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PARISH TEMPLATE STUDY – LAUNCESTON
PROBATE TRANSCRIPTON – WILL & AFFIDAVIT
Ref No / AP/M/4124/1,2Title / MARTIN, Lydia of Launceston [St Mary on endorsement], spinster
Date of probate* / 12 Sep 1854
Description / Bequests:
- to nephews George Couch and Robin Martin, Couch, sons of testator’s sister Frances Couch, £5 each
- to nieces Fanny Martin Flood, wife of Noah Flood of Exeter, Elizabeth Oak Bartlett, wife of John Bartlett of Exeter and Ursula Martin Couch, daughters of testator’s sister Frances Couch, £5 each
- to nephew John Martin of Newton, Devon, son of testator’s late brother Robert Martin, £50
- to nieces Isabella Nicholls, ‘wife of Mr Nicholls’ of Modbury, Devon and Catherine Clerk Andrew, wife of John Alexander Andrew of Modbury, Devon, carrier, daughters of testator’s late brother Robert Martin, £5 each
- to nephew Robert James Martin of Modbury, another of Robert Martin’s sons, £5
- to nieces Elizabeth Ann Martin and Mary Lydia Martin, daughters of testator’s brother John Martin of Callington, gentleman, £10 each
- to nieces Ursula Manning Martin, Emma Louisa Martin and Ellen Eliza Martin, daughters of testator’s brother John Martin, £5 each
- to nephew Thomas John Martin, son of testator’s brother John Martin, £5
- to niece Ann Blight Martin, daughter of testator’s brother John Martin, £100
- to brother John Martin of Callington and his heirs for ever, ‘Rest, residue and remainder’ of real and personal property, money, goods, chattels and effects, subject to payment of debts, legacies and funeral expenses;
should John Martin predecease testator, residue of her estate to her nephew John Martin of Newton who would also be her executor
‘And it is my express wish that when it may please Almighty God to call me hence that my Executor will cause me to be buried in a real coffin next to the remains of my late Brother Philip Martin which lie interred under the Organ Loft in Launceston Church’; executor also to ‘make a present to Mr Thomas Peter Hamlyn of Launceston the Organist and also to the Singers in the Church’
Executor: brother John Martin; in case of his dying before testator, nephew John Martin of Newton
Signature of testator
Witnesses:
Signatures of W T Morgan of Launceston, solicitor and W Lean of Launceston
Date of will: 29 Nov 1841
Date proved: 12 Sep 1854
Endorsements:
Administration granted to John Martin and Mary Lydia Martin, nephew and niece, and executors named in the will and codicil
Effects sworn under £600
Died 8 Aug 1854
Stamp £11
No 206
CODICIL
Date: 31 Mar 1854
‘being desirous of making some alteration’ to her will of 1841
John Martin of Callington, brother was appointed as sole executor but if the testator out lived him then her nephew John Martin of Newton was to be sole executor.
Since this would deprive her brother’s family of the remainder of any effects after payment of debts and expenses which she had intended they should receive, the testator now appoints in case of the death of her brother before her, the eldest, unmarried daughter of her brother to be joint executor with nephew John Martin, instead of her late nephew, Thomas John Martin who was originally appointed.
Whereas by her will the testator has given her niece, Ann Blight Martin ‘(now Dingle)’ the sum of £100, by some inadvertence the niece was called to witness the execution of the said will whereby it appears she cannot by law, claim the legacy. The testator gives and bequeaths to niece Ann Blight Dingle the said sum of £100 as bequeathed by the testator’s will of 29 Nov 1841.
Executor: eldest unmarried daughter of testator’s brother John Martin of Callington
Signature of testator
Witnesses:
Signatures of Harriet Meyrick, spinster and Mary Ann Littleton
Ref No / AP/M/4124/3
Title / MARTIN, Lydia of Launceston [St Mary on endorsement], spinster
Date of probate/grant / 12 Sep 1854
Description / Date of document: 11 Sep 1854
Harriet Meyrick of the borough of Launceston, spinster, swore an oath that she witnessed the codicil added to the will of Lydia Martin late of Launceston on the 31 Mar 1854; and that she and Mary Ann Littleton, the other witness to the codicil, were present when testator signed her name; and that she knew and was acquainted with John Martin of Callington, gentleman, named in the codicil, and that he died in the lifetime of the testator about 15 July 1854 leaving Mary Lydia Martin of Launceston, spinster, his eldest unmarried daughter
Signature of Harriet Meyrick
Witness:
Signature of Richd [Richard] Peter, Commissioner for Oaths in Chancery
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