Essex Parish Registers
Name: Emily Chatfield
Event: Christening
Event Date: 29 May 1797
Event Place: Wanstead, Essex, England
Gender: Female
Age: 0
Marital Status:
Estimated Birth Year: 1797
Father: Allen Chatfield
Mother: Mary
Film Number: 1526973
Digital Folder Number: 4298754
Image Number: 1367
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Find A Grave Memorial# 190888318
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A letter from a family friend in Barton on Humber, Jane Maria Uppleby, to her sister Eliza dated 1 November 1831 states ; “You will be sorry to hear that Mrs Richard Walkden is dead. She was a great sufferer from a complication of inward diseases. She was a few days ago delivered of a stillborn child and died a few hours later very happily. Anne has gone to her bereaved brother, Sarah had gone to Hampshire where Espener has a farm.”The Upplebys were the squires of Bonby, the next village to Saxby-all-Saints, where the Walkdens lived on Chapel Farm, a farm that occupied most of the village of Saxby. The Ann and Sarah mentioned were Richard's sisters.
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Emily's will
Dearest Richard
As the _s of life and death are in the hands of the Almighty and it is hid from us in what way it may please him to terminate my present illness I thought it right while I had the power to express my anxious wishes with my regard to my children and (if- crossed out ) a few other trifling circumstances too (blank blank)which I leave to your kindness to see put in force immediately (blank) upon my death with regard to my children it seems to me the best plan that an elderly_ (my note: the underscore is in the text but I think a word was left out here) of unblemished integrity and in whom great confidence can be placed should be procured to take the entire charge of them in the choice of this person I should particularly wish Mrs C (my note is this Ann Chatfield?)of (2x initials are here but I can’t read them) be consulted and I think it advisable that MS should be retained as an attendant on E although willing and a good servant still requires the watchful eye of an experienced person to supervise her movements.
To Hugh Chatfield , I leave 22 Guineas
To Edwin Richard Chatfield 22 guineas
To Emily Chatfield (the infant) 22 guineas
To all the rest including Mary Ann 10 guineas each (My note - Hugh, Edwin, Emily and Mary ann are her niece and nephews -children of her brother Charles and his first wife Ann Gatty)
To Charles Chatfield 55 guineas for a watch and chain and seals to be worn in remembrance of me (my note - Emily's brother)
To Ann Chatfield 55 Guineas (My note - Emily's sister in law Ann nee Gatty)
To Horatio Latrailee? £19. 19. 0 £30
£5 each to each of her 3 children
To Elizabeth Constante? £10 over and above what she is to receive for nursing me
To Alan Thomas Chatfield £50 (My note - Emily's brother)
To Herbert Chatfield £50
I should like my hair cut off and made into a chain for you (my note , Richard)
to wear in remembrance of me the remainder to be made into rings for the following friends
Miss Millett, Thornton St
Miss Mary CHATFIELD, Camberwell
I should like to be buried in the tomb in Pinner Church yard With my own darling boy a simple tablet to our memory and under his name I should like the following text of scripture written
The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by S...
I should like my funeral to be a walking one the coffin carried by the 6 married labourers on the place, Chapman, Dean, Boxall, Sparks, _? and Pay? To each of whom I wish to have a ? suit of mourning given and a sovereign
I particularly wish not to have a leaden coffin unless it should be deemed requisite
I wish 1 or 2 mourning coaches and four for the use of such friends as might wish to attend
I wish £5 to be given to each of the 3 servants 4 mourning
To Margaret Wilson? £10 £20
Sophy £10
Marc? £10
Pinner Park
Emily Walkden
Middlesex 12 October 1831
In the Goods of Emily Walkden decd
Appeared Personally
Jane Gatty of Finsbury Square in the county of Middlesex spinster and Charles Chatfield of Angel Court Throgmorton Street in the City of London gentleman and being sworn to depose the truth and severally make oath as follows - and first the said Jane Gatty for herself saith that on the twelfth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, she the deponent at the request and on the citation of Emily Walkden /wife of Richard Walkden /of Pinner in the county of Middelsex since deceased wrote the paper writing now hereunto annexed purporting to be and contain the last will and testament of the said deceased the said paper writing beginning thus- “Dearest Richard as the _ of life and death are in the hands of the Almighty” and ending thus “to Margaret _ kson ? £10 £20 Sophy £10 Marc? £10 and the deponent having written the said will ? as far as the legacy of £10 To Margaret _kson? Then read the same over to the deceased who approved thereof and declared her intention that the same should be her will and testament and in token of such her approbation thereof afterwards subscribed thereto her name and addition “Emily Walkden, Pinner Park, Middlesex” and dated the date 12th October 1831 as now appears thereon and the deponent further said that after the said had been read over and either before or immediately after the said had been subscribed / but whether before or immediately after the said had been signed the deponent cannot at this distance in time possibly say the said Emily Walkden requested the deponent to alter the legacy thereby given to Horatio Sa_ from ? £19. 19. 0 to £30 and to alter the legacy thereby given to the said Margaret_kson? £10 £20 and to add legacies of £10 to two servants named Sophy and Marc and the deponent accordingly with pencil added to the said will the figures named and letters following “30 & 20” Sophy £10 Marc? £10 are that the said Emily Walkden approved of such additions and her said will and the said Charles Chatfield for himself said that he knew and was well acquainted with Emily Walkden who was this deponent’s sister and also with her manner and character of handwriting and subscription from having frequently seen her write and also subscribe her name and having now carefully inspected the subscription and addition “Emily Walkden Pinner Park Middlesex 12th October 1831”to the said will beginning and ending and subscribed aforesaid this deponent said he verily and in his conscience believed the same to be of the proper handwriting and subscription of the said Emily Walkden deceased.
Jane Gatty C Chatfield The 15th day of February 1832 the said Jane Gatby and Charles Chatfield were duly sworn to the truth therein before me WC Curtis Surr -- P? G S Heales Nor???
On the 22nd February 1832 Admin? with the will annexed/ of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of Emily Walkden late of Pinner in the County of Middlesex deceased was granted to Richard Walkden Esq the lawful husband of the said deceased having been first sworn duly to administer – No executor or provisionary legatee.
