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- Berkshire Record Office
Will proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Berkshire on the 9th May 1815, dated 24th June 1811, starts “I Richard BINFIELD of Reading in the County of Berks Tallow Chandler ….”
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“………Upon trust to permit and suffer my wife Sarah BINFIELD to exercise and carry on my trade (and) business of a Tallow Chandler and Soap Boiler and have the use of my household furniture plate linen and china and receive take and enjoy the interest and dividends of all and singular my estate property and effects for and during the term of her natural life (if she shall so long continue my Widow and unmarried) for the support of herself and the maintenance education and bringing up of my children Ann BINFIELD, William Henry BINFIELD, Mary BINFIELD, Sarah BINFIELD, Charlotte BINFIELD and Martha BINFIELD until they shall severally attain the age of twenty one years……”
The will was not proved until after the death of Richard’s widow, Sarah, in 1815, so she may well have been carrying on the business. The will said the business was to be sold up upon her death or remarriage. In the death duty registers, re Richard's will, in the list of legatees (Ann) BINFIELD has been struck out and replaced by EDKINS.
Burials in St.Laurence, Reading
Richard BINFIELD, Reading, Feby 24th 1813, Aged 44,
Sarah BINFIELD, Fisher Row, Feby the 19th 1815, Aged 47
Fisher Row was off Broad Street in Reading, where the children of John EDKINS and Ann BINFIELD were baptised
Berkshire Record Office catalogue, ref D/EX 258/23:
Year 1763
Assignment of mortgage by Richard FISHER of Reading, innholder, to James KNIGHT of Reading, tallow chandler, of 2 messuages in the parish of St. Lawrence, Reading, one in the street called Fisher Row and one in Toothill or the Butter Market. [1]
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