British subject born in France 1822

[ClayHolley]

I was able to crop one of the photos to at least give you a look.
By the way, where are you located? I am in the state of Alabama in the US.

Clay

[ClayHolley]

Here is one more.

[Westby]

Hi Clay

Thanks for the image.  It certainly doesn’t look like an easy script to read.

I’m in Australia.  I live in Sydney.

I wonder how this will made it’s way to the US.  I’m not aware of any of Sarah’s decedents moving to the US.  She only had 1 surviving son, Thomas Wilmot Easthope, who emigrated to Australia in 1839 where he married.  He returned to England in the 1840s when his father died.  Then Sarah’s grandson, Frank Wilmot Homer Easthope migrated to Australia (Melbourne) in 1884.

I’d be interested to know what else was in with the material you bought at the estate sale.  That might provide a clue to how this document ended up with you.

I’m not sure if you are aware of Dropbox.  https://www.dropbox.com  You can set up an account for free, upload documents, then give me a reference so I can download documents, photos etc.

Another alternative might be one of the free online compression

http://www.imageoptimizer.net/Pages/Home.aspx
http://optimizilla.com

If all this fails, perhaps you’d post the document.

Kind regards
Fleur

[ClayHolley]

It seems to be a random assortment. Perhaps all of it came from a law office or perhaps the people that had the estate collected these from various places. Here are some of the documents and names:
Will and testament  - Daniel Thayer 1834
Will and testament - Mary Agusta Domvile 1878
Will - William Constance 1831?
Indenture between William Godwin and James Pullin Hinton
Will - Lucy Coppin 1848
I see Gloucester on a lot of the documents so I think they may have come from a law office there but I have only been through a few of them. I really only bought them because they were old and unusual.

[ClayHolley]

Fleur,
I would like to post you the document. I just ask that once you receive it and see how interesting it is to have a family document like this, you send me back some kind of small gift from your country.
Clay

[garstonite]

Just a thought here maybe another member can answer
b around 1822
1861 census states aged 50 - so born around 1811
Napoleanic War was 1803 to 1815 - so I can't see an English sailor having a british born subject in France in 1811 ...I don't think we took over France until 1815 ...so IF - a big if - his father was in The Royal Navy he may have been stationed in France after the War finished patrolling The English Channel or off the coast of France ...that would make more sense to me - if this is the case it would suggest that 1861 census has a mistake somewhere ?? either way The Royal Navy looks a possible answer to why he was born in France - are there any records anywhere of Royal Navy personnel in 1815 -1822 in France ??

[Westby]

Hi Clay

So sorry for the delay in replying to your message.  I didn't receive any alert, and haven't been checking this site lately.

Thanks so much for offering to send the will by post.  I appreciate your offer very much, and would be happy to send you something from this side of the world.  Just let me know what kind of thing might be of interest.

I will send my address in a personal message.

Regards
Fleur

[jim1]

I know this is an old post but did you find anything on Thomas Wilmott Easthope.
The reason I ask is because he's commemorated on an ancestor's tomb in Tewkebury.
This is what they say about him.

The two known sons of Thomas Easthope senior evidently did quite well for themselves. Thomas junior (1780-1842) had established himself in Cheltenham, where he is listed as ‘Esq.’ in directories of 1830 and 1842. His marriage in Worcester in 1807 was to a Londoner, Sarah Elizabeth Wilmot of Stepney, and after her husband’s death in 1842, she apparently moved back to London, where she died on 25 February 1860 at 8 Upper Gloucester Place, Dorset Square ‘in the county of Middlesex’.