Who was Philip Crick (1777-1816)?

[josey]

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[FrancisGrn]

Wow, thanks so much for the will! That is truly amazing. I wonder if the portrait is still around. She said that she wrote it to her son Philip. He died unmarried in the 1860s and seems to have fallen on hard times, as he was often in workhouses. It also seems like they ran some sort of fruit company with this chap James Godwin, and they seem to have been reasonably well-off. Truly amazing to read something written by my ancestor. Too bad that she did't leave anything to a brother or cousin, as that could have shed more light on her origins. I think I've found her on land tax records in the late 18th century, but that and 'Wm Pond/Ann Goff' seems like the only evidnece of who she was before she got into the fruit business
Best wishes
Francis