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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D323/ZE/13
TitleAttested copy of agreement
Date1805
DescriptionAttested copy of agreement between William Memmet of Sheffield, cutler, and wife Elizabeth; Henry Labron of Sheffield, cordwainer, and wife, Susannah, Richard Bingham of Birmingham, schoolmaster, and wife Martha; John Moake of Sheffield, filesmith; John Oates of Sheffield, cutler, and wife, Amelia; Henry Barlow of Sheffield, scissorsmith, and wife, Sarah; John Rimington, Bernard Wake, Charles Brookfield, and John Hale: reciting will of Dudley Rockett late of York, clerk and sub0chanter of cathedral church of St Peter made 1797; and that certain legacies had passed into residuary estate because of deaths of legatees, now to be distributed between next of kin; claimed by Elizabeth Memmet, Susannah Labron and Martha Bingham, children of Charles Rockett late of Sheffield, breeches maker, brother of Dudley Beckett; and by John Moake, Amelia Oates and Sarah Barlow, children of Jeremiah Moake, claimed to be half brother of Dudley Rockett; claimants agree to divide personal estate, except plate, into 9 parts, 5 to be divided equally between Rockett claimants, 4 between Moake claimants; plate to be divided between Rockett claimants; Rimington, Wake, Brookfield and Hale appointed as attorneys of both sets of claimants to deal with Rockett's executor and divide residual estate
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorUnidentified
TermCathedrals
Wills
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