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Public Record Office  [ PROB 11/1815]                                                                                                               A
This is the last Will and Testament of me

Gardiner Henry Guion Captain in the Royal Navy being in sound health of body

and mind I do hereby (annulling and cancelling all former wills and testaments at any

time made) appoint and constitute my dear Sister in law Sarah Guion my sole Executrix

and residuary legatee giving and bequeathing to her all my Estates real and personal of which

I may be possessed or may be entitled to as residuary legatee under the will of my late

wife Harriet Grindal Guion together with all arrears of interest due to me under my

marriage settlement whereof Mr Richard Holt and Mr John Holt are trustees and who I

hope will do justice and consider that I have been deprived during my life of my wifes

legacy to me and the sum settled on me by my mother which was disposed of for the

benefit of my late wife under a promise from the trustee that it should be replaced by the

house at Frensham I consider as the property of my said Executrix Sarah Guion she having

lent me a sum of money more than equal to the purchase of it and as it is my

Intention to sell it and place the said purchase money in the funds in her name this

is to notify that the said house at Frensham is already her property though not legally

conveyed to her in consequence of its being on sale but in case of my death before

the said house be disposed of I bequeath it to her and all property of every sort at my

disposal. -Signed and seal with my seal this 10th day of March 1822  Gardiner

Henry Guion - Seal.                        B
Being in treaty with Mr Richard and John Holt for an arrangement with the

legatees under the will of my deceased wife Harriet Grindal Guion and having accepted their

offer of paying half the principal sums bequeathed to them at my decease which agreement

when completed will leave at my disposal the remainder I hereby confirm and by this

codicil to give all the proceeds and residue of my property to my said Sister in law

Sarah Guion in consideration of her great kindness in giving me all her plate linen and

the furniture of the Tribune I consider myself her debtor for the whole of my fit out

and as I shall desire my agents to insure my property on board the Tribune for three

hundred pounds in the event of any accident to that ship she is to recover the same and is to

have the same for her use. Written and signed at Chatham the 20th February 1823- GH.Guion

Witness W.Payne - W.R.PayneJunior - I republish and declare this to be my last will

and testament dated at Chatham in the County of Middlesex this 23rd day of February 1823.

G.H.Guion - Witness F.I.Hartwell Bart. - Louisa Hartwell - James Dobson.
Proved at London as contained in paper writings marked A and B - 14th May 1833

 before the worshipful William Robinson Doctor of Law and Surrogate by the oath of Sarah Guion widow the sole Executrix to whom admon

was granted being first sworn duly to admr.-
Signed 1867

 

( Sarah Guion Payne was the goddaughter of Sara Guion-Ponsonby, see the draft of her last will )

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