Born

Date calculated from age at burial

Research note - the marriage licence suggests a date of 1751

Licence obtained for marriage to Jane ARNOLD in Rochester.5

Diocese of Rochester
Groom -  Thomas Sawyer, 21, single
Bride - Jane Arnold, 19,
Father of the bride - Henry Arnold

Married Jane ARNOLD in Speldhurst.6,7

Witness at wedding in Westminster, St James.1

Of Edward Colsill Edlin & Sophia Clifford Sawyer

Wrote will.2

1. This is the last Will and Testament
2. of me Thomas Sawyer of Tunbridge Wells in the parish of Speldhurst
3. in the County of Kent Plumber and Glazier 1 direct that all such just
4. debts as I shall owe at the time of my decease and my funeral
5. and testamentary (???) and expenses be paid and satisfied I
6. give and bequeath my leasehold cottage or tenement wherein I now
7. dwell situate at Mount Edgecombe near Tunbridge Wells aforesaid
8. unto my dear wife Jane Sawyer and to Mrs. Ann Farley who
9. resides with me and my said wife equally between them
10. for and during so long of the term of years and Estate (??) I shall
11. have therein at my decease ...
12- ... .... ....


Witnessed by :-
Edw. Carey Grojan, of Vine Street Piccadilly
W J Stubbs, of Vine Street Piccadilly
George Henry, Shopman to Mr. Edlin

Names mentioned in Will :-
1. "my dear wife Jane Sawyer"
2. "Mrs. Ann Farley who now resides with me and my said wife"
3. "Sophia Edlin the wife of Edward Colsill Edlin of New Bond Street"
4. "Peter Henry of Conduit Street in the said county of Middlesex coal merchant"
5. "Mary Ann Edlin daughter of the said Edward Colsill Edlin and Sophia Edlin"

Codicil to Will.2

"Whereas I Thomas Sawyer ..."

Witnesses :-
Joseph Delow
Stephen Farley
W Spratt
All of Tunbridge Wells

Names mentioned in first codicil :-
1. "the late Mrs. Jane Bullen"
2. "Sophia Edlin the wife of Edward Edlin of Nº 37 New Bond Street"

Codicil to Will.2

"Whereas I Thomas Sawyer of ..."

Witnesses :-
William Jeffery
Stephen Farley
E F Cla...ion

Probate.2

Joint Executors :-
Edward Colsill Edlin
Ann Farley
Peter Henry

Buried in Speldhurst, St Mary.3,4

Age - 73 years