William ALSTON [6425]

  General Notes:

Pavenham
Baptisms 1710 Bishops Transcripts
William of William & Elizabeth Alston June 11th

Worcestershire Record Office:
Berington Collection
Catalogue Ref. 705:24
Creator(s):
Berrington family of Malvern, Worcestershire
FILE [no title] - ref. 705:24/953 - date: 11 July 1736
[from Scope and Content] Counterpart of indenture between Anne Alston, widow of William Alston late of Pattenham otherwise Pavenham, Beds., gent., deceased, Frances Alston, spinster, one of the sisters of the said William Alston, John Lord of Merston Moreton [Marston Moretaine], Beds., clerk, Mary, his wife, sister of the said William Alston, Sir Henry Liddell of Ravensworth Castle, co. Durham, bart., George Liddell of the parish of St. Paul Covent Garden [London], Esq,, Charles Sanderson of the Middle Temple, London, gent., Letitia Stockdale, spinster, daughter of Christopher Stockdale late of Bilton Park, Yorks., Esq., deceased, by Elizabeth Stockdale, his wife, deceased, and Robert Broome of St. Martin Le Grand [St. Martin's-Le-Grand, London], distiller, being a mortgage of 2 closes of pasture and appurtenances in Pavenham, being a piece of meadow ground in Eland Meadow called the Great Berry Dole between the ground late of Thomas Alston on the east and of the late Thomas Gilbert on the west; a close of pasture called Hall Close next to the Church Lane on the east, Hall Green on the west and Berryfield on the north; a close of pasture called Berryfield between the grounds of the late Sir Thomas Alston called Newfield on the west and Gills Lane on the east; closes of pasture called Parradice, Homestall and Meals Close between the said Berryfield on the west and the highway leading from Pavenham to Felmersham on the east and the common fields next to Felmersham on the north; 2 closes of pasture called over End Close and Lacks Close between Parradice Close on the south and the common field land on the north; arrable land called Wallers Wood Peice between Odell Balkes on the east and Wallers Wood balkes on the west; and arrable land called Warners Over End Peice. Witnesses: Coates Browne, Ralph Hilton. Seal. Consideration: L2,300 10s.
Ref A2A

Pavenham
Buried 1736
William Alston Attorney at Law April 26

William Alston of Pavenham died on 23rd April, 1736; he bequeathed his estate to his wife Ann for life, it was to be sold after her death, and the proceeds divided between Mary of the Revd. John Lord, and Frances, wife of Nehemiah Brandreth, the two sisters of William Alston. Ann Alston died in September 1741.
Ref: Bedfordshire Record Office (Joseph Tucker Burton Alexander estate deeds Pavenham Bury)

In the Will below the testator William names Vere Alston as his father, Lord his brother and Browne his father.
Cresswell was unwilling to include this man as Vere's son, as he is correctly his stepson and second cousin once removed. Browne is his father-in-law and Lord his brother-in-law.

William has been placed son of William and Elizabeth meanwhile on the evidence of his sisters Frances & Mary? and the above baptism entry.

  Other Records

1. William Alston: Will, 24 Mar 1733/34, Pavenham BDF.
THE WILL of WILLIAM ALSTON of Pavenham
Dated 24 March 1735
William Alston of Pavenham in the County of Bedford Gentleman bequeaths to his wife Anne Alston all his Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements, all the goods and chattels belonging to said wife before her marriage with testator, and the use during her lifetime of all other his goods and chattels.
Also I give to my father Mr Vere Alston and his wife, and his two daughters my sisters L10 each to buy mourning.
Also I give to my two own sisters and brother Lord L10 apiece for mourning.
Also I give to my father Browne and wife and brother and sister Coates¹ and Elizabeth Browne L10 each for mourning.
To sister Elizabeth Browne L20.
To brother Coates Browne¹ all his books.
Debts, legacies and funerall expenses to be paid out of his real estate, the Heirs at law to raise money by mortgage, particularly the L300 a piece given to them by testator's father's will . . . . . the wife to join in such mortgage.
The real estate left to his wife for her life, at her death to be sold and the proceeds to be equally divided between "my two sisters Frances and Mary and their heirs".
Appoints Anne Alston the wife sole executrix.
To kinsman Thomas Alston L5.
To father Mr Alston the History of the Bible.
Signed William Alston
Witnesses Ed Coock Daniel Hipwell Mark Warner
Proved 12th November 1736 by Anne Alston, Relict.
Ref Derby 232 PROB 11/680 Q232
Alstoniana Pg 135

Footnote:
1. The IGI records a Coates Brown married Mary Edgley at Milton Ernest (next village to Pavenham) 16 April 1765

William married Mrs Ann BROWN [6426] [MRIN: 2152] on 21 Mar 1732/33 in Eastern Maudit Northampton. (Mrs Ann BROWN [6426] died in 1741.)