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Richard of West Mill, Watchfield 1856

This is the last will and testament of me Richard Vines of West Mill Watchfield in the Parish of Shrivenham in the county of Berks, miller. I give and bequeath unto my brother William Vines his heirs and assigns for ever all my freehold messuages or tenements with the gardens respectively adjoining and also the piece of garden ground belonging thereto situate in Watchfield aforesaid which I lately purchased of Ann Boulder? widow together with the messuage or tenement lately erected by me on some part thereof as the same are now in the tenures or occupations of William Malcock and others subject nevertheless to and I hereby charge the same messuages or tenements and premises to and with the following legacies viz to my brother John ten pounds sterling, to my brother Jacob fifteen pounds sterling and to my brother Michael thirty pounds sterling and direct that such legacies shall be payable and paid within twelve calendar next after my decease and I expressly desire that the devise so hereinbefore made to my said brother William is the exoneration of any claim he may have against me or my estate and I give devise and bequeath unto my sister Mary Matilda Vines all other my real estate (if any)
And all my personal estate of every kind and description to and for her own use and benefit absolutely subject to the payment of my just debts and my funeral and testamentary expenses and also subject to the payment of a legacy of thirty pounds sterling to my sister Susannah now the wife of  George Henry Macey? and to both of my two nieces Laura Goaring and Leonora Elizabeth Goaring a legacy of five pounds sterling and I direct that the same shall be payable and paid to them respectively within twelve calendar months next after my decease and also subject to the payment of the legacy or sum of thirty pounds sterling bequeathed to my brother Jacob by the will of my late father William Vines deceased in the event of the same becoming payable to him or otherwise as in the said will is directed and also subject to the payment of the sum of five pounds to Valentine William Goaring being the share to which he will be entitled on attaining the age of twenty one years under the said will of my said late fath er and I appoint my two brothers John Vines and William Vines and my said sister Mary Matilda Vines executors and executrix of this my last will and testament and hereby revoke all former wills by me heretofore made.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty six.

_____Richard Vines_____ 
Signed by the said Richard Vines the testator as his last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
_____Harry C Crowdy solr. Highworth  Wilts_____
_____Thomas Edgington, Fryars Farm Shrivenham_____

Proved at London 16th March 1857 before the judge by the oaths of William Vines the brother and Mary Matilda Vines spinster the sister, two of the executors to whom admon was granted having been first sworn by ??? duly to administer. Power reserved of making the like grant to John Vines the brother also the other executor when he shall apply for the same.

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Richard did not marry. 
His brother William and brother Jacob were mentioned in the 1850 will of their father as being abroad. William married Mary Mathurine in Mauritius before returning.

Jacob spent some time in Mauritius and married an English widow there before moving on to Sydney about 1850. His wife and family followed and they settled in Melbourne.

The youngest of the brothers, Michael, married Anne Belcher at Shrivenham in 1839. He migrated with family on the "Steadfast" to Lyttleton New Zealand (the port for Christchurch in South Island) in 1851. This was a very well documented migration scheme to allow poor agricultural workers and their families from Wiltshire to take up land on the Canterbury Plains of NZ. He moved to Australia in 1854 and settled in Prahan, Melbourne.

Mary Matilda and Richard operated the milling business until Richards death. She married 62 year old Peter Dore a local yeoman in 1874 when she was 56 years old. 

Sister Susannah married George Henry Macey?

Sister Elizabeth married a Goaring? but had died before 1850.

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1851 Census for West Mill 
 Richard Vines  47  Born Bremhill
Mary Matilda Vines  32  Born Highworth
+ a miller and a gen lab

1861 census for Watchfield
 Mary Matilda Vines  41