Life History
20th Feb 1768 |
Mentioned in Will.1 of Thomas Lambe - probated 1768 Described as - "my daughter Mary Lambe spinster" |
29th Aug 1769 |
Licence obtained for marriage to Robert Harris COOPER in Faculty Office.6 Groom - Robert Harris Cooper Bride - Mary Lambe
From the Marriage Licence :- Faculty Office "On which day appeared personally Robert Harris Cooper and made Oath that he is of the parish of Saint Mary Newington in the County of Middlesex a Bachelor aged twenty five years and upwards, and intendeth to intermarry with Mary Lambe of the parish of South Weald in the County of Essex Spinster aged twenty one years and upwards, and in which parish she hath had her usual place of abode for the space of four weeks last past. He this Deponent not knowing or believing any lawful Let or Impediment by mean of any Precontract, Consanguinity, Affinity or any other lawful means whatsoever to hinder the said intended Marriage and prayed a Licence to Solemnize the said Marriage in the Parish Church of South Weal aforesaid. R. H. Cooper"
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13th Mar 1771 |
Mentioned in Will.2 of Hannah Lambe née Steare Described as :- "my daughter Mary Cooper the wife of Robert Harris Cooper" |
2nd Jan 1775 |
Mentioned in Codicil to Will.2 of Hannah Lambe née Steare Described as :- "my daughter Mary Cooper the wife of Robert Harris Cooper" |
6th Sep 1786 |
Died in Turnford.3 From the General Evening Post :- "Last Wednesday died, at Turnford, Herts, the lady of Robert Harris Cooper, Esq; Portugal merchant"
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15th Sep 1786 |
Buried in Bunhill Fields.4 From the Parish Register :- In a vault Parish of abode - Cheshunt
Research Note :- Cheshunt Parish covered the area of Turnford. |
1823 |
Legal in High Court of Chancery.5 Hopkins v. Towle
"Hannah Lambe by her Will devised to J. Fullager and Thomas Towle ... ... ..."
Testatrix bequeathed one moiety of the Residue of her Personal Estate to her Daughter Hannah, for her separate use, during the joint lives of her and her Husband; and, if she survived, to her absolutely; if not, to her children who should obtain 21; and the other moiety for the benefit of her Daughter Mary and her Children; with a Bequest over, if she died without children, to Hannah and her children, in like manner as the first moiety. By a codicil she bequeathed the whole Residue, if both her daughters died without leaving a child show should attain 21, to the Appellant. Both the Daughters dies without Issue, but Hannah survived her Husband; held neverless, that Appellant was entitled to the Residue"
The Appellants were the sons of the brothers of the Testatrix, Hannah Lambe. |
Sources
- 1. Will of Thomas Lambe, Gentleman of Brentwood, Essex - 1768
- 2. Will of Hannah Lambe, Widow of Brentwood, Essex.
- 3. General Evening Post - Deaths - Lady of Robert Harris Cooper
- General Evening Post (London, England), September 9, 1786 - September 12, 1786; Issue 8237
- 4. Register of Burials at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, City Road, London from 1781-1788 - Mary Cooper
- TNA - RG4 / Piece 3986 / Folio 122
- 5. Reports of cases decided in the High Court of Chancery by the Right Hon. Sir John Leach, Vice-Chancellor of England
- London, J & W T Clark, 1824
- 6. Marriage Licence Allegations - Faculty Office 1701-1850 - Robert Harris Cooper & Mary Lambe
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