Will dated 13 December 1829

Probate of the Will of

Margaret Norton Purcell

Deceased

Extracted by G Buckton, Proctor, Doctors Commons

Dated 14 February 1840

Died 10 January 1840

This is the last Will and Testament of me Margaret Norton Purcell of Kensall Green Harrow Road in the county of Middlesex being of sound mind memory and understanding I do give devise and bequeath unto my friend Benjamin Simmonds of Kensall Green aforesaid Esquire his heirs executors administrators and assigns absolutely and unconditionally to and for his and their own use and benefit All my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever of or to which I am seized possessed or entitled or as to which I have any power of disposition or appointment by Will And I do hereby ratify and confirm all and every acts and deeds which I may have hitherto done or executed to or in favour of the said Benjamin Simmonds And I do declare it to be my wish that the said Benjamin Simmonds shall (if he shall think fit and His Majesty shall be pleased to grant) take and bear the surname and Arms of Purcell instead of or in conjunction with his present name and Arms of Simmonds And I do hereby appoint the said Benjamin Simmonds sole executor of this my will and do revoke all other wills and codicils by me at any time heretofore made and do declare this only to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the thirteenth day of December 1829

M N Purcell

Signed sealed published and declared by the said Margaret Norton Purcell as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in her presence and in the presence of each other and at her request have subscribed our names as witnesses

C L Murray

Mat^w H Sheppard

Both of Kensall Green

Ja^s Bremridge, Inner Temple

Attached to the document with the tag seal of the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury:

William by Divine Providence, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and Metropolitan, do by these presents make known to all men, that on the fourteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty at London, before the Worshipful William Robinson Doctor of Laws and Surrogate of The Right Honorable Sir Herbert Jenner Knight, Doctor of Laws, Master, Keeper or Commissary of our Prerogative Court of Canterbury, lawfully constituted the last Will and Testament of Margaret Norton Purcell late of Kensall Green Harrow Road in the county of Middlesex spinster deceased hereunto annexed, was proved, approved, and registered; the said Deceased having whilst living, and at the time of her death, goods, chattels, or credits, in divers dioceses or jurisdictions, by reason whereof the proving and registering of the said Will, and the granting Administration of all and singular the said goods, chattels, and credits, and also the auditing, allowing, and final discharging the account thereof, are well known to appertain only and wholly to us, and not to any inferior judge; and that Administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of the said Deceased, and any way concerning her Will was granted to Benjamin Simmonds Esquire the sole executor named in the said will he having been already sworn well and faithfully to administer the same, and to make a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the said goods, chattels, and credits, and to exhibit the same into the Registry of our said Court, on or before the last day of August next ensuing, and also to render a just and true account thereof.  Given at the time and place above written and in the twelfth year of our translation

Chas Dyneley

John Iggulden

W F Gostling

                             Deputy Registrars

Sworn under one hundred pounds and that the Testatrix died 10^th January last