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- (from Pam Inder) Marys will is dated 3rd Aug 1839 & reveals that she died April 1841 and she had a Marriage Selement. (The memorial tablet set into the wall inside Brewood Church clearely states 25th Feb 1840). In the Will she lists the beneficiaries; her 3 daughters, Ann, Massachusetts ry and Margaret, and her 5 sons, John Entwhistle, Walter, Henry, Thomas and George. The daughters do best. They were to share £5000 worth of stock and interest that came from Nathan Hyde, her father, plus £4419-17s-3d worth of stock at 3½% that was also part of her marriage selement (presumably from the Turners) The girls were also to share her farming stock ‘both live and dead’, furniture, linen, plate, personal effects etc. The boys were to share an estate that she owned called ‘The Hills’ or ‘Shooters Hill’, which lay just outside Longton and was valued at £1265 and had also been part of her marriage selement. That presupposes a marriage selement in 1799 of around £11,000 which is, I think, the largest I’ve come across. Of course, once it had been divided up the individual shares were not so very great – hence the fact that your ancestors were not wealthy. Her goods and chaels were valued at under £800 for probate purposes. Most of the 8 pages is legalese explaining in exhausting detail how things were to be divided between surviving children, putative grandchildren to be born in the 21 years following her death etc, if any of her family died before she did.
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