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Robert Adair May 1798 Will & Jesse Adair lineage

Robert Adair May 1798 Will & Jesse Adair lineage

Posted: 2 Mar 2014 2:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Mar 2014 5:03PM GMT
Surnames: Adair, McAulay, Smallman, Stanton
Morning!
I've come across new info regarding a typewritten transcript of a Will that was sent to my gr uncle Robin Adair Brooke in the 1930's.
There have been postings pertaining to this document on Genforum...but I'm not able to access this site to add a new comment. It's been a long time since I've researched this "twig"....(O:

Copies of the Genforum postings:
Message # 1986, Oct. 21/2000 (R.Brooke)
A typed copy of an old document headed with the Royal Arms was passed to me by a relative of a great uncle Robin Adair Brooke, which reads:
"KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTES that I, Robin Adair, for divers good Causes and Considerations me hereunto moving have made and do hereby name make and in my stead and place put and constitute Ann Adair my true and Lawfull Attorney ---
--- IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the seventeenth day of May in the 20 year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, King George ---- and in the Year of Our Lord 1785."
It is signed Robt. Adair
in the presence of Sam Hoggan and E.O Osborne
The in between part of the text refers to Comissioners of his Majesties Navy as well as Sallary Wages Tickets Bounty money Prize money Short Allowance Smart money Pensions and all other Sum and Sums due payeable or belonging unto me for my own or any other Service or otherwise in any of his Majesty's Ships Frigates or Vessels or any Merchant Ship or Ships.
The Jesse Adair in my family is of the Royal Marines who was still a Captain on 1/2 pay in 1801. I did see the reference to a Jesse Adair obituary which you posted on Genforum.

Response dated March 18/2009, Message # 5988
re: A typed copy of an old document headed with the Royal Arms was passed to me by a relative of a great uncle Robin Adair Brooke, which reads:
"KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTESthat I, Robin Adair, for divers good Causes and Considerations me hereunto moving have made and do hereby name make and in my stead and place put and constitute Ann Adair my true and Lawfull Attorney ---
--- IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the seventeenth day of May in the 20 year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, King George ---- and in the Year of Our Lord 1785."
It is signed Robt. Adair
in the presence of Sam Hoggan and E.O Osborne
The in between part of the text refers to Comissioners of his Majesties Navy as well as Sallary Wages Tickets Bounty money Prize money Short Allowance Smart money Pensions and all other Sum and Sums due payeable or belonging unto me for my own or any other Service or otherwise in any of his Majesty's Ships Frigates or Vessels or any Merchant Ship or Ships.
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Robert "Robin" Adair, above, died 7 May 1798 on board ship.
His wife was Ann Adair of Belfast.
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The Jesse Adair in my family is of the Royal Marines who was still a Captain on 1/2 pay in 1801. I did see the reference to a Jesse Adair obituary which you posted on Genforum.

I have found a copy of the Probate for this this Will and thought I'd share the info.

"This Will was proved at London the seventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight before the worshipful Charles Coote Doctor of Laws Surrogate (?) of the Right Honorable Sir William "Wynne" (?) also Doctor of Laws (can't quite make this word out) keeper or "Commissary" (?) of the prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully reinstated by the oath of Ann Adair widow the mother of the deceased and the sole executrix named in the said Will to whom administration was granted of all and singular goods chattels and credits of the said deceased leaving (???) his sworn only to administer."

Jesse Adair died Aug. 1797 and was buried at the Lincoln Cathedral, this would make Ann (Stanton) Adair a widow in 1798. The original copy I found also states: "I do devise and bequeath the same unto Ann Adair of the town of Belfast and I do hereby nominate and appoint the said Ann Adair to be Executrix of this my last Will & Testament....". There are no other names mentioned in the Will as beneficiaries...the Will does not stipulate the relationship between Robert & Ann....but the Probate info provided disclosed that Ann was a "widow" and the "mother" of the deceased. The original Will also refers to the deceased as "Robert" Adair and does not have "Robin" documented.
The other "known" children born to Jesse Adair and Ann Stanton are:
Samuel bapt. Sept. 23/1768 (named after Ann's father?), buried Aug. 26/1769.
Catherine McAulay bapt. Apr. 8/1770, buried Sept. 1771
Martha bapt. Aug. 7/1771, married John Shearsmith May 8/1792 at the Lincoln Cathedral.
Anne Amelia bapt. Dec. 6/1772, married Charles G. Cleminshaw Oct. 4/1809.
Catherine Charlotte Adair (born c 1775), married Donald Monro Dec. 22/1796 at the Lincoln Cathedral.

"If" this Robert Adair was a son of Jesse & Ann...taking into consideration the names of the other "known" children born to this couple...I have been "wondering" if Jesse was perhaps the younger son of Capt. William Robert Adair and Catherine Smallman. C.G. Cleminshaw stated that his grandfather Jesse was "the younger son of the Adair of Ballymena" in 1860.
First son Robert...named after Jesse's father....I've also noticed that Capt. William Robert was also known as Robert?
Second son Samuel...named after Ann's father?
First daughter Catherine 1770....named after Catherine Smallman (perhaps also after the Katherine born & died 1725) & the name McAulay is also in this lineage?
Second daughter Martha...named after Ann's mother?
Third daughter Anne Amelia....perhaps named after Ann McAulay who married Sir Robert...or the second Ann McAulay who married a Robert Adair in this family?
Fourth daughter Catherine Charlotte...after deceased older sister & Catherine Smallman?

Having the codicil of the Will of Robert Adair dated 1785 and probated 1798 "kept" in our family and sent to North America...must mean this fellow was indeed a direct member of "our" family.
Can anyone pls advise me if the Will of Capt. William Robert Adair (d. 1762?) or Sir Robert Adair (d. 1745) has been "found" and transcribed?
If not...can someone pls give me "directions" as to where these documents may be located?
Thanks for your time and any thoughts regarding this "new clue" in the ongoing "Jesse Adair Quest" would be greatly appreciated.




Re: Robert Adair May 1798 Will & Jesse Adair lineage

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 11:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
Dear Lillian926

Could it be that you have a Magdalena Pfeifer, born approx. 1794 in Württemberg/Germany, immigrated to Poland (Kochanow), married to Johann Michael Ni(e)thammer, among your ancestors?

Best regrads, I. Hundt (ihundt@web.de)
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