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Some wills have been transcribed in full, whereas others are a paraphrased transcription. If they are paraphrased, they contain the names of all those mentioned in the will, with the gist of what they were (or were not!) bequeathed, but to find the full details, such as the names of property, requests as to how they were to be buried etc., please contact the relevant archive. The wills are either from the Suffolk Record Office (SRO), the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC), or the Norfolk Record Office (NRO).

Lott, Isaac, farmer of Washbrook, 1773

  • All personal estate to his four children: Sarah, John, James and Mary
  • Has already paid son Isaac £111

Executors: sons John and James

Witnesses: Peter Clarke, Daniel Negus junr

Written 15 Nov 1766, probate 13 March 1773

NRO

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Lott, James, farmer of Washbrook, 1830

Everything to his five children:

  • James Lott
  • Ann Shulver, widow
  • Mary wife of James Turner
  • John Lott
  • Sarah Sophia wife of James Chamberlain

Executors: sons James and John

Witnesses: William and F S Hammond

Written 13 Nov 1819, probate 15 Feb 1830

NRO

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Lott, John, farmer of Framsden, 1768

  • Daughter Martha Grimsey
  • Daughter Sarah Haggar
  • Daughter Mary Farthing
  • Daughter Hannah Lott
  • Daughter Lucy Lott
  • Sons: John, Samuel and Robert Lott

Executors: sons John and Samuel

Witnesses: William Creascey, Peter Clarke

Written 30 Nov 1767, probate 16 Jan 1768

NRO

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Lott, John, farmer of East Bergholt, 1802

  • Son-in-law Samuel Lott of Ardleigh, farmer
  • Wife Sarah
  • Testator’s five children: John Lott, William Lott, Sarah wife of Samuel Lewis, Mary wife of Samuel Lott, Elizabeth wife of Joseph Lott
  • Wife Sarah owns a cottage which on her death descends to youngest son William, as per the custom of the manor [this is presumably “Willie Lott’s cottage”, which appears in several of John Constable’s paintings, most famously The Haywain).

Written 22 May 1793, probate 23 Sep 1802

SRO

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Lott, John, farmer of Elmsett, 1806

  • All tenements in Elmsett to wife Mary until youngest children, Elizabeth, is 21, if Mary remains a widow.
  • If Mary remarries, profits to go to executors (brother James Lott, and John Vincent of Elmsett, farmer), until youngest child is 21.
  • Once youngest child is 21, property to be sold by executors
  • Profits of the sale to wife Mary and testator’s seven children: Mary Lott, Sarah Lott, John Lott, William Shulver Lott, Isaac Lott, Hannah Shulver Lott, Elizabeth Lott

Executors: wife Mary, brother James Lott, John Vincent

Witnesses: Ann and Peter Clarke, Sarah Barnard

Written 25 May 1791, probate 12 Jan 1806

NRO

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Lott, John, farmer of Burstall, 1810

Administration, 24 April 1810

  • Mary Lott of Burstall, his widow, administrix
  • Signed: Joseph Lott of same, farmer; James Ford of Ipswich, clerk

Lott, John, farmer of East Bergholt, 1827

  • Executors: wife Sarah, brother-in-law Mr Thomas Rand of Little Clacton, Mr William Green of East Bergholt, farmer, Mr Thomas Woodgate of East Bergholt, farmer.
  • Executors to be guardians of testator’s children while they are under 21.
  • Farm business to be continued for remainder of lease
  • To wife Sarah: copyhold in Layham

Witnesses: Joseph Harris, John Jessup, James Laurence

Written 20 Nov 1807, probate 21 March 1827

PCC

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Lott, Joseph, gentleman of East Bergholt, 1778

  • Two nephews John Lott and Joseph Lott of East Bergholt, farmers, to receive rents and profits of of copyhold, Brook St Farm in Layham, Suffolk, except field called Brook St Field (admitted for testator’s life, and the life of his son James Lott) – nephews to pay the rents and profits annually to son James for life.
  • Nephews to take profits of all other property to support James.
  • Nephew John Lott to pay Hannah wife of Aaron Lott of East Bergholt £20pa, to be paid from death of son James
  • “Nephew” (great-nephew) Joseph Lott son of Aaron Lott of East Bergholt under 21 – to have Brook Street Farm once 26.
  • After death of son James, all freehold farm in Elmsett to nephew John Lott, son of testator’s brother Isaac Lott of Washbrook, paying £30pa as follows: £10 to his brother James Lott of Washbrook, £10 to Joseph Lott, farmer of East Bergholt aforesaid, £10 to John Lott of Blakenham, Suffolk
  • £100 each to Samuel, William and James, the sons of Aaron Lott of East Bergholt, once they reach 26 and son James has died.
  • Nephew Robert Lott of Burstall, farmer: £100 after son’s death
  • William Lott, brother of the said Robert Lott, £50 after son’s death
  • Nephews John, Robert and Samuel, sons of my brother John Lott late of Bealings, Suffolk, farmer, £100 each after son’s death
  • Nephew Isaac Lott of Bramford, schoolmaster, £50, provided he pay out of it the money he owes his cousin Joseph Lott of East Bergholt, farmer, after son’s death
  • Isaac Grimsey of East Bergholt, yeoman, £50 after son’s death
  • Robert Grimsey of Washbrook, yeoman, £50 after son’s death
  • Robert Whiles of Capel St Mary, farmer, £50 after son’s death
  • Sister Mary wife of George Grimsey of Wenham 5sh pa.

Executors: nephews John Lott and Joseph Lott, both of East Bergholt, farmers

Witnesses: Henry Golding, Gabriel Bowes, John Ambrose

Written 23 May 1767, probate 23 May 1778

PCC

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Lott, Joseph, farmer of East Bergholt, 1784

  • Executors to sell freehold in Hadleigh, Suffolk
  • Nephew Samuel Lott, niece Lucy Lott, the children of testator’s sister Hannah Lott, deceased: £20 each
  • Rest and residue to be divided between testator’s brother John Lott of East Bergholt, and sisters Mary wife of Robert Lott of Burstall, and Ann wife of James Lott of East Bergholt, and the children of sister Hannah, deceased, late wife of Haran [Aaron] Lott

Executors: brother John Lott, cousin John Lott of Waldingfield. If neither can execute, Samuel Lewis of East Bergholt to be executor.

Witnesses: William Crosbie, William Evans, Thomas May

Written 22 July 1784, probate 9 Sep 1784

PCC

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Lott, Joseph, yeoman of East Bergholt, 1811

  • Executors Joseph Lott of Botesdale [mistake for Burstall?], farmer, and William Westrop of Lavenham, shopkeeper
  • To be buried in church near wife “to place a crown and head and footstone” on his grave, as are on his wife’s
  • Lucy Kemball daughter of Mr William Kemball
  • Elizabeth Garrard, niece and housekeeper
  • Niece Mary wife of Abraham Reynolds of East Bergholt, thatcher
  • The children of John Kemball, late of Monks Eleigh, farmer
  • The children of William Kemball, late of Lavenham, farmer
  • The children of testator’s deceased brother Robert Lott
  • The children of testator’s deceased brother John Lott

Witnesses: William Pyman, John Spurling

Written 28 Oct 1811, probate 4 Dec 1811

SRO

Transcriber’s notes: the son of Robert Lott (1708-1803) and Mary Lott (1712-1802), he married Ann Kemball, daughter of John Kemball of Hintlesham, in 1761. In 1765, their only child, Joseph, was born. Joseph died in 1800, Ann died in 1804 aged 69, and Joseph died in 1811, aged 75.

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Lott, Lucy, spinster of Bramford, 1786

  • Executor: Mr Thomas Bond of Bramford
  • £150 to be divided among the children of her brother Robert Lott, when 21
  • £100 to be divided among the children of her brother Samuel Lott, when 21
  • £50 to the son of Stephen Goymour of Coddenham, when 21
  • £150 investment for Mary, wife of William Farthing (testator’s brother-in-law). After her death, £50 to Mary’s daughter, and £100 to testator’s brother Robert
  • £50 investment to Sarah Holden, wife of testator’s cousin Holden, and after her death, the £50 to Sarah’s daughter.
  • Rest and residue to brother Robert Lott

Witnesses: J Notcutt, William Smyth

Written 4 Dec 1785, probate 28 Oct 1786

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Lott, Mary, widow of East Bergholt, 1764

  • Rest and residue to be shared equally among her children, except daughter Ann Rand, who receives 1sh
  • Testator’s other children: Mary Lott, John Lott, Joseph Lott, Hannah Lott
  • Testator’s grandchildren, all the children of daughter Ann Rand: Arthur and John Dasely [Dearsley/Dearsly], Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth and Thomas Rand. To have one fifth part of rest and residue divided equally among them when 21.

Executors: sons John and Joseph Lott

Witnesses: Thomas Lott, Mary and Daniel Holt

Written 13 June 1763, probate 20 Nov 1764

NRO

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Lott, Mary, widow of Burstall, 1813

Administration, 12 May 1813

  • Mary wife of Joseph Lott, natural and lawful daughter and only next of kin, administrix of Mary Lott, widow of Burstall
  • Signed: Joseph Lott of Burstall, farmer; Margaret Twaites of same, widow, William Wilken of same, parish clerk

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Lott, Robert, common carrier of Grundisburgh, 1819

  • Wife Susan
  • Children: Robert Lott of London; Sarah wife of Barnard Spawl of Harwich, cordwainer; Lucy Baxter of Burgh, Suffolk

Executors: son Robert, son-in-law Barnard Spawl

Witnesses: Nathaniel Redit, schoolmaster; Robert Pinkney Jarvis; William Parker

Written 19 March 1818, probate 21 Dec 1819

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Lott, Sarah, of East Bergholt, 1827

  • Wife of John Lott of East Bergholt, farmer. By his consent, disposing of real estate left her by her late father, Mr Stephen Durrant of Wix, Essex, deceased, by his will.
  • Son Stephen Durrant Lott: freehold in Brantham
  • Copyhold to be sold, profits to be divided among her children

Executors: husband John Lott, brother-in-law Mr Thomas Rand of Little Clacton, Mr William Green of East Bergholt, farmer, Mr Thomas Woodgate of East Bergholt, farmer

Witnesses: Joseph Harris, John Jessup, James Laurence

Written 20 Nov 1807, probate 21 April 1827

PCC

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