Chelsfield - Parish Information
Abstract of will from
Chelsfield proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Geoffrey Copus.2005
Lydia Rock of
Chelsfield dated 10 November 1843
Abstract of the will of Lydia Rock of Chelsfield
dated 10 November 1843.
I give to my sister Perthany Rock £100 in the new 3½%
reduced [sic] and to William Rock, son of my brother William, to James
and Mary Rock, the children of my brother James Rock, and to Lydia
Elizabeth Rock the daughter of my brother Joseph Rock, £25 each, to be
paid out of a £60 share in the Hastings Gas Company, £10 in the hands
of my brother James and £30 in Bromley Savings Bank.
My furniture and other household effects remaining at
Hastings I give to the above-named William, James, Mary and Lydia
Elizabeth Rock to be equally divided among them.
I give to my sister Perthany Rock all my wearing apparel.
I give all the residue of my real and personal estate to my
said sister Perthany and I appoint William Peter Rock and James Rock,
son of James Rock aforesaid, both in the Town of Hastings, as my
Executors, requesting them to accept £10 each for their trouble.
Lydia X Rock Witnesses Thomas Coleborn Edward Davies.
Proved 19 February 1844 by William Peter Rock and James Rock the
nephews.
[PCC will PROB11/1993]
Transcribed by Geoffrey
Copus