Mary
- Born: Abt 1761
- Marriage (1): John HIGGIN Esq. before 1789
- Died: 28 Dec 1845, Weston Green, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England aged about 84
General Notes:
Biography
Probably the widow of John Higgin, of Higgin Whiteley (q.v.), who died in 1826.
Election of a new director of the Atlas Assurance Office in place of John Higgin deceased 19/07/1826.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/16774
Will of John Higgin merchant of Hackney Middlesex proved 29/07/1826: John Higgin of Londonfield in the parish of Hackney. 'I give to my dear wife Mary Higgin in gratitude for her virtuous deportment and [illeg.] love and attachment to me' the freehold of their house in Londonfield, his 4 shares of £500 each in the Imperial Fire and Life Insurance Office and the 60 shares of £50 in the Atlas Life and Fire Insurance Office, and annuity of £800 per annum secured on estates in Jamaica'. Alludes to his sons Thomas (?) and Isaac, and to George Whiteley.
Died 1845 aged 84; Will of Mary Higgin widow of John Higgin late of London Street...and then of London Field (made in 1835) proved 30/01/1846. In the will she left her entire estate to her daughter Mary Higgin.
Sources
London Gazette, Issue 18263, 30/06/1826, p. 1619.
Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury PROB 11/1714.
PROB 11/2029/281.
Mary married John HIGGIN Esq. before 1789. (John HIGGIN Esq. was born about 1754 and died on 17 Jun 1826 in London-field, Hackney, London, England.)
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