William & Mary Ann Lacey

Research by Joan West

Research Note. James Jenkins of Turnip End Cottage brought to me a picture found in the house when they had moved in. It was of a document and had been reframed. He said I may cut it out of the frame as there was writing on the back which might be worth looking at. It was indeed, as it gave much information of William Lacey and his will which took 56 years to resolve.

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William Lacey born 1772 was the son of William & Rebecca Lacey

Mary Ann Love was born in Bishopsgate, London

William was a bricklayer by trade.

William and Mary Ann married in 1811 in Bishopsgate, London.

William at some point remarried

William had 4 children all born in London, as follows :-

Eliza Lacey born ?

William Lacey born 1826

James Lacey born 1830

Jesse Lacey born 1837

(William had three sisters who all married in Princes Risborough)

15^th April 1808 SALE TO STEPHEN CLINCH

INDENTURE

William Williams of High Wycombe, bricklayer, of the first part, John Wade of Darvills Hill of the second part, sold to Stephen Clinch vintner of Cornhill, London for £140

SCHEDULE

Cottage, closes of grass ground and hereditaments at Turnip End.

1823   ENCLOSURES of PRINCES RISBOROUGH

Plot no 804   Stephen Clinch, garden and paddock at Turnip End, Freehold.  This was an old enclosure.

Plot no 805   Stephen Clinch, cottage, garden and pightle at Turnip End. Freehold. This was an old enclosure.

27^th March 1829  INDENTURE

Now this indenture witnesseth that the said Stephen Clinch of Green Terrace, Islington, Mddx, gentleman and Ann his wife for and in consideration of one hundred and forty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to him Stephen Clinch by the said William Lacey in hand well and truly paid.

Schedule. All that cottage wherein John Biggs formerly dwelt now in the occupation of Caleb West situate and being at a certain place called Darvills Hill, within the parish of Princes Risborough, together with a close of grass ground adjoining to the cottage containing by estimate 1 acre, adjoining also on the south and west the wood-ground (grove)of the Reverend Edward Stone and on the north and east the land of the late Richard Wade containing about a rood and a half.  

26^th July 1857 WILLIAM LACEY DIED

.William Lacey returned from Bishopsgate to die at Turnip End and is buried in Lacey Green graveyard. 

WILLIAM LACEY’s WILL was long and very detailed but unfortunately it ran into difficulties due to problems with executors and deaths therefore but by a judgement of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice it was ordered that the real and personal estate of the Testator should be administered under the direction of the Court.   In a second action on 26 April 1893 the judge was of the opinion that according to the will of the Testator the surviving issue of the three grandsons originally named to inherit, however remotely,  should inherit equally between the three families of William, James and Jesse Lacey, the three sons of William

28^th May 1913 NEW TRUSTEES of the estate (10 in all) appointed by the Court

1.      Frederick George Larkin of Whitehouse Farm, Wooburn, Bucks, farmer and Joseph George Floyd, of Loosley Row, coal merchant and general provision dealer.

2.      James Jesse Lacey of 32 Argyle Road, Tottenham, London, printer.

3.      Alice Harriet Amelia Buck, of 2 Shansted Street, Kennington Park, London (the wife of Joseph William Buck).

4.      Holbourn Jefferies of Chegina, Saskatchewan, Canada (the wife of William Thomas Jefferies, electrical engineer)

5.      Emily Legge of 10 Boden Street, Derby, Co. Derby,(the wife of Charles Legge)

6.      Elizabeth Hawkins of 56 Bruce Buildings, Caledonian Road, London (the wife of William Henry Hawkins, motor fitter).         7. Keturah Lacey of 84 Hawkesby Road, Stoke Newington London (the wife of William James Lacey)

8.      Ernest Sylvester Lacey of Drayton Gardens, West Ealing, Mddx, wine merchants manager.

9.      Charles Percival Lacey of 178 Ardgowan Road, Hither Green, Catford, S.E. London, foreman in the tea trade

10.   William Lacey, 32 Argyle Road SE London, stationer

7th November 1913. Indenture of Conveyance. Now this Indenture witnesseth that in consideration of the sum of £150 now paid to the Trustees of the said William Lacey at the request and by the direction of the parties hereto of the second to ninth part inclusive (the receipt whereof the Trustees hereby acknowledge). The Trustees hereby convey and confirm unto the said William Lacey of 32 Argyle Road SE London, stationer, one of the Trustees -

Schedule. All those two pieces of land situate at Darvills Hill near Princes Risborough in the county of Buckingham formerly in the occupation of Benjamin Smith, late of Mrs Casbeard and now unoccupied Together with the cottage now falling down erected on one of the said pieces of land and the outbuildings erected on the other piece of land. In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above mentioned.

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