Caroline Price Weston (née Watkis)

Profile & Legacies Summary

1795 - 1828

Biography

Baptism of Caroline Price, daughter of Joseph and Phoebe Watkis, 16/05/1795 in St George, Bloomsbury (born 08/04/1795). Joseph Watkis had married Phoebe Watkins in St Pancras in 1791.

Marriage "at St James, Westminster, W. R. Weston, Esq., late of St Ann's, Jamaica, to Caroline Price, only dau. of the late Jos. Watkins Esq., of Greenwich Park in the above Island."

Caroline Price Weston, age 33, of Bermondsey New Road, was buried at St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, 28/08/1828.

Sources

Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online].

Bristol Mirror 28/09/1816.

Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online].

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Maiden Name

Watkis

Spouse

William Raby Weston

Will

PROB 11/1748 - precis.

Caroline Price Weston of Bermondsey New Road, widow.

Payment of just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses.

To my cousin Price Waktis, £50.

To my cousin Sarah Elizabeth Watkis, £50.

To my cousin James Berkeley Watkis, £50.

To my second cousin Sarah Poole, £50.

To my god-daughter Caroline Eliza Barr otherwise Mayne, £50.

To my executor, £40 to purchase an annuity during the life of my servant Jane Court Stawnray[?] for her absolute use and benefit.

The estate or plantation called Greenwich Park in Jamaica to James Peachey of Salisbury Square in the City of London Gentleman for his sole and absolute use and benefit, under or by virtue of any power or trust contained in my marriage settlement.

All rest and residue to my executor upon trust to pay and divide the same under the statute of distributions in case I had died intestate.

James Peachey to be sole executor.

Signed 20/08/1828.

Codicil dated 20/08/1828.

To Mrs Anne Mayne widow, £100. To Mrs John George White, surgeon, £50. To Rebecca Mayne and Eliza Sarah Mayne, £40 each.

Proved in London 18/11/1828 by James Peachey.

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