David Maynard (Week 25 - MMFFF)
 

Name - "official" name and what they were known as

David Maynard

Date and place of birth

28th August 1748, probably at Kempston, Bedfordshire

Names of parents

William Maynard, yeoman, and Elizabeth née Crawley

Date and place of baptism - if applicable

Unknown

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any

Firstly to Sarah Moule on 25th Dec 1770 at Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire

Secondly to my ggg-grandmother Rebecca Moule (niece of Sarah Moule) on 11th Oct 1803 at St George's, Bloomsbury, Middlesex

Occupation(s) - if any

Abt 1763-1770 apprenticed to William Wagstaff, grocer, of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire
1770-1789 soap and candle maker
1789-1821 farmer and grocer

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).

1748-1750 Kempston, Bedfordshire with parents
1750-1759 Hitchin, Hertfordshire with maternal grandparents
1760-1763 Kempston, Bedfordshire with father
1763-1770 Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire as apprentice
1770-1773ish Gambingay, Cambridgeshire with first wife. First child born here
1773ish-1789 Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire with first wife. Second child born here. Both children buried here. First wife buried here in 1803 though she died in Whittlesford.
1789-1821 Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire with first wife, then with both (1801-1803) (!) and then with second wife.

Date, place and cause of death

24th March 1821 at Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire aged 72, cause unknown

Date and place of burial.

30th March 1821 at St Mary and St Andrew's, Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable

None traced

Memorial inscription - if any

In memory of
David Maynard
who died March 24th 1821
in the 73rd year of his age
He was an affectionate Husband
a tender Father and a kind Friend
Also of Rebecca
his wife who died
Nov 25th 1853
in the 79th year of her age

Some years ago!

Oooh, I looked at this thread when adding David's mother to ToG4 and made the effort to check the Death Duty Registers on FMP and.....

1821 County Court Wills, David Maynard, Exor John Arnold of Whittlesford, Cambs, Consistory Court of Ely, Register 4, Folio 1050.

So, I shall be sending off for that!

Merry, that's fantastic. Now comes the long wait for the postman ....

lol Yes! I've just sent them an email asking them the cost. Fingers crossed they reply soon.

Out of interest, who did you e-mail, Merry?

The Consistory Court of Ely probate records are at Cambridgeshire Archives.

I hope you don't have to wait long for a reply, Merry.

The problem with pre-1858 wills is knowing who to contact. Luckily I have have quite a few on TNA, and recently I have ordered from Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, and just this week from Lancashire Archives.

£3.50 for five sheets of A4 and £2.50 postage and handling :)

Just 'phoned them with card details and postal addy.

*watches for postie* :)

That's very reasonable, Merry. I hope they come very soon.

Yes, I thought that was very reasonable too.

I don't expect anything dramatic to come from this will, but I suppose there's always a chance of something unexpected and certainly only one way to find out!

I was just looking at that gravestone photo again and noticed (surely not for the first time????) that David Maynard died 180 years to the day before my daughter was born! I must be losing my marbles as I have no recollection of noticing that before!

Well the good news is I now have four pages of DM's handwriting and enjoyed his spelling very much! Also his request for a funeral, "with as little parade and expence (sic) as decency will allow"

It's a good job I didn't need the will to prove any relationships though, as all he manages is to say he has a living wife and living children who are aged under 21. That's it. His farm and shop were worth £400.

There was one thing I've not seen on any other will though - that should his wife choose to remarry he would then give her £50 :eek: She never did!