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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D3580/EF/33
TitleCopy will of 31 January 1805 of William Longsdon of Eyam, gent., leaving real estate at Wardlow given by his grandfather [Thomas Longsdon 1677-1750] to his father [William Longsdon] to James Longsdon of Little Longsdon, gent. [1745-1821], charged with payment of £100 to executor; £5 yearly for life charged on real estate at Stanton Lees, and suit of clothes to cousin Thomas Longsdon of Hill Top near Mellor [now Cheshire]; £30 each to godsons James and William, sons of said James Longsdon; £30 each to Thomas, Mary, Serlo or Serlow, John, William and James, six of children of kinsman Thomas Longsdon [1751-1831] of Goatley; £30 each to Mary Birds and Sarah Birds, spinsters, sisters of his executor, and to godson, William, son of kinsman David Birds; 1 guinea to each servant in his service at his death; residue of real and personal estate including mines and minerals to kinsman Thomas Birds of Eyam, gent., sole executor. Codicil of 9 July 1806 increasing charge on Wardlow estate left to James Longsdon to £150; and leaving £30 each to Elizabeth, wife of Jasper Wager, and to her sister Ann Longsdon, children of Thomas Longsdon of Goatley, and to John son of James Longsdon; mourning rings to Revd. John Carver, Marmaduke Middleton, esq., James Longsdon, William Birds, David Birds and Peter Longsdon.
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RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorLongsdon family of Little Longstone
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