Jane (Le Chevalier) Howman (1768-1846)

EXCERPTS from the Will of Jane (Le Chevalier) Howman
Daughter of Peter Le Chevalier (1742-1806)
Sister of Peter Le Chevalier (1780-1809)

Copied and Transcribed from a film in The Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT
by Eileen Cox, 2008

This Will is important because it proves that Peter Le Chevalier is of this family.
We have not been able to find his christening record which would state his parents.

Jane Le Chevalier, christened 22 Jun 1768, in Avening, Gloucestershire, England,
daughter of Peter and Anne Le Chevalier
Married 30 Mar 1802 to John Howman, Crudwell, Wiltshire, England

9 July 1846
HOWMAN Jane
This is the last Will and Testament of me Jane Howman of Winchcomb in the County of Gloucester Widow

I give devise and bequeath unto my respected Friends George Cook the elder and George Cook the younger both of Wood Stanway in the County of Gloucester Gentlemen
All those ... messuages or tenements with the gardens and appurtenances to the same respectively belonging and situate lying and being in the North Street of Winchcomb aforesaid and now in the ... occupation of William Smith Palmer and John --akman together also with all and singular my ready money for and other personal property of every description except my wearing apparel To hold my said three messuages or tenements with their appurtenances and personal property [and sell them] within twelve calendar months next after my decease ...

and divide the same equally unto and between my seven neices [sic] and nephews
Ann Catherine and Maria the three children of my Brother Peter Le Chevalier,
Caroline, Thomas and Francis the three children of my late Brother Frances LeChevalier,
and Augusta the daughter of my Brother Thomas Le Chevalier
equally to be divided between them share and share alike I give and devise unto my Nephew David Harvey of Winchcomb aforesaid—
butcher and his three sisters Ann the wife of David Harvey of Birmingham butcher,
Jane the wife of Isaac Wakefield of Birmingham Draper and
Sarah Harvey

Jane Howman, 16 Jun 1838

Witnesses: Edm. T Brown Jos. Sandford ____ Winchcomb, 3rd October 1840

Proved 9th July 1846 by George Cook the elder and George Cook the younger. Sub 2oo pounds
Testatrix died 6th June 1846

Definitions:
Messuage. A messuage is a dwelling house together with its own buildings, attached garden ground, and the surrounding land.
Appurtenences. Items that belong to another thing, such as yards and gardens belong to a building.
Assigns. Assignees, or those to whom property is transferred or those entrusted with the distribution of property or other legacies in a will.
Close. A field or piece of land separate from others or from common land and enclosed by a bank or hedge.