GEN-NEWBIE-L Archives

From: Brian <>
Subject: Jabe's query and Donna's response.
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 16:04:54 +1200

I looked at the site Jabe gave, with the 88 hits, and found his passage
came from the section entitled "Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records
Office: Slatter Son and More, Solicitors [1596-1994]"

My first thought was that the document was a reference to a will - and I
feel even more strongly about this now I see the paper came from a
solicitors holdings.

I 'think' it is a list of the beneficiaries of Catherine MIL(L)WARD's
estate.

I 'think' the word 'release' refers to the approval of the beneficiaries
for the Solicitors to act as administrators for the Will.

Ann Fincher was the niece of Catherine MIL(L)WARD and the others named
were great nephews or great nieces of Catherine. I feel this because of
the line 'of legacies due to them as niece and great nephews and
nieces (or their assigns) of said Catherine Millward under her will
dated 2 March 1822."

Regards, Brian


Donna wrote;

This looks like something I saw in some Winthrop writings. Lord
Winthrop made several voyages to the new America in the early to mid
1600s and wrote extensively about the ship's passengers whom he referred
to as "planters".
Anyway, the names sure do look familiar, especially the Fincher families.

The word "gent" was used to connote a man of a Gentleman's status as
opposed to the title Esquire, or Mr. In status the gent was below the
status of Esquire and above the status of Mr.

The word "innkeeper" comes straight from England. These folks kept an
inn in England, and planned on doing the same thing when they got to
America.

I know what farmer and miller mean but I'm not sure about the others.

Maybe someone else can chime in here.


donna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jabe Fincher" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:49 AM
Subject: legal wording-??


Hi all,
I'm back for a while, I hope! A fellow researcher sent me the following
from a site. Can someone offer suggestions as to its meaning, please???

from search on Fincher at: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/

MILWARD, Catherine

FILE [no title] - ref. DR 469/312 - date: 28 September 1859
|_ [from Scope and Content] Release by Ann Fincher, Halford,
widow of
John, innkeeper, Thomas Chadwick, Warwick, gent., (in re William
Fincher,
late of Warwick, artist), said William Fincher; John Charles of
Wellesbourne
Mountford, farmer and Ann his wife (née Fincher); John Millward
Fincher of
Wellesbourne Hastings, maltster; Thomas Fincher, Wellesbourne
Hastings,
grocer; John Hitchcox, Halford, farmer and Elizabeth his wife
(née Fincher);
John Mumford of Long Compton, farmer (in re Frederick Fincher,
Mobile,
U.S.A); Henry Fincher, Birmingham, miller and Charles Fincher,
Birmingham,
butcher to William Sanson, Alveston, farm bailiff and Robert
Batsford,
Ilmington, butcher (executors and trustees of the will of Thomas
Sansom
surviving executor named in the will of Catherine Millward of
Aldermarston,
spinster) of legacies due to them as niece and great nephews and
nieces (or
their assigns) of said Catherine Millward under her will dated 2
March 1822.

Thank you for your time!

--
Jabe Fincher

This thread:

• Jabe's query and Donna's response. by Brian <>