| Description | Executor: husband Robert
Beneficiaries: sons Robert, Ralph, Samuel; daughters Ann Scholfield, Alice Lister, Helen Spofforth, Elizabeth Dixon; niece Clara Ferdinando, her children; granddaughter Mary Spofforth; great nephew Robert Sissons; John Dunnington Jefferson; servants Thomas Iveson, Sally Dancer, Mary Fletcher; the Female Society at Howden and The Poor of Howden, Knedlington and Newland
Property: land at Newland, Howden and Knedlington
Witnesses: Ellen Peirson, Howden, spinster; Robert Foster, Howden, innkeeper; William Dyson, Howden, gentleman Codicil, 7 Dec 1816
Extra legatees: three children of nephew, Robert Sissons; young friend, Sarah Ann Jefferson
Witnesses: Ellen Peirson; William Dyson |