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Will of Elizabeth Turney, widow, 1848 (proved 1849)
National Archives, PROB 11/2090/248
This is the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth Turney of Winslow in the County of Bucks Widow I give and bequeath unto my Stepson John Turney of Thornton in the said County of Bucks Dairyman all my household goods furniture linen china and other household effects of every description I direct that all my just debts my funeral and testamentary expenses may be paid with all convenient speed after my decease out of my monies and effects not hereinbefore bequeathed I give and bequeath unto my niece Ann Norman wife of John Norman and unto Sarah Turney George Turney John Turney and Ambrose Reddall Turney children of my said stepson John Turney the legacy or sum of Nineteen Guineas each to be paid to such of them as shall at the time of my decease have attained the age of twenty one years forthwith and to such of them as shall not then have arrived at that age as and when they shall respectively attain thereto I give and bequeath unto Leah Norman daughter of the said Ann Norman the legacy or sum of Ten pounds to be paid on her attaining the age of twenty one years and in case of her dying under that age I direct that the same shall be paid to her sister Hannah Norman on her attaining the like age I give and bequeath the residue of my monies and securities for money and other my Personal estate and effects not hereby specifically bequeathed remaining after payment of the said legacies debts funeral and testamentary expences unto the said Ambrose Reddall Turney absolutely I direct my executors to place out or continue at interest in their own names the legacy of every minor legatee on the security upon which the same shall be invested at the time of my decease or in some bank for savings or on Government or Mortgage securities with liberty from time to time to vary such investment at their discretion for other securities of the kind prescribed and accumulate the yearly income by similar investments [ ] until such legatee shall attain the age of twenty one years and thereupon to transfer to him or her the original fund and the accumulations thereof I appoint my said stepson John Turney and Edward Millars of Fenny Stratford in the said County of Bucks Painter Executors of my Will and declare that each of them shall be responsible only for his own respective acts defaults and receipts and be exempt from liability for involuntary losses and be at liberty to deduct and allow to each other all expences incident to the execution of the trusts of my Will Lastly I revoke all other testamentary dispositions In witness whereof I the said Elizabeth Turney the testatrix have to each sheet of this my last Will and Testament contained on two sheets of paper set my hand this eleventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight
The sign or mark of Elizabeth Turney
This sheet and the sheet of paper hereto annexed were severally signed by the said Elizabeth Turney the testatrix in the joint presence of us who in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereof the word “Millars” being first substituted for the word Wright in the thirty second line of the first sheet
Dav(id) Tho(mas) Willis Sol(icitor) James Toy his Clerk.
This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth Turney of Winslow in the County of Bucks Widow (which Will bears date the eleventh day of March last) I revoke and make void the legacy of Nineteen guineas by my said Will bequeathed to my niece Ann Norman and also the legacy of Ten pounds thereby bequeathed to her daughter Leah Norman And I give and bequeath unto my stepson John Turney the legacy or sum of Nineteen guineas and unto my nephew Joseph Sprigg (son of my late brother Joseph Sprigg deceased) the legacy or sum of Ten pounds to be paid to them respectively as soon as conveniently may be after my decease And I ratify and confirm my said Will in all other respects In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this second day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight
The mark of Elizabeth Turney the testatrix
Signed by the said Elizabeth Turney the testatrix in the joint presence of us who in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereof
Dav(id) Tho(mas) Willis Solicitor Winslow James Toy his Clerk.
Proved at London with a Codicil the 2nd March 1849 before the Worshipful Alfred Waddilove Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oath of John Turney
Notes
Elizabeth Turney was probably living in The Walk in the 1841 Census, described as of independent means. Her death was registered at Winslow in the first quarter of 1849 aged 78 (her surname is in the GRO index as Tumey). She doesn't seem to have had any connection with Winslow before coming to live there, presumably after her second husband died.
On 9 April 1810 at St Sepulchre, Holborn, William Wright of Bow Brickhill, widower, married Elizabeth Sprigg of St Sepulchre, spinster. Presumably he was the William Wright buried at Great Brickhill in 1810. This must be why the name of the second executor was written in Elizabeth's will as Wright and then corrected.
Riddel (or Reddel) Turney of Granborough, farmer, had a licence dated 15 Sep 1810 to marry Elizabeth Wright, widow, at Bow Brickhill. By his first wife Sarah he seems to have been the father of John Turney, bap.1798 at Granborough. He was buried at Great Brickhill in 1820 aged 51.
John Turney of Thornton was also an executor of his brother-in-law James Morecraft (d.1844). His eldest children were born at Granborough (1822-26), where he was described as a farmer.
Elizabeth's niece Ann Norman's original name was Sprigg, according to the birth of her daughter Leah registered at Buckingham in 1838.