James Inglis



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  • Various newspaper articles from the 1820s refer to a legal dispute between James Inglis and Henry Smith and seek the heirs of Elianor Elkins and Elizabeth Elkins. I suspect the dispute related to Eleanor's 1818 will (in which she made Henry her executor), but a page-check from the The National Archives revealed that the case runs to several hundred large pages and I'm not interested enough to pay such a large sum to obtain copies!

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WHEREAS by a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, bearing date the 17th day of December 1825, made in a cause wherein James Inglis and another are plainti?s, and Henry Smith and others are defendants, it was referred to James William Farrer, Esq, one of the Masters of the said Court, to inquire and state to the Court who was or were the heir or heirs at law of Eleanor Andrews, in the pleadings named, at the time of her death, and who are or is now such heirs or heir at law. - The heir or heirs at law of the said Eleanor Andrews, formerly Elkins, late Housekeeper to Samuel Yew, late of Leigh, in the Parish of Westbury, in the County of Wilts, Esq. deceased (who was the daughter of William Ilkince and Mary his wife, formerly Mary Ball, Spinster, was married to Richard Andrews, Widower, late of Amesbury, in the County of Wilts, on the 23d of November 1758, and was buried on the 5th of April 1769, at Westbury, in the County of Wilts), at the time of her death, and who are or is now such heirs or heir at law, are, on or before the 2d day of May next, to come in before the said Master, at his Cham- bers, in Southampton-Buildings, Chancery-Lane, London, and prove their heirship and make out their claims, or in de- fault thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree.

WHEREAS by a Decree in the High Court of Chancery, bearing date the 17th day of December 1825, made in a cause wherein James Inglis and another are plaintiffs, and Henry Smith and others are defendants, it was referred to James William Farrer, Esq. one of the Masters of the said Court, to inquire and state to the Court who was or were the heir or heirs at law of Elizabeth Elkins, otherwise Yew, other- wise Edwards, in the pleadings named, at the time of her death, and who are or is now such heirs or heir at law. - The heir or heirs at law of the said Elizabeth Elkins (who was the natural daughter of Samuel Yew, late of Leigh, in the Parish of Westbury, in the county of Wilts, Esq. deceased, on the body of Eleanor Andrews, formerly Elkins, late Housekeeper to the said Samuel Yew, and who afterwards was married, about the month of October 1769, to John Edwards, formerly of Saint-Mary-le-Bone, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. now deceased, after which marriage, when publicly known, the said Elizabeth Elkins went by the name of Elizabeth Edwards, and many years afterwards assumed the name of Elkins, in- stead of Edwards, and was buried on the 15th of January 1819, in the Independent Burying-Ground, in the Parish of Walcot, in the county of Somerset), living at the time of her death, are, on or before the 2d day of May next, to come in before the said Master, at his Chambers, in Southampton-Buildings, Chancery-Lane, London, and prove their heirship and make out their claims, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree.

Source: The London Gazette, Friday April 17 1829

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