SUMMARY OF WILL OF PETER STERNE 1818
The house in Old Market Street, Thetford in which he lived
An adjoining tenement in the occupation of Martha MILLER
"my garden" near Pit Mill
"my pew" in St Mary's Church
all property in Thelnetham and in Hopton in Suffolk occupied by Joseph BALDRY or his undertenants
all household goods and furniture and everything else except money, notes, securities for money which "are in my dwelling house at the time of my death"
All "rent due to me" at death from the tenant of the farm left to her, she paying the tradesman for repairs
Bequests of money included:
Thomas STARNE........................--------------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo--------------------------...........£300
John George STARNE.................-------------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo---------------------------........£240
Sarah STARNE...........................---------------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-------------------------.............£100
Robert STARNE (carpenter)......---------------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-------------------------.....£200
Elizabeth STARNE........................---------------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-------------------------...........£50
Peter STERNE his son.............-------------------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo---------------------...............£50
John STERNE............................-------------------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo---------------------..................£50
Elizabeth SOWELL (daughter of Peter).........-------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo------------------------£20
Susan LAKE (daughter of Peter).............------------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-------------------------£20
Rebecca HUGGINS (daughter of Peter).........--------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-----------------------£20
Mary OLDMAN, widow ("my cousin")..............oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.......----------------------------£500
Ann HAROLD, wife of Philip........................oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...............----------------------------£250
Mary STERNE, widow.....................-----------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo----------------------------------£20
William STERNE son of Mary ..........................oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...........----------------------------£50
Stephen STERNE son of Mary .........oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo......................------------------------------£50
Barnard STERNE son of Mary ...................oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.................----------------------------£50
Robert STERNE son of Mary ..................oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....................----------------------------£50
Mary WINTERBOURNE, wife of John WINTERBOURNE......-------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-------£50
All children of late Revd SHEFFORD - each......-------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo----------------------£30
Charlotte BRINGLOE...................----oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-----..........-------------------------------£500
all children of Sarah Penelope WILSON (by husbands Wilson and Paley) divided between them..............-----------£500
Sons and daughters of Leonard BIDWELL, late of Fakenham, each..............oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.£100
Samuel BIDWELL of East Dereham..................------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-------------------------£500
Sarah, sister of Samuel BIDWELL....................--------oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-----------------------£500
Thomas BIDWELL, Clerk in Secretary of State's Office and to his two sisters, each ...............--------------------£100
Ann LAWRENCE, widow of Downham Market my cousin.................oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.------------£50
Thetford Mayor and Burgesses for poor parishioners of the three parishes............................------------------------£1000
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.............oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.........------------------------------------£100
Executor, to buy blankets for the needy of Thetford in the winter after death......................................-----------------£30
Trustees to maintain the tomb of my father in St Mary's Churchyard.
Executor to be Shelford BIDWELL, merchant, or if he predeceases Peter, Leonard Shelford BIDWELL
Will dated 10 Aug 1814 proved 13 Jan 1818 Norwich and total value of estate under £12000 (about £650,000 in 2007.)
Witnesses:
John Burrell FAUX.
Edmund BRETT.
Henry STURLEY.