Any ideas who this testator is?

[Merry]

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Description Will of Helen McCrery, Widow of Greenwich , Kent
Date 02 March 1848
Catalogue reference PROB 11/2071

I can't see an obvious death to go with this. Any ideas......:o

[Chrissie Smiff]

It's definitely McCrery is it Merry? It couldn't be this one could it - Oct-Dec 1847 - ref 3 275

Helen McCreath 1847 Kensington Greater London, London, Middlesex

[Merry]

I don't know what the will actually says, as I've only seen the entry on TNA.

I'd not seen that death, thank you Chrissie - I'll have to see if I can find her in 1841.....I hate these Mcs lol!

[Chrissie Smiff]

Or better still this one (right area) - July - Sept - ref 5 131

Ellen McCarthy 1847 Greenwich Greater London, Kent, London

[Chrissie Smiff]

Of course we don't know how long it took for the will to be published. Sometimes it can be a while if there are queries can't it?

I keep finding similar names and in Greenwich too ;(
There are two of these on the same page - Ellen McCarty 1846 Greenwich Greater London, Kent, London
I'm giving you Ellen too in case whoever passed it on didn't sound his Aitches lol

[Merry]

I'm giving you Ellen too in case whoever passed it on didn't sound his Aitches lol

lol Chrissie!! I have some relatives called Errington who are down as Herrington on one census, presumably because the enumerator assumed they didn't pronounce their Hs :rolleyes:

Thanks very much for those deaths. Now it's a matter of deciding whether to get the will only to find it's not a McCrery! lol

[kiterunner]

Helen McCreath Dec 1847 was only 16, so you can rule her out (she's on the London Deaths and Burials on ancestry).

Helen McCrery could be one of those deaths that didn't get registered, I suppose, or didn't make it onto the GRO index.

[kiterunner]

Oh, looking at the GRO deaths index for Mar 1848, it's a typed one, so that means it was done to replace a handwritten one and the typist may have missed Helen out.

[Merry]

Thanks Kite, I can see I'll have to fork out he £3.50!

[Merry]

You may be riveted to know I am going through my approx 250 research threads on this site checking to see that I have added the relevent info to my family history program.

Reading this thread I realised I never paid for the PCC will, so thought I would now read it on Ancestry. However, I can't find it in their index! Can you??? (it's definitely showing on TNA site)

[ElizabethHerts]

I can't see it either, Merry.

[kiterunner]

I'm sure some of the PCC wills are missing from ancestry, because there's one on my list I can't find on there either. I don't know whether it would be worth contacting them to ask about it.

[Merry]

Well I think I know the answer to that, but I might try anyway!! lol

[Phoenix]

It's not the one I found for you that wasn't in TNA's original index, was it?

I got a great deal of satisfaction in getting my hands on the actual volume it was in!

[Merry]

Oooh dear, I don't remember that :o

This one can't be that one though as I've quoted the TNA index entry in post #1 here.