MOOC8/43.25 - GRIMSTHORPE, LINCOLN, ROSA OF THE CAPE, SWELLENDAM

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🔎 MOOC8 Inventory for Grimsthorpe, Lincoln, Rosa of the Cape, Swellendam

MOOC Reference: MOOC8/43.25
Date: 18261230
Names: Grimsthorpe, Lincoln, Rosa of the Cape, Swellendam
MOOC8/43.25 {18261230} 30 December 1826 Francis Gerrard Powley Inventory of the goods and effects belonging to the estate of the late Francis Gerrard Powley Done by James O’Conner who attended the said Powley during his sickness, at the requisition of the Board of Orphan Master at the Cape of Good Hope in their capacity as testamentary executors of said estate of the minor heirs being consisting of the goods and effects as following, viz: On this day the 30th December 1826 appeared before me Jan Ferdinand Bam as agent of Orphan aforementioned J:s O’Connor, who declared that he with regard to this his statement had acted faithfully and upreightly and to have withheld or concealed what he know to be the property of said estate, promissing however that if any further property should be found belonging to the estate, that in such case to amplify this inventory with the same, being finally ready to make oath for the truth of this his statement Thus done and executed at the town Swellendam , die et anno ut supra As witnesses: W: Tompson, M: Taute James O’Connor In my presence: J:F: Bam

Rosetta daughter of William Bailey late of Grimsthorpe in the county of Lincoln and
Anne Gerrard daughter of the female slave Rosa of the Cape
one large chest containing
14 waiscoats
5 pair drawers
1 sopha cover
1 plaid jacket
1 cloths bag
2 summa jackets
1 black cloth jacket
4 pair breeches
1 fustian shooting jacket
1 jean jacket
2 Guernsay frock
2 stripes cotten shirts
3 flannel waistcoats
10 pair trowsers
11 shirts
18 pair stockings
1 pair brown cloth gaiters
1 pair brown top boots
2 pair new shoes
a small box containing gun powder
a shaving box
1 great coat
a wig
an opera hat
1 sealskin cap
6 hand towels
2 curtain ornaments
3 pair gloves
15 neck handkerchiefs
3 yellow silk handkerchiefs
3 night caps
a small bag containing thread
2 spy glasses
1 table cloth
1 waistband
1 wooden pipe shank
1 clothes and
1 hair brush
Cash
R64:2
A small tin box containing
1 pair ear rings
2 finger rings
2 broaches
1 gold seal
a small box containing waistcoat buttons, rings and a neckten
1 burning glass and tin case
2 pair spectacles
1 small snuff box
1 silver pencil case
1 box containing a memorandum book and sundry papers
2 brass candlesticks
a chest containing sundry medicines
1 small sopha
1 pistol and mortar
a watch in a hand
1 small desk containing papers
a green baize cloth
a chest with sundry books
a bucket and small tal
1 spade
a pair bellows
2 stools
1 pistol
1 pair razors
1 razor strap
a few kitchen utensils
1 ox at the place of Mr Taylor
a mattrass and two pillows
a claim against Mr J: Barry to the amount of five hundred rixdollars being a draft from J:s O’Connor in favor of the late Dr Powley and endossed to Dr Laing, Cape Town
Debts
a Hottentot girl in the service of Dr Powley has a claim for wages of rd:s30

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