William Yorke of Swindon
(1718-1800)
Mary Robins
(Abt 1739-1817)
Edmund Maskelyne of Wootton Bassett
(1718-1775)
Lucy Rumboll
(1734-1779)
John Yorke of Wootton Bassett, Gent.
(Abt 1765-1843)
Anne Maskelyne
(1773-1854)
Jane Yorke of Wootton Bassett
(1814-1855)

 

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Jane Yorke of Wootton Bassett

  • Born: 1814, Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England
  • Christened: 22 Jul 1814, Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England 1
  • Buried: 17 Jul 1855, Wootton Bassett St. Bartholomew & All Saints, Wiltshire, England 2

  Research Notes:

Jane daughter of John Yorke of Wootton Bassett, farmer, and Ann (baptismal record)

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In April 1850 Jane Yorke was present at the marriage of her sister Sarah Yorke to Robert Mundee in Wootton Bassett.

In 1851 Jane Yorke, aged 36, born in Wootton Bassett, unmarried, annuitant, was with her widowed mother in High Street, Wootton Bassett.

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Jane Yorke of Wootton Bassett died aged 42 years (burial record).

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Abstract of the Will of Jane Yorke of Wootton Bassett of the County of Wilts, Spinster, written 14 Feb 1855, proved 2 Oct 1855. 3

Gives and devises all her real estate to her brothers and sister William Yorke, John Maskelyne Yorke and Sarah Mundee as tenants in common but not joint tenants.

Gives and bequeaths £80 to her niece Ann Yorke Fowler.

All the rest of her personal estate she gives and bequeaths to her said siblings.

Appoints her brothers William Yorke and John Maskelyne Yorke co-executors of her last will and testament.

Witnesses: Thomas Warman of Wootton Basset, James Pratt, solicitor, of Wootton Bassett.

Sources


1 Wootton Bassett Wilts Parish Registers, Baptisms, p. 11, no. 83.

2 Ibid., Burials, p. 6, no. 41.

3 Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers, PROB 11/2221/20.


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