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Well done Sylvia - you have found LOADS of useful info there!

I am not optimistic that I will find any more but I will go and take a look.

Dea x

Woolmer's Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - 8th September 1855


OAKES, William - September 2nd in Devonshire Street, London, William Oakes aged 68 of Hatch Court, near Taunton


(will PM you the original)

Deaths Sep 1855 (>99%)
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Oakes William Marylebone 1a 234

Description Will of William Oakes of Hatch Beauchamp , Somerset
Date 15 November 1855
Catalogue reference PROB 11/2222

(above can be downloaded, £3.50 from below link)


http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wills.asp?WT.hp=Wills

Chris :)

I wonder what he was doing in Devonshire St: London ???????

Choccy, thank you for that - just 1 question

In the parish records it stats Wife Mary . Mary died in 1848 would that still be said or would it say widower ???
Sheila

Did you get the will yet?

Was there any useful info in there?

Dea x

Dea, No - it is 11.15 pm and I am now of to bed Nite Nite x :-)

Sorry Sheila - didn't realise you were in a different time zone :-D

DO let us know on here what it contains when you get it.

Nite nite,

Dea x

Not sure why it says Mary as his wife on the burial record - sorry.

Burial
Day:28
Month:Jan
Year:1848
Birth day:
Birth month:
Birth year:
Age:76
Forenames:Mary
Surname:OAKES
Place:Hatch Beauchamp
Dedication:St John the Baptist
County:Somerset
Country:England
Type:Marble Tablet
Reference:22
Notes:In her 77th year. Wife of William.
Record source:Somerset Memorial Inscriptions
Data provider:Somerset & Dorset Family History Society


'During the early 19th century Hatch Court had many different occupiers. From 1838 to 1855 William Oakes owned it He was a churchwarden and there is a memorial to him in the west porch'

Chris :)


Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries .
The Derby Mercury (Derby, England), Wednesday, September 12, 1855

(according to death in above, says he went to London, for benefit of his health, after a few months illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude)


edits (a few lovely views of Church on google images)

well done, Chris & Choccy!!

I hoped someone would take what I found and run with it :-D


Interesting that Sarah is not mentioned on that tablet ..... or was that common in those days??




sylvia

Lol Sylvia, you know us all too well!.

Just to add the Occupation of Daniel Woolhouse on the Marriage Cert. says Gentleman, (Find My Past have the actual images) think somewhere Sheila said she couldn't make it out...


Also, noted Executor to his Will was Henry Hardstaff (found in index to death duty registers 1796 - 1903 Find My Past)

All very interesting!.

Chris :)

and Henry Hardstaff appears to have been a very trusted employee ... he's on both the 1841 and 1851 censuses

In fact, he's Head and Landed Proprietor at Hatch Beauchamp in 1861 :-D


1861 Census

Name: Henry Hardstaff
Age: 59
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1802
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Elizebeth Hardstaff
Gender: Male
Where born: Munsfeild, Nottinghamshire, England

Civil parish: Hatch Beauchamp
County/Island: Somerset
Country: England

Registration district: Taunton
Sub-registration district: North Curry

Henry Hardstaff 59 Landed Proprieter
Elizebeth Hardstaff 43 b.ca 1818, Shirland, Derbyshire
Richard H Hardstaff 5
Martha E Hardstaff 4
Gertude C Hardstaff 3
Eliza B Escott 34
Adelaide Palmer 28
Louisa Palmer 26
Mary C Humphreys 16
Sarah Pinney 22
Robert Bryant 20



all non-Hardstaff are servants


Ooooh, I would love to see that will !!!!!!


In 1851, he is shown as Servant, and I think as M.S. in 1841 (very faint)



so a quick rise in status!!



sylvia

hmmmmmmmmmm


England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941 about Henry Hardstaff

Name: Henry Hardstaff
Probate Date: 9 Mar 1872
Death Date: 13 Jan 1872
Death Place: Somerset, England
Registry: Principal Registry


from image:-

The Will with a Codicil of Henry Hardstaff, late of Hache [sic] Court in the Parish of Hatch Beauchamp in the County of Somerset, Gentleman, who died 13 January 1872 at Hache [sic] Court, was proved at the Principal Registry by Elizabeth Hardstaff of Hache Court, Widow, the Relict, the sole Executrix.
Effects under £45,000



a flippin' fortune!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This looks like his baptism


England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 about Henry Hardstaff

Name: Henry Hardstaff
Gender: Male
Birth Date: abt 1802
Christening Date: 27 Aug 1802
Christening Place: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England
Mother's Name: Mary Hardstaff

Elizabeth Hardstaff died in 1886, leaving a personal estate of £2,165 3s 1d

It is a 'flippin fortune' Sylvs - by todays value it would be £3557700.00 !!!

Dea Xxx

Mightily impressed with all the work done. :-D

I tried earlier with absolutely no luck. Good lateral thinking, Syl, to go to the newspapers.

Ozi

Royal Cornwall Gazette - Fri 03 Sep 1858

In the Marriages section:

On 24th ult., at Charles Church, Plymouth, William Luscombe Esq., his Netherland Majesty's Vice Consul, at Plymouth to Sarah, second daughter of Admiral Monday and relict of William Oakes, Esq, late of Patch Court, Somersetshire and Shirland House, Derbyshire.

** Got to go now, but will look up the rest tomorrow, if no-one else has.