Catherine Lambert (née Byndloss)

Co-heiress of Thomas Cussans II (q.v.), and mother of inter alios Admiral Robert Stuart Lambert (q.v.).

1. Will of Catherine Lambert widow of Hinde [sic] Street Manchester Square [made in 1829] proved 17/11/1832. After instructions as to her burial at St Marylebone, she gave and bequeathed to her eldest son Rear Admiral Lambert (failing whom to her son Sir John, then to Lt Col. Samuel Lambert, then to her youngest son George Robert, failing each of whom then equally to her daughters Anne wife of Sir Edward Baynes, Maria wife of William Ruttledge and Lydia Eliza wife of Frederic Morton) 'my property called Winchester estate and Hopewell Hall penn....with all the negroes, building, cattle and stock thereon' subject to the payment of her debts and the monetary legacies under her will: £2000 each to her six younger children (her son Henry had predeceased her) and then on the death of Mrs Cussans the widow of 'my respected uncle Thomas Cussans' (when an annuity of £1100 p.a. would devolve onto the estate) a further £2000 to each of them. She restricted her eldest son to receiving £600 p.a. from the estate until the death of Mrs Cussans, and then £1000 p.a., before the monetary legacies to her other children were paid.

2. The diaries of Catherine Lambert are held in the Surrey History Centre, Woking.

1. PROB 11/1808/92.

2. Surrey History Centre, https://www.surreyarchives.org.uk/collections/getrecord/SHCOL_3005_1_2 [accessed 29/09/2021]. LBS has not to date reviewed these papers.