Catalogue

21 December 1787 Copy will of Ralph Carr of Cocken, esq., in which he devises: all his personal estate (except his chaise and harness, three horses, silver plate, china, pictures, furniture, fixtures and other goods in Cocken Hall and High Farm, Cocken), to his trustees, Sir John Eden of Windlestone, bart., John Drake Bainbridge of Durham, surgeon, and Christopher Bramwell of Darlington, wine merchant, to pay his two old servants, Ralph Woodifield and Ann Hay, £30 each, and then to pay any debts; all his property at Stotfold in Elwick and Crows Houses Farm in Pittington is to be sold and the income used for the payment of any debts; the residue of his personal estate and residual income from the sale of Stotfield and Crows Houses Farm to be held in trust for his nephew, Carr Ibbetson, 3rd son of his sister, Lady Isabella Ibbetson, deceased; High Farm, Cocken, and named fields to be held in trust for his servant, Jane Nicholson of Cocken, for life, providing that she remained unmarried, and after her marriage or death, to be held in trust to the uses declared for the residue of his real property; the Lodge at Cocken, occupied by Ralph Miller, to be held in trust for his servant, Hannah Mitchinson, for life, providing that she remained unmarried, and after her marriage or death, to be held in trust to the uses declared for the residue of his real property; £200 p.a. to Jane Nicholson for life, providing that she remained unmarried, to be charged on Grange Farm in Durham St. Giles; the contents of the trunks and boxes in the Turning Room at Cocken Hall to Jane Nicholson, to be delivered to her unopened; the post-chaise and harness, and the choice of three horses, and all the silver plate, china, linen, pictures, furniture, and books at High Farm, Cocken, to Jane Nicholson; £10 p.a. to Hannah Mitchinson for life, providing that she remained unmarried, to be charged on Grange Farm in Durham St. Giles; Cocken Hall and the residue of his real estate to be held in trust for his nephew, Carr Ibbetson, for life, and on Ibbetson's death, for his cousin, Ralph Carr jun., eldest son of Rev. Ralph Carr of Alderley, Cheshire, clerk; the residue of his personal estate to his nephew, Carr Ibbetson; his body to be buried in the family vault at Houghton-le-Spring, and that 'no pomp, parade or unnecessary ceremony or expence be used or made at my funeral nor that any persons attend the same except my household servants then residing at Cocken'