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Old 08-04-13, 08:19
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I've found this will on the National Archives website:

Will of John Field , Gentleman of of Flitton cum Silsoe , Bedfordshire

Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers. Will of John Field , , Gentleman of of Flitton cum Silsoe , Bedfordshire.

Collection: Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Date range: 08 July 1815 - 08 July 1815
Reference:PROB 11/1570/241
Subjects:Wills and probate


The name is correct, we know that John Field was deceased by October 1818, so is it worth a punt (or £3.34)!

Edit: I should say that Flitton and Campton are just 6 miles apart!

This isn't the will for the John Field I'm looking for. This chap's wife is Frances.
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Old 08-04-13, 08:51
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Merry, have you seen this?

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~en...n/milton04.htm
You need the second page, I think.

There's a lot about Joseph Ashby Gillet.
A lot of names I recognise from my tree - Gilkes, Farndon, etc.
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Old 08-04-13, 13:53
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Thanks for that, Elizabeth. If I had seen it before then it's had more work added since I first looked. Almost at the end is a photo of Martha Braithwaite nee Gillett who married Joseph Bevan Braithwaite - they were the ancestors of mum's neighbour from 1934-1939 - My grandfather would have been very interested to know his neighbour's ancestors and his own must have known one another (plus a couple of married-ins) 150 years earlier!
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Old 09-04-13, 13:14
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I think it is fascinating too Merry how our ancestors lives collide years before .. my ancestors, my nephew's new wife, Liza's OH and OC's Holdens etc all came from Saddleworth 150 years ago.
Just recently we found a photo of my bil's greatgrandfather William Osborne who came from Merriott in Somerset. My sister and I both thought, as soon as we saw it, that it looked like our grandfather, Oliver Sloman whose ancestors came from Tiverton in Somerset .. gave us goosebumps .. Julie
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Old 09-04-13, 14:17
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Julie, I just love coincidences. Perhaps one day we can tie up a few loose ends.

By the way, Tiverton is in Devon, not Somerset (but I expect you really knew that!). My brother went to school there and the school was mentioned in Lorna Doone.
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Old 09-04-13, 22:51
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Oh thanks Elizabeth ... yes I slipped there .. my Slomans were in Milverton in Somerset (1841 at Preston Bowyer hamlet) and Tiverton in Devon .. or more accurately they were at Tiverton Cove, the church now being a private residence with a keep out sign on the gate! Julie
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Old 14-04-21, 11:46
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I'm returning to the problem of Sarah Jeffcoat / Hemmings / Field again as I'm revisiting a Chancery Case and updating my information.

I have made some new discoveries and decided to make a timeline:

SARAH JEFFCOAT
Born 8 Jan 1772 at Upper Winchendon to Joseph and Mary Jeffcoat, Quakers.

Married William Hemmings in 1794 in a Quaker ceremony at Aylesbury.

Three children born at Brailes, Warwickshire:
John 1797
Joseph Jeffcoat 1798
Hannah 1801

1801 William Hemmings died 3 months after his daughter's birth.

1806 Sarah's father Joseph Jeffcoat died. He made provision for his daughter Sarah Hemmings, widow, and her three children.

1807 - I found the following references this morning! Sarah seems to be in Bedfordshire.

1807 Concern for mental wellbeing of Sarah Hemmings
Reference: FR2/7/8/1b
Title: Letter
Description:
From Jn Wells & Thos Hodgkin, Shipston to Emmott Skidmore of Rickmansworth

Society of Friends, Luton and Leighton Meeting
Sarah Hemmings is now in a state of derangement under the care of a doctor in the neighbourhood of London

Date: 4th Nov 1807
Held by: Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service, not available at The National Archives
Language: English


Letter
Reference: FR2/7/8/1a
Title: Letter
Description: From Jn Wells & Thos Hodgkin of Shipston [on Stour Glous]* to Emmott Skidmore of Rickmansworth, Herts

*Shipston on Stour is 4 miles from Brailes where the Hemmings family lived.

MM wld have been more satisfied if they had been informed that Sarah Hemmings was under the care of the Executors of her late Father - feared that "expence might probably fall upon our MM [Monthly Meeting] for we have been informed the expence already amounts to about £50"

Request as full a minute as possible

Date: 10th Nov 1807
Held by: Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service, not available at The National Archives
Language: English


The executors of her father's will were:
Mary Jeffcoat, relict
John Jeffcoat, son
Richard Littleboy
Joseph White

1811 John Hemmings (Sarah’s son) at Ackworth Shipston and Brails mentioned
1812 Joseph Jeffcoat Hemmings (Sarah’s son) at Ackworth

1811
Sarah Hemmings mentioned at Shipston-on-Stour (I assume this is her.)
Reference: ER 12/19/25
Description:
Memorandum of Agreement between Sarah Hemmings, Shipston-on-Stour, widow and Richard Hemmings for the sale, for £160 of her life interest in estates at Burmington under the will of her late husband.

Date: 26 February 1811
Held by: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

1813 Sarah Hemmings married John Field at Meppershall, Bedfordshire.

1814 Disownment by the Society of Friends
Sarah Field (nee Hemmings) of Hitchin

Reference: NQ2/5E/95-96
Title: Sarah Field (nee Hemmings) of Hitchin
Date: 1814
Held by: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 2

https://archives.hertfordshire.gov.u...CNQ_2_5_5_2_34

Disownment Hitchin Monthly Meeting

1818 By this time John Field had died. He and Sarah had had a son John.

Two documents cited mentioning Sarah Field (widow of William Hemmings and John Field) and her son John Hemmings.
They are mentioned in #8.

Then she disappears, though a family member states she died in Southwark in 1840. The age is right so I've just ordered the death certificate.


Poor Sarah sounds as though she suffered a mental breakdown after her first husband died. She had three very young children. I wonder if the Jeffcoat family arranged for the Hemmings boys to attend Ackworth as most of the family went there (Sarah didn't).

Sorry this is so long.

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Old 14-04-21, 11:54
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Yesterday I e-mailed Bedfordshire Archives to see if there was a will for John Field. I had found reference to a nasty piece of work with this name who was charged with murdering a female employee, but they were unable to convict him.

They did find this will:
Reference ABP/W1817/32, the will of John Field of ****lington, yeoman, made 5 September 1815 and proved 21 November 1817

****lington (now Shillington!) is four miles from Meppershall.
This individual was buried in the non-conformist churchyard at Hitchin, I discovered. He was a Baptist.
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcr...%2FBUR%2F95896
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Old 14-04-21, 12:36
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Ha! It didn't like the parish name of ****lington!
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I have ancestors from ****lington!
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