Ann CLAYTON Rebecca CLAYTON Samuel CLAYTON Lydia CLAYTON Deborah CLAYTON Catherine CLAYTON Margaret Elizabeth CLAYTON William Ray CLAYTON Charles CLAYTON Susanna CLAYTON Ann RAY Mini tree diagram

Samuel CLAYTON

approx. 17311 -

Life History

approx. 1731

Born.1

Date calculated from age at burial

12th Aug 1731

Baptised in Caistor next Yarmouth.1

Father - Robert Clayton
Mother . Rebecca

1st Jan 1765

Married Ann RAY in Worlingworth, St Mary.13

Groom - Samuel Clayton of Great Yarmouth
Bride- Anne Ray

approx. 1766

Birth of daughter Ann CLAYTON in Finningham.5

approx. 1767

Birth of daughter Rebecca CLAYTON

approx. 1769

Birth of son Samuel CLAYTON

17th Jun 1770

Birth of daughter Lydia CLAYTON in Finningham.6

12th May 1772

Birth of daughter Deborah CLAYTON in Finningham.7

16th May 1774

Birth of daughter Catherine CLAYTON in Finningham.8

4th Dec 1775

Birth of daughter Margaret Elizabeth CLAYTON in Finningham.9

approx. 1777

Birth of son William Ray CLAYTON in Finningham.10

approx. 1779

Birth of son Charles CLAYTON in Finningham

7th Jan 1782

Birth of daughter Susanna CLAYTON in Suffolk.12

29th Nov 1788

Death of son Charles CLAYTON in Finningham.11

3rd Aug 1789

Wrote will.2

"This is the last Will and Testement of me Samuel Clayton of Finningham in the County of Suffolk Grocer made the Third day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine First I give and devise all and every my Real and personal Estate of what nature or kind over the same be unto Ann my beloved wife for and during her the term of her natural life and in case she continues my widow to be then at her own disposal and from and after her decease in case she does not otherwise dispose thereof or marry again Then my mind and will is and I do hereby authorize and empower my executors  hereafter named to make sale and dispose of all and every my said real and personal estate and other my effects and the produce and monies arising from such a sale and disposition as aforesaid after payment of all such just debts as I shall owe at the time of my decease my funeral charges of probate of this my will and other charges incident hereto and to the Executorship thereof I do hereby give and bequeath unto and amongst my seven daughters Ann Rebecca Lydia Deborah Catherine Margaret Elizabeth and Susanna or to such of them as shall be then living share and share alike But in case any of my said daughters shall die and leave issue of their bodies lawfully begotten my mind and will is that the child or children of such daughter so dying shall be entitled to the part or share of their mother And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said Ann my wife together with the Reverend Charles Ray of Hoxne in the said County Clerk Executrix and Executor of this my will And lastly hereby revoking all former wills by me made I do declare this only to be my last will and testement In witness thereof I the said Samuel Clayton the Testator have to this same contained in one sheet of paper set my hand and seal the day and year first above written
Samuel Clayton
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Samuel Clayton the Testator as and for his last will and testement in our presence who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses hereto Francis Lungley Samuel Garrard Samuel Baker"

31st Oct 1794

Probate in Norwich Consistory Court.2

"This will was proved at Finningham on the 31st October 1794 before the Reverend John Eade Clk the Surrogate duly appointed of the Worshipful George Landby D.D, Official Principle etc and was approved etc and administration of all & singular of the goods etc of the within named Samuel Clayton the Testator deceased was then duly granted to Ann Clayton widow his relict the only surviving Executor within named She being duly sworn etc saving etc
Examined with the original will
By me Chas. Kitson"

21st Oct 1794

Buried in Finningham.4

Aged 63

Other facts

 

Research Note.3

From "The Black book" in the Norfolk Record Office :-

“Only two of the children of Samuel Clayton & his wife Ann (née Ray) married – a son the Rev Wm Ray Clayton & a daughter Lydia who married became the second wife of my great grandfather William Ray of Tannington Place Suffolk.

The Rev. Wm Ray Clayton lived at Churchman House St Giles Street Norwich after the death of his brother Samuel. It is curious that years later Churchman House was owned & occupied by Sir Peter Eade M.D. a family connection.

On the death of Wm Ray of Tannington Place his widow Lydia (née Clayton) lived with her step daughters in a house in Willow Lane Norwich hired from Thomas Eaton. One of the stepdaughters (Lydia Ray) married Thomas Damant Eaton (son of Thomas Eaton) & was my grandmother.”

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