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Elizabeth Godin,
housekeeper to Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia 1785
This is the last will and
testament of me ELIZABETH GODIN housekeeper to her Royal Highness
the Princess Amelia. First I trust my executor her after named to
pay out of my personal estate my just debts legacies and Funeral
expences and I desire to be buried at Bloomsbury Burying Ground near
the place where my late husband and Nephew ?H..oass lie and I direct
that my Funeral may be conducted in the same manner as my said late
Husbands was. Now it is my will and I hereby give and bequeath to my
niece CAROLINE ?HUFFMASTER £50 of my stock called Old South Sea
Annuities. To my Cousin ELIZABETH STEPHENS £100 of my same stock
called Old South Sea Annuities. To Mr JOHN TUNER the younger Nephew
to Mr TURNER Steward to her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia the
sum of £50 of my same stock called Old South Sea Annuities and as
for and concerning all the rest residue and remainder of my Money in
the Publick Funds or on any security ready Money Goods Schattels and
Personal estate whatsoever I give and bequeath the same unto the
said JOHN TURNER the younger upon Trust that he his executors and
Administrators do and shall lay out and invest the same on real
securities or in some of the Publich Funds in the Name of him the
said JOHN TURNER the younger ... and my will is that the said JOHN
TURNER the younger ... shall stand and be possessed of and intrusted
in the said residue of my personal estate and of securities and
funds ... upon the several trusts ... to pay into the proper hands
of my neices ELIZABETH the wife of GEORGE HOOLEY ....the dividends
interest and annual proceeds of the said residue of my said personal
estate ... for her own sole and separate use ... and after he
decease of my said neice it is my will and I do hereby declare that
the said JOHN TURNER the younger ... do and shall stand and be
possessed of and interested in the said residue of my said eprsonal
estate and the securities of Funds .... In Trust for all and every
the child and children of my said neice ELIZABETH HOOLEY equally to
be divided between or amongst them share and share alike ... and in
case my said neice shall happen to depart this life without leaving
any child or children ... then it is my will and I do hereby direct
.. [that] the same be placed in a trust for the person or persons
and in such manner as my said neice ELIZABETH HOOLEY shall ... by
her last will and testament ... direct or appoint ...And I do hereby
constitute and appoint the said JOHN TURNER the younger sole
executor of this my will and lastly hereby revoking all former wills
I do declare this to be my last will and testament In witnes whereof
I have to this my last will and testament set my hand and seal 22
July 1782
Witnesses William MackIntosh,
Thomas Langford
Memorandum this 22 July 1782 I
do hereby certify and make known to my executor named in my will
bearing date the 22 July 1782 that my neice ELIZABETH HOOLEY in
entitled to out of the effect of which I die possessed and exclusive
of what I have given and bequeathed to her in my said will the sum
of £200 stock called Old South Sea Annuities standing in my Name
being the amount of the Money Out upon the administration of her
late Mother’s effects by me which I desire may be transferred to her
or her assigns she or her Husband giving and executing to ?..?
Executor a Release and discharge of all claims and demands in
respect to my having taken out administration to her Mother within
three months after my decease as witness my hand Elizabeth Godin
Witnesses William MackIntosh,
Thomas Langford.
This will was proved at London
with a codicil the 12 December 1785... by the oath of John
Turner....
PROB 11/1136
But then I found out a bit
more from a web site called London Lives
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
Middlesex Coroners’ Inquests
Elizabeth Godin - Ealing - 22
November 1785
Summons to the Constables of
Ealing to summon and warn 24 able and sufficient men ... to appear
on Tuesday 22 November at 3 o ‘clock in the afternoon at her Royal
Highness the Princess Amelia’s House at Gunnersbury .. touching the
death of Elizabeth Godin widow ....
Information of witnesses ...
22 November 1785 in the Parish of Ealing in the County of Middlesex
at the Dwelling House of Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia at
Gunnersbury before me Edward Umfreville Esq one of His Majesty’s
Coroners touching the death of Elizabeth Goddin widow ..
Elizabeth Stevens a servant
living with the Princess at Gunnersbury on her oath saith she has
known the deceased many years who has lived with the Princess as
House Keepern twenty seven years, that during six weeks past the
deceased has been in a very infirm state occasioned by a wound in
her leg which together with her great age, near seventy two,
rendered her very lame such that on Sunday morning last the
twentieth of November inst she left the deceased in her room in the
said house, sitting at a Table intending to put her Cap in - That
she could not have left the deceased above five minutes when she
sent Rachael Colyer , another servant of the Princess, with some
breakfast for the deceased, and in a few minutes she heart the said
Rachael scream and a W....? Turner one of the Princess’s Domestics
came and told this deponent [witness] that the deceased was dead.
Gunnersbury House in West
London was purchased for Princess Amelia, daughter of King George
II, in 1760. Princess Amelia died in 1786 |
