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Note: Baptism on IGI no source given In fathers Will 1708. Left land in Great Bardfield,, Wetherfield, Steeple Bumpstead, Shalford, Panfield and Finchingfield. Of Harfield Hall. Have Will 1742 - of Birdbrook. Description Will of Thomas Walford of Birdbrook , Essex ( Born Abt 1685) Date 02 November 1742 Catalogue reference PROB 11/722 Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Series Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers Piece Name of Register: Trenley Quire Numbers: 330 � 371 Above is the Will of Thomas Walford who Married to Mary Baggs, the son of James Walford and Grace (Bowtle) Boutle. It 4 pages long of slightly difficult to read handwriting. It is VERY repetitive. basically for the most part if his daughter MARY is a good girl and obeys her mother MARY she gets loads of money. If not an allowance paid a few times a year of about �20. His Son THOMAS is mentioned as His Late brother JOHN WALFORD LATE FATHER (died 1708) His BROTHER JAMES WALFORD (of Birdbrook) and SISTER SUSANNA WALFORD. If there was an Eliza born to this family she must have died before 1741 as not mentioned in the Will. Thomas, the eldest son, (who married Mary Baggs, of Norwich, daughter of Baggs, Esq. governor of Cape Coast Castle,) likewise resided at Harsted Hall; he was many years in the commission of the peace for this county, and an active magistrate. To him the public were obliged for assisting in convicting the noted robber Turpin, who was taken up at York for shooting a game cock, and lodged in the castle of that city, by the name of Palmer, his wife's maiden name, which was the name he usually assumed. After he was committed to the castle, he wrote to his brother-in-law, to inform him of his situation, and requesting assistance, but the postage of the letter being eight-pence, his father refused taking it; a person in the house at the time, observing the hand-writing, said it came from his son, and, if he would permit him, he would pay the postage and take the letter, -which was granted. When he had perused the contents, he carried it to Mr. Walford, the nearest acting magistrate, who sent for the schoolmaster that taught Turpin to write, and also for another person, who was well acquainted with him and his hand- writing. After they had proved the writing to be his, Mr. Walford sent them to York at his own expense, to identify his person, for which act he received a very handsome letter of thanks from the magistrates of York. When they first entered the castle, Turpin pretended not to know them, but soon found it necessary to acknowledge himself. When it was known that he was the famous Turpin, a number of other detainders were lodged against him, and he was executed at York. Mr. Walford died at Harsted Hall, 1741, aged fifty-five, and was buried at Finchingfield; he left issue one son and one daughter, Thomas and Mary.
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