SAMUEL HENDER III WILL OF SAINT CLEER

(1767 - 1854)

Transcribed and Anotated by Don R. Hender



This is the will of Samuel Hender (1767-1854). Liberty has been taken in form and capitalization in order to visually make the will more readable and able to be studied for its genealogical information contained in it.


Samuel Hender
B 1767 St. Cleer
C 26 Dec 1768 St. Cleer
Son of Samuel Hender and Jane Stantan/Stanton
M 15 Jan 1796 St. Cleer
Catherine Henwood
D 7 Nov 1854
Br 11 Nov 1854 St. Cleer age 87

Samuel Hender Will:



    This is the last Will and Testament of me Samuel Hender of the parish of Saint Cleer in the County of Cornwall Yeoman

  I give unto my Grand daughter Mary Hender Beaglehole One hundred pounds sterling to be paid to her at the end of one year after my death without interest and her receipt shall be a good discharge to by Executor for the same

  I also give unto my said Grand daughter All that my Dwelling house Garden and premises situate in the said parish of Saint Cleer occupied by William Broad And all that the Moiety or half part of the House used as a Shoemakers Shop in Saint Cleer aforesaid occupied by Thomas Sibly and Richard Chin To hold the same unto my said Grand daughter her heirs executors administrators and assigns

  I give unto my   Grand daughter Catherine Mary Hender Dony One hundred pounds sterling to be paid to her on her attaining to her age of twenty one years with interest for the same at four per cent per annum

  I also give unto the said Catherine Mary Hender Dony All that Dwelling house Garden and premises situate in Saint Cleer aforesaid now or late in the occupation of William Haris Carpenter And also all that the other half part of the Shoemakers Shop aforesaid To hold the same respectively unto the said Catherine Mary Hender Dony her heirs executors administrators and assigns

  I also give unto the said Catherine Mary Hender Dony on annuity or clear yearly sum of Five pounds for and during the term of her natural life the first payment thereof to be made and paid at the end of one year after my death by her guardian hereinafter named for her benefit during the time of her being under age, as he shall think proper And I charge the said Annuity on my farm and lands of Trewellick in Saint Cleer aforesaid

  I give unto my Grand daughter Mary Lander Hender One hundred pounds sterling to be paid to her without interest on her attaining her age of twenty one years

  I give unto my Grand daughter Catherine Jane Hender One hundred pounds sterling to be paid to her on her attaining her age of twenty one years

  I give unto my   Sons in law Richard Pearse and Thomas Dony Five pounds each to be paid within one year after my death without interest

  I give devise and bequeath all my Messuages lands Tenements and hereditaments not by me before disposed of And all the residue of my money securities for w of And all the residue of my money securities for w money good chattels and personal Estate whatsoever subject to the payment of my debts funeral and Testamentary expenses and the Legacies aforesaid Unto and to the use of   my only Son Samuel Hender his heirs executors administrators and assigns And I appoint my said Son whole and sole Executor of this my Will and Guardian of and for my said Grandchildren that shall be under age at my death In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this   fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty four,

                                                                                            Samuel Hender (Seal)

  Signed sealed published and declared by the said Samuel Hender the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request and in his presence have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses ___?___ in the two first ____?____ having been first made-

      Ed Geach
      Thomas Botterell
      Samuel Garland

  In the Archdeaconry In the Goods ? of Samuel Hender late of the parish of Saint Cleer   Court of Cornwall Yeoman deceased Appeared personally Thomas Botterell of the Borough of Liskeard in the County of Cornwall ___?___ and made oath that he is one of the subscribed witnesses to the last Will and Testament of Samuel Hender late of the parish of Saint Cleer Yeoman deceased now hereunto annexed beginning of thus This is the last Will and Testament of me Samuel Hender of the parish of Saint Cleer in the County of Cornwall Yeoman ending this In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty four and thus subscribed Samuel Hender (#) And that this Dep? and Edward Geach and Samuel Garland subscribed witnesses to the same Will were present at the same time when the said deceased on the fourth day of April 1854 wrote and subscribed his name to the dsaid Will, and this De? and the said Edward Geach and Samuel Garland subscribed their names thereto in the presence of the said Testtor and of each other as witnesses thereof

Thomas Botterell On the first day of May 1855 the said Thomas Botterell was duly sworn to the truth of this affidavit at Bodmin in the County of Cornwall Before me John Wallis Official

Proved in Common form the 1st dy of May 1855 before John Wallis Clerk A M Official etc. And Admion of all and singular the Goods & of the said deceased and any way concerning the said Will was granted to Samuel Hender the Son of the said deceased and sole Executor named in the said Will-

Effects sworn under L 1,000 } Being first sworn & Saving & Died 7 Noverm 1854 } P___?__ Wallis Stamp L22- C? Register


AD1925    Estate and family papers, Penrose, Jope and Arwenack estates and lands at Penvose,
          Mawgan in Pydar and Lankeast, St Neot   
AD1925/3  Deeds and other documents, Lankeast, St Neot   

Ref No    AD1925/3/7  
Title     Copy deed declaration of trust 
 
Date      28 Nov 1867 
 
Format    Manuscript 
 
Extent    1 piece 
 
Description  Parties: 1) Thomas Couch and Nicholas Borrow the younger, yeoman, both of St Cleer
                      2) William Marshall, esquire, of Treworgey, St Cleer; Reverend George
                         Poole Norris, clerk, of Roscraddock House; Reginald Rogers, esquire, of
                         Carwinion, Falmouth
                      3) Christoper Childs, gentleman, of Liskeard. 

  Declaration agreeing to the setting up of a bank account in the name of 3)
  containing £200, legacies bequeathed by Samuel Hender the elder to Mary
  Lander Hender and Catherine Jane Hender for them to receive when they
  reach 21. This is being done as 1), the trustees of Samuel Hender the
  younger, have recently sold his real estates, Tremellick and Petta or
  Petto Parks, both in St Cleer parish and Lankeast in St Neot parish to 2).
                     
                      Recites: will of Samuel Hender the elder, yeoman, of St Cleer, deceased
                      proved 1 May 1855; will of Samuel Hender the younger, deceased proved 11th
                      September 1867. Includes receipt of the deposit.

- Of the noted estates Tremellick is noted correctly, but the English Census records and Parish records record the name of the other estate as being 'Pitts or Potts Parks' rather than Petto or Petta Parks. The referred to will is that of Samuel Hender III cited above as proved 1 May 1855 and that the other 'proved' date as of 11 September 1867 is his son's estate in relationship to the deaths and estates of Samuel Hender the younger, son of Samuel Hender III the elder. The two of them referred to as the 'elder' and the 'younger' in the description above. And since the younger Samuel Hender is the only son of the elder Samuel Hender, this does further stand to prove that Mary Lander Hender and Catherine Jane Hender are the first two children and daughters of the younger Samuel Hender and therefore the 'Hender' granddaughters of the elder Samuel Hender as so stipulated in his will as the heirs of 100 pounds each upon their ages reaching that of 21 years. The rest of younger Samuel Hender's children were born after the writing and dating of the will of the elder Samuel Hender. This record is available via the Cornwall Council whose logo is shown - See online.


Addendum Pedigrees


At first quick glance a reading of the will of Samuel Hender may lead one to conclude that there are no male Hender heirs in the future of this Hender family. Other than his 'only son', Samuel Hender leaves everything to his grandchildren, none of which is a male Hender, only female Hender granddaughters. That would be an incorrect conclusion. The will was written 4 April 1854. And while it only names Mary Lander Hender and Catherine Jane Hender as the two daughters of his only son, Samuel Hender, and even though that Samuel Hender is age 51, there are still unborn male Hender sons to be born to Samuel Hender and his wife Catherine Godfrey. There will be at least four such Hender sons at the following pedigrees will reveal, Samuel Henwood Hender 1855, William John Hender 1857, Richard Hender 1860 and Thomas Henry Hender 1861 and/or 1865. And further this will should settle the matter once and for all that Samuel Hender the younger did marry twice, once to Mary Lander by whom Mary Lander Hender was born and obviously still living in 1854, and second he married Catherine Godfrey by whom he had not only the named daughter Catherine Jane Hender but a number of additional children including at least four sons.

These simple line pedigrees are here given for clarification of relationships in the foregoing will of Samuel Hender and his further such descendants. Also given is a 1851 Census picture of the family household make up leading into the making of the will. One final note is that death of Catherine Hender Pearce from St. Cleer burial listings. Quite the melodrama or soapbox airing could be made from the death's and trials of those, of and related to this family of Samuel Hender and Catherine Henwood.





                         Samuel Hender    =    Catherine Henwood  (dau John Hendwood & Mary Jay of St Neot)
                         b1767 St. Cleer  |    bc16Mar1773
                         c26 Dec 1768     |    St Neot
                         m15 Jan 1796     |    Henwood Family
                         d7 Nov 1854      |
                         br11 Nov 1854    |
     _____________________________________|________________________________
    |                 |                  |                |                |               {St. Cleer Burials
Mary Hender      Jenny Hender    Catherine Hender   Samuel Hender   Elizabeth Hender*      {*Mary (Lander) Hender
c3 Mar 1797      c23 Feb 1799    c18 Jan 1801       c5 Jun 1803     c3 Dec 1812            {db23 Sep 1848
d24 Sep 1816     d27 Feb 1799    d13 Apr 1832 a.31  m9 Jul 1846     m25 Jun 1844           {age 32
    19 yrs.                      m                  = Mary Lander*  db14 Oct 1846          {*Elizabeth Doney
                                 = Richard Pearce   | d23 Sep 1848  = Thomas Doney         {db14 Oct 1846
                                 Samuel Hender      Mary Lander     |                      {age 34
                                 Pearce died 1yr     Hender         Catherine Mary
 Note: one source makes          Mary Hender Pearce  c18 Sep 1848   Hender Dony     Doney Tree
 Catherine Godfrey the           = John Bengelhole  = Catherine      c11 Jan 1846
 daughter of William &                 Beaglehole   | [Godfrey]     
 Jane Godfrey b1825               m23 Oct 1851      Catherine Jane***  
                                John Hender         Hender           
                                 Beaglehole         c13 Apr 1852      ___________________________________________________
                                 c25 Dec 1851       Mary Hender       |
                                Absolan Henry       c13 Apr 1852      |
                                  Beaglehole        Samuel Henwood    | Dispite the same christening date for Mary Hender
                                  3Sep 1865          Hender**         | and Catherine Jane Hender, which in another view
                                 Mary Elizabeth      c10 Apr 1855     | might indicate 'twins', grandpa Samuel Hender  
                                  Beaglehole        William John      | could only bequest to then living grandchildren,
                                  c3 Sep 1865        Hender+          | Samuel Henwood not yet born at writing of will.
       ***Catherine Jane Hender                      c27 Sep 1857     | The names alone strongly indicate they are the  
          at age 24 married                         Elizabeth Godfry  | children of Samuel Hender and Catherine -Godfrey-
          Thomas Withycombe                          Hender++         | But as supported by the 1861 Censes (See below)
          6 July 1876 Liskeard                       c27 Sep 1857     | they certainly are, and that despite that the 
        +William John Hender                        Richard Hender    | census records Samuel's age wrongly. These are 
         at age 23 married                           c10 Apr 1860     | last Hender members listed christenings in the
         Maria Annie Pomeroy                        Thomas Henry      | St Cleer registry though it continues to 1903.
         29 December 1880                            Hender           | The same date christening for Catherine and Mary
       ++Elizabeth Godfrey Hender                    c31 Dec 1861     | Hender may be a re-christening of Mary Lander 
         at age 24 married                          Thomas Henry      | Hender, as it does seem unlikely for two Mary
         William Jefford Pooley                      Hender           | Henders of the same family, as Mary Lander Hender
         27 July 1880 Liskeard                       2dc3 Sep 1865    | lives on until her grandfather's writing of his
      +++Annie Hender (see below)                   Annie Hender+++   | will in 1854. All very curious, the will and the 
         at age 24 married                           b 1862a          | census records do tie the family together as
         21 October 1886                             c3 Sep 1865      | does the parish register, despite some seeming
         John Henry Coath                            (belated chr)*   | irregularity.)
        *Both marriage &                                              |
         1881 Census atest                                            |
         a belated chrs.                                              |

The persons whose pedigree and census record names, above and below, are in yellow are those who appear in the above will of 'Grandpa' Samuel Hender (III/Jr). As accurately as possible, they are placed in the pedigree above and by doing so greater details of this family unit are determined. It is Catherine Hender who marries the named son-in-law, Richard Pearce. Catherine first had a son named 'Samuel Hender Pearce', and later, Catherine delivers her and Richard's daughter 'Mary Hender Pearce'. Shortly, in about 5 months of that delivery Cahterine dies and is buried on 13 April 1832 at the age of 31. So does her toddler, Samuel Hender Pearce, at age 1yr, that is a year and some number of months. The baby, 'Mary Hender Pearce' does survive and is living with her 83 year old grandpa, Samuel Hender on the 1851 Census as his Housekeeper. Later in that same year, 1851, Mary Hender Pearce will mary John Beaglehole and she is so written into her grandfather's will as 'Mary Hender Pearce Beaglehole', the surviving daughter of Richard Pearce who is also named in Samuel Hender's will. That is her story and how it is that we can know that Richard Pearce, the son-in-law, had married Catherine Hender, the ill fated daughter of Samuel Hender and Catherine Henwood.

Next is the story of grand daughter Catheriine Mary Hender Dony which is much shorter and easier to follow. She is the daughter of Samuel's and Catherine's daughter Elizabeth Hender, who married Thomas Doney on 25 June 1844 and that's why and how Thomas Dony is named as son-in-law, as is his daughter Catherine Mary Hender Dony, in grandpa Samuel Hender's will. Note below that she is also at the home of grandpa Samuel Hender on the 1851 Census listed below.

That just leaves grandpa's other two grand daughters named in the will. The two daughters of his ONLY SON Samuel Hender. Yes, these two grand daughters are both the daughter of Samuel Hender's only son, Samuel Hender. Yet they are born of two separate mothers. In 1846 Samuel Hender (IV) marries Mary Lander. Mary Lander, wife of Samuel Hender (IV) has a daughter in 1848 named Mary Lander Hender. And then Mary Lander the mother dies in 1848, the same year of 1848 and very possibly in some conjuction with that birth. By the time of the 1851 census Mary (Lander) Hender age 2 is living with her father Samuel Hender and his new wife Catherine, as part of the 1851 census family group just down or up the street from grandpa Samuel Hender where he is living with his other two grand daughters. On the 13th of April 1852, Samuel Hender (IV) and his new wife Catherine have a baby girl they name Catherine Jane Hender. She is the fourth grand daughter named in grandpa Samuel Hender's will. Four grand daughters by four mothers and three husbands as Samuel Hender's only son, Samuel Hender, fathers two of them but by separate wives. It certainly is the cement of such curious real life family facts which the combination of Census, Will and Parish Register comes together in fastening this family group and their ties solidly together.


1851 Census 1861 Census | 1851 Census Enum. Dist. 2c - CP St. Cleer, Folio 137 Page 24 | ED 6 St Cleer Folio 3 Page 1 . Folio 16 Page 28 Tremillick | Pitto Parks Samuel Hender, head W 83 Farmer 44 Acres, St Cleer | Samuel Hender H, 57, Frmr 105 acre Emp 2m 2b, St Cleer Mary H. Pearce, Grndau U 20 Housekeeper, St Ive | Catherine Hender W, 35, Bodmin Eliza Johns, Grnnce 12, Morval | Catherine J Hender, dau, 9, Scholar, St Cleer Catherine M. H. Doney, Grndau 5 , St Clear | Samuel H Hender, son, 7, Scholar, St Cleer folio 137 Page 25 | Elizabeth G Hender, dau, 5, Scholar, St Cleer Pitts Park | William J Hender, son, 3, St Cleer Samual Hender head 46 Farmer, 31 Acres, St. Cleer | Richard Hender, son, 1, St Cleer Catherine Hender wife M 26, Bodmin | Elizabeth Boundy, Serv, U, 17, Childs Maid, St Cleer Mary Hender, dau 2, St. Cleer | Richard Bassett, Serv. 11, Carter, St Cleer Jane Godfrey u 21 Milliner, Bodmin | Benjamin Curry, Serv. 10, Altarnun Maria Truscott, servnt u 18 House Servant, Morval | Richard Moore, servnt u 19 Farm Lab, Duloe | |
1841 Census 1881 Census 1841 Census ED 12 St. Cleer - Book 4 Folio 33 Page 1 | Book 4 Folio 41 Page 16 | Mary A. Congdon H Wid. 52 St Pinnock Pittspark | Samuel H. Hender Soninlaw M 27 St Cleer** Samuel Hender 70 Farmer | Jane C. Hender dau M 26 St Pinnock Catherine Hender 60 | Samuel J Hender gson u 11mo St Pinnock Samuel Hender 30 | Mary A. Congdon dau u 21 St Pinnock Elizabeth Hender 20 | Ellen Penney serv M 16 Dobwalls Mary Pearce 6 | John W. Webber serv U 23 Duloe William Dawe 14 | Thomas B. Harris serv U 19 St Keyne Jane Stantonk, 10 | Thomas Snowden serv U 15 St Cleer

Samuel Henwood Hender son of Samuel Hender and Catherine Godfrey



(1871 Census ED12 Liskeard Folio 45 Page 21)
(1881 Census ED17 St Pinnock Folio131 Page 13)
(1891 Census ED17 St Pinnock Folio 101 Page 6) 
South Bosent St Pinnock/Upton Hall, Linkinhorne
  685
**Samuel Henwood Hender   =   Jane Crago Congdon  (dau. John & Mary Ann Congdon)
  b4th/1853 Liskeard Dist |
  c10Apr1855              |
  St Cleer                |
  m1st/1880               |
  Plymouth, Devon         |
  d2Mar1919               |
  Upton Hall              |
  Linkinhorne             |
  wd19May1919             |
  London                  |
                          |
             _____________|___________________________________
            |                           |                     |
688Samuel John Hender [Farmer]  Mabel Annie Hender   Olive Congdon Hender  
   b16Apr1880                   b3rd1883?            b4TH/1884
   St Pinnock                   St Pinnock           St Pinnock
   Liskeard Dist.               Liskeard Dist.       Liskeard Dist.
   c4Jul1880                    c20Aug1882?
   St Pinnock                   St Pinnock
   m

   =Dorthy Maud Mary
   d22Dec1930
   Upton, Linkinhorne
   wd23Feb1931
   Bodmin


Annie Hender son of Samuel Hender and Catherine Godfrey




+++Annie Hender   =   John Henry Coath
b1863             |   b1856
c3 Sep 1865       |
m1886             |
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           _______|___________________________________________________________________________________________
          |                   |                  |                 |                     |                    |
Charles Hender Coath  Hilda Annie Coath  Phylis Maud Coath  John Claude Coath  Samuel Herbert Coath  George Hender Coath
b1887                 b1888              b1890              b1891              b1893                 b1901
                                                                               m
                                                                               d
                                                                               =Eva Kathleen Morris
                                                                               |b1903
                                                                               | d1997
                                                                               Margaret Elisabeth
                                                                               |Hender Coath
                                                                               |b1926
                                                                               |d1998
                                                                               |=George Henry
                                                                               || Stephen
                                                                               |Robert Stephen
                                                                               Mary Frances
                                                                                Hender Coath
                                                                                b1930
                                                                                =Timothy John
                                                                                  Archer Davis




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