Any ideas who this testator is? - Genealogists' Forum

Merry · #1 14-10-09, 19:17

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Description Will of Helen McCrery, Widow of Greenwich , Kent
Date 02 March 1848
Catalogue reference PROB 11/2071

I can't see an obvious death to go with this. Any ideas......

#2 14-10-09, 20:08

It's definitely McCrery is it Merry? It couldn't be this one could it - Oct-Dec 1847 - ref 3 275

Helen McCreath 1847 Kensington Greater London, London, Middlesex

Merry · #3 14-10-09, 20:12

I don't know what the will actually says, as I've only seen the entry on TNA.

I'd not seen that death, thank you Chrissie - I'll have to see if I can find her in 1841.....I hate these Mcs lol!

#4 14-10-09, 20:12

Or better still this one (right area) - July - Sept - ref 5 131

Ellen McCarthy 1847 Greenwich Greater London, Kent, London

#5 14-10-09, 20:16

Of course we don't know how long it took for the will to be published. Sometimes it can be a while if there are queries can't it?

I keep finding similar names and in Greenwich too

There are two of these on the same page - Ellen McCarty 1846 Greenwich Greater London, Kent, London
I'm giving you Ellen too in case whoever passed it on didn't sound his Aitches lol

Merry · #6 14-10-09, 20:27

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Originally Posted by Chrissie Smiff

I'm giving you Ellen too in case whoever passed it on didn't sound his Aitches lol

lol Chrissie!! I have some relatives called Errington who are down as Herrington on one census, presumably because the enumerator assumed they didn't pronounce their Hs

Thanks very much for those deaths. Now it's a matter of deciding whether to get the will only to find it's not a McCrery! lol

kiterunner · #7 14-10-09, 22:03

Helen McCreath Dec 1847 was only 16, so you can rule her out (she's on the London Deaths and Burials on ancestry).

Helen McCrery could be one of those deaths that didn't get registered, I suppose, or didn't make it onto the GRO index.

kiterunner · #8 14-10-09, 22:18

Oh, looking at the GRO deaths index for Mar 1848, it's a typed one, so that means it was done to replace a handwritten one and the typist may have missed Helen out.

Merry · #9 15-10-09, 06:02

Thanks Kite, I can see I'll have to fork out he £3.50!

Merry · #10 04-02-14, 08:37

You may be riveted to know I am going through my approx 250 research threads on this site checking to see that I have added the relevent info to my family history program.

Reading this thread I realised I never paid for the PCC will, so thought I would now read it on Ancestry. However, I can't find it in their index! Can you??? (it's definitely showing on TNA site)