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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / 1814 will and beneficiaries
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I've attached part of a will of Thomas Fullerton Warren from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, probate date 7 Jan 1814. He was born in Jamaica but died in London aged 33.
I'm finding it difficult to decipher some of the details of who benefited and from what.
Background: He was a son of Revd Thomas Warren (rector and clerk, St Elizabeth, Jamaica, who died only a few years earlier) who was a plantation and slave owner. T F Warren's sisters Harriet and Mary Ann or Marianne were also born in Jamaica (along with other siblings) but died in London in 1861 and 1859 respectively at Portman Square. 78 and 80 years old. Harriet is on the 1861 census in Portman Square. There is some info on Rev Thomas Warren and Thomas F Warren on the website for the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL ( https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/21466536350 ) where it mentions ownership of Brompton Pen and an estate, Lacovia, in Jamaica, and the contents of T F Warren's will leaving his real and personal estate in Jamaica in trust for his sisters.
I'm more interested in Richard Ryland the uncle as I can't find the relationship between the two. Unless he wasn't strictly an uncle - perhaps a great uncle or another relative?
I can read that T F Warren has bequeathed sums of money to his aunt Mrs Mary Brown and his uncle Richard Ryland of Savage Gardens, London, but I can't decipher the words that appear before 'uncle Richard Ryland Esquire..' or after the words 'five hundred pounds'.
I can see names such as someone's daughter Mrs Emily Ryland, and granddaughter Harriet Fitzgerald of Reverend Thomas Coxton (?) late of Jamaica.
Also a servant James Williams getting an annuity for the rest of his natural life, and his wearing/training (?) apparel and some other items/stipulations that I can't decipher but seems to take up a lot of space!
It then moves on to his four sisters, Elizabeth Sarah Henkell, Dorothy Owen, Harriet Warren (but can't see Mariann - she might be on the next page).
I'll post another snippet from the next page that also mentions Richard Ryland.
I'm finding it difficult to decipher some of the details of who benefited and from what.
Background: He was a son of Revd Thomas Warren (rector and clerk, St Elizabeth, Jamaica, who died only a few years earlier) who was a plantation and slave owner. T F Warren's sisters Harriet and Mary Ann or Marianne were also born in Jamaica (along with other siblings) but died in London in 1861 and 1859 respectively at Portman Square. 78 and 80 years old. Harriet is on the 1861 census in Portman Square. There is some info on Rev Thomas Warren and Thomas F Warren on the website for the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL ( https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/21466536350 ) where it mentions ownership of Brompton Pen and an estate, Lacovia, in Jamaica, and the contents of T F Warren's will leaving his real and personal estate in Jamaica in trust for his sisters.
I'm more interested in Richard Ryland the uncle as I can't find the relationship between the two. Unless he wasn't strictly an uncle - perhaps a great uncle or another relative?
I can read that T F Warren has bequeathed sums of money to his aunt Mrs Mary Brown and his uncle Richard Ryland of Savage Gardens, London, but I can't decipher the words that appear before 'uncle Richard Ryland Esquire..' or after the words 'five hundred pounds'.
I can see names such as someone's daughter Mrs Emily Ryland, and granddaughter Harriet Fitzgerald of Reverend Thomas Coxton (?) late of Jamaica.
Also a servant James Williams getting an annuity for the rest of his natural life, and his wearing/training (?) apparel and some other items/stipulations that I can't decipher but seems to take up a lot of space!
It then moves on to his four sisters, Elizabeth Sarah Henkell, Dorothy Owen, Harriet Warren (but can't see Mariann - she might be on the next page).
I'll post another snippet from the next page that also mentions Richard Ryland.