Mary Tuckey, spinster, died in 1837, before the advent of photography, and how I wish there was an image of her.
I can imagine her seated at her dressing table beside the carved worked bed with the embroidered quilt, vallance and curtains. Or posed at the desk where she conducted her business and considered the property up for sale in Old Shaw Lane.
There maybe a portrait in oil, prized in some distant descendants collection. Maybe a miniature hanging on a long golden chain. Who knows?
Mary Tuckey was born in 1757, the second daughter and last child of Richard and Joanna Tuckey.
In April 1834 she wrote her Will at Shaw House, the property left to her brother Thomas in their father's Will where she had lived with her mother Joanna.
Mary died a wealthy woman, leaving property and parcels of land across the parishes of Lydiard Millicent and Rodbourne Cheney.
She wrote off a sizeable debt owed her by her nephew John and everyone received a share of her money. She left bequests of nineteen guineas to each of the children of her deceased brothers Richard, Thomas and John. Even the children of her nephew Robert and niece Joanna received a small windfall. In fact, I don't think she missed out any of her extended family members.
To her niece Elizabeth, the daughter of her brother Thomas, she left a property in Shaw while the Phelps family silver went to Robert, William, John and Mary Tuckey. the children of her brother Robert. Mary also received £2000 and the prized bed with matching chairs.
William, John and Mary farmed at Lower Shaw Farm and no doubt looked after their elderly Aunt who lived across the lane.
Mary died at her home in Shaw in January 1837 and was buried in a family grave at St Mary's, Rodbourne Cheney.
But who received 'my portrait in oil that hung above the fireplace in Shaw House.' Well you never know, there might have been one - I live in hope.
Mary's home in Old Shaw Lane.
Lower Shaw Farm
Read about Jane Helena Tuckey, Mary's great niece, who grew up at Shaw House and is buried in a pauper's grave in Radnor Street Cemetery. She is one of the women featured in my book Struggle and Suffrage in Swindon, available from the Library Shop, Swindon Central Library.
I can imagine her seated at her dressing table beside the carved worked bed with the embroidered quilt, vallance and curtains. Or posed at the desk where she conducted her business and considered the property up for sale in Old Shaw Lane.
There maybe a portrait in oil, prized in some distant descendants collection. Maybe a miniature hanging on a long golden chain. Who knows?
Mary Tuckey was born in 1757, the second daughter and last child of Richard and Joanna Tuckey.
In April 1834 she wrote her Will at Shaw House, the property left to her brother Thomas in their father's Will where she had lived with her mother Joanna.
Mary died a wealthy woman, leaving property and parcels of land across the parishes of Lydiard Millicent and Rodbourne Cheney.
She wrote off a sizeable debt owed her by her nephew John and everyone received a share of her money. She left bequests of nineteen guineas to each of the children of her deceased brothers Richard, Thomas and John. Even the children of her nephew Robert and niece Joanna received a small windfall. In fact, I don't think she missed out any of her extended family members.
To her niece Elizabeth, the daughter of her brother Thomas, she left a property in Shaw while the Phelps family silver went to Robert, William, John and Mary Tuckey. the children of her brother Robert. Mary also received £2000 and the prized bed with matching chairs.
William, John and Mary farmed at Lower Shaw Farm and no doubt looked after their elderly Aunt who lived across the lane.
Mary died at her home in Shaw in January 1837 and was buried in a family grave at St Mary's, Rodbourne Cheney.
But who received 'my portrait in oil that hung above the fireplace in Shaw House.' Well you never know, there might have been one - I live in hope.
Mary's home in Old Shaw Lane.
Lower Shaw Farm
Read about Jane Helena Tuckey, Mary's great niece, who grew up at Shaw House and is buried in a pauper's grave in Radnor Street Cemetery. She is one of the women featured in my book Struggle and Suffrage in Swindon, available from the Library Shop, Swindon Central Library.
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