The Will of William Faithfull of Overton, Innholder, 1737

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The Will of William Faithfull of Overton, Innholder, 1737. [1]


William Faithfull was an innkeeper at the New Inn (later the Poyntz Arms, now the Overton Community Centre) in Overton, Hampshire, who married on the 2nd September 1727 Elizabeth Jones, at Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire. He was buried on the 6th March 1737 at Overton, Hampshire. This places his date of death between the 3rd of March 1737 (when his last W&T was written) and (probably) the 5th of March 1737 (the day before his burial). He was father to William Faithfull (1729-1782, m. Martha Chamberlain), who in turn was father to Rev. John Faithfull (1752-1824, m. Patty Boyter, daur. of Joseph Boyter, organist in Salisbury), who in turn were grandparents to the more famous Rev. Valentine Grantham Faithfull.


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In the Name of God Amen

I William Faithfull of Overton in the parish of Southampton

Innholder being in sound and perfect Mind and Memory, praised be God, Do

make and Ordain this my present last Will and Testament in manner and form

following (that is to say) first and principally I commend my Soul into the hands

of Almighty God who gave it, hoping by the Merrits Death and Passion of

Our Saviour Jesus Christ to have free pardon & forgiveness of my Sins, and

to Inherit Everlasting Life - and my Body I Commit to the Earth to be decently

Buried at the Discretion of my Executrix herein after named, And as touching

such Worldly Estate as it hath pleased the Almighty to bless me with I give

and Dispose thereof as follows

Imprimis, That my Debts and Funeral Charges shall be paid & Discharged

Item I give and bequeath to my Dearly beloved wife Elizabeth Faithfull all

my Monies Debts due to me Estates Real and Personal Goods Chattels and

Effects of what kind or nature soever ---

I also make and Ordain the said Elizabeth Faithfull my beloved

Wife the Full and sole Executrix of this my last Will & Testament hereby

revoking and Disannuling all former Wills & Testaments by me heretofore

made ---

In witness whereof I the Said William Faithfull have hereunto left my

hand and seal this Third Day of March Anno Dom, One Thousand seven

hundred and Thirty Six and in the Tenth year of the Reign of our sovreign

Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Brittain ffrance and Ireland

King Defender of the Faith &c

Sign'd Seal'd and Declared

In the presence of                                                        the mark [Wll?] of William Faithfull

Edmund James

Jam: Shipton

Sarah Wagstaff


[1] Hampshire Archives and Local Studies; Winchester, England, UK; Probate Records: Wills, Inventories and Administrations Proved in the Church Courts of Winchester Diocese, 14th Century to 1858; Reference Number: 1737p21. 

Accessable at https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/62475/images/62475_373055000119_11456-00000?queryId=49e0b195-0727-42a0-b9a5-e58bafb958bb&usePUB=true&_phsrc=kQA15894&_phstart=successSource&pId=26691

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