| Reference Number | DSCAM/3/310 |
| Title | Will of Sarah Pearce and related material. |
| Description | DSCAM/3/310/1: Probate (22 Sept. 1843) of the will (dated 22 Dec. 1840) of Sarah Pearce of Old Hill, parish of Rowley Regis, Staffs., widow and universal legatee of William Pearce, late of the Thorns, parish of Kingswinford; household stores to Elizabeth, wife of John Payne; all household effects and 3 canal boats, to John Payne; £10 to executor; £50 to William Rushton of New Hadley, Salop; £50 to niece, Elizabeth Lowe; £19 19/- each to sisters-in-law Sarah, wife of Thomas Pearce, and Elizabeth Franks, widow, brother-in-law Richard Wild, £10 to Wild's daughter, Mary Wild, and £19 19/- to Daniel Rigby, son of testatrix's nephew, Thomas Rigby; £150 mortgage to her from John Payne to be interest free until Mary Ann, his daughter, is 21 years of age, when £50 is abated and £100 raised for the said Mary Ann, but that sum too is to pass to John Payne should Mary Ann die a minor; residue of estate in trust to pay income to John Payne for life, then to his wife, Elizabeth, for life, thence capital to their issue; executor, William Finney of Haden Hill, parish of Rowley Regis, brickmaker |
| DSCAM/3/310/2: Letters of administration (27 Nov. 1843) of the effects of Sarah Pearce of Ketley, Salop, widow, granted to her daughter, Mary Edge. |
| DSCAM/3/310/3-9: Residuary Account, Legacy Receipts, executor's accounts, bill of costs, receipts for legacies (with attached copy baptism certificate of Daniel Rigby; Wellington, Salop, 1824) etc., 1843-58. |
| DSCAM/3/310/10-12: Release (3 Feb. 1888) of Samuel Willets, late of Westbromwich, coalmaster, now of Barnt Green, farmer (surviving executor of William Finney, the sole executor of Sarah Pearce), on the division of the residuary estate between the 4 children of John Payne (d 1885) - James Payne, Ezra Eley as administrator of Sarah Eley, Mary Ann, wife of George Green, and Eliza, wife of George Goring, formerly wife of William Hickton; related bill of costs; authority from Ezra Eley (17 Jan. 1888) to pay to his daughter, Mrs Ellen Barnsley, the share to which he is entitled, as asminsitrator of his late wife, in the residuary personal estate of Sarah Pearce. |
| DSCAM/3/310/13-14: Letters of administration (20 Jan. 1888) of the effects of Sarah Jane Eley (d 1853), wife of Ezra Eley of Old Hill, parish of Rowley Regis, Staffs., granted to her husband; related bill of costs. |
| See also DSCAM/3/276 series. |
| Date | 1843-1888 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 14 items |
| Level | Item |