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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)
_____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. ________________________________________________________ Richard
did not marry.
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. 1851
Census for West Mill
1861
census for Watchfield
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