my nephew Francis Bradley the elder the sum of Two thousand five hundred pounds
To my nephew Frederick Gilman Bradley the like sum of Two thousand five hundred
pounds To my five nephews Francis Thomas Bradley and his four brothers being the
sons of my half brother Christie Bradley the sum of five hundred pounds each To
William Edward White, Edith Priscilla White and Juliana Rose White children of
lieutenant Colonel William Edward White the sum of five hundred pounds each To my
niece Eliza Ann White the sum of one hundred pounds To my said Executors and
Trustees the sum of five hundred pounds upon trust to invest the same and pay the
income thereof to Emma Mary Selina Baker daughter of my niece Emma Baker
nevertheless with full power for my said executors and trustees at their discretion to
pay all or any part of the said principal sum of five hundred pounds to the said
Emma Mary Selina Baker on her written request in the event of her marriage or at
any other time if they shall consider it prudent or desirable to do so To my said
Executors and Trustees the further sum of five hundred pounds Upon trust to invest
the same and pay the income thereof to my great niece Christine Sophia White
nevertheless with the power to pay to her all or any part of the said principal
sum of five hundred pounds as I have given them my said Executors and Trustees
with regard to the said sum of five hundred pounds hereinbefore given to them Upon
trust for the benefit of the said Emma Mary Selina Baker To M^rs Caroline Oliver
the wife of James Oliver the younger the sum of fifty pounds To M^rs Mary Marriott
the wife of Cornelius Marriott the sum of fifty pounds To William Thomas Wessel of
Brompton Crescent Brompton in the said County of Middlesex Esquire the sum off fifty
pounds To my late Servant Rebecca Perrett the sum of nineteen pounds nineteen
shillings To Jane Halfpenny my present servant if she shall be in my service at the
time of my death the sum of two hundred pounds To John Knight my late Coachman
the sum of three hundred pounds To M^rs M Knight my Needlewoman the sum of
nineteen pounds nineteen shillings To George Smith of Hampstead Road in the said
County (nephew of the late M^rs Veal) the sum of Three hundred pounds To Francis
Hicks Esquire my Medical Attendant the sum of fifty pounds To Miss Heath now
residing with M^r Reid Jeweller of Regent Street in the said County the sum of

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fifty pounds to M^rs M Sinclair wife of Doctor Sinclair of Vicarage Gardens
Kensington in the said County the sun of one hundred pounds To the said
Edmund Humphrey Woolwych the further sum of five hundred pounds To my said Executors
and Trustees the sum of one thousand pounds Upon trust to invest the same and pay
the income thereof to my great nephew George William White until he arrives at the
age of twenty five years and on his attaining that age to pay the said sum of
One thousand pounds to him for his own use absolutely To M^rs Fanny Weeden of
number 8 Robertson Terrace Hastings the sum of fifty pounds To the Reverend John
Rice Byrne all such my oil paintings as were formerly the property of Charles M^c
Cabe Esquire and my Gold watch which also formerly belonged to the said Charles
M^cCabe To my said Great niece Christine Sophia White an annuity or yearly sum
of one hundred and fifty pounds during her life payable half yearly To the said
Mary Marriott an annuity or yearly sum of Seventy five pounds during her life
payable half yearly To Mary Rose Scatcherd daughter of the late James Scatcherd
an annuity or yearly sum of Twenty five pounds during her life payable half yearly
And I declare and direct that all the said legacies shall be paid within two
months after my decease and the same legacies and the annuities given by this my Will
shall be paid free from legacy duty and that such of the legatees and annuitants
as may be married women shall hold and enjoy the same legacies and annuities for
their own sole and separate use independently of the debts control or engagements of
any husband And I hereby declare my Will to be that immediately on the death of any
annuitant or annuitants under this my Will my said trustees shall pay and divide
the principal sum producing the annuity or annuities which will then cease to and
amongst the following public Charitable Institutions namely the Hospital for Consumption
at Brompton in the said County Saint Mary's Hospital Paddington in the said County
The Middlesex Hospital in Charles Street in the said County The Royal Free Hospital
in Grays Inn Road in the said County The Institution for poor Governesses in Harley
Street Regents Park in the said County and University Hospital in University Street
Tottenham Court Road in the said County subject nevertheless and I hereby direct my
said Executors and trustees to pay previously out of the first principal sum so available
to each of the following Institutions namely The Ragged School of Saint Mary le Bone
aforesaid The National School there and the Saint Mary le Bone Almshouses the sum
of two hundred pounds And I declare that the receipt or receipts of the Treasurer Secretary
of other Officer for the time being of the said several Institutions shall be a good and
sufficient discharge and good and sufficient discharges to my said Executors and Trustees
or other the Trustees of Trustee for the time being under this my Will for the said
several legacies or sums of money exonerating them and him from all responsibility
in respect of the application thereof I give to my said Executors and trustees All that
my leasehold house situate and being number 80 Wimpole Street aforesaid now in my
own occupation with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging And also All my
furniture plate linen books china pictures and other effects therein (except my oil
paintings and watch hereinbefore specifically bequeathed) Upon trust to sell and
dispose the same either by public auction or private sale and I declare that the
proceeds thereof or so much as shall not be required to answer any of the said legacies
or annuities shall form part of my residuary estate And I give all the rest and
residue of my Estate whatsoever and wheresoever in manner following that is to
say One equal third part thereof to the said Edmund Humphrey Woolrych One other
equal third part thereof to the said Lieutenant Colonel William Edward White and
the remaining one equal third part thereof the the said Christine Sophia White
And I direct that the several legacies hereinbefore give to the same person or
persons shall be accumulative And I declare that my said Executors and Trustees
shall have all the powers authorities and immunities which are by law given to

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Trustees And also that they or the survivors or survivor of them shall have power
to appoint a trustee or trustees in the place of any or either of them or of any trustee
or trustees dying declining or becoming incapable to act in the execution of the trusts
of this my Will In witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament
contained in this and the preceding sheets of paper hereunto set my hand this
fourth day of June One thousand eight hundred and seventy ── P.S. Bradley ──
Signed by the said Priscilla Sarah Bradley the Testatrix as and for her last Will
and Testament in the presence of us who in her presence at her request request and in the
presence of each other hereunto subscribe our names aw witnesses ── Dan: Cha: de
Medewe Sol^r Hastings ── James Gooch Solicitors Clerk Hastings.

Proving Transcript

Proved at London 19th February 1879 by the Oaths of Edmund
Humphrey Woolrych Esquire and Augustus Piggott (in the Will written
Augustus) Oldershaw Esquire two of the Executors to whom Adm[inistrati]on was
granted. John Thomson (in the Will written Thompson) the other Executor
having renounced.

Research Notes

Nephew Francis Bradley
This seems most likely to be Francis Thomas Bradley, the son of Francis Bradley, born in Marylebone in 1821. However, Priscilla did not use a middle name, so perhaps it is not him, but another Francis.

Sources

1. ↑ Probate: "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995"
   Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1904 #1521705 (accessed 18 August 2023)
   Priscilla Sarah Bradley probate on 19 Feb 1879. Died 4 Feb 1879 in Middlesex, England.