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Information displayed by permission of Durham Record Office and Mr J Hanby Holmes The Last Will and Testament of John Hoggett This is the Last Will and Testament of John Hoggitt of Cragg, Farmer in Township of Lartington in the County of York in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourty four. I give and bequeath unto Matthew Hoggett and John Hoggett two of my sons 24 acres of Land adjoining Fountain Head but not to have it till my youngest son Joseph Hoggett is eighteen years of age. I give and bequeath unto my son William Hoggett and George Hoggitt two of my sons my land joining the Clint Lane but not to have it till my youngest son Joseph Hoggitt is Eighteen years of age. I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Hoggit my land known by the name of little allotment joining Nab farm but not to have it till my youngest son Joseph Hoggett is Eighteen years of age. I give and bequeath unto my brother William Hoggitt and John Hoggitt of Lartington Cabinet Maker and George Sayer of Clince Farm that is to say in trust all my personal property and Land until my youngest son Joseph Hogett is eighteen years of age that they may make a valiation of my personal property and pay my just Debts and testamentary expenses and divide my personal property between my wife Violetta Sayer or Hoggett and my three youngest children Martha Hoggett and Mary Hoggitt and Joseph Hoggitt when my youngest son Joseph is Eighteen years of age but it is my wish that they should carry on the farm if they can with advantage till my youngest son is eighteen and what may accumulate during that time to be divided betwixt my Wife and sons if they be endeavouring but should any of them leave before the expiration of that time not to have any advantages from what may be made on the farm in witness whereof I the said John Hoggett have to this my last Will and Testament set and subscribed my hand and seal the 1st day of November in the year of Our Lord 1844. John Hoggett Signed and sealed by the said Testator John Hoggett in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses to the same thereof. Elizabeth Wharton - Elizabeth Hoggett - Jane Nateby Administration with Will annexed was granted by the Consistory Court of the Archdeaconry of Richmond on the twenty fifth October 1845 to William Hoggett of Rigg in the Township of Lartington aforesaid and George Sayer of Clints in the same Township there being no Executor named in the Will - Effects sworn under £785 - Testator died 12th May 1845. Examined with Probate (2 signatures illegible) (nb - Joseph, the youngest son of John Hoggett died, aged 14 years, in 1848 )
A true and perfect Inventory of all and every the goods + chattels as well moveable as not debts credits and other personal Estate and effects of John Hoggett late of the Parish of Romaldkirk in the count of Yorks Farmer deceased made by us whose names are hereunto subscribed the 9 day of October in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five - £ s d Money in the House the property of deceased 48 Five Horses 45 Five Young Horses 39 Seventeen Cows 154 Sixty two Young Cattle 241 2 Twelve pigs 11 13 Poultry 1 10 Carts, Ploughs + other implements of Husbandry 25 Household Furniture 20 Corn in Stacks 46 A Stamp of Hay 3 Wearing apparel 2 5 Debts due to the deceased 145 2 781 12 debts owing by the deceased at the time of his death 99 Joseph Douglas Aude and T Thompson Dent
Schedule of Debts on Simple Contract ? due at the Death of the Deceased Witham, George, Squire - rent - £79 Bowes Charity Trustees - £10 Benning & Haden, Mssrs Surgeons £ 3 Kipling, Thos. Surgeon £ 7 £99 signed William Hoggett
In The Consistory Court of the Archdeaconry of Richmond On the twenty ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven Before The Reverend George Bowness Clerk Master of Arts Surrogate of the Venerable and Worshipful John Headlam Clerk Master of Arts Commissary in and through that part of The Archdeaconry of Richmond aforesaid which is situated within the Diocese of Ripon. In the Goods of John Hoggett late of Cragg in the Township of Lartington in the County of York, Farmer deceased appeared personally William Hoggett of Rigg in the Township of Lartington and Parish of Romaldkirk in the County of York, farmer and George Sayer of Clints in the said Township of Lartington , Farmer and alleged that the said John Hoggett departed this life on the Twelfth day of May One thousand eight hundred and forty five having first made and published his last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the First day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty four but did not therein express terms name or appoint any Executors thereof and that Letters of Administration of the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said John Hoggett with the said Will annexed were on the Twenty fifth day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty five granted by the said Consistory Court to the said William Hoggett and George Sayer as by the acts and Records thereof will appear they having previously made oath that the Estate and Effects of the said deceased within the said Archdeaconry did not amount in value to the sum of Seven hundred and eighty five pounds and they further alleged that since the granting of the said Letter of Administration as aforesaid they had discovered that the estate and effects of the deceased exceeded the sum of Seven hundred and eighty five pounds but were under the value of One thousand pounds. Wherefore they prayed and the Surrogate aforesaid at their Petition having first administered to them the said William Hoggett and George Sayer on Oath that the Estate and effects of the said deceased within the said Archdeaconry did not amount to the best of their knowledge information and belief to the sum of One thousand pounds did cause them the said William Hoggett and George Sayer to enter into a fresh Bond to the Ordinary with sufficient securities conditioned in the penal sum of Four hundred Pounds for the due administration of the estate and effects of the said deceased in pursuance of the Act 55th George 3 c184 and of the premises decreed these Letters Testimonial to be made. J Bailey Langhorne Dep. Reg.
D/HH/2/7/1071 Re Hoggett deceased further charges 1847 July Portage Letter with probate Affidavit & Perusing Affidavit & when found only one executor had made Affidavit.................... 3 . 4 . 6 sJuly Portage Letter with probate Affidavit & Perusing Affidavit & when found only one executor had made Affidavit.................... 3 . 4 . 6 sAttending at probate duty office going thro' Affidavit with Clerk when query made for other Executor to join but affidavit is correct in all other respects....... 3 . 4 . 6 s 3 . 4 . 6 sWriting you thereof............. 1 . 9 . 3. 6Having received Affidavit back sworn by one Executor but not resworn by the other. Attending probate duty clerk who promised to get over the difficulty if possible without aff. being returned not informed him the executors lived at a distance from each other _____ Sept 1st The Probate Duty Clerk having got over the difficulty Attending for Warrant for payment of duty and on Receiver General paying same and getting Probate forwarded & afterwards for probate stamped . And also Attending Receiver General getting query on residuary account discharged as to payment of additional probate Duty....... 6 . s. 13. sWriting you with Probate & Residuary account returned ....... _________- Portage thereof............... ___________ charged £1.10 in Bill £ 15..1
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