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This is a partial transcription of the will of William Jervis Twysden (1760-1834). Feel free to add to it and correct anything I mis-transcribed.Weatherall-96 19:35, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
All the images are on Ancestry. His middle name is spelled "Jarvis" throughout. Bullet point are for readability and not from the will.[1]
This is the last will and testament of – a Sir William Jarvis Twysden of Roydon Hall in the Parish of East Peckham in the County of Rout. Baronet. First I desire to be bodily interred at East Parkham in the family vault there with as little expense as __ will admit…. …. And all my estates both real and personal with the [?] thereofe I give and bequeath to my dear wife Jane Hames Tysden all the towels [?] and trinkts usually worn by and considered as belonging to her and also all my carriages ….and effects whatsoever which shall be in about or belonging to my State or Mansion and premises called Roydon Hall aforesaid…
- Also I give and bequeath unto my dear son William Twysden my own portrait… and I give… unto my daughter Francis [?] the wife of the Reverend Saubert Blast[?] will sarking the sark and
- Names daughters line 26 Francis and 29 Eliza wife of Clarks Goury Seale Esquire
- Line 33 dau Flora
- Line 34….. give unto my said wife my portrait which was painted by Mrs Green for her life and after her decease I give the same to my daughter Flora.
- Line 36… daughter Flora the horse I both of my son John and my low four wheel chaise
Line 38 Also I give and bequeath the picture which was painted by Lady Middleton to my daughter Frances
- Line 46 daug Francis wife of Reverend Lambert Blackwell Larking [rewritten easier to read]
- Lines 62 and 62 (final lines) ….dispose unto my son Francis James Twysden Esquire, my son in law the Reverend Lambert Blackwell Larking vicar of Ryarsh[?] and my friend John Noble Jublow[?] of West Walling
Next page Line 8 from bottom: “closest[eldest] son William”
Notes on painting
The portrait of himself he willed to his wife was then to go to daughter Flora. Evidently it did; in Flora’s 1852 will, she willed it to her sister Frances. Flora stated the picture was at the Ryarsh Vicarage.[2]
Sources
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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: 1832
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 5111 #120064 (accessed 8 February 2024)
citing image 97 (2nd page of will Ancestry Sharing Link Will of Sir William Jarvis Twysden, granted probate on 12 May 1834. Died about 1834 in East Peckham, Kent, England. - ↑
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: 2156
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 5111 #240604 (accessed 9 February 2024)
citing image Ancestry Sharing Link Will of Flora Twysden, granted probate on 13 Jul 1852. Died about 1852 in Bath, Somerset, England.
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