William COKER

1806 - 1851  (44 years)

• Name	William COKER
  Birth	8 Nov 1806	Stepney, London, Middlesex, England, UK
  	Tower Hamlets St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney 1802-1812 1881 March 3, William son of William Coker, Racliffe, rigger, and Elizaberth, born 3 Nov 1806. Francis, son of the above, born 12 June 1810.
  Gender	Male
  Census	1841	10 Henry St, York Square, The Tower Hamlets, Stepney, London, England
  	1841 census for the Tower Hamlets, Stepney, London, England: No 10 Henry St, York Square: Wm Coker, 35, rigger Jane Coker, 35 William Coker, 9 Edward Coker, 2 Ann Jeaking?, 15, f.s.
  Occupation	Seaman, Rigger, Ship Chandler
  Will	1851	London, England
  	This is the last will and testament of me William Coker of Henry Street, York Square East Stepney in the County of Middlesex but carrying on business at Number 12 Narrow Street Southwark in the said Country said chandler and rigger. I hereby nominate and appoint my dear wife Jane Coker and my friends James Swinton of Lower Sarswell? in the County of Middlesex in the County of? Middlesex gentleman and John Stonehewer of 86 Queen Street ??? in the City of London Pattern Designer executrix and executors in trust of this my will hereby revoking all former and other wills by me at any time heretofore made. First I direct that all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses be fully paid and satisfied by my said executors as soon as conveniently may be after my decease and my will is and I hereby swear that my said executors and trustees and (the?) survivors of (thereto?) and shall permit and suffer my said wife to carry on and manage and transact my trade or business of a ship chandler and rigger (saving?) her natural life or until such time as the same may become unproductive and to permit and suffer my said wife to take and (revise?) for profits and emoluments thereof for her own use and benefit to partly enable her to maintain (_?) and support such of my children as may be living at the time of my decease until they respectively attain the age of twenty three years and _ and so soon as my said business shall become unproductive shall my will is and I so hereby _ by said executors to sell and dispose of the same _ by public auction or private contract and to lay out and invest the amount to be realised by such sale in the public trust to form part of my personal estate. I give, devise and bequeath unto my said wife Jane Coker, James Swinton and John Stonehewer said heirs and assigns all my singular my _ estates, messuages, lands and establishments whatsoever and wheresoever the same may be at the time of my decease with their and every of their (rights?) (members?) and (apparatuses?) as also all and singular my leasehold estates, lands and tenements together also with all and singular my goods, chattels and effects, money and annuities for (money?) debts, stock in trade and all other my personal estate and _ whatsoever and wheresoever upon the trusts and for the aids, intents and purposes hereinafter deposed and declared of and concerning the same. That is to say upon trust that they the said trustees and the _ of same shall pay or otherwise _ and suffer my said wife Jane Coker to (receive?) and take the (commission?) and profits of my said lands and establishments _ before _ and also of all and singular my leasehold estates and the interest dividends and produce of my estate and effects of _ interest dividends and produce of my estates and effects of _ _ or mature sooner the same may be for and during the term of her natural life. But it is my will and I so hereby direct that in the event of my said wife Jane Coker marrying again (that?) interest _ and annual produce together with all other interests given to or _ this my will shall be for her own sole use and benefit _ _ of any such husband and I so hereby direct that the receipts of my said wife shall be (good?) and _ _ charges to my said trustees after the decease of my said wife upon trust to collect, get and recover and I waive such part of my estate and effects as share _ of debts or money or securities for the same and to sell and dispose of my said freehold and leasehold estate and my said business should that not have been previously disposed of together also with my said goods, chattels and effects and invest the produce thereof in some or one of the public funds in trust for all and every my present and future bord children _ to all attain the age of twenty three years to be equally divided between them as tenants in common and not as joint tenants as I so hereby direct that my said trustees (so?) and shall pay, transfer and assign the said shares respectively to waive my said children shall become entitled after the decease of my said wife as and when they shall respectively attain the said aged of twenty three years and I hereby direct and declare that if on the decease of my said wife any of my said children shall not have attained the age of twenty three years it shall be lawful for my said trustees or trustee for the time being to pay such part of the yearly interest and dividends and annual produce of my said trust monies stocks funds and securities as may or at _ think proper for and towards the maintenance and (_tion) of such child or children for the being and shall apply the revenue of such income if any in augmentation of the share of respective shares from waive tax same shall have arisen but so nevertheless that my said trustees or trustee for the time being shall and may at their or his discretion apply such invested income or the proceeds thereof for the benefit of such child or children respectively provided always and I hereby further declare that the several trustees hereby appointed shall be answerable and accountable for such money at only as at or they respectively shall actually _ by virtue of the trusts hereby in (them?) deposed notwithstanding them or either of them giving or signing a receipt or receipts for the sake of conformity and the one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the either of them but for his own acts, goods and defaults only nor be answerable or accountable for any broker with whom any of the trust monies may be deposed from safe custody or otherwise or for any other damage that may happen in the situation the said trust unless through their _ _ _ own wilful neglect and also that it shall be lawful for them or either of them with an out of the monies which shall come and other respective hands by virtue of the trust aforesaid to retain and _ themselves respectively all such cost charges and deposits as put into in or about the execution of the trust aforesaid or in the relation hereto In witness whereof I the said Wm Coker have to this my last will and testament contained in this and the previously pieces of paper to the first and second hereof set my hand and to the said and last hereof my hand as seal the twenty ninth day of march in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one _ W Coker. Signed sealed published and declared by the within named Wm Coker the testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witness G.C.Livingstone, H.G.Herbert. Jane Coker. Proved at London the 3rd June 1851 before the worshipful Thomas Spinks doctor of Laws an surrogate by the oaths of Jane Coker widow ___ and John Stonehewer two of the executors to whom it was granted have been first sworn duly to administer power reserved of making the like grant to James Swinton the other executor when it shall apply for the same.
  Death	30 Mar 1851	East Stepney, London, England
  	Death entry registrar's district ?ton (Eton?), Vol VI, page 270
  Notes	From Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives: TH/4618: Re property in Narrow Street: Admission in fee of William Coker, William John Tyler Coker, Edward Coker, James Thomas Coker, Francis Thomas Coker and John Septimus Coker as sons and heirs of W. Coker deceased, 23 Jul 1867 TH/4903: re property in Narrow Street: Admission in fee of W. Coker, 15 Feb 1850 TH/6534: re property in Queen Street, Ratcliff: Assurance of property 1 Dec 1849 (mentions Wm Coker the Younger) and Lease of warehouse and other premises (mentions Jane Coker, widow), 22 Feb 1856 TH/7267: re property in Narrow Street: Admission of Jane Coker, James Swinton and John Stonehewer in fee upon trust by the will of William Coker, re part of a rigging house, 17 Jul 1851 TH/7268: re property in Narrow Street: Admission of Henry Vane in fee on surrender of James Swinton, John Stonehewer, William John Tyler Coker, Edward Coker, James Thomas Coker and Francis Thomas Coker, of part of rigging house, 23 Jul 1867. Borough Archivist Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives Bancroft Library 277 Bancroft Road London E1 4DQ Link to 1868 map of the area: http://london1868.com/weller47.htm
  Person ID	I2311	Warren Nunn's family tree
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	William COKER,   b. 19 Oct 1785, Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK d. 4 Feb 1852, London, Middlesex, England, UK (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth WHITE,   b. 1790, England, UK d. 17 Feb 1845, 12 Bromley St, Stepney, London, England, UK (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	17 Apr 1805	St Mary The Virgin, Aldermanbury, London, England, UK
  	Transcript of marriage cert: Marriage at St Mary The Virgin, Aldermanbury, London, No 278: William Coker of this parish bachelor and Elizth White spinster of this parish married in this church by banns this seventeenth day of April 1805 by me James Salisbury minister. Witnesses: John Rodgers, Mary Rodgers
  Family ID	F604	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Elizabeth LAWSON,   b. Abt 1806, Wapping, Middlesex, England, UK d. 31 Jul 1866, 10 Henry St, Stepney, London, England, UK (Age 60 years)  [1, 2]
  Marriage	1 Mar 1827	St Anne's Limehouse, London, Middlesex, England, UK
  	London Metropolitan Achives record for marriage of William Coker and Jane Lawson at St Annes, Limehouse, 1 March 1827, Witnesses J Livingston and Sarah Clough
  Children	1. William John Tyler COKER,   b. 23 Mar 1832, Limehouse, London, Middlesex, London, England, UK d. 22 Aug 1912, Walworth, London, England, UK (Age 80 years)   2. Edward COKER,   b. 2 Apr 1839, Ratcliff, Stepney, London, Middlesex, England, UK d. Oct 1923, Lymington, Hampshire, England, UK (Age 84 years)   3. James Thomas COKER,   b. 22 Sep 1841, Stepney, London, Middlesex, England, UK d. 3 Aug 1920, Upper Glenmore, North Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia (Age 78 years)   4. Francis Thomas COKER,   b. 6 Jan 1845, Stepney, London, Middlesex, England, UK d. 18 Nov 1910, St George's-in-the-east Infirmary, London, England, UK (Age 65 years)   5. Frederick COKER,   b. 24 Mar 1847, Stepney, London, Middlesex, England, UK d. 8 May 1883, London City, London, England, UK (Age 36 years)   6. John Septimus COKER,   b. 9 Feb 1849, Stepney, Middlesex, London, England, UK d. 11 Dec 1872, 32 Bromley Street, Ratcliffe, London, England, UK (Age 23 years)
  Family ID	F605	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Dec 2024

  
  

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