John AMBROSE [134]

  General Notes:

Essex Record Office D/DJ 20/58
DEEDS OF BRAISWICK FARM, MILE END, LEXDEN, COLCHESTER AND GREAT HORKESLEY
Dates of Creation6 August 1855
Scope and Content:
Mortgage in fee for L3,600 John Ambrose of Copford, esq. to Charles Liveing of Camberwell, (co.Surr.), esq., Revd. Henry Thomas Liveing of Bedfont, (co.Middx.), clerk, and Robert Liveing Fenn of Camberwell, (co.Surr.), gent.
Messuage of farmhouse called Brazewick alias Braizewick Farm with appurtenances and lands containing (with site of farmhouse and buildings) 119a. 2r. 38p. and inc. Green Field (1a. 2r. 31p.), Garden alias Pest Field (6a. 0r. 36p.), Carpet Field (8a. 0r. 24p.), Kiln Field (13a. 1r. 16p.), Park Field (12a. 3r. 16p.) (Kiln Field (13a. 1r. 16p.), Park Field (12a. 3r. 16p) (Kiln Field and Park Field having been formerly six fields called Kiln Field, 5a., Little Kiln and Coal Heath Fields, 5a. 2r. 11p., Park Field, 4a. 0r. 17p., Middle Field, 6a. 0r. 15p., and Long Five Acres, 4a. 2r. 4p., swith parcel of land called The Chase, or the enclosed lane, having been added to Park Field), Upper Gravel Pit Field (8a. 0r. 38p.), Lower Gravel Pit Field (7a. 2r. 34p.), Wicket Field (5a.) (formerly containing 4a. 3r. 30p. but enlarged with a portion of The Chase); Long Six Acres (6a. 0r. 23p.), Lodge Field (9a. 3r. 16p.) (formerly two fields called Great Lodge Field, 5a. 0r. 6p., and Little Lodge Field, 4a. 3r. 10p.), Round Field (5a. 1r. 29p.), Broom Field (10a. 1r. 18p.) (formerly two fields called Broom Field, 7a., and The Grove, 3a. 1r. 18p.); Gally Field (7a. 0r. 24p.) (formerly two fields called Little Gally Field and Great Gally Field (7a. 0r. 24p.) (formerly two fields called Little Gally Field and Great Gally Field), Stubb Field (4a. 3r. 34p.) and Potters Field (10a. 1r. 9p.) (formerly two fields called Great Potters Field and Little Potters Field), all lying wihin a ring fence in Mile End and Lexden, Colchester, formerly in successive occ. of Bezaleel Bloomfield, James Stevens, Henry Vince, Richard Richardson Mills and Samuel Daniell and now of John Wright; portion of Carpet Field, abutting on property as above on S. and W. and lands of the corporation of Colchester on N. and E., in Mile End, Colchester Subject to an existing lease to John Wright at an annual rent of L80 Interest 4.5 % annually Recites: (a) conveyance as in D/DJ 20/32 to uses to bar dower with ultimate limitation to use of John Ambrose and his heirs; (b) that mortgatees have advanced the principal sum frm a joint account
Witnesses: William Barnett, National Debt Office, gent., John P. Tinsley, clerk to Messrs. Beaumont and Thompson, solicitors, 19 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Endorsed: 29 Jan 1869 Reconveyance in trust (i) Revd. Henry Thomas Liveing of Bedfont, (co.Middx.), clerk, and Robert Liveing Fenn of Camberwell, (co.Surr.), gent.; (ii) Revd. Henry Thomas Liveing of Bedfont, (co.Middx.), clerk, Revd. John Ambrose of Copford, clerk and Edward Liveing of 52 Queen Anne St.,Cavendish Sq., (co. Middx.), Doctor of Medicine; (iii) Henry Goody of Colchester, gent.
Property as above To (iii) to use of (ii) in fulfilment of terms of will of Julia Ambrose, decd. Recites: (a) that Charles Liveing as above died 29 March 1858; (b) will, 13 August 1853, of John Ambrose devising all his estate to wife Julia Ambrose and appointing her sole execx.; (c) that John Ambrose died 26 February 1859 and his will was proved 7 May 1859; (d) will, 15 February 1864, of Julia Ambrose, devising property as above to (ii), her erors., in trust for sale; (e) that Julia Ambrose died 14 February 1868 and her will was proved 9 June 1868; (f) that mortgage principal and interest have been discharged Witnesses: Mary Kate Liveing, 52 Queen Anne St., Cavendish sq., London W., Alexander Campbell, clerk to Messrs. Beaumont, Thompson and Beaumont, 23 Lincoln's Inn Fields

Essex Record Office D/DJ 20/66
DEEDS OF BRAISWICK FARM, MILE END, LEXDEN, COLCHESTER AND GREAT HORKESLEY
Dates of Creation25 June 1869
Scope and Content:
Conveyance for L2,000 Revd. Henry Thomas Liveing of Tansor, (co. Northants.), clerk, Revd. John Ambrose of Copford, clerk and Edward Liveing of 52 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, to Augustus Albert Smith of Northwood House, Upper Norwood, (co. Surr.), gent.
3 plots of land (28 a. 0r. 19p.) in Mile End, Colchester Stipulates that widow of purchaser shall not be entitled to dower Recites: (a) that property was conveyed to John Ambrose (now deceased) as in D/DJ 20/56; (b) mortgage as in D/DJ 20/58; (c) recitals as in reconveyance endoresed on D/DJ 20/58; (d) that property was reconveyed as in endorsement on D/DJ 20/58 Marginal plan and schedule of property
Witnesses: Mary Kate Liveing, 52 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London W., F.H. Newell, solicitor, Colchester, William Howard of Woodgate, Wellington, (co. Som.)

Essex Record Office D/DJ 20/65
DEEDS OF BRAISWICK FARM, MILE END, LEXDEN, COLCHESTER AND GREAT HORKESLEY
Dates of Creation25 June 1869
Scope and Content:
Conveyance of L6,000 Revd. Henry Thomas Liveing of Tansor, (co. Northants.), clerk, Revd. John Ambrose of Copford, clerk and Edward Liveing of 52 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, to Augustus Albert Smith of Northwood House, Upper Norwood, (co. Surr.), gent.
Messuage, farm and lands called Upper Braiswick (91a. 3r. 27p.), in Mile End, Colchester Stipulates that widow of purchaser shall not be entitled to dower Recites: (a) that property was conveyed to John Ambrose (now deceased) as in D/DJ 20/56; (b) mortgage as in D/DJ 20/58; (c) recitals as in reconveyance endoresed on D/DJ 20/58; (d) that property was reconveyed as in endorsement on D/DJ 20/58 Marginal plan and schedule of property
Witnesses: Mary Kate Liveing, 52 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London W., F.H. Newell, solicitor, Colchester, William Howard of Woodgate, Wellington, (co. Som.)

JOHN AMBROSE
Birth year1790
Death year1859
Age69
Burial 7 Mar1859
Place St Michael & All SaintsCOPFORD
CountyEssex
National Burial Index for England & Wales

  Medical Notes:

John is recorded on the 1851 Census as being deaf.

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 7 Jun 1841, Copford ESS. John is recorded as married aged 50 a farmer born ESS

2. Census: England, 30 Mar 1851, London Turnpike Rd Copford. John is recorded as head of house married aged 61 a farmer & brickmaker of 480 acres employing 65 men and boys born Copford ESS. John is recorded as being deaf.

3. John Ambrose: Will, 13 Aug 1853, Copford ESS.

John Ambrose died 26 Feb 1859 his Will dated 13 Aug 1853 devising all his estate to his wife Julia, his sole executrix, proved 7 May 1859. Witness's Jas Beaumont Lincolns Inn Fields & James Scott Copford.

Ambrose John 7 May 1859. The Will of John Ambrose late of Copford in the County of Essex farmer deceased who died 26 February 1859 at Copford aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by the oath of Julia Ambrose of Copford aforesaid Widow the Relict and the sole Executrix. Effects under £9000
Ref: National Probate Calendar.

4. Ambrose Family: Notes by Edward Liveing, 1870.
Ambrose Family of Copford Essex.
Deaths on Tomb May 1888.

John Ambrose, only son of William Davis and Charlotte Ambrose. 26 February 1859 aged 69.
"Be ye ready ye"
I know him to have been a kind and good man and I believe a force . . . . . (for good?)

Julia Ambrose (wife of the above and elder daughter of Capt Thomas Liveing of Harwich owner and master of the well-known continental postal packets there until they were bought by the Govt and made a Department of the Navy, and Mr Liveing's son William, Capt William Liveing, was given a Lieut's Commission and . , . . . to command them first at Holyhead and afterwards at Weymouth - where he retired and on a pension paid thro ye post office till his death)
Died 14 February 1868 aged 80 years. As true and good a woman as ever lived

Elizabeth Ambrose (only child of the above Capt William Liveing by Luisa (nee Orgee) his wife, and wife of the following - loving, true, and very affectionate and highly intellectual and cultured but jealous to a fault) Died February 25 1874 aged 50 "Renew my will from day to day" put on by her husband . . . . . (Verse of Hymn Anct & Mod) ?

Rev John Ambrose M.A. (Formerly Rector of Trimley St Martin - retired on his father's death - husband of ye above) Died 1 April 1888 aged 67. With not my education "He taught the people knowledge" Eccl XII. 9.

It is rather uncertain what are Edward's personal comments?

John married Julia LIVEING [119] [MRIN: 35], daughter of Commander Thomas LIVEING R N [230] and Harriet HARROLD [231], on 26 Mar 1819 in Dover Court Harwich. (Julia LIVEING [119] was born on 8 Jun 1787 in Harwich ESS, baptised on 12 Sep 1787 in St Nicholas Harwich ESS and died on 14 Feb 1868 in Copford ESS.)