This is the last Will and Testament of me Sarah Elizabeth Jepson of
Black Rocks View Middleton By Wirksworth Derbyshire made this
seventeenth day of February in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and forty four
I hereby revoke all wills made by me at any time heretofore..
I appoint Albert Bertram Farnsworth of Duke Street Middleton By Wirksworth
and John Wigley of New Road Middleton By Wirksworth to be my Executors
and direct that all my Debts and Funeral Expenses shall be paid as soon as
conveniently may be after my decease
I give and bequeath unto Mr Albert Bertram Farnsworth £25.00 and £25.00
to Mr John Wigley and £20.00 to Mrs Kathleen Flint
I also give and bequeath to my neice Alice Moore £10.00 and one ring and
wearing apparel and the piano
I also give and bequeath to my neice Audrey Moore £10.00 and one ring,
and ten pounds each to my nephews Norman and Arthur Moore.
I also give and bequeath Twenty Pounds to Mrs Edith Kneebone and my desk
to her son Dennis Kneebone
To my friend Miss Doris Walker I give and bequeath my Tea Service and
Cut Glass Sugar Basins and Pickle Jars
House and all Furniture to be sold by Auction
After all my debts have been paid including payment for a Black and Grey
Marble stone over my grave The Rest of my personal estate to be given to
the Trustees of Middleton Mount Zion Methodist Church towards the building
of a new Sunday School AND FOR NO OTHER PURPOSE
Signed Sarah E Jepson
Witnesses Rev John H Robertshaw The Manse Derby Road Wirksworth
Marion Rose Flint Rise End Middleton Housewife
Footnotes by S Flint
Albert Bertram Farnsworth was my Headmaster at Middleton Junior School
1940s He was also cousin to my sister in law Jennifer Flint nee
Farnsworth's father James Farnsworth Mr Farnsworth also taught my mother
Mr John Wigley was a member of Mount Zion Methodist Church when I attended
the Chapel in my youth. I began at age 16 years as a choristor in
Mount Zion Choir standing alongside Mr Wigley and Mr Arthur Milner his in law
My mother was Kathleen Flint one of the beneficiaries of the will..
She and my Aunt Doris Walker mother's sister also mentioned, were
Trustees at Mount Zion the church built by my Walker family 1905/06 my
Grandfather John Walker son of Joseph Walker who founded the firm in the
1840s (Joseph married 3 times his last wife Martha nee Sheldon my Grt
Grandmother) being the Master Joiner who built most of the pews choir
stalls organ casings and all wood accessories.
Grandfather was a Local Preacher in the Circuit his wife Annie nee
Cauldwell Sunday School Superintendent..
both founding Trustees of the church previously Trustees at The Jubliee
Primitive Methodist Church now the site of a housing estate known as
Chapel Croft near Zion Church
The Moore family mentioned were distant kin of my wife
The Mrs Kneebone and son Dennis mentioned lived next door to my
father's Shop at Middleton Mr Dennis Kneebone was Manager at Middleton
Co Operative Shop Main Street Middleton in the 1960s up to the Co Ops
in the Wirksworth district being sold . Mr Kneebone then gained employment
at Bryan Donkins Ltds Lumsdale Matlock where I also worked in the same
period as a Fitter making gas components, regulators and govenors
Marion Rose Flint nee Walters one of the witnesses was my Aunt, wife of
my Uncle William James Flint.. Mr Robertshaw the Methodist Minister
lived at The Manse Derby Road just below my home today, The Manse built
by my Grandfather's family re Joseph Walker & Sons as was Wirksworth
Baptist Church as was Middleton Mount Zion Methodist Church..an allied
member of the Walker family have recently purchased The Manse on it
being sold, the Wirksworth Circuit being now part of Matlock Methodist
Circuit
Regards S G Flint
P.S. Mount Zion Methodist Church Middleton closed as such in recent
years now in the process of being renovated into a house
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