Life History
12th May 1772 |
Baptised in Finningham.1 Father - Sam. Clayton |
3rd Aug 1789 |
Mentioned in Will.2 of Samuel Clayton |
3rd Oct 1805 |
Mentioned in Will.3 Of Lydia Ray - died 1818 |
22nd Sep 1830 |
Witnessed the Will.4 of Elizabeth Oseland |
12th Jan 1837 |
Mentioned in Will.5 of Elizabeth Ray |
3rd Mar 1840 |
Mentioned in Will.6 Of Catherine Clayton (died 1846) |
3rd Apr 1840 |
Registered death in Hoxne, Tannington.7 Of Elizabeth Ray, was Stanford |
6th Jun 1841 |
Recorded in census in Hoxne, Dennington (Tannington, Kings House).8 Head of household - Samuel Ray |
9th Jun 1843 |
Mentioned in Will.9 Of Lydia Ray née Clayton (1770-1848) |
4th Jun 1847 |
Mentioned in Codicil to Will.9 Of Lydia Ray née Clayton - died 1848 |
28th Aug 1847 |
"The last Will and Testament of me Deborah Clayton of Tannington in the county of Suffolk spinster ...." |
12th Jan 1849 |
Legacy.11 Received a legacy of GBP 400 pre tax from the estate of Lydia Ray |
13th May 1850 |
Legacy.11 Residual Legatee |
19th Feb 1851 |
Died in Hartismere, Finningham.12,13 From the Ipswich Journal :- |
25th Feb 1851 |
Buried in Finningham, St Bartholomew.14 Age 78 |
12th Aug 1851 |
Executors :- |
Sources
- 1. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 - Deborah Clayton - 1772
- 2. Will - Norwich CC - Clayton, Samuel, grocer of Finningham, Suffolk - Will - 1794
- NRO - NCC will register Coe 239 - MF453 No 239
- 3. Will of Lydia Ray, Spinster of Norwich, Norfolk
- National Archives - PROB 11/1611
- 4. Will of Elizabeth Oseland, Wife of Wapping, Middlesex
- TNA - PROB 11/175/373
- 5. Will - Norwich CC - Ray, Elizabeth, spinster of Norwich - Will - 1837
- NRO - NCC Will Register Warren 488 - MF06 No. 458
- 6. Will of Catharine or Catherine Clayton, Spinster of Norwich, Norfolk
- National Archives - PROB 11/2046
- 7. Death Certificate - RAY - Elizabeth Ray - was Stanford - 1840
- Elizabeth Ray, 28 March 1840, Death Certificate, Hoxne, Tannington
- 8. Census 1841 Hoxne HO107/1026, F4, P3 - Samuel Ray
- 9. Will of Lydia Ray, Widow of Norwich, Norfolk
- National Archives - PROB 11/2072
- 10. Will of Deborah Clayton, Spinster of Tannington, Suffolk
- National Archives - PROB 11/2137
- 11. Probate records of the Clayton, Ray and White families, 1829-1851
- Norfolk Record Office - ETN 11/1/13
- 12. BMD Death Index - CLAYTON - Deborah Clayton
- 1851, Q1, Deborah Clayton, Hartismere, 13, 346
- 13. Ipswich Journal - Deaths - Deborah Clayton
- Ipswich Journal (Ipswich, England), Saturday, March 1, 1851; Issue 5834
- 14. National Burial Index for England & Wales - Deborah Clayton - 1851