DURHAM WILLS 1787 - 1803
JOHN COXON, clerk, Sunderland, 22 June 1787
Son Michael; William Jackson; grandchildren (minors), JOHN COXON,
RALPH COXON, BARBARA COXON and ELIZABETH COXON;
granddaughter Margaret, daughter of MICHAEL COXON; Mr.Jasper
Harrison.
Witnesses:Thomas Arlot;William Charlton; Andrew Hancill.
Ralph Heron, gent, Moor Ridge House, Elsdon, 10 June 1786
Cousin John Hedley, Newcastle, cheesemonger; George Chisholm, Clennell,
Northumberland, gent; Roger Marshall, Blindburn, Northumberland, farmer;
John Marshall, Carlisle, linen draper; Roger Heron, Yetsfield, Northumberland,
farmer; Anthony Heron, Yetsfield, Northumberland, farmer; John Robson,
Trows, Northumberland, farmer; James Robson, Croydon, Surrey, saddler;
Hannah Marshall and Thomas Akenhead Marshall, children of Robert Marshall,
late of Mainside, North Britain, farmer, deceased; wife Eleanor Heron; William
and Anthony Marshall, sons of above Roger Marshall by Margaret his late wife,
deceased; Eleanor Marshall, Newcastle, spinster; Eleanor Hall, Newcastle,
spinster; Elizabeth Hall, Newcastle, spinster; Eleanor Davison, wife of Andrew
Davison, Middleton, North Britain, innkeeper; Susannah Marshall, wife of above
Roger Marshall.
Witnesses: James Murray, James Turnbull, ANTHONY COXON.
Thomas Wake, farmer, Benwell, p Newcastle St.John, 25 August 1790
Sons Andrew Wake, Thomas Wake, John Wake and Joseph Wake; Matthew
Dodds, Thomas Hymers, John Lisle and Richard Harle, occupiers of property in
Benwell; daughter Ann, wife of Joseph Nailor, mariner; daughter Elizabeth
Wake.
Witnesses: LANCELOT COXON, John Hall, Robert Storey.
Ann Avison, widow, Newcastle, 1 February 1790
Late husband, Edward Avison, Newcastle, tailor; Mrs.Hall and Mr.Edward
Anderson, occupiers of land in Northumberland Street, Newcastle, at the time of
husband's will (2 January 1778); Nicholas Walton the younger, Farnacres,
Co.Durham, gentleman; Robert Page, Newcastle, gentleman; Jasper Harrison,
Newcastle, gentleman; niece Mary Bridges, wife of James Bridges, Chichester,
Sussex, master mariner; Ann Terry, wife of Richard Terry, Kingston upon Hull,
Yorkshire, merchant, and her daughter Margaret Terry; Isabella, daughter of
niece Margaret Dobson, Newcastle, widow, and her children Margaretta and
Richard; Mary Kell and Jane Kell, both of Leicester Street near Leicester
Square, Middlesex, spinsters; Mary Kell, widow of Thomas Kell, late of
Gateshead, tailor; Thomas Garret, Ravensworth Hill, Co.Durham, boat builder;
Robert Hudson, Elswick, Northumberland, gentleman, and his sister Abigail,
wife of John Wilson, Newcastle, cheesemonger; George Mills, son of Mary Ord,
wife of John Ord, of near Lamesley, paper maker; Anthony Kell of near
Dunston, Co.Durham, smith, and Jasper Kell of Chester-le-Street, sons of
Anthony Kell, deceased; Isabella and Ann, daughters of Thomas Harrison,
Newcastle, Woollen draper; Maid Servant Jane Robson; Edward, son, and Jane,
daughter, of nephew-in-law Charles Avison, Newcastle, musician.
Witnesses: Ann Stephenson; Mary Stephenson; JOHN COXON.
George Bolton, gentleman, Mountain, Northumberland, 10 February 1790
Wife, Mary Bolton; Andrew Rutherford, occupier of land (tenant) at
Longhorsley; daughter Jane, wife of James Elder, Alnwick, merchant; daughter
Sarah Bolton; son William Bolton; Sir Henry George Liddell, Bt, owner of farm
at Mountain; Joseph Mills, West Glanton, Northumberland, esq; HENRY
COXON, Hough Balk, Northumberland, gentleman; Thomas Vardy, Rothill,
Northumberland, gentleman; James Carnaby, Todburn, Northumberland,
farmer.
Witnesses: HENRY COXON; Thomas Kerr; James Robeson.
Thomas Purvis PURVIS (sic), esquire, Bedlington, 17 November 1791
Wife Mary; nieces Ann Barker and Elizabeth Catherine Barker, daughters of
brother Charles Dalson Barker.
Witnesses: John Marshall; THOMAS COXEN; Hannah Pattison.
Proved: 16 March 1792 by Charles Dalston Purvis, late Charles Dalston Barker.
Sir Thomas Clavering, baronet, Axwell Park, Co.Durham. 11 July 1794.
To be buried at Whickham church; Sir Matthew White Ridley, baronet,
Blagdon, Northumberland; John Yorke, esquire, Richmond, Co.York; nephew
Thomas John Clavering, son of late brother George Clavering; Sir Edward
Blackett, baronet, Matfen, Northumberland; Charles Brandling, esquire,
Gosforth, Northumberland; nephew Charles John Clavering, eldest son of late
brother John Clavering; nephew Henry Mordaunt Clavering, younger son of late
brother John Clavering; Joshua Greenwell, gentleman, Newcastle; Mr.Jasper
Harrison; Thomas Liddell, Newton, Co.Durham, esquire, deceased since 25 July
1755 and survived by Ralph Gowland of Durham City, attorney at law; Joshua
Douglas, esquire, Newcastle, deceased since 25 July 1755; niece Mrs.Pechell;
relation and friend Rev.Henry Ridley; John Boucher, a minor, son of James
Boucher of Tinmouth Castle, esquire; servants JOHN COXON,
Thomas Frame and Isabella Yellowley; Robert Dent, son of Rev.Robert Dent,
curate of Lanchester.
Witnesses: John Fawcett, son of Chas.[?] Fawcett, esquire; Robert Pearson,
gentleman; Chas.Wilson, clerk to Robert Pearson.
Proved: 25 November 1794 by Sir Thomas John Clavering; above £5,000.
Eleanor Greenwell, widow, Crosgate [sic], Durham. 24 March 1796.
Michael Greenwell and Jane Greenwell, son and daughter of late husband
Michael Greenwell; Ann Hilton, Durham, executor; Elizabeth Baty, widow of
late Reverend Richard Baty; Thomas Chipchase, Durham, Alderman of Durham
City, executor; Mary Chipchase, wife of Thomas Chipchase; Mary Chipchase,
daughter of Thomas Chipchase; brother William Richardson, Playmouth
[Plymouth?], butler; late servant Priscilla Richardson; late servant JANE
COXON; servant Elizabeth Richardson.
Witnesses: Thomas Maynard; William Thomas Greenwell; Lowes [sic] Walton.
Proved: 28 May 1796 by Thomas Chipchase and Ann Hilton; under £1,000.
Francis Laidman, surgeon, Morpeth, 7 May 1796.
Sons William Laidman and Charles Laidman; son John Laidman, executor;
daughter Julia Johnson; friends George Potts, Netherton, Co.Durham,
gentleman and Cuthbert Watson, Cowpen, Northumberland, gentleman.
Witnesses: Edward Nicholson;ROBERT COXON; Edward Lawson.
Proved: 15 June 1796 by John Laidman; under £100.
Isabella Blake, spinster, Tillmouth House, Co.Durham. 16 January 1797.
Late father Sir Frances Blake, baronet and his wife Miss Isabel Ayton; brother
Sir Francis Blake, baronet, Twisel [sic] Castle, North Bishopric of Co.Durham,
executor; John Reed, Chipchase, Northumberland, esquire and the Reverend
Francis Reed, Whorlton, Northumberland; nephew Robert Dudley Blake;
nephew William Blake; cousins Eleanor Collingwood and Ann Collingwood,
both of Morpeth, spinsters; niece Elizabeth Blake; late mother (unnamed); niece
Eleanor Ann Blake.
Witnesses:John Wilson; Douglas Sands; John Watson.
Codicil:15 February 1797.
Servant George Middlemas; niece Isabella Reed; niece Martha, wife of James
Allgood, esquire; nephew Archibald Reed; niece Sarah Reed; servant Margaret
Robson; Mr.John Grace, steward to brother Sir Francis Blake; [blank], wife of
John Grace; Barbara Hannah, servant to cousin Ann Collingwood; Elizabeth
and John Watson, servants to Ann Collingwood.
Witnesses: John Wilson; Edward Lawson; ROBERT COXON.
Proved:18 April 1797 by Sir Francis Blake; under £10.000.
HENRY COXON, farmer, Howbalk p Whittingham, 22 November 1797.
Wife ELEANOR COXON; daughter JANE COXON; grandson Henry
Patterson; sister Margaret Vardy; son RALPH COXON, executor; son-in-law
Robert Patterson, Alnwick, executor and his son Robert; Thomas Vardy, Fenton
p Wooler, William Morrison, Eslington, Northumberland and John Moffatt,
Felkington p Norham, executors.
Witnesses: Joshua Crea; Thomas Vardy.
Proved: 13 November 1798 by Thomas Vardy, Robert Patterson, John Moffatt
and William Morrison; under £5,000.
Elizabeth Wibbersley, widow, Newcastle, 25 November 1794.
Robert Rayne, Newcastle, gentleman and John Barnet, Whickham, clerk,
executors; daughter Mary Greenside, executor, wife of Ralph Greenside, captain
in the North York Militia; sister Margaret Wasse; daughter Elizabeth
Emmerson, wife of Rev.George Emmerson; children (unnamed) of daughter
Elizabeth Emmerson.
Witnesses: ELIZABETH COXON; Nicholas Fenwick, Percival Fenwick.
Proved: 3 May 1798 by John Barnet and Mary Greenside; under £300.
William Fenwick, esquire, Grangehouse p Morpeth, 16 May 1794.
Nephew John Ralph Fenwick; servant Thomas Fenwick; servant John Spoors;
servant Elizabeth Mattison; niece Catherine Fenwick, niece Mary Fenwick;
friend John Wilson, Morpeth, surgeon; late William Ord, Fenham, deceased;
nephew James Fenwick, executor.
Witnesses: Edward Lawson; Edward Fenwick; ROBERT COXON.
Proved: 30 August 1799 by James Fenwick; under £300.
Robert Lisle, esquire, Acton House p Felton, 12 November 1799.
[Extracted from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury]
Wife Anne; daughters Isabella Lisle and Susannah Lisle; daughters Anna Maria
Lisle and Eliza Lisle; aunt Elizabeth Nicholson; sister in law Jane Lisle, widow of
late brother John Lisle, deceased; uncle in law John Carruthers; nephew Robert
George Spencer James Rice Williams; natural son Robert Lisle, "whose mother
before her marriage was called Ann Bell"; late wife Mary Lisle, mother of eldest
daughter Anna Maria Lisle; Ann Orde, spinster, sister of late wife Mary Lisle,
deceased; Sarah Carruthers, daughter of John Carruthers; William Peareth,
Usworth House, Co.Durham, esq, Nicholas Fenwick, Lemington,
Northumberland, esq, executor, William Orde, Morpeth, esq and Right
Honourable Thomas Orde, Sudbury Green, Co.Middlesex, esq, now Lord
Bolton, executor; friends William Orde, Nunnikirk [sic], Northumberland, esq
and Right Honourable Thomas, Lord Bolton; eldest son Robert; Alexander
Davison, Swardland [sic], Northumberland, esq and Henry Ibbeson,
St.Anthonys, Northumberland, esq, executors.
Witnesses: Edward Nicholson; Edward Lawson; ROBERT COXON.
Proved: 15 October 1800 in London by Nicholas Fenwick and Alexander
Davison; no amount given.
6 November 1800 at Durham by Nicholas Fenwick and Alexander Davison; no
amount given.
Robert Pearson, yeoman, Newbiggin by the Sea, 23 December 1799.
Wife Isabel Pearson; nephew Robert Pearson, Hartley Burn.
Witnesses: William Marshall; JASPER COXON.
Proved: 21 May 1800 by Isabel Pearson; under £20.
WILLIAM COXON, master mariner, Cullercoats p Tynemouth 11 December
1801
Friend George Lawson, Cullercoats, joiner, executor.
Witnesses: Henry Vawser; Robert Browne.
Proved: No date of probate given but will proved by George Lawson; under
£100.
Margaret English, widow, Morpeth, 1 December 1802
Aunt Isabella Bullock, deceased and tenant Henry Sadler; friends John Wilson,
Morpeth, esquire, Edward Bennett, Morpeth, draper and William Bennett,
Morpeth, draper, executors; youngest son William English; eldest son John
English; niece Dorothy Atkinson, daughter of late sister Jane, formerly the wife
of Jonathan Fisher, deceased; Mary, wife of William Cranston of Morpeth,
slater, and Ann Oxley, Hartley, spinster, “who is now residing with me”.
Wittnesses: Ann Seale; Edward Lawson; ROBERT COXON.
Proved: 30 December 1802 by John Wilson, Edward Bennett and William
Bennett; under £100.
John Pigdon, yeoman, Harbottle, Northumberland, 18 August 1799
Children George, Thomas, Jane, John & James; wife Mary Pigdon, executor;
late sister Mary Heslop; brother Thomas Pigdon; daughter Jane, wife of
ANTHONY COXON ; eldest son George Pigdon; second son Thomas Pigdon
and third son John Pigdon.
Witnesses: James Richardson; Robert Turnbull; Thomas Bland.
Proved: 1 February 1802 by Mary Pigdon; under £300.
Mary Wharton, spinster, Old Park, County Durham, late of Durham, 20
January 1795.
Late father Thomas Wharton, Old Park, esquire, deceased; sisters Margaret,
Deborah and Elizabeth Wharton, executors; Sir Thomas Herron Myddleton,
Baronet, and his wife Margaret Wharton; Mrs.Mary Wharton and
Mrs.Margaret Wharton, late of Gilling Wood, Co.York, deceased; brother
Robert Wharton, executor; brother Richard Wharton, executor; Thomas Salvin
and Anne Salvin, children of sister Catherine Salvin; William Hutchinson,
Eggleston, Co.Durham, esquire, and Rev John Bright, Grafton,
Co.Northampton, clerk.
Witnesses: John Bainbridge; Ralph Wright; George Ayre
Codicil: 13 March 1798
Sisters Margaret, Deborah and Elizabeth.
Witnesses: Not witnessed.
Affidavit: 8 March 1802 sworn by Thomas Brand, Wath, North Riding of
Co.York, clerk and JOHN COXON, Durham, yeoman.
Proved: 8 March 1802 by Margaret Wharton, Deborah Brand, wife of Rev
Thomas Brand, clerk, and heretofore Wharton, spinster, Elizabeth Wharton and
Richard Wharton, esquire; under £5,000.
JOHN COOKSON, esquire, Cavendish Square, Co.Middlesex, 13 February 1799
[Extracted from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury]
Wife JANE COOKSON; Robert Hopper Williamson, Newcastle, esq and James
Wilkinson, Newcastle, esq, executors; sons and daughters (unnamed); niece
ELIZABETH COOKSON, daughter of brother ISAAC COOKSON; sister
SARAH COOKSON; nephewJOHN COOKSON, eldest son of said brother
ISAAC COOKSON; nephew ISAAC COOKSON, son of the said brother,
ISAAC COOKSON; JAMES COOKSON>, son of the said brother,>ISAAC
COOKSON; niece Harriott Drummond, wife of [blank] Drummond, esq; sister
Hannah Ellison, wife of Richard Ellison, esq; nephew JAMES COOKSON, son
of said brother ISAAC COOKSON.
Wit:Chrs Carnes; Ebenezer Redshaw; Caleb Watson.
Codicil: 3 December 1799
Wife (unnamed); brother Isaac and Joseph, and sisters Hannah and Sarah,
nephews John and James COOKSON and niece Elizabeth; other children
(unnamed) of brother Isaac; nieces Elizabeth, Hann Drummond, Catherine and
Anne Castell; nephew Richard Castell; nephew John Coulthurst; brothers-in-law
Saml Castell and Richard Ellison, esqs; sisters-in-law Margaret Coulthurst and
MARGARET COOKSON; sister-in-law Bridget Reed; mother-in-law Mrs.Reed;
relatives Mrs.Croft and Mrs.James Wilkinson; friends Lord Eldon, Sir William
Scott, Alexander Trotter, esq and Thomas Littledale, esq; friend Henry Uttrick
Reay, esq.
Wit: Not witnessed.
Codicil: 5 December 1799
Mrs.Townes, widow of Thomas Townes
Wit: Not witnessed.
Codicil: 13 February 1799
Servant John Root; Mrs.Adison, nurse of late mother; goddaughter Jane Root.
Wit: Not witnessed.
Codicil: Not dated
Wife Jane.
Affidavit: 3 November 1802 sworn by Charles Dalston Purvis, Newcastle,
gentleman and Anthony Surtees, Newcastle, gentleman.
Proved: [At London] 15 November 1802 by Robert Hopper Williamson; no
amount given.
[At Durham] 11 December 1802 by Robert Hopper Williamson; under £30,000.
MATTHEW COXON, mariner, Tynemouth, 6 May 1799
Wife ELIZABETH COXON, executor; tenants Ann Orrick, John Dale, John
Gilhespy and Margaret Shaw; daughter ELIZABETH COXON> .
Witnesses:William Harrison; Thomas Wright; Armorer Donkin.
Proved: 21 October 1803 by ELIZABETH COXON; under £100.
Robert Forster, esquire, Brunton, Northumberland, 6 January 1803
Wife (unnamed); children (unnamed); daughter Margaret; friends[sic} John
Pratt, Bells Hill, Northumberland, esquire, son Thomas Forster and Anthony
Lambert, Alnwick, esquire, executors.
Witnesses: Thomas Bell; G.Wardell; GEORGE COXON.
Affidavit: 4 April 1803 sworn by Thomas Bell, Alnwick, gentleman.
Proved: 5 March 1803 by John Pratt, Thomas Forster and Anthony Lambert