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Will of Charles Chaplin, gentleman, 1868 (proved 1876)
Oxford Probate Registry
This is the last Will and Testament of me Charles Chaplin of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Gentleman. I bequeath to my dear Wife Joanna Chaplin the sum of One hundred pounds and also all my household furniture plate linen china glass books and other household effects for her own absolute use and benefit. I bequeath to my Brother Thomas Chaplin the sum of Two hundred pounds but if he should die in my lifetime then I direct the said sum of Two hundred pounds shall be divided equally between his Grandchildren being the children of his two sons Thomas and John. I bequeath to my Niece Elizabeth Catherine the Wife of William Burley of No: 15 Middle Grove Street, Saint George’s in the East Middlesex the sum of Two hundred pounds but if she should die in my lifetime then I direct that such sum of Two hundred pounds shall be equally divided between her children. I bequeath to the seven children of my late Brother William Chaplin namely William, Thomas, George, Catherine, Emma, Mary and Sarah the sum of Sixty pounds each but if either of them should die in my lifetime and leave a child or children living at my decease then I direct that the Legacy of such deceased Nephew or Niece shall be paid to his or her child or equally divided between his or her children but if any of such Nephews or Nieces shall die in my lifetime but leave no child or children living at my decease then I direct that the Legacy of such deceased Nephew or Niece shall be divided amongst his or her Brothers and Sisters living at my decease and the children then living of such of them as shall be then deceased equally except that the children shall take only the share their parent would have taken if living. I devise my real Estate (if any) and bequeath the residue of my personal Estate unto my three Nephews James Chaplin of Swinford in the County of Leicester Innkeeepr Thomas Chaplin the Elder of Wolston in the County of Warwick Innkeeper and John Chaplin of Wolston aforesaid Labourer equally for their own absolute use and benefit but if either of them should die in my lifetime and leave a child or children living at my decease then I direct that such child or children shall take and if more than one equally between them the share [p.2]
of my real and residuary personal estate which his her or their parent would have taken if he survived me. I appoint my last named three Nephews James Chaplin Thomas Chaplin the Elder and John Chaplin to be Executors of this my Will. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the Fifteenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight
Charles Chaplin [signature]
Signed by the said Charles Chaplin as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request and in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses the words “a child or” “paid to his or her child or” having been first interlined.
John Turnham [signature] Baker
William Turnham [signature] Baker
This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me Charles Chaplin of Winslow in the County of Buckingham Gentleman which Will bears date Fifteenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight I devise unto my Wife Joanna and to her heirs and assigns absolutely All those two Messuages Cottages or tenements hereditaments and premises situate and being in the Buckingham Road in Winslow aforesaid with the appurtenances thereto belonging recently purchased by me of Messrs Wroughton and Threlfall And I ratify and confirm my said Will in all other respects In Witness whereof I Charles Chaplin the Testator have hereunto set my hand the Twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy three
Charles Chaplin [signature]
Signed by the said Charles Chaplin the Testator in the joint presence of us who at his request in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
Thos Price Willis [signature] Attorney, Winslow, Bucks
Arthur S. Midgley [signature] his Clerk
This is a second Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me Charles Chaplin of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Gentleman, which Will bears date Fifteenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty eight Whereas James Chaplin named in my said Will as an Executor is lately dead I have bequeathed to him a share of my residuary personal estate. Now it is my Will that my Brother in Law Richard Scott of Number 63 Church Street Kensington London shall be substituted in the place of the said James Chaplin as one of the Executors of my said Will and I direct that my said Will shall be read and construed as if the name of the said Richard Scott had been inserted therein in the place and instead of the name of the said James Chaplin as an Executor of my said Will I bequeath to my Wife Joanna Chaplin her executors administrators and assigns absolutely the sum of One hundred pounds in addition to the same amount bequeathed to her in my said Will and I bequeath the share of my residue of my personal estate bequeathed by my said Will to the said James Chaplin unto [p.3]
and equally between my Nephews Thomas Chaplin and William Chaplin (Brothers of my said late Executor James Chaplin) their respective executors administrators and assigns absolutely notwithstanding any directions to the contrary contained in my said Will and in all other respects I confirm my said Will and a previous Codicil thereto dated the Twelfth day of November One thousand eight hundred and seventy three. In Witness whereof I Charles Chaplin the Testator have hereunto set my hand the Fifteenth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy six.
Charles Chaplin [signature]
Signed by the said Charles Chaplin the Testator in the joint presence of us who at his request in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
Thos Price Willis [signature] Solicitor, Winslow.
Arthur S. Midgley [signature] his Clerk
Proved at Oxford with two Codicils, the Twelfth day of December 1876, by the oaths of Thomas Chaplin the Elder, John Chaplin the Nephews, the Executors named in the Will and Richard Scott the Executor named in the second Codicil to whom administration was granted.
The Testator Charles Chaplin was late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Gentleman, and died on the 24th day of November 1876, at Winslow aforesaid.
Under £2,000.
Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow.
It is hereby certified that the foregoing is a correct Copy. Dated this Twenty first day of December 1876.
ON the Twelfth day of December 1876, the Will with two Codicils thereto of Charles Chaplin late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Gentleman, deceased, who died the Twenty fourth day of November 1876, at Winslow aforesaid, was proved in Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice in the District Registry attached to the Probate Division thereof at Oxford by the Oaths of Thomas Chaplin the Elder of King’s Norton in the County of Worcester, Gardener, John Chaplin of No. 1 Chapel Street Llandudno in the County of Carnarvon, Lodginghouse Keeper, the Nephews of the Deceased, the Executors named in the said Will, and Richard Scott of No. 63 Church Street Kensington London in the County of Middlesex, Builder, the Executor named in the second Codicil they having been first sworn duly to administer.
It is hereby certified that the above is a correct Copy. Dated this Twenty first day of December 1876.
Effects under £2,000. No Leaseholds.
Extracted by Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow.
Notes
Charles Chaplin bought three cottages in Buckingham Road next to The Swan at a sale in 1873; he lived in one of them (now no.4). Wroughton & Threlfall must have bought one back and merged it with The Swan; the others are now 4-6 Buckingham Road. The 1871 Census lists Charles Chaplin aged 65, "independent - interest of money", b. Shelton, Warws, and his wife Joanna aged 70, b. Adstock. He was living in Winslow by 1868. In 1861 he was an unmarried footman living in Leyton. He married Joanna Scott in 1862. She had been cook in the same household.
Joanna's will (below) mentions a large number of relatives but they don't appear to have lived in Winslow. George Wigley put the two cottages up for sale on 18 August 1880.
Valuation, 1876
CBS, D/WIG 2/1/2, P.59
Valuation of Household Furniture & Effects at Winslow Bucks
the property of Mr Charles Chaplin deceased.
Taken for administration
Dec(embe)r 2 1876
Parlour
Mahog(any) Centre Table & Cover
Mahog(any) horse hair easy chair
2 Cane seat chairs
Painted small stand
Mahog(any) horse hair sofa
Carpet to Room & Hearth Rug
Fender Fire Irons & Guard
Painted Chimney Glass
Quantity of Books
Time Piece
P(ai)r Damask Curtains & Valance
Mahog(any) arm chair in Leather
Kitchen
Carpet to Room
Deal Kitchen Table with Leaf & Drawer
Twofold Airer
Arm Cane seat Chair
2 Windsor Chairs & 1 Elbow
Music Stool Leather cover
Fender & Fire Irons
Bellows ?V[ariety] of Knives
Blue Ware &c.
Small round Time Piece
Potatoe [sic] Steamer
Glass
Scullery
Galv Pail & Pan
Sundry Tin Ware
3 Iron Saucepans Beer Warmer & Broiler
Benzoline Lamp
Coal scoop £8 15s
[P.60]
Back Bed Room
Iron Half Tester Bedstead & Green Damask [?]Fur(nishings)
Hair matting
Feather Bed Bolster & 2 Pillows
White Counterpane & 2 Blankets
Bedside Carpet
Mahog(any) Circular Chest 4 Drawers
2 Cane seat Chairs
Mahog(any) Swing Glass
Painted Washstand service & Airer
Closet
Sundry Boxes China & Earthenware
Front Bed Room
Iron Half Tester Bedst(ea)d & Blue damask [?]Fur(nishings)
Fibre matting
Wool D(itt)o
Feather Bed Bolster & 2 Pillows
2 Blankets & Counterpane
Bedside Carpet
2 Cane seat Chairs
Marble top Mahog(any) Washstand & service
Mahog(any) Dress(in)g Table
Mahog(any) Swing Glass
Mahog(any) Circular Chest 5 Drawers
Mahog(any) Commode
Towel Airer
Worked Ottoman
Sundries
Stair Carpet
?V[arious] Linen
Wear(in)g Apparel £15 3s
[total] £23 18s
[signed] G.D.E. Wigley
Will of Joanna Chaplin, widow, 1880
Oxford Probate Registry
This is the last Will and Testament of me Joanna Chaplin of Winslow in the County of Bucks Widow. I appoint my Nephews George Toe of Adstock in the County of Bucks Cordwainer and Richard Gough of Adstock aforesaid Farmer Trustees and Executors of my Will I devise all the real estate of which I shall be beneficially seised or possessed at the time of my decease to the said George Toe and Richard Gough their heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively Upon trust to sell the same as soon after my decease as conveniently may be together or in parcels by Public Auction or Private Contract And to stand possessed of the proceeds of such sale after payment thereout of the expenses of attending the same In trust as to one moiety thereof for my Nephew Richard John Scott (Son of my Brother Richard Scott) his heirs executors administrators and assigns absolutely and as to the other moiety thereof In trust for William Austin Flora Austin and Ellen Martha Austin the three Children of my Niece Elizabeth Austin (Daughter of the said Richard Scott) in equal shares and proportions as and when they shall respectively attain the age of Twenty one years I declare that if any or either of the three children of my said Niece Elizabeth Austin shall die under the age of twenty one years without leaving issue the share to which he or she would have become entitled under this my Will shall be paid to the other or others of such children in equal proportions I bequeath to my Great Niece Emma Toe absolutely All the household furniture plate linen china and other household effects which shall belong to me at my decease I bequeath the Legacies of sterling money following namely To the said Emma Toe Sixty pounds to my Great Nephew Thomas Gibbs Twenty five pounds To my Great Niece Alice Mills Twenty five pounds To my Nephew William Scott Fifty pounds To his Daughter Mary Ann Scott who now resides with me Ten pounds and to her Brothers and Sisters John, Ellen, Thomas and Alice (Children of the said William Scott) Five pounds each To my Executor the said Richard Gough I give Fifty pounds To his Sister Louisa Gough Forty pounds To my Nephew Richard Merry Fifty pounds To my Niece Henrietta Cherry Thirty pounds
and to her Children Arthur Gibbs and Amy Henrietta Gibbs Twenty five pounds each To my Niece Harriet Ward Fifty pounds To my Niece Elizabeth Rogers Twenty five pounds To Robert Scott Son of my Sister in Law Nineteen pounds nineteen shillings To my Nephew James Daniel Thirty pounds and to his children Sarah Mary and Eliza Ten pounds each To my Nephew William Daniel Twenty five pounds To my Niece Mary Minter Thirty pounds To my Nephew George Garwood Nineteen pounds nineteen shillings To my Niece Elizabeth Garwood Nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and to my Nephew Henry Garwood Nineteen pounds nineteen shillings I direct that the foregoing Legacies shall be paid within six calendar months after my decease I bequeath unto my Brother Richard Scott his executors administrators and assigns absolutely All the residue of the personal estate to which I shall be entitled at my death subject to the payment of my just debts my funeral and testamentary expenses I devise all the real estate which shall at my decease be vested in me as Trustee or Mortgagee to the said George Toe and Richard Gough their heirs and assigns subject to the trusts and equities affecting the same respectively Lastly I revoke all other Wills In Witness whereof I the said Joanna Chaplin the Testatrix have hereunto set my hand this Thirty first day of January One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Joanna Chaplin [signature]
Signed by the said Joanna Chaplin the Testatrix in the joint presence of us who at her request in her presence and the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses.
Arthur Clear [signature] Winslow.
Arthur S. Midgley [signature] Winslow.
Proved at Oxford, the Second day of September 1880, by the Oaths of George Toe and Richard Gough, the Nephews, the Executors to whom Administration was granted.
The Testatrix Joanna Chaplin was late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Widow, and died on the Third day of July 1880, at Adstock in the County of Buckingham.
Under £1,000
Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow
It is hereby certified the foregoing is a correct Copy. Dated this Ninth day of September 1880.
ON the Second day of September 1880, the Will of Joanna Chaplin late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Widow, deceased, who died on the Third day of July 1880 at Adstock in the County of Buckingham, was proved in Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice in the District Registry attached to Probate Division thereof at Oxford by the Oaths of George Toe of Adstock aforesaid Farmer Cordwainer and Richard Gough of Adstock aforesaid Farmer, the Nephews of the deceased, the Executors named (in the said Will) they having been first sworn duly to administer.
It is hereby certified the above is a correct Copy. Dated this Ninth day of September 1880.
Under £1,000
No Leaseholds.
Extracted by Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow