The will of Mary Sladden née Churcher (1680-1771)
Mary Sladden was a 7 x great grandmother of mine.
A simple will. Mary outlived her husband and died leaving two (adult) children, but left everything to her daughter Mary. Much had already been split between her daughter Mary and son Charles by the will of her husband, but he specifically left his house in Lower Street in Deal to his wife for her lifetime, then “Then unto such of my said Children Mary Sladden and Charles Sladden as she my said Wife Mary Sladden shall in and by her last Will and Testament in Writing Give and bequeath the same unto”.
Mary wrote her will a few months after her husband’s death, when she was living in Deal but lived another twenty years. She was buried, though, in Great Mongeham, where her daughter lived so I guess she had gone to live with her daughter later in her life; not surprisingly, since she was about 90 when she died and may well have been frail.
In the Name of God Amen. I Mary Sladden of the Parish
of Deal in the County of Kent Widow being in Health and of sound
Memory do hereby make and ordain this my last Will in Manner
and Form following that is to say I give all my Estate both
Real and Personal within the said County of Kent or elsewhere
particularly that House in the lower Street in the Town of Deal in
which my late Husband Richard Sladden dyed together with all
my ready Money Household Goods Linen and Wearing apparrel
of every Kind whatsoever and wheresoever unto my Daughter
Mary Sayer Wife of Thomas Sayer of the Parish of Great Mongeham
in the County aforesaid and to her Heirs and Assigns for ever
whom I also appoint Sole Executrix of this my last Will And
hereby revoking all former or other Wills by me heretofore made
I declare this only to be my Last Will and Testament this
Twenty Ninth Day of April 1751
Signed Sealed published and declared
by the said Mary Sladden the Testatrix for Mary Sladden
and as her last Will and Testament on
the Day of the Date thereof in the Presence
of Us who have subscribed our Names as
Witnesses thereto.
Elizbeath Spinett [?]
Will:m Parker
Saml Shepherd
Probate Statement
April the 16th 1772 this Will was proved
and Mary Sayer (Wife of Thomas Sayer)
Daughter of the deced and sole Executrix
therein named was sworn to the truth Late of Mongeham
thereof and also faithfully to perform the
same &c. before me –
Witness Samuel Shepherd was probably the husband of Ann Sladden, second cousin of Mary’s husband, although it is possibly their son of the same name.
Source
This is a transcription by me, Teresa Goatham, of an image of the original will, KHLC ref. PRC/16/442 S/4, viewed on FamilySearch at Yeovil FHC.

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