Thomas Hopkinson of Hickling 1827 will
Nottinghamshire Archives PR/NW
This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Hopkinson of Hickling in the County of Nottingham yeoman
I give and devise all my real estate situate in Hickling aforesaid unto my brother John Hopkinson his heirs and assigns subject nevertheless and expressly charged with the payment of two hundred pounds which I have borrowed on my note (with a deposit of my writings) of Elizabeth Caunt and also with the following legacies to my nieces Mary Ann Abigail and Catherine (children of my late brother William) hundred pounds apiece and to my niece Elizabeth and to my two nephews Joseph and William (children also of my said brother William) forty pounds To my nephews Samuel and William (sons of my late sister Mary Morley) thirty pounds apiece and to my daughters nieces Abigail and Mary (daughters of my said late sister Mary Morley) twenty pounds apiece the above legacies to be paid within twelve months after my Death
I give my share in the wind mill of Hickling and also all my household goods stock and personal estate and effects unto my niece the said Mary Ann Hopkinson her heirs executors and administrators subject to the payment of all my Debts except the said sum of two (hundred pounds) and to such funeral expenses
And I appoint the said Mary Ann Hopkinson sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament
In Witness whereof I the said Thomas Hopkinson the Testator have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and seal this twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
Thomas Hopkinson
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Thomas Hopkinson the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses (the word Daughters in the thirteenth line having first been erased)
Sarah Latham
William Spencer
Wm Latham
I hereby certify that on the twenty seventh day of March in the year of our Lord 1827 Mary Ann Hopkinson of Loughborough in the County of Leicester spinster (the niece) the sole Executrix named in this the last Will and Testament of Thomas Hopkinson late of Hickling in the County of Nottingham in the Diocese or York yeoman deceased was sworn well and truly to execute and perform the same, And that the whole of the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased within the Diocese of York do not amount in total to the sum of one hundred pounds.
Witness my hand George Wilkins DD Surrogate
Passed 4th May 1827 under 100l