~~ Your FamilyChest Document ~~

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Document Number:0502002
Title:Probate
Date:01 July 1814
For Sale:£40.00
Condition:
Fair. The copy of the will is in good condition, but the pendant seal has become detached from the document and has cracks across it.
Description:
Parchment : 1 sheet 40cm x 48cm together with printed grant of probate with pendant seal.
Summary of contents:
TESTATOR
Ann Cutfield of Birdham, Sussex. Spinster.

BENEFICIARIES
John Cutfield
William Cutfield Mountfield
Ann Halsey

SUBJECT
The property of Ann Cutfield consists primarily of "customary messuages or tenements with gardens and orchard" near the church in Birdham, Sussex. She leaves them to her brother John during his lifetime, then to her nephew, William Cutfield Mountfield, then to William's daughter, Lucy. There are other bequests to her sister, Elizabeth Mountfield, and niece Ann, the wife of Richard Halsey.

The value of her estate is sworn to be less than £300.
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