Yeo Will 1851

Will of James Yeo

of Chatham, Kent

Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury Prob11/2131
Submitted by Ros Dunning

This is my Will
I give and bequeath to Mrs Rebecca Harwood of Saint Margaret’s Rochester to Mrs Elizabeth Conyers of College Green Rochester to Miss Elizabeth Conyers her Daughter and to Major General Charles Moore and to Mr John Dyke of Arundel Street in the Strand Gentleman my Executors hereinafter named the sum of five guineas each which I request them to lay out in the purchase of a ring brooch or some other token which they may wear in memento of my regard for them
I also give and bequeath to the said John Dyke as a further mark of my regard for him my watch or time piece made by Arnold and numbered 1034

I give devise and bequeath unto my dear Daughter Mary Harwood Yeo the said General James Moore and John Dyke my Executrix and Executors hereinafter named all the Rest Residue and Remainder of my Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever Upon trust
in the first place to pay satisfy and discharge all my just debts my funeral expences and the charges of proving this my Will and carrying the same into execution
In the next place to transfer and convey pay apply and dispose of the whole of my said Estate and Effects unto and between my two dear Children Mary Harwood Yeo and Jane Yeo their executors administrators and assigns

I nominate constitute and appoint my said dear Daughter Mary Harwood Yeo General James Moore and John Dyke Executrix and Executors of this my Will
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty three James Yeo
(Attestation Clause)
C Hibbard Clerk to Mr Dyke Arundel St Strand _James Fricker Servant of Mr Yeo

23 April 1851 Administration with Will annexed to Elizabeth Conyers (of Rochester) Spinster sole Executrix of the Will of Mary Harwood Yeo Spinster deceased (Jane Yeo Spinster the other Residuary Legatee being dead)

Note: TNA Death Duty Record IR27/299 gives testator James Yeo of Chatham, administrator Elizabeth Conyers of Rochester
Also on the same page in 1851 testator Mary H Yeo of Portland, Dorset, executrix Elizabeth Conyers of Rochester

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