17 July 1837, London

I Richard Henry Bonnycastle now a Captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers and being at this present of sound mind do declare this my last will and testament.

I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Frances all my property of every description whatsoever for her sole use and benefit during her lifetime should she survive me and after her decease in that case to be equally divided amongst my four daughters Charlotte, Henrietta, Catherine Anne and Louisa Bonnycastle issue of us the aforesaid Richard Henry and Frances Bonnycastle or to the survivors.

And I appoint as my Executors my Brothers Humphrey and Charles Bonnycastle and my esteemed friend G.W. Marriott of the House of Cox and Co with whom I leave this document this day of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven the seventeenth of July at London.

[signed] R.H. Bonnycastle
Witness -- Alexr Cleland 

Citations

  1. Baptisms of St Mary Magdalene Woolwich, Kent. Registers from London Metropolitan Archives. Image viewed at Ancestry.com, Richard Henry Bonnycastle, 1791.
  2. Microfilm of the Marriage Register of Edinburgh, Midlothian, 1858-1863 (Family History Library, 993527), Bonnycastle/Johnston marriage, 1812.
  3. Burial Register of St George's Cathedral, Kingston "Register #2-K-6, p. 74."
  4. Sir Leslie Stephen ed. Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, London(1921-22) (http://www.ancestry.com, digital images), Bonnycastle, Sir Richard Henry, p825.
  5. Captain H G Hart, The New Army List (London: John Murray, 1846), viewed on Google Books.
  6. Ancestry.com databases, online www.ancestry.com, online image from the Edinburgh Advertiser.
  7. Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), Saturday, August 15, 1812; Issue 14143. image online at 19th Century British Library Newspapers, a Gale digital collection.
  8. The Aberdeen (Scotland) Journal. image online at 19th Century British Library Newspapers, a Gale digital collection.
  9. Letters from Doris Knox, Ontario, to J Kolthammer, dated early 1990s "letter, 17 Apr 1991 (quoting a bible)."
  10. Terrence M. Punch, Nova Scotia Vital Statistics from Newspapers, 1813-1822 (Halifax: Genealogical Committee of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, 1978), Acadian Recorder, Sat 26 Aug 1815.
  11. Will and Administration of John Bonnycastle, Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, 17 August 1816, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 27 September 1821.
  12. Microfilm of the Bishop's Transcripts of St Mary Woolwich, Kent, 1813-1818 (Family History Library, 307732).
  13. Letters from Doris Knox, Ontario, to J Kolthammer, dated early 1990s.
  14. Microfilm of the Bishop's transcripts of Plumstead, Kent, 1744-1853 (Family History Library, 1469482), film#1469482 contains Baptisms and burials 1820-1853 Marriages 1820-1836, Charlotte Bonnycastle baptism, 1825.
  15. Online image of the 1851 Census for England & Wales (Ancestry.com, www.ancestry.co.uk), HO107/2527 folio 858.
  16. Microfilm of the Bishop's transcripts of Plumstead, Kent, 1744-1853 (Family History Library, 1469482), film#1469482 contains Baptisms and burials 1820-1853 Marriages 1820-1836, Murray Bonnycastle baptism, 1825.
  17. Website The Ships List (www.theshipslist.com).
  18. Microfilm of the Bishop's transcripts of St. Mary's Church, Lewisham, Kent, 1829-1837 (Family History Library, 307680), Bonnycastle/Cottrell marriage, 1837.
  19. Marriages of the parish of Lewisham, registers from London Metropolitan Archives. Image viewed at Ancestry.com, Humphrey Bonnycastle & Jane Cottrell, 1837, #439.
  20. Will and Administration of Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle, Captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers, 17 July 1837, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 17 March 1848 (Family History Library, Film #0156663).