Charles Mayne of Anmount Lodge (1803-1890)

Buckingham Advertiser, 6 Dec 1890
The interment took place on Saturday last of Mr. Charles Mayne who died at Anmount Lodge on the 26th inst., at the ripe old age of 87. Mr. Mayne was formerly the principal coal merchant in the town, and, having amassed a competency, he retired from business some 25 years ago. He was a man of amiable and inoffensive character, and he was much respected.

Gravestone (now removed):
In loving memory of ELIZABETH, beloved wife of CHARLES MAYNE who died December 30th 1874 aged 67 years
Also of CHARLES MAYNE who died November 26th 1890 aged 87 years

Will of Charles Mayne of Anmount Lodge, gentleman (made 1887, proved 1890)

BE IT KNOWN thatat the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of Charles Mayne late of “Anmount Lodge,”  Winslow, in the County of Buckingham, Gentleman, deceased, who died on the 26th  day of November 1890 at “Anmount Lodge,”  Winslow aforesaid, and who at the time of his death had a fixed place of abode at “Anmount Lodge,” Winslow aforesaid, within the District of the Counties of Oxford Berks and Buckingham, was proved and registered at the District  Probate Registry of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice at Oxford, and that the Administration of the personal estate of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to  Richard Mayne of Tetbury in the County of Gloucester,  Accountant, Nephew of the Deceased, (Son of his Brother Samuel) and William Noble Clarke, of Mount Pleasant, Southbourne Christ Church in the County of Southampton Gentleman, (the Husband of the Testator’s Wife’s Niece Eliza Clarke) the Executors named in the said Will, they having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same.
Dated the 15th day of December 1890
Gross value of Personal Estate £1,761 : 4 : 9
Net Value      “        “             “     £1,705 : 15 : 10
Extracted by Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow

This is the last Will and Testament of me Charles Mayne of Anmount Lodge Winslow in the County of Bucks Gentleman  I appoint my Nephew Richard Mayne (Son of my Brother Samuel) and William Noble Clarke the Husband of my Wife’s Niece Eliza Clarke to be Executors and Trustees of my Will I devise unto the said Eliza Clarke and the said William Noble Clarke and their assigns All the real estate of which I shall be beneficially seized or possessed at the time of my decease To hold the same and every part thereof unto the said Eliza Clarke and the said William Noble Clarke and their assigns for and during the term of their joint natural lives and the life of the longer liver of them they keeping the same in good and tenantable repair and committing no waste or spoil thereon And from and after the decease of the survivor of them said Eliza Clarke and William Noble Clarke I devise the same real estate unto the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of my Will Upon trust to sell the same together or in parcels either by Public Auction or Private Contract and out of the moneys thereby arising to pay all the expenses attending such sale And upon further trust to pay share and divide the clear residue of the same moneys equally unto and among my nephews and nieces the said Richard Mayne Alfred Mayne Emma Markham Mary Ann Brunton Rosamond Mayne and George Mayne (the children of my said Brother Samuel Mayne) their executors administrators and assigns absolutely I bequeath unto my said Niece Rosamond Mayne absolutely All the silver spoons which belonged to my mother and I bequeath all the rest and residue of my said plate to the said Eliza Clarke absolutely I bequeath the residue of the personal estate to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease unto the said Richard Mayne and the said William Noble Clarke their executors administrators and assigns Upon trust to sell convert and get in the same and out of the moneys thereby arising to pay my just debts my funeral and testamentary expenses and to provide two suits of mourning for my servant Clara Willmore provided she be living with me at my death then to pay  the legacies of sterling money following that is to say To my said servant Clara Willmore provided she be living with me at my death
Five hundred pounds To my late Wife’s Niece Mary Ann Priest Twenty Pounds To my said Nephew Richard Mayne One hundred Pounds To my Brother John Mayne One hundred Pounds To my late Wife’s Niece Susannah the Wife of John Nanson Twenty Pounds To my late Wife’s Niece Mary Ann Lancaster Twenty Pounds To my late Wife’s Nephew John Bartholomew Fifty Pounds To my said Nephew George Mayne Fifty Pounds To my said Nephew Alfred Mayne Fifty Pounds To my said Niece Rosamond  Mayne One hundred Pounds To my said Niece Emma Markham Fifty Pounds To my said Niece Mary Ann Brunton One hundred Pounds and to the said Eliza Clarke One hundred Pounds And upon further trust to pay over transfer or assign the residue of the moneys remaining after answering the purposes aforesaid to my said Nieces Rosamond Mayne and Mary Ann Brunton their executors administrators and assigns absolutely Lastly I revoke all other Wills In Witness whereof I the said Charles Mayne the Testator have hereunto set my hand this Twenty fifth day of October One thousand eight hundred and eighty seven. 
Charles Mayne [signature]
Signed and acknowledged by the above named Charles Mayne as his Will in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence at his request and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses the words “George Mayne Fifty pounds to my said Nephew” in the tenth line from the top hereof having been first interlined.
Arthur S. Midgley [signature] Clerks Messrs Willis & Willis
William N. Midgley [signature]  Solicitors, Winslow

Proved at Oxford, the Fifteenth day of December 1890, by the Oaths of Richard Mayne, the Nephew, (Son of Testator’s Brother Samuel) and William Noble Clarke (the Husband of Testator’s Wife’s Niece, Eliza Clarke) the Executors, to whom Administration was granted.
The Testator Charles Mayne was late of Anmount Lodge, Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Gentleman, who died on the 26th day of November 1890, at Anmount Lodge, Winslow, aforesaid
Gross value of Personal Estate £1,761 : 4 : 9
Net Value      “        “             “     £1,705 : 15 : 10
Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow
it is hereby Certified that the foregoing is a correct Copy.
Dated this Twentieth fourth day of December 1890

Notes

Charles Mayne is listed at Anmount Lodge (later Box Cottage) in the 1851, 1861 and 1881 Censuses, but in 1871 the occupant was Dr Boisragon. In 1851 he was listed as "servant out of business", but in the 1853 directory he was listed among the "gentry". He must have started the coal business after that.

1881 Census: Western Lane
Charles Mayne, head, widower, 77, retired coal merchant, b. Winslow
Mary A. Priest, visitor, unmarried, 46, b. Brighton
Clara Wilmore, servant, unmarried 22, b. Winslow

He was the son of Oliver and Rosamund Mayne, grandson of John Mayne (will proved 1803) and Richard Seaton (will proved 1824), and brother of Richard Mayne (d.1829). His wife Eliza (?nee Alexander) was born in Brighton. Samuel Mayne his brother, father of six of the beneficiaries of the will, was a builder in Aylesbury; he died in 1895 aged 88. John Mayne, the other brother mentioned in the will, was a tailor in Berkhamsted and died in 1897 aged 87.

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