Rev Robert INGRAM [11318]

  General Notes:

Robert was Vicar of Wormingford and Boxted, Essex the 6th son of Ralph Ingram and Ann Gale.

The Will of Robert Ingram of Beverley
In The Name of God Amen. I Robert Ingram of Beverley in the County of York, being of sound & disposing mind & memory, Thanks be to Almighty God for the same Do make this my Last Will & Testament in manner following ~ First I commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God, & my Body I Commit to the Earth to be decently interred at the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named, & as to what worldly estate It shall please God to Blefs me with, & which I have a right to dispose of over and above what is settled on my Wife at our marriage I Give & dispose of thereof as followeth, that is to say my just debts & Funeral Expenses being First paid a satisfied I give unto my loving Wife Theodosia Ingram the sum of five hundred Pounds over & above what is so settled upon her, for & as her jointure as aforesaid to her own use Disposal & Benefit for ever provided she live & continues a Widow & unmarried. But in case my said Wife shall marry Again Then at her own request & desire I give her only one Hundred Pounds part of the said five Hundred Pounds, & the remaining Four Hundred Pounds I give unto my children as shall be living at the Time of my decease Equally to be Divided Between them share & share alike if more than one if But one to that one only. I also Give to my said Wife all my Plate jewels Linnen Household Goods to her own use for ever. Except as hereinafter is excepted That is to say I give to my son Gascoigne my Gold Watch Chain & seal immediately after my deceafse & after my said wife's deceafse I give to my said son Gascoigne (which was given to him by his Grandfather Mr Joseph Gascoigne) the silver Tea Pott to be for his own use after my said Wife's decease, as afore said Also I give to my said son Robert my Library of books, & the monthly Clock after my wife's decease also I confirm to my Daughter Theodosia the Gift I lately made her of a Gold Watch & Chain Tweezer Cafe & ear rings which she now hath & bears. Also I give to my brother James Shayler & to my niece Sarah Shayler to each of them ten guineas a piece for mourning & I give into my Sister Ingram the like sum of ten guineas for mourning also I give to ten poor widows that now are or have been Inhabitants of the said Town of Beverley to each of them one guinea being such as my said wife shall think proper objects of charity all the rest & residue of my estate both real and personall whatsoever & wheresoever not settled on my said marriage as aforesaid I give & bequeath to all my children as shall be living at the time of my decease equally to be divided between them share & share alike if more than one or if but one I give the same to that only & my mind & will is that if any of my Children shall happen to dye before he or she or they attain their age of one & twenty years or if daughters before her or their day or days of marriage of one & twenty years which shall first happen should then by her or theirs part or share of the said four hundred pounds, & of the residue of my Estate so given to them as aforesaid shall go & be divided to & amongst the survivor or survivors of them in equal shares & proportions if more than one & I do hereby order constitute & appoint my said loving wife Theodosia Ingram full & sole executrix of the my last Will during her widowhood but in case my said wife shall marry again then immediately from & after such her marriage I do desire nominate & appoint Henry Neal Esqre James Hanway Gent & Thomas Ball the Trustees in my said marriage settlement to be the executors of this my Will & Guardians of my Children & disannulling & making void all other or former Will or Wills at anytime heretofore by me made I do declare this to be my last Will & Testament contained in this one sheet of Paper ~
In witnefs whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seal the Twenty seventh day of June in the year of our Lord 1760
Robt Ingram Signed Sealed published & declared by the Testator for & as his las Will & Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnefses in the presence of the said Testator
John fford Christopher Lillien Jas Shayler
Ref: RWS Family Tree - Ancestry
Dear reader this rather poorly transcribed Will has been copied into Robert's file from Ancestry Family Trees as it may be of help to a researcher. How it can display a date of 1760 when the death date in the Tree is 1742 is moot!

  Research Notes:

Ingram family records DDX 1637/6
These documents are held at Lancashire Record Office
Copy of the will of Robert Ingram of Beverley, Yorkshire, gent., original dated 27 Jun. 1740 DDX 1637/6/1 n.d. [c.1870]
Copy of the will of Matilda Ingram of Chatburn, widow, dated 30 Aug. 1853, with codicil dated 19 Apr. 1856, n.d. [watermark 1856] DDX 1637/6/2 1853, 1856
Ingram family tree showing descent from John Ingram of Bucknall, Lincs., to Matilda Ingram DDX 1637/6/3 n.d. [c.1870]
No further details Newscutting concerning the death of Rev Robert Ingram, vicar of Christ Church, Chatburn DDX 1637/6/4 n.d. [c.1879]
"Hymns to be sung at the funeral of the Reverend Robert Ingram"; (printed) DDX 1637/6/5 1879
Other Ingram family records - copies of wills, register entries, pedigrees, memorial inscriptions etc DDX 1637/6/6 n.d. [c.1870]
Ref: National Archives London

Tom Robinson writes of Robert in 2020 concerning a link with the Ingram's of Newsome House Leeds:
1. Gentleman's magazine obit of 1804 stated "Mr Ingram was of the same family that was enobled in 1661 by the title Irvine. We believe he was of an older branch and nearly allied to the title".

2. The Reverend Robert Ingram vicar of Wormingford, stated that he was from an earlier senior line and that he had been offered the title when the last Lord Irvine died in 1778, but he turned it down because "I can not afford it".

Robert spouse unknown Theodosia GASCOIGNE [4692] [MRIN: 3785], daughter of Joseph GASCOIGNE [20486] and Unknown, on 12 Jun 1721 in St Stephen Walbrook LND. (Theodosia GASCOIGNE [4692] was born in 1698, died on 29 Apr 1770 in Humshaugh NBL and was buried on 3 May 1770 in Thockerington NBL.)