Elizabeth CLAPHAM 1817-? in Watford

[Eyesee]

Have ordered the will.

How long does it take before you get the email that allows you to actually download it.

Ian C

[amondg]

It can depend on staffing.
Previously -for me anyway, 2 days or up to a week.

[amondg]

Are you following the children of Thomas Green Clapham ?

His will of 1803 is detailed. It's on ancestry.

The third child was Thomas P--? Clapham

[Eyesee]

Yes I am.

Thomas Picton Clapham, who was the one in Sandal Magna. Married Hannah Knowles.

William Henry Clapham was the informant when his brother Henry Charles died.

Ian C

[amondg]

Hertford Mercury and Reformer 20 March 1841.

On the 11th instant at Sandal near Wakefield in his 41st year Thomas Picton Clapham Esq. formerly of Watford.

[Eyesee]

Just received William Henry Clapham's will.

Apart from a number of legacies to a number of his American cousins and his wife's siblings, he leaves pretty much everything to his nieces Catherine and Mary Clapham, with income to his dear wife Elizabeth, so she was still alive.

WW Comins was his partner in his law firm.

Suspect she may have gone back to Witheridge.

Will keep digging.

Ian C

[amondg]

Take a look and when the will was written you cannot go by probate date.
Elizabeth may have been alive when he wrote it, but not when he died.

[Eyesee]

He added a codicil in May 1858 and Elizabeth was still around then.

All of the Elizabeth Clapham deaths from then until late 1859 were in Yorkshire apart from one in Lincoln.

If she was still in London in 1861 she may have been in one of the areas where the 1861 census has been lost. Couple of marriages in the 1860s in London, but not her.

Ian C

[Eyesee]

Think I might have found her death.

An Elizabeth CLAPHAM died 6 Mar 1891 in Hammersmith. Probate was granted to her nephew Charles Bridges STEVENS of Reading, Berkshire.

Charles Bridges STEVENS, born in Eton in 1848, is a son of Thomas Howell STEVENS and Mary COMINS, sister of Elizabeth.

Where was she in 1861, 1871 and 1881 census.

Ian C