[list-cumbria] Cumberland Pacquet - 52

[Petra Mitchinson]

Hi Pete,

 

Thanks for the interesting details!

 

A thought about the late probate (or rather administration): Maybe everybody in the family assumed that James left everything to his
widow. When Mary died, the children when clearing out their mother's house found the will which had never been proved. So Thomas, as
the named executor, got it done at that point.

 

Do you know when Mary died? If it was in 1794 then my above theory would be a viable explanation.

 

Petra

 

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Hi Nev,

 

Thanks for this:

 

"Thursday last, at Cannonby church, Mr. Hugh James, surgeon, at Maryport to Miss Molly Postlethwaite, daughter of the late James
Postlethwaite Esq. of that place."

 

I have a copy of the will and Admon bond for father James.  The will is dated 1st May 1774 with the sole executor being his elder
son Thomas,  The Admon bond wasn't granted to Thomas  until 23rd June 1794 though.

 

I haven't found a burial for James yet.  Originally I was looking in the early 1790s, but the marriage announcement suggests he died
soon after he signed his will - in 1774 or 1775.

 

James left the income from an estate at Dalton-in-Furness to support his widow, Mary.  I think he (and a brother William, who also
lived in Maryport) moved up from Furness around 1750 - but have no idea who their parents were.

 

Son Thomas died at Maryport in 1799, a bachelor.  I think he may have been the Thomas Postlethwaite who was MP for the pocket
borough of Halesmere in Surrey between 1784 and 1786.  This doesn't explain why he took 20 years to get probate for the will though.

 

Pete

 

 

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Whitehaven  - October 12,  - 1775.

 

 

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