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Facts and Events
Mary Stanton was baptised on 11th April 1697 at Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, daughter of a carpenter named Francis Stanton and his wife Ann. Mary was married in 1718 at Hinxworth to a John Moss of Southill in Bedfordshire.
After that Mary has yet to be traced. One possibility is that they moved to the nearby market town of Baldock and John worked as a brewer. That couple do not appear to have had children, and died within three months of each other in 1766 and both left wills.
References
- ↑ Church of England. Parish registers of Hinxworth, 1551-1985. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).
1697: Maria filia Francisci Stanton et Annae uxoris baptizata fuit undecimo die mensis Aprilus
[Mary daughter of Francis Stanton and Anna his wife was baptized 11 Apr 1697]
- Mary Moss, widow, 1766, Baldock, 17HR44 / 93HW24, in Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies. Hertfordshire Names Online.
This is the last Will and Testament of me Mary Moss of Baldock in the County of Hertford Widow First I give and devise unto Susanna Pate of Baldock aforesaid Widow and to her Heirs and Assigns for ever All and singular my Messuages Cottages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever and all my Interest Right and Title of in or to any Messuages Cottages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments situate in Baldock aforesaid (Subject nevertheless to the Payment of the Sum of Fifty Pounds by me hereinafter given and bequeathed to John Huitson the son of William Huitson of Baldock aforesaid Apothecary and of the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds by me hereinafter given and bequeath unto my Cousin Mary Pool of Aylesbury in the County of Bucks Widow if she shall be living at the time of my decease but if she [several words obscured] Reading in the County of Berks Spinster and also Subject to the Payment of my Funeral Expences) And I give and bequeath unto the said John Huitson Fifty pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid him within six Months next after my decease And I give and bequeath unto the said Mary Pool One Hundred and fifty Pounds of like lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid her within Six Months next after my decease but if it shall happen that the said Mary Pool shall be departed this life at the time of my decease then I give and bequeath the said Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds unto the said Diana Pool the Daughter of my said Cousin Mary Pool to be paid her within Six Months next after my decease And I do hereby charge and make chargeable All and singular my Messuages Cottages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Real Estate situate in Baldock aforesaid by me before given the said Susanna Pate with the Payment of the said several Legacys or Sums of Fifty Pounds and One Hundred and Fifty Pounds and my Funeral Expences shall be paid out of my said Messuages Cottages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Real Estate situate in Baldock aforesaid and not out of any Part of my Personal Estate And I give and bequeath unto the Servant Maid who shall be with me at the time of my decease the Sum of Five Pounds of Lawful Money of Great Britain to be her by my Exectrixes hereinafter named within Six Months next after my decease out of my Personal Estate And as of and concerning All the Rest Residue and Remainder of my ready Money Security and Securities for Money, Debts to me owing Goods Chattels and personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever of what nature or kind soever the same by) my just Debts and the aforesaid legacy of Five Pounds being thereout first paid and discharged) I give and bequeath the same unto the said Mary Pool my Cousin as her own Proper Goods and Chattels for ever And in case the said Mary Pool shall be departed this Life at the time of my decease Then I give and bequeath the said Rest Residue and Remainder of my said Personal estate unto the said Diana Pool as her own Proper Goods and Chattells for ever And I do hereby nominate and appoint the said Susanna Pate and Mary Pool joint Executrixes of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former and other Wills by me at any time heretofore made and do declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said Mary Moss the Testatrix have to this my last Will and Testament contained in one sheet of Paper set my Hand and Seal thereto the Twenty sixth Day of May in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Six
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said Mary Moss the Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at her Request and in her Presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses thererto
Mary Moss
Mary Nionne
Henry Leonard
Tho[ma]s Barns
June 27 1766 Susanna Pate & Mary Pool the Executrixes within named were sworn to the due Executiion of this Will [continues illegibly] Proved &c. at Baldock 27 June 1766 before the Revd John Huitson Clerk Master of Arts Surr[ogate] of the W[orshi]pfull Arthur Collier LLD Commissary and the Revd Charles Jenner AM Official of the Archdeaconry of Hunts &c by the Oath of the Executrix &c to whom was granted Admon &c being first sworn &c Saving &c.
- Church of England. Baldock Parish Registers, 1558-1910. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies).
Buried 1766
Moss John Brewer aff[idavit] Bur[ied] Mar[ch] 29
Moss Mary Widow aff[idavit] Bur[ied] June 26
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