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Watts, Frances; sister of John Taylor, St Mary at Hill, City of London, vintner (as shown by her will and accompanying affidavit) ; aged 35 in 1733 ; kept a boarding house in Little Dean’s Yard from 1738 (previously occupied by Mrs.Beresford) (she directed in her will that “the house I live in” should be sold after her death) ; first two of seventy-one recorded boarders adm. Apr 1738, last three recorded boarders adm. Oct 1752, but her boarding house may be presumed to have continued to operate until her death ; her will expresses her wish to be buried in Barnes, Surrey, where she owned two copyhold messuages ; she bequeathed 10 guineas each for mourning rings to William Markham (qv), Head Master, Peirson Lloyd (qv), Under Master, and Charles Cooper (qv), “the usher of my house” ; m.1st, by c.1720, William Cox, surgeon, with whom she emigrated to Savannah, Georgia, North America, 1733 (but who d. there 1733) ; m.2nd, 1 Jun 1734 James Watt (or Watts), Lieut. South Carolina Independent Company (but who d. same month, she returning to England) ; d. Jan 1755 (London Evening Post, issue for 11-14 Jan 1755) (will dated 25 Jun 1754, with codicil 19 Dec 1754, proved PCC 24 Jan 1755, as of Frances Watts, Little Dean’s Yard, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, widow).
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2022
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.