Lambert Will 1823

Will of Samuel Lambert

of Greenwich, Kent


Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury PROB 11/1669/454
Submitted by Elizabeth McCallum
In the Name of God Amen This is the last Will and Testament of me Samuel Lambert of Billingsgate Dock, in the Parish of Saint Alphage, Greenwich in the County of Kent, Fishing Smack Owner
First I direct the payment of all my just debts and funeral expemces and subject thereto

I give devise and bequeath all and singular my estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of whatever nature or kind the same may be and consist of unto my dear beloved Wife Sarah Page Lambert her executors administrators and assigns to and for her and her own proper and absolute use benefit and disposal for and during her natural life
and at her decease I direct that all and every sort of Property whatsoever she then maybe possessed of shall be equally left and divided among her and my Children, vizt.
Joseph John William Samuel Lambert and my daughter Maria Jane the Wife of Isaac Townsend
for their use and Profit for ever

And I do hereby and appoint my Friend Richard Grimett of Blisset Street in the aforesd. Parish Shipwright and my said dear Wife as Executor and Executrix to this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made and confirm this only to be and contain my last Will and Testament

In Witness whereof I the said Samuel Lambert the testator have hereunto set my hand and seal the seventeenth day of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty three
Samuel Lambert

Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said Samuel Lambert the testator as and for this my last Will and Testament in the presence of us and in the presence at his request and in the presence of each other and [have] hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto
Henry Speering of Deptford, Kent - William Huntley of Greenwich, Kent - David Jones of Deptford, Kent

Proved a London 30th April 1823 before the Worshipful Samuel Rush Meyrick, Doctor of Laws & Surr. by the Oaths of Richard Grimett & Sarah Page Lambert Widow the Relict, the Executors to whom Admon. was granted being first Sworn duly to Admr. Exd.

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 26th December 2020


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