MOOC8 Estate Inventory
MOOC8/44.46 — ROBERT BELL, TABLE VALLEY, ZIEKEDWARS STREET, BLOK C:, WYNBERG
18261202
Inventory details
- MOOC reference
- MOOC8/44.46
- Date
- 18261202
- Names
- Robert Bell, Table Valley, Ziekedwars Street, Blok C:, Wynberg
Transcription
MOOC8/44.46
{18261202} 2 December 1826 Robert Bell
Inventory of all such property as have been relinquished by the death ab
intestato of Robert Bell on the twenty fifth day of the month of November in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six for the benefit
of his surviving widow Sarah Williams. The aforesaid property having been
inventoried by the undersigned commissioned members from the Board of Orphan
Masters according to a statement made by the aforesaid widow and was found to
consist in the following, viz:t
Thus inventoried at the Cape of Good Hope in the house aforesaid on the
second day of the month of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty six according to a statement made by the aforesaid widow who
declared to have acted herein bonafide and that to the best of her knowledge
she has not withheld or secreted any thing that belonged to the aforesaid
estate, and the said appearer further declared that she is and will at all
times be ready and willing to confirm her statement by solemn oath if required,
promising at the same time that if after the date if these presents any
property of this estate might be discovered shall and will faithfully
communicate it to the Orphan Chamber in order to amplify this inventory with
the property so discovered.
In witness whereof we, the Commissioners, together with the appearer and
the Secretary have subscribed to these presents.
As Commissioners: G:E: Overbeek, J:F: Munnik
Sarah Bell
In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts
| A house and premises situated in this Table Valley between the Castle and the prolonged Ziekedwars Street in Blok C: being N:o 8, 9, 23 and 24 |
| a set of tables consisting in three |
| twelve chairs bought by the deceased from the carpenter Shortman and still unpaid |
| two looking glasses |
| two pictures |
| one fender and fire irons |
In the hall
| two tables |
| a window curtain |
| a clock |
| two bird cages |
| a parrot cage |
| a trunck |
| eight wine glasses |
| two tumblers |
| two decanters |
| twelve cups and saucers |
| six cake plates |
| two tea cups and six saucers |
| four small tubs |
| a case with flasks |
| a teapot, milk jug and sugar pot |
| a cruet stand /defective/ |
| som flasks and bottles |
| thirteen plates |
| six dishes |
| a basket |
| eight forks |
| nine knives |
| three spoons |
| one soup ladle |
In the bed room
| a bedstead with bedding |
| a chest of drawers |
| a washand stand |
| a table |
| a few old books |
| a large chest with some clothes of the deceased |
In the kitchen
| a water halfaum |
| a kitchen table with drawers |
| a tea tray |
| a bench |
| four ironpots and one tea kettle |
| one frying pan |
| two buckets |
| four smoothing irons |
| three candlesticks |
| a pair of snuffers |
In the cellar
| three cases with rivets |
| a half pipe with a remainder of wine |
| one keg of paint /1/ |
| a jar with a remainder of oil |
| an empty cask |
| one empty tin case |
| a large stukvat compas |
| six pairs of compasses |
| eight chissels |
| seventeen small saw blades |
| three rasps |
| seventeen saw files |
| two brass plates for stukvats |
| thirteen centre bits |
| thirty seven dowling bits |
| four pencils |
| four bucket shaves |
| five hand vices |
| eight spoke shave irons |
| three cross irons |
| four gunblets |
| eleven stamps |
| eighteen plane irons |
| seven stukvat planes |
| four gages |
| two scrapers |
| sixteen planes with irons |
| ten spoke shaves |
| twenty adzes |
| fourteen drawing knives |
| six bit stocks |
| twelve crow stocks |
| twelve punches |
| two hand saws |
| nine bucket handles |
| ten halfaum handles |
| seven axes |
| seven hollowing knives |
| five flagon irons |
| three bung borers |
| forty three drivers |
| twenty eight hammers |
| two stukvat keys |
In the shop
| seven new wine pipes |
| seven half pipes |
| seven quart pipes |
| eleven half aums |
| eighteen necessary tubs |
| four washing tubs |
| eighteen buckets |
| eighteen ankers of different sizes |
| a funnel |
| two ladders |
| fifteen twenty feet deels |
| eighty eight bundles of hoops |
| two old doors |
| three saw tubs |
| five old buckets |
| one tub |
| a grind stone |
| an old cask |
| one thousand four hundred stukvat stave |
| six hundred qubeck pipe staves |
| nine hundred barrel staves |
| two hundred and eighty nine slabs of pipe heading |
| a large tub |
| three old leaguers |
| one old washing tub |
| five old half aums |
| three quart pipes |
| two half pipes |
| a quantity of short ends |
| a weel barrow |
| two tar barrels |
| some spars |
| six hundred quebec half pipe staves |
| nineteen stukvat hoops |
| a large iron pot |
| a furnace and grate |
| a p:r of stukvat rolers |
| a coopers bench |
| five crisets |
| a quantity of old rope |
| a door frame |
| a quantity defective staves |
| an old half pipe |
| five beak irons |
| seven cooper’s jointers |
| a saw wih frame |
| a vice |
| a stretcher |
| a few blocks |
| two spades |
| one rake |
| one pick axe |
Claims in favor of the estate
| Rd:s | ||
| paid | from Mr J:B: Ebdin the balance of an unsettled account which however cannot be correctly ascertained by the widow | [ ..... ] |
| from different people due to the partnership of the and Mr Ross which have remained unsettled and of which Mr Ross will deliver a list the deceased being entitled to half the amount | [ ..... ] | |
| from the insolvent estate of J: Hodgson according to a note of hand | 120 | |
| from Alexander Dick at Wynberg for two buckets and 1 yiest tub | 15 |
Claims against the estate
| Rd:s | ||
| to Mr J:C: Gie according to a mortgage bond ƒ18000 | 6000 | |
| interest from April last | ||
| paid May 1827 | to the carpenter Shortman for the beforementioned chairs | 150 |