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About Frances Cotton
- 'Genealogical gleanings in England (1901) Vol. 1
- http://www.archive.org/details/genealogicalglea01byuwate
- http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalglea01byuwate#page/35/mod...
- Sir George Downing of East Hatley, in the County of Cambridge, Knight and Baronet; 24 August, 1683, with codicil added 7 July, 1684; proved 19 July, 1684. My body to be interred in the vault which I have made uuder the chancel at Crawden, alias Croyden, in the county of Cambridge, by the body of my wife Frances. Son George Downing, Esq., and son William named. Houses in or near King Street, in the city of Westminster, lately called Hampden House, which I hold by long lease from the Crown, and Peacock Court there, which I hold by lease from the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ; all which are now demolished and rebuilt, or rebuilding, and called Downing Street. To Edward Lord Viscount Morpeth and Sir Henry Pickering,* Baronet, my son-in-law, in trust, &c. Bequests to sons Charles and William Downing, and to three daughters, Lucy, Mary and Anne, at age of twenty-one years or day of marriage. The guardianship and custody of the persons of these three daughters entrusted to my dear 'daughter Frances Cotton. Bequests to daughter Cotton's children, Francis, John and Thomas', and to Elizabeth and Frances, the two daughters of my late daughter Pickering deceased ; also to nephew John Peters, niece Lucy Spicer, nephew Joshua Downing and Mr Edmond Woodroffe, one of my clerks in my office in the Exchequer. Hare, 139.
- * This Sir Henry Pickering was son and heir of Sir Henry Pickering of Whaddon, who was created a Baronet 2 January, 1660. He was of Barbados in 1695, and had two wives, Philadelphia, daughter of Sir George Downing, by whom he had two daughters, Mary and Anne (who both died without issue), and secondly, Grace, daughter of Constant Silvester, Esq. (See Reg. xxxvii. 385.) At his death, iu 1705, the title became extinct. (See Add. MS. 24493, British Museum.)— H. F. W.
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