MOOC8 Estate Inventory
MOOC8/47.27 — WILLIAM KINGHAM, TABLE VALLEY, N:O 2
18330114
Inventory details
- MOOC reference
- MOOC8/47.27
- Date
- 18330114
- Names
- William Kingham, Table Valley, N:o 2
Transcription
MOOC8/47.27
{18330114} 14 January 1833 William Kingham
Inventory of all such property as has been relinquished by the death of
William Kingham on the 11:th day of January in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty three. The deceased having by his last will
and testament executed on the 17:th April 1830 before the Notary Public George
Cadogan and witnesses appointed as his sole and universal heirs, in the
proportion set opposite to their names here below.
The grandchildren of Thomas Crowcher, namely
and has further requested and appointed the Board of Orphan Masters to be
the executors of his last will and guardians of his minor heirs.
In consequence whereof the undersigned Commissioned Member of the Orphan
Board has taken the said estate under proper inventory and found the same to
consist as follows.
The seals previously placed on the property having been found whole and
unbroken.
At the house occupied by the deceased in Plein
Street
Thus done and inventoried at the house aforesaid at the Cape of Good Hope
on the 14:th of January 1833 according to a statement made by Charlotte
Crouchers and James B: Halliers who declared to have acted herein bonafide and
that to the best of their knowledge they have not withheld or secreted any
thing that belonged to the aforesaid estate, and the said appearers further
declared that they are and will at all times be ready and willing to confirm
their statement by solemn oath if required, promising at the same time, if
after the date of these presents any property belonging to the aforesaid estate
may be discovered they will faithfully communicate if to the Orphan Chamber in
order to amplify this inventory with the property so discovered.
In witness whereof the Commissioner together with the appearers and me the
Chief Clerk have subscribed to these presents
As Commissioner: C: Blanckenberg
Charlotte Crowcher, J:B: Hallier
In my presence: J: Serrurier, Chief Clerk
| 1) Charlotte Crowcher /aged/ in four tenths share |
| 2) Elizabeth married to James B: Halliers in two tenths |
| 3) Thomas born 15 Novemb: 1814 in one tenth |
| 4) Mary born 6 Octob: 1819 in one tenth |
| 5) William Henry born 28:th February 1822 in one tenth, together with |
| 6) William Richard Copps born 7 Sep:r 1818 son of Richard Copps in the remaining one tenth |
Landed property
| Certain two houses and premises situated in this Table Valley being the remaining part of the erf N:o 2 as per deed of transfer dated 18 Octob: 1811 |
In the shop
| two lanthorns |
| two passage lamps |
| a pewter water bottle |
| a tea urn |
| five bowls |
| a tin tureen |
| a colander |
| a coffee pot |
| a dredging box |
| a shaving pot |
| a painters snab and muller |
| a small box |
| a bread basket |
| four wooden boxes |
| a lot packing paper |
| seven wooden spoons |
| forty one bottles of dry herbs |
| five bottles of anchovies |
| one [bottles] of olives |
| a spice box |
| two bottles of sauces |
| a marble rooling pin |
| eight empty flasks |
| five empty jars |
| a liquor case |
| seven tin canisters and seven tin boxes |
| a canister with sago |
| a canister with mace |
| a cask with a remnant of pepper |
| a cask with salt and five empty ones |
| a tin cannister with dried fruits |
| a box with tamarinds |
| a box with lamp black |
| a box with twenty seven knives and eighteen forks |
| a loaf of sugar |
| a pack tobacco |
| a pack webbing |
| nine basons, four water plates and a pudding form |
| twenty brushes |
| twenty four sheep shears |
| two boxes with wafers |
| a wine cock |
| seven glass bottles |
| a quantity of garden seeds |
| a quantity of pipe clay |
| a quantity of rag stones |
| a rack with drawers |
| a case with drawers |
| a small case |
| a counter with remnants of beans, peas, etc:a |
| two tables |
| a form |
| a tin canister with cloves |
| two [tin canister with] lack soy |
| three p: of scales and twenty weights |
| a large jar of coriander seed |
| a tin canister with dried fruit |
| twenty three seythe sharpeners |
| two iron ladles |
| a p:r of fire tongs |
| two axes |
| ten mouse traps |
| a grid iron |
| two p:r of boat hooks |
| nine scrapers |
| five scoups |
| a tin canteen |
| a small saw |
| a glass case |
| two boxes with beads |
| two cans, a box with flint |
| a bag of bird seeds |
| three mops |
| a bassoon, a hautbay, and a violin cello |
| a coffee roaster |
| a spade, three sieves |
| two measures /skipple/ a half measure and two quarter measures |
| two seythes |
| four hay knives and two plough shares |
| four coulters |
| a quantity of scissors |
| a quantity of rubbish |
In the hall
| a picture |
| a dining table |
| a small book shelf |
| a cupboard with empty bottles and flasks |
| a writing desk |
| ten chairs /in sort/ |
| a chest of drawers and a glass case |
| a writing table |
| a wash hand stand |
| a dish stool |
| a medicine chest |
| a patient seringe |
| a large chest |
In the bed room
| a writing desk |
| an eight day clock |
| a camp stool |
| a looking glass |
In the kitchen
| a safe /meat/ |
| two tables |
| a water half aum |
| two iron pots and a tea kettle |
| a tin tureen and a tin sauce pan |
| a frying pan and a grid iron |
| three trivets |
| some crockery and earthen ware of little value |
| an empty halfaum |
| a cask with vinegar |
| a cask with [pickled] walnuts |
| a large jar |
| a small table |
| a p: of large scales and seven weights |
| a p: of steel yards |
| eight scrapers |
In the pantry
| a stretcher |
| a table and chair |
| a chest |
| a box with beads |
| two racks |
| four bird cages |
| an iron pot |
| eight tin canisters |
| a lot of rubbish |
In the store
| a chaff cutter |
| three ladders |
| three p: of staps |
| six empty casks |
| a hand tray |
| a fine grate |
| an old stretcher |
| fifty plought coulters |
| an old and a large block |
| seven plough shares |
| fifteen plough irons /ploeg beugels/ |
| two sejthes |
| an old violin cello |
| a lanthorn |
| twelve bottles fish sauce |
| twenty four candle moulds |
| two bags with long pepper |
| two bags with cinnamon |
| twenty six halters |
| twenty four head stalls |
| a bag of pepper and a bag of ginger |
| five sieves |
| a large chest |
| an hour glass |
| boatts and wickets |
| seventy two hoes |
| thirty one scrapers |
| eight hay knives and four reap hooks |
| a trashing machine |
| a chaff cutter |
| a corn mill |
| fifteen scrapers |
| two large vans |
| a quantity of wooden spoons |
| a double barrel gun |
| two boxes with seythes sharpeners |
| a quantity of mat sacks |
| a quantity of empty flasks |
| four hundred shoe brushes |
| a basket containing a large bottle |
| some empty cases |
| four hundred and sixty nine bundles of rattans, stated to belong to captain Toussaint |
| the wearing apparel of the deceased being of verry trifling value was divided among the male heirs |