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Cheeke, Russell Tipping families: Archer of Tanworth

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Copy of probate of the will of Francis Russell of Rolleston in the County of Stafford. The following bequests are made: £100 to his wife, £10 each to William Lord North and Grey, Charles, Katherine and Dudley North, £50 each to his brother and sister Edward Russell and Letitia, late Cheeke now Russell, £300 each to his niece Essex Cheeke and his sister Katherine Harbord, £300 twice [?unintentionally] to his niece Anne Cheeke, £50 each to his niece Letitia Harbord, his nephew Edward Cheeke and Lady Kingston, (Margaret, the widow of Robert King, Baron Kingston (Ireland), was the daughter of William Harbord by his first wife Mary, daughter of Arthur Duck of Grafton, Northants She was therefore not related to the Russells, though a half sister of their niece Letitia Harbord.) daughter of William Harbord, £40 each to William Bridges and William Thornburgh, £10 to Thomas Bacon, £20 to his sister (This was his half sister Hill Brooke, the daughter of his mother Penelope by her second marriage to Sir William Brooke. Francis, Edward, Letitia etc. were the children of her third marriage.) the wife of Sir William Boothby, £10 to Samuel Heathcoate, £50 to Mrs. Elizabeth Lucas, daughter of the late Thomas Lucas, £20 each to Mrs Melone, formerly waiting on Anne Newport the daughter of Lord Newport (Richard Lord Newport married Diana, fourth and youngest daughter of Francis, fourth Earl of Bedford. The Anne Newport mentioned here was thus a cousin of Col. Francis.), and her daughter aged about seven months; these legacies are all to be paid within six months of the opening of the will. All his real estate [unspecified] is bequeathed to his brother Edward Russell, or if the latter should be dead, to his nephew Edward Cheeke; the residue of his personal estate to be divided equally between Letitia Russell, Katherine Harbord, Essex Cheeke and Anne Cheeke. The executors are to be William Bridges, William Thornburgh, Edward Russell, Letitia Russell. Written with his own hand, dated 22 and 23 May 1694. Witnesses: E. Rupert, William De Beauvoir, J.Pigott. Probate granted in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 31 October 1696.