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Wills & Legacies

Jean Bonamy's will, 1746

Will of Mr Jean Bonamy, proved 1746. From the French in the Notebook of Peter Mollet, his relative. Jean Bonamy came from a wealthy family. He was the son of Samuel Bonamy and the brother of another Samuel Bonamy, who became Bailiff of Guernsey. Jean was born in 1710 and died in 1746 in Gibraltar; he was a Lieutenant in an English Regiment of Fusiliers at the time.

Will of Magdelaine Barker, 1703

19th February 2016

From Edith Carey's Wills & Legacies, I, in the Library Collection, staff, p. 180.

Will of Moses Chiley of Cornwall, 1707

15th January 2016

No 21 from Vol. II of Edith Carey's book of transcripts, Wills & Legacies, in the Library (Staff). 'Moss Chiley' was possibly a Moses Chellew of Lugdvan. If anybody has any further information on this man, please contact the Library.

Will of Richard de Beauvoir

21st October 2015

Balmes House, Hackney, Environs of London II, Cadell and Davies, 1795

'From MSS in possession of Mrs Fred. Dobrée, The Laurels, Candie. Notes taken 20 November 1909.' From the de Beauvoir files in the Library, which include a full copy of this will and others from this branch of the de Beauvoir family; and a letter of 1681 in French (here translated) from Richard to his brother James in Guernsey, taken from an undated newspaper cutting. The illustration of Balmes House is a figure from the Rev. D. Lyson's Environs of London &c, Vol. II. the County of Middlesex, London: Cadell and Davies, 1795, in the Library Collection.

The estate of Judith Simon, 1804

22nd September 2015

Original document in the de Garis files in the Library. Nicolas de Garis compensates his co-heirs in rents for the extra part of the Courtil La Perchie he has taken with his préciput.