The Family of Richard and Margaret Boocock: Letters of Administration

RICHARD BOOCOCK:
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Richard Boocock died without making a Will. On 15 June 1833, Letters of Administration were granted as follows:
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Know all men by these presents that Margaret Boocock of Pilkington within the Parish of Prestwich in the county of Lancaster & diocese of Chester, Widow, John Berry of Pilkington, aforesaid, Smith, and Major Booth, of Pilkington, aforesaid, Calico Printer; are holden and firmly bound unto the Right Reverend Father in God John Bird by Devine Permission, Lord Bishop of Chester, in the sum of one hundred & eighty pounds of good and lawful Money of the Untied Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, current in that part of the said Kingdom called England, to be paid unto the said Lord Bishop, his lawful Attorney, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns; to which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves and every of us severally for and in the whole, our Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, and the Heirs, Executors and Administrators of every of us, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our Seals, and dated the fifteenth Day of June in the Third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord [George struck through] William the Fourth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord God One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Three.
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The Condition of this Obligation is such, that the above bounden Margaret Boocock, Widow, the Relict, and Administratrix of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of Richard Boocock, late of Pilkington, aforesaid, Saddler, deceased, do make or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits, of the said deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, possession, or knowledge of her the said Margaret Boocock or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for her use and the same, so made, do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the registry of the Consistory Court of Chester aforesaid, at or before the fifteenth day of June next ensuing. And the same goods, chattels, and credits, and all other the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased at the time of his death, which at any time after shall come to the hands or possession of the said Margaret Boocock or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for her do well and truly administer according to law; and further do make, or cause to be made, a true and just account of her said administration, at or before the fifteenth day of June which shall be in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred Thirty four and all the rest and residue of the said goods, chattels, and credits, which shall be found remaining upon the said administratrix's account, the same being first examined and allowed of by the judge or judges for the time being of the said court, shall deliver and pay unto such person or persons respectively, as the said judge or judges, by his or their decree, or sentence pursuant to the true intent and meaning of an Act of Parliament, made in the two-and-twentieth and the three-and-twentieth years of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles the Second, entitled, An Act for the better settling Intestates estates, shall limit and appoint. And if it shall hereafter appear that any last will and testament was made by the said deceased, and the executor or executors therein named do exhibit the same into the said court making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly, if the said Margaret Boocock above bounden, being thereunto required, do render and deliver the said letters of administration (approbation of such testament being first had and made in the said court) then this obligation to be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and virtue.
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Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of Thos. Parkinson Surrogate	[signed] Margaret Boocock John Berry Major Booth
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The 15th day of June 1833, Margaret Boocock, within named, took the usual oath of an Administratrix in common form, and also made oath that the personal estate & effects of the Intestate within the Diocese of Chester were under the value of 100£, before me, Thos. Parkinson, Surrogate. The Intestate died the 15th day of May 1833 Admon issue dated 15th June 1833

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1:	The above is a transcription of the original document, held at the Lancashire Record Office. LRO Ref. WCW 1833.
2:	The parts of the above transcription in italics were hand written on the original document, the remainder was preprinted.