Documents

1754 Will & Probate of Rebecca (Paravicini) Torriano

London, England

18 pages
Dated 17 Apr 1745
Proved 7 Aug 1754

I, Rebecca Torriano of Putney in the county of Surry, Widow

son John Torriano
son Samuel Torriano
son[in-law] Collet Mawhood
daughter Elizabeth Torriano
son George Torriano
daughter-in-law Dorothy Torriano, wife of son George Torriano
granddaughter Dorothy Torriano
daughter Rebecca Mawhood
daughter Elizabeth Torriano
daughter Anne Clarke, husband Edmund Clarke, Esquire
children of Anne Clarke [unnamed]
daughter Charlot Cossins
son Samuel Torriano
daughter Jane Dobson
son-in-law John James Dobson
granddaughter Rebecca Dobson
grandchildren Jane Dobson, Eliza Dobson, John James Dobson, and Judith Dobson
son-in-law Reverend Mr Thomas Kinaston
grandson Peter Gilham
grandchildren Rebecca Gilham and Elianor Gilham (under age 24)

"to daughter Elizabeth Torriano, the diamond ring left to me by my dear sister with one rose diamond"
"to daughter Jane Dobson, the pictures of mine and my husbands and my sister"

codicil dated 8 Jan 1754 – “the legacy that I have bequeathed in my will to my granddaughter Rebecca Gilham upon her decease I [now] give to my grandchildren Peter and Eleanor Gilham to be equally divided between them share and share alike”

[page 17] 6 Aug 1754
"Appeared personally Thomas Hammond of Putney in the county of Surry... maketh oath that he well knew and was acquainted with Rebecca Torriano who died on Saturday last..."

The National Archives (Kew, England), PROB-11-810-204
full Will also digitized at:
Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/5111/images/40611_309919-00158?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Kzt705&_phstart=successSource&pId=673828