This is the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth
Hemingway of Cawthorne in the County of York Spinster, First I will and direct
that all my final Debts Funeral and Testamentary Expences shall be duly paid
and satisfied by my Executrices hereinafter named and subject thereto I give
and bequeath unto my nieces Elizabeth and Mary Ann the Daughters of my brother
William Hemingway in equal shares and proportions All and every my Personal
Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever and I do hereby appoint them my
said Nieces joint Executrices of this my Will and revoke all former Wills by me
heretofore made and declare this to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness
whereof I have hereunto set my Hand this seventeenth Day of May in the Year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one.
Elizabeth Hemingway
Signed Published and Declared
by the Testatrix in the presence
of us who at her request in her
presence and in the presence of
each other have hereunto set our
Names as Witnesses
J P Bruce
Thomas West
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IN THE EXCHEQUER COURT OF YORK
Elizabeth Hemingway of Cawthorne in the Parish of Silkstone,
in the County of York, Spinster, in order to the due Administration of the
Personal Estate and Effects of Elizabeth Hemingway late of Cawthorne aforesaid
Spinster who died on the eighteenth day of May 1821and maketh oath and saith
that she has made diligent search and due enquiry after and in respect of the
Personal Estate and Effects of the said Deceased, in order to ascertain the
full amount and value thereof; and to the best of her knowledge, information
and belief, the whole of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of which the said
Deceased died possessed, within the Diocese of York (exclusive of what the
Deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee for any other
Person or Persons and not beneficially but including the Leasehold Estates of
the Deceased, if any, whether absolute or determinable on lives, and without
deducting anything on account of the Debts due and owing from the deceased,)
are under the Value of Twenty Pounds
And this Deponent further saith that the said Deceased had
no Personal Estate and Effects at the time of her decease, within the Province
of Canterbury, to which she, the said Deponent need to administer.
Sworn on the twenty seventh Day of Elizabeth Hemingway
November 1821 before me
John Fletcher, Surrogate for Probate
I do hereby certify that on the seventh day of November in
the Year of our Lord 1821. Elizabeth Hemingway of Cawthorne in the County of
York, Spinster, the Niece and one of the Executrices named in the last Will and
Testament of Elizabeth Hemingway late of Cawthorne aforesaid in the Diocese of
York, Spinster, deceased, was sworn well and truly to execute and perform the
same, and that the whole of the Goods and Chattels and Credits of the said
deceased within the Diocese of York do not amount in Value to the Sum of Twenty
Pounds.
Witness my Hand
John Fletcher. Surrogate
Sworn under £20 in Exchequer
Died 18th May 1821
Passed 22nd Nov. 1821
ADMON OF JOHN HEMINGWAY OF CAWTHORNE, JOINER 4.2.1854
IN THE EXCHEQUER COURT OF YORK
Mary Hemingway of Cawthorne in the Parish of Silkstone, in
the County of York, Widow in order to the due Administration of the Personal
Estate and Effects of John Hemingway late of Cawthorne aforesaid Joiner who
died on the fourth day of February 1854 Intestate, maketh oath and saith that
she has made diligent search and due enquiry after and in respect of the
Personal Estate and Effects of the said Deceased, in order to ascertain the
full amount and value thereof; and to the best of her knowledge, information
and belief, the whole of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of which the said
Deceased died possessed, within the Diocese of York (exclusive of what the
Deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee for any other
Person or Persons and not benefically but including the Leasehold Estates of
the Deceased, if any, whether absolute or determinable on lives, and without
deducting anything on account of the Debts due and owing from the deceased,)
are under the Value of Twenty Pounds
And this Deponent further saith that the said Deceased had
no Personal Estate and Effects at the time of his decease, within the Province
of Canterbury, to which she, the said Deponent needs to administer.
Sworn on the twenty sixth Day Mary Hemingway
of October 1854 before me
J Sunderland, Surrogate
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I do hereby certify that on the twenty sixth day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1854, Mary Hemingway, the Administratrix hither named
has swornduly to administer, and that the whole of the goods, chattels and
credits of the deceased within mentioned, within the Diocese of York, do not
amount in value to the sum of Twenty Pounds.
Died 4th February 1854
Sworn under £20 Exchequer
Witness my hand J
Sunderland, Surrogate
Passed 2nd November 1854