NORTHANTS WILLS/admons PROVED - 1853-1857
A list of all wills proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Northampton for the years 1853-1857.
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A list of testators is copied below.
| TEST | ATOR | ABODE | OCCUPATION | WILL DATE | PROVED |
| John | ABBEY | Watford, Rodmore Lodge | farmer | 19 May 1855 | 14 Jul 1855 |
| James | ABBOTT | West Haddon | tailor | 23 Sep 1857 | |
| James | ABBOTT | West Haddon | tailor | 1 Apr 1844 | |
| John | ABBOTT | Wellingborough | builder | 3 May 1856 | 14 Feb 1857 |
| William | ABBOTT | Little Addington (Royal Oak) | builder and victualler | 9 Nov 1852 | 25 Oct 1853 |
| Sarah | ADAMS | Stoke Bruerne (Shutlanger) | spinster | 1 Oct 1845 | 15 Jul 1856 |
| Susannah | ADAMS | Weedon Beck | widow | 12 Oct 1852 | 17 Jul 1856 |
| William | ADAMS | Daventry | glover | 29 Jan 1855 | 5 Jun 1855 |
| James | ADCOCK | Higham Ferrers | clicker, minor, bachelor | 26 Aug 1857 | |
| John | ADCOCK | Wollaston | farmer | 4 May 1849 | 10 Sep 1853 |
| Elizabeth | ADKINS | Helmdon | spinster | 7 Feb 1850 | 4 May 1853 |
| David Rowland | AGER | Northampton (Scarletwell St) | gentleman | 8 Apr 1856 | 31 May 1856 |
| Elizabeth | ALLEN | Wellingborough | widow | 1 Jan 1852 | 26 May 1855 |
| Richard | AMOS | Silverstone | yeoman | 14 Feb 1854 | 22 Jun 1854 |
| John | ANDREW | Loddington | cordwainer, baker and farmer | 16 Jan 1851 | 20 Apr 1855 |
| Elizabeth Dopping | ARNOLD | Woollaston | spinster | 22 Jun 1854 | 19 Sep 1855 |
| George | ARNOLD | Denford (The Rose and Crown) | carpenter | 23 Jul 1844 | 16 Jan 1855 |
| William | ARNSBY | Raunds | baker | 26 Mar 1849 | 12 Nov 1857 |
| Edward | ASHBY | Collingtree | yeoman | 10 Aug 1852 | 4 Jul 1854 |
| John Jellis | ASHBY | Long Buckby | farmer | 22 Jun 1854 | 4 Apr 1855 |
| Robert | ASHBY | Bugbrook | yeoman | 4 Aug 1856 | 10 Oct 1857 |
| Joseph | ASKHAM | Raunds | cordwainer | 8 Jan 1851 | 22 Jun 1853 |
| Thomas | ASTON | Northampton | butcher | 19 Feb 1855 | 24 Jul 1855 |
| William | ATTERBURY | Old Stratford in the parish of Passenham | victualler | 10 Jan 1843 | 1 Dec 1855 |
| John Lambourne | AYERS | Towcester (Wood Burcote) | yeoman | 3 Feb 1853 | 24 May 1853 |
| Samuel | AYERS aka PRATT | Wellingborough | yeoman | 17 Mar 1838 | 8 Apr 1857 |
| Ann | BAMFORD | Rushton | widow | 8 Apr 1853 | |
| Sarah | BAMFORD | Rowell | spinster | 7 Aug 1857 | 31 Dec 1857 |
| Mary | BARKER | Wellingborough | spinster | 19 Jul 1851 | 10 Mar 1857 |
| Richard | BARKER | Mears Ashby | beer house keeper | 28 Jan 1857 | 19 May 1857 |
| Thomas | BARKER | Northampton (Bearward St) | coal dealer | 5 Apr 1853 | 25 Aug 1853 |
| John | BARNES | Woodford | yeoman, bachelor | 23 Oct 1854 | |
| William | BARNES | Northampton | hairdresser and perfumer | 6 Jan 1847 | 26 Jul 1854 |
| Lydia | BARRETT | Mears Ashby, formerly Uppingham RUT | spinster | 14 Jun 1854 | 16 May 1855 |
| Thomas | BASON | Northampton | mason, bachelor | 13 Mar 1856 | |
| Robert | BASS | Paulerspury (Heathencote) | labourer, widower | 13 Jul 1854 | 5 Jan 1856 |
| Robert | BATEMAN | Little Addington | farmer | 19 Jan 1847 | 15 Apr 1853 |
| Joseph | BATES | Stanwick | yeoman | 4 Apr 1855 | 24 May 1856 |
| William | BATES | Stanwick | yeoman (bachelor) | 14 Mar 1855 | |
| William | BATES | Stanwick | yeoman | 10 Nov 1855 | |
| William Clark | BAXTER | Northampton | saddler & harness maker | 7 May 1857 | |
| Edward | BAYLISS | Towcester | mason | 9 Feb 1855 | 11 Jun 1855 |
| Thomas | BAYLISS | Northampton | gentleman | 19 Nov 1853 | 4 May 1854 |
| Jane | BEEBY | Wellingborough | spinster | 27 Aug 1827 | 5 Jan 1857 |
| Caroline | BEESLEY | Island of Guernsey formerly Northampton | wife, late Caroline BRASHER spinster | 26 Jul 1856 | |
| Joseph | BENJAMIN | Welton | innkeeper | 4 Jun 1852 | 9 Feb 1853 |
| Charlotte | BENNETT | Road | widow | 17 May 1853 | 8 Dec 1853 |
| William | BERRILL | Earls Barton | mason | 14 Oct 1848 | 28 Nov 1855 |
| Sarah | BIBWELL | Northampton (Woolmonger St) | spinster | 11 Feb 1855 | 8 Mar 1855 |
| Elizabeth | BIGGS | Welford | widow | 21 May 1853 | |
| Sarah | BILLINGHAM | Welton | widow | 19 Nov 1852 | 23 Feb 1853 |
| Samuel | BIRD | Everdon | farmer | 27 Jan 1853 | 29 Oct 1856 |
| William | BIRD | Raunds | grocer | 20 Nov 1854 | 13 Mar 1856 |
| John | BLACK | Raunds | shepherd | 3 Dec 1851 | 8 Mar 1853 |
| John | BLACKWELL | Harpole | yeoman | 5 Apr 1854 | |
| Mary | BLACKWELL | Northampton | widow | 13 Jun 1857 | |
| Thomas | BLACKWELL | Brackley | farmer | 10 Sep 1856 | 5 Nov 1856 |
| William | BLACKWELL | Woodford cum Membris | farmer and grazier | 12 Jul 1849 | 15 Mar 1856 |
| James | BLENCOWE | Northampton, but heretofore of Banbury, then Norwich | plush weaver | 10 Jan 1857 | 12 Nov 1857 |
| John | BLOTT | Raunds | farmer and victualler | 29 Nov 1849 | 21 Nov 1854 |
| Susannah | BLUMSON | Wellingborough | widow | 27 Aug 1856 | |
| Charlotte | BLUNT | Ashton | widow | 12 Apr 1849 | 28 May 1853 |
| Delenai | BLUNT | Northampton [Sheep St] | watch and clockmaker | 3 Jun 1852 | 13 Jun 1854 |
| William | BLUNT | Ashton | farmer and grazier | 5 Aug 1854 | 19 May 1855 |
| Esther | BOLLARD | Cransley | widow | 18 Jun 1852 | 13 Jul 1855 |
| Thomas | BOLTON | Rushden | yeoman | 30 Jan 1856 | 23 Oct 1856 |
| Elizabeth | BOWERS | Braunston | wife of Richard | 15 Dec 1855 | |
| John | BRAFIELD | Passenham (Puxley) | yeoman | 28 May 1852 | 29 Mar 1853 |
| John | BRAMBLEY | Daventry | shoemaker | 20 Feb 1856 | 12 Sep 1856 |
| Thomas Cherry | BRAWN | Grendon | farmer | 1 Jan 1854 | 17 Dec 1857 |
| Mary | BREEDON | Braunston | widow | 1 Jun 1852 | 14 Apr 1853 |
| Harriet | BRENNAND | West Haddon | wife of John | 18 Mar 1854 | |
| William | BRIGGS | Kettering (Newland St) | shepherd | 7 Jul 1855 | 19 Dec 1856 |
| Charles | BRITTEN | Northampton [the younger] | gentleman, bachelor | 1 Apr 1854 | |
| Edward | BRITTEN | Moulton | parish clerk | 14 Dec 1853 | |
| John | BRITTEN | Burton Lattimer | farmer | 24 Apr 1854 | 30 Dec 1854 |
| Martha | BRITTEN | Great Billing | widow | 14 Apr 1846 | 10 Jan 1855 |
| Bede | BROMWICH | Floore | maltster | 18 May 1853 | 9 Dec 1853 |
| James | BROMWICH | Norton | grazier | 24 Jun 1840 | 29 Oct 1856 |
| Elizabeth | BROTHERTON | Farthinghoe | widow | 4 Jul 1851 | 10 Dec 1855 |
| Mary | BROUGHAM | Northampton (Wellington St) | spinster | 13 Apr 1852 | 16 Apr 1853 |
| John | BROWN | Great Everdon | blacksmith | 4 Dec 1851 | 22 Jan 1853 |
| Joseph | BROWN | Northampton | shop keeper | 8 Feb 1856 | 12 Mar 1856 |
| Robert | BROWN | Horton Inn but late of Guilsborough | inn keeper | 5 May 1853 | 19 Apr 1856 |
| Robert | BROWN | Braunston | farmer | 14 Jun 1856 | 4 Oct 1856 |
| Sarah | BROWN | Northampton | widow | 7 Dec 1821 | 21 Jan 1853 |
| Thomas | BROWN | Greens Norton | cordwainer | 5 Jan 1853 | 29 Mar 1853 |
| John | BUCK | Chacombe | labourer | 18 Apr 1857 | |
| Sarah | BUCKETT | Brackley | widow | 29 Mar 1853 | 5 Dec 1854 |
| John | BUCKLER | Northampton | butcher | 21 Mar 1851 | 15 Apr 1853 |
| William or William Boddington | BUCKNELL | Daventry | baker, but late out of business | 29 Jan 1853 | 11 Nov 1854 |
| Sarah | BULL | Northampton | widow | 9 Oct 1855 | 17 Apr 1856 |
| William | BULL | Moreton Pinkney | yeoman | 5 Aug 1857 | 3 Oct 1857 |
| William | BURCHELL | Towcester | victualler | 27 Dec 1851 | 20 Aug 1853 |
| David | BURDETT | Great Oxendon | grazier | 10 Jul 1855 | 10 Feb 1857 |
| Avrey | BURDITT | Rushton | farmer | 11 Dec 1841 | 30 Sep 1857 |
| Charles | BURGESS | Middleton Cheney | innkeeper | 4 Aug 1853 | |
| Thomas | BURGESS | Higham Ferrers | farmer | 19 May 1848 | 19 Nov 1855 |
| James | BURNHAM | Winwick | grazier | 3 Jul 1844 | 13 Aug 1853 |
| Robert | BURNHAM | Staverton | shoemaker | 21 Jan 1854 | 23 Sep 1854 |
| Thomas | BURNHAM | Staverton | farmer and grazier | 20 Feb 1840 | 3 Nov 1855 |
| John | BURROWS | Northampton | retired eating house keeper | 14 Oct 1851 | 13 Mar 1854 |
| Samuel | BURROWS | Yelvertoft | innkeeper | 13 Nov 1851 | 8 Aug 1853 |
| Charles | BUSWELL | Kettering | plumber and glazier | 10 May 1853 | 15 Feb 1854 |
| John | BUTLIN | Brington (Nobottle) | farmer | 12 Jun 1856 | |
| Martha | BUTLIN | Roade | spinster | 8 Dec 1852 | 5 Oct 1853 |
| Samuel | BUTLIN | Welford | carpenter | 8 Nov 1854 | 10 Jan 1855 |
| Sarah | BUTLIN | Finedon | spinster | 18 Feb 1853 | 22 Jun 1853 |
| Benjamin | CAMPION | Roade | farmer | 2 Apr 1853 | |
| Joseph | CAMPION | Boughton | yeoman | 21 Aug 1852 | 8 Jan 1856 |
| Joseph (the elder) | CAMPION | Abington Lodge | yeoman | 17 Jan 1852 | 17 Nov 1853 |
| Emma Lydia | CANNING | Hellidon | spinster | 25 Jun 1850 | 12 Jul 1856 |
| William | CARLEY | Kettering | grocer | 28 Feb 1853 | |
| Mary | CARR | Brixworth | spinster | 24 Mar 1853 | 28 Dec 1855 |
| John | CARRINGTON | Kettering | architect and building surveyor | 25 Sep 1854 | 28 Mar 1855 |
| Mary | CARTER | Tiffield | single woman | 14 Feb 1850 | 30 Apr 1857 |
| John | CARVIL | of Brackley, formerly Wilbarston | yeoman | 8 Mar 1853 | 9 Jun 1854 |
| William | CATTELL (the elder) | Yelvertoft | farmer and grazier | 17 Dec 1850 | 19 Mar 1855 |
| Ann | CAVE | Warkton | widow | 21 Jul 1847 | 8 Dec 1856 |
| John | CAVE | Northampton, heretofore of Preston Deanery | gentleman, farmer | 30 May 1856 | 22 Jul 1856 |
| Edward | CHAPMAN | Kettering | baker | 26 Jun 1852 | 8 Dec 1857 |
| Mary | CHAPMAN | Wollaston | spinster | 26 Jun 1854 | 2 Apr 1856 |
| Thomas | CHAPMAN | Great Addington | victualler | 24 Aug 1857 | 16 Oct 1857 |
| Daniel | CHARLTON | Wollaston | shopkeeper | 13 May 1829 | 25 Jul 1855 |
| William | CHATER | Rowell | farmer | 18 Aug 1842 | 9 Jul 1856 |
| Benjamin | CHENEY | Rowell | farmer and baker | 13 Oct 1854 | 18 Apr 1856 |
| Josiah | CHENEY | Thorpe Malsor | farmer | 29 Sep 1854 | |
| William Henry | CHERRY | Northampton | victualler | 5 Feb 1834 | |
| Joseph | CHETTLE | Chelveston | farmer | 2 Jun 1857 | 2 Dec 1857 |
| Thomas | CHETTLE | Chelveston | farmer and maltster | 3 Jan 1840 | 18 Feb 1853 |
| Arthur | CHILDS | Ecton | farmer | 8 Jan 1853 | |
| Mary | CLARIDGE | Ravensthorpe | widow | 4 Feb 1852 | 15 Jun 1855 |
| Richard | CLARIDGE | Nether Heyford | farmer | 30 May 1854 | 12 Aug 1854 |
| Hannah | CLARK | Irthlingborough | 7 Jul 1857 | ||
| Susannah | CLARK | Rothwell | spinster | 19 Jan 1854 | 5 Jan 1857 |
| Elizabeth | CLARK | Northampton | widow | 10 May 1853 | 6 Jul 1853 |
| Jane | CLARKE | Northampton | spinster | 26 Dec 1854 | 8 Jun 1855 |
| John | CLARKE | Spratton | labourer | 1 Jun 1854 | 19 Jul 1856 |
| Margaret | CLARKE | Yelvertoft | widow | 2 Feb 1852 | 8 May 1853 |
| Sarah | CLARKE | Cottesbrooke | widow | 14 Feb 1857 | |
| Thomas | CLARKE | Long Buckby, heretofore of Medbourn LEI | grocer, gentleman | 2 Jun 1846 | 30 Apr 1853 |
| William | CLARKE | Rushden | carpenter | 14 Mar 1856 | 7 Jul 1856 |
| Elizabeth | CLAYSON | Creaton | widow | 27 Jun 1857 | |
| Ann | CLEAVER | Daventry | widow | 29 May 1857 | |
| John | CLEAVER | Old or Wold | farmer & grazier | 27 Apr 1857 | 10 Oct 1857 |
| Matthew | CLEAVER | Daventry (The Sheep Market) | plumber and glazier | 26 Jul 1850 | 15 Sep 1856 |
| William | CLEAVER | Woodford cum Membris | labourer | 17 Jun 1854 | |
| Winckles | CLEAVER | Greens Norton | shopkeeper and farmer | 24 Oct 1855 | |
| Martha | COBLEY | Wellingborough | single woman | 21 Jun 1841 | 7 Jun 1853 |
| Sarah | COCKERILL | Hellidon | widow | 19 Feb 1852 | 16 Aug 1853 |
| Sarah | COCKERILL | Northampton | spinster | 6 Nov 1839 | 15 Dec1854 |
| William | COCKERILL | Collingtree | farmer | 24 Feb 1853 | 3 Sep 1853 |
| William | COCKERILL | Collingtree | gentleman | 13 Nov 1854 | 7 Apr 1855 |
| Henry | COLEMAN | West Haddon | draper | 31 Oct 1855 | |
| John | COLEMAN | Long Buckby | grocer | 15 Apr 1852 | 30 Apr 1853 |
| William | COLEMAN | Long Buckby | blacksmith | 17 Apr 1841 | 13 Jun 1857 |
| Jesse | COMPTON | Passenham (Deanshanger) | turner | 19 May 1849 | 2 Mar 1857 |
| Thomas | COMPTON | Earls Barton | tailor | 9 Apr 1851 | 12 Aug 1854 |
| Joseph | COOK | Brixworth | publican | 4 Jul 1851 | 10 Mar 1855 |
| Esther | COOKE | Spratton | grocer, spinster | 21 Jun 1851 | 2 Apr 1853 |
| Isaac | COOKE | Wollaston | victualler | 21 Jan 1853 | 18 May 1853 |
| Mary | COOPER | Hellidon | widow | 6 Aug 1853 | 21 Sep 1854 |
| Mary | COOPER | Daventry | spinster | 26 Feb 1835 | 19 Jul 1856 |
| William | CORBEY | Towcester | tailor | 8 Feb 1855 | |
| William | CORBEY | Towcester | tailor | 9 May 1855 | 6 Dec 1855 |
| William | CORBY | Rothwell | publican & grazier | 17 Nov 1857 | 28 Dec 1857 |
| George | CORNFIELD | Northampton (Black Lion) | malster | 6 May 1842 | 21 Dec 1855 |
| Pearce | CORNFIELD | Northampton | victualler | 8 Nov 1854 | 28 Dec 1854 |
| Jane | CORY | Northampton | wife of Edwin | 24 Jan 1857 | |
| John | COURSE | Wappenham (Ashwell Mill) | miller, widower | 18 Oct 1853 | |
| John | COWLEY | Crick | farmer | 14 Jun 1853 | |
| Ann | COX | Rothwell | widow | 28 Jan 1850 | 21 Jan 1853 |
| Mary Anne | COX | Higham Ferrers | spinster | 31 May 1851 | 25 Nov 1856 |
| Robert | COX | Croughton | builder & publican | 13 May 1857 | |
| William | COX | Hargrave | farmer | 21 Mar 1851 | 19 Jun 1855 |
| William | COX | Northampton | ostler | 10 Oct 1857? | 12 May 1857 |
| Eliza | CRADDOCK | Barton Mill | spinster | 4 Oct 1856 | 10 Oct 1857 |
| Isaiah | CRICK | Northampton (Woolmonger St) | cooper | 21 Nov 1845 | 30 Jan 1854 |
| Joseph | CRICK | Northampton [Victoria Terrace] | cooper | 4 Jan 1850 | 24 May 1854 |
| Jonas | CRISP | of Cottesbrooke | grazier | 11 Nov 1854 | |
| Ann | CROSS | Towcester | widow | 16 May 1851 | 11 Dec 1856 |
| Elizabeth | CRUTCHLEY | Ravensthorpe | wife of John | 30 Jul 1853 | |
| John | CRUTCHLEY | Ravensthorpe | jobber | 23 Feb 1855 | 27 Mar 1856 |
| Ann | CULCHETH | Northampton, Harpole and Creaton | widow | 25 Sep 1848 | 28 Aug 1854 |
| John | CUMBERPATCH | Kingsthorpe | farmer | 5 May 1850 | 22 Mar 1856 |
| Lucy | DANES | Dallington | spinster | Dec 1851 | 26 Apr 1856 |
| William | DANIELS | Weston Favell | victualler | 11 Nov 1852 | 16 Feb 1853 |
| James | DARBYSHIRE | Castle Ashby | yeoman | 28 Jan 1856 | 21 Sep 1857 |
| John | DAVEY | Moreton Pinkney | farmer and grazier | 1 Mar 1851 | 18 Jan 1854 |
| Mary | DAWKINS | Northampton | wife | 13 Mar 1856 | |
| William | DAWKINS | Loddington | mason | 12 Sep 1855 | 4 Oct 1855 |
| Samuel | DEACON | Towcester | gentleman | 1 May 1855 | |
| Richard | DEE | Piddington | shopkeeper | 2 Jul 1855 | 22 Dec 1855 |
| Henry | DENNY | Norton | farmer | 6 May 1856 | 8 Jan 1857 |
| John | DENNY | Brockhall | farmer | 22 Apr 1856 | 11 Oct 1856 |
| William | DEVEREAUX | Daventry (Drayton) | bricklayer | 24 Oct 1838 | 24 Dec 1853 |
| James | DICKINS | Wollaston | labourer | 2 Apr 1853 | 18 Apr 1853 |
| John | DICKINS | Cold Higham | farmer | 9 Aug 1853 | 30 Jun 1855 |
| Samuel | DICKINS | Northampton (Woolpack Inn, Bridge St) | innkeeper | 29 Jul 1853 | 25 May 1857 |
| Elizabeth | DICKS | Isham Lodge | widow | 1 Aug 1857 | |
| James | DICKS | Newnham | gentleman | 22 Nov 1856 | 28 Nov 1857 |
| John | DICKS | Isham Lodge | farmer | 21 Oct 1854 | 13 Dec 1854 |
| John | DICKS | Isham Lodge | farmer | 1 Aug 1857 | |
| Sarah Ann | DICKS | Isham Lodge | spinster | 1 Aug 1857 | |
| William | DIX | Blisworth | shepherd, widower | 5 Apr 1853 | |
| Francis | DODD | Northampton | gentleman | 3 Nov 1853 | |
| Thomas | DODD | Byfield | plumber | 2 Feb 1856 | |
| Samuel | DRAGE | Brixworth | yeoman | 16 Dec 1852 | 19 Feb 1853 |