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MILES, Emma
1806 - 1855 (50 years) Has one ancestor and one descendant in this family tree.
- Bef 1854-
Name MILES, Emma Birth Between 1805 and 1806 Gender Female Death 6 Mar 1855 Leamington, Warwickshire, England 
Person ID I6395 Edgoose Last Modified 4 Feb 2026
Father MILES, Captain Thomas R.N. d. Bef 1854 Family ID F2440 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family ENSOR, Thomas Rainford, b. 24 Jan 1806, St. Pancras, Middlesex, London, England d. 23 Jan 1846, Kentish Town, Middlesex, England (Age 39 years) Marriage 1835 St. Giles-In-The-Fields, Middlesex, England Children 1. ENSOR, Jane Rainford, b. 17 Jan 1836, St. Pancras, Middlesex, London, England d. 29 May 1893, Brighton, Sussex, England (Age 57 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F2439 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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EMMA ENSOR née MILES 1805 or 1806-1855
Thomas Rainford ENSOR married Emma MILES, grandaughter of Captain Thomas Miles, Post Captain RN, by licence at St. Giles in the Fields in 1835.
(Pallot's Marriage Index)
From the 1841 census of Kentish Town, St. Pancras, Middlesex:
Thomas ENSOR, aged 35, solicitor, born in Middlesex;
Emma ENSOR, aged 35, NOT born in Middlesex;
*Jane ENSOR, aged 5, born in Middlesex.
(HO107/683/6/17/29)
The death of Emma ENSOR was registered in 1855. According to Nick GRIBBLE she died on 6 March 1855.
(GRO June Q 1855 Warwick [which includes Leamington] 6d 262)
In her will made on 14 February 1846 (one month after the death of her husband Thomas Rainford ENSOR) Emma ENSOR widow of No. 31 Fortess Road, Kentish Town, Middlesex, made bequests to her daughter Jane Rainford ENSOR; her sister Sophia MILESESES; her sister Ann the wife of Captain John SMITH Royal Navy, now residing in College Street, Camden Town, Middlesex; to her brother Edward MILES; and to the three trustees John MASON of Burton Erescent in the County of Middlesex, William LORD of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, and Henry Brayley WEDLAKE of Kings Bench Walk, Temple, London, Gentleman. Probate was granted at London on 22 May 1855 to John Charles MASON and William LORD the surviving excecutors.
"This is the last Will and Testament of me Emma Ensor of No. 31 Fortess Terrace Kentish Town in the County of Middlesex Widow I give and devise all and singular my real estate whatsoever and wheresoever situate unto and to the use of John Mason of Burton Erescent in the County of Middlesex Esquire William Lord of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster Esquire and Henry Brayley Wedlake of Kings Bench Walk Temple London Gentleman their heirs and assigns to hold the same with the appurtenenances Upon Trust that the John Mason William Lord and Henry Brayley Wedlake or the survivor or survivors of them or his heirs executors administrators or assigns do and shall pay and apply the rents issues and profits thereof in and towards ththe maintenance education and advancement of my daughter Jane Rainford Ensor until she shall attain the age of twentyone years or marry which shall first happen And from and immediately after she shall have attained such age or been married Upoon Trust that they my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being do and shall convey transfer and assign the said Freehold property with its appurtenances unto the said Jane Rainford Ensor her heirs and assigns or unto such person or persons annd to and for such uses trusts ends intents and purposes as the said Jane Rainford Ensor shall notwithstanding her Coverture direct or appoint And I give and bequeath unto the said John Mason William Lord and Henry Brayley Wedlake their executors administrators and assigns the sum of one thousand six hundred pounds sterling Upon Trust to invest the same upon Government or real securities in England and to apply the dividends interest and annual produce which shall from time to time accrue due thereon during the minority of my said daughter or until her marriage (or so much of such dividends interest and annual produce as my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being shall require in addition to the rents and profits of my said real estate as aforesaid) in maintaining supporting and educating my said daughter Jane Rainford Ensor in a
manner suitable to her station in Society And as to the residue (if any) of the said dividends interest and annual produce which shall from time to time be unapplied as aforesaid Upon Trust to invest the same to accumulate at Compound interest for the benefit of the said Jane Rainford Ensor and from an immediately after she shall attain the age of Twenty one years or be married Upon further Trust to pay transfer and assign the said sum of one thousand six hundred pounds and such acccumulations as aforesaid or the stocks funds and securities upon which the said sum of one thousand six hundred pounds and such accumulations shall for the time being be invested unto my said daughter Jane Rainford Ensor for her sole and separate use and so that the same may be free from the control debts or engagements of her then present or any future husband and her receipt or receipts alone shall whether covert or sole shall be a good discharge or good discharges to my said Trustees or Trustee for the same And as to all the Residue and Remainder of my personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever I give and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my Sister Sophia Miles for her absolute use and benefit Provided always and I do hereby direct and declare that if my said daughter Jane Rainford Ensor shall depart this life without having attained the age of twenty one years or been married Then my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being do and shall sell and dispose with all convenient speed of my said real property for such price or prices and in such manner as to they my said Trustees or Trustee shall seem meet. And I direct that the receipt or receiptsof my said Trustees or Trustee shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of all or any part of my said real estate And that out of the produce of such sale or sales do and shall pay the following Legacies vizt To my said Sister Sophia Miles the sum of four thousand pounds sterling To my Sister Ann the wife of Captain Smith of the Royal Navy now residing in College Street Camden Town Middlesex one thousand pounds sterling To the said John Mason two hundred pounds sterling and to the said Henry Brayley Wedlake two hundred pounds sterling two of my said Trustees as aforesaid And I give and bequeath all the residue (if any) of my said personal estate and effects after payment of all my just debts and funeral and testamentary expences annd the aforesaid Legacies unto and equally between the said Ann Smith Sophia Miles and my Brother Edward Miles as Tenants in common And I hereby direct that all the said Legacies hereinbefore given and bequeathed unto any female or females shall be free from the debts or control of their present or any future husbands and the receipt or receipts in writing of such females or female respectively shall whether they shall be covert or sole be good discharges to my said Trustees and Execuutors And I do hereby authorize and empower the Trustees or Trustee for the time being to compromise or compound any debt or demand which shall appear to be owing to my estate case where the same shall seem necessary and to give or allow time for payment of any such debt upon such security as they or he shall think fit and moreover to refer to Arbitration any doubt or dispute which may arise concerning the extent or reality of any debt or demand which may appear claimed as due to or frrom my estate and to submit to and perform the Award of the Arbitrator or Arbitrators to be appointed on any such reference or any Umpire to be chosen by them in all respects whatsoever Provided always and I do hereby declare that if either of mmy said Trustees shall die or be desirous of being discharged from or refuse or become incapable to act in the Trusts hereby in them reposed it shall be lawful for the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs executors or administrators of such survivor to appoint any fit or proper person or persons to be a Trusteee or Trustees in the room or place of the Trustee or Trustees so be dying being desirous of being discharged refusing or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid and that succh new Trustee or Trustees shall to all intents and purposes have the same powers and benefits as if he had been originally appointed a Trustee or Trustees by this will And I do also declare that the Trustees or trustee for the time beingof thiis my will shall not be answerable or accountable the one for the others or other of them nor for any more monies than they respectively shall actually receive nor for signing any receipt or receipts for the sake of conformity nor for involuntarary losses and that such Trustees or Trustee shall have full power to deduct from the said Trust monies all costs charges damages and expences which they or he may be put unto in carrying into execution the aforesaid Trusts or in relation thereto And I do hereby nominate and appoint the said John Mason William Lord and Henry Brayley Wedlake Executors of this my will and Guardians of my said child Jane Rainford Ensor during her minority Provided also and it is hereby expressly declared and agreed that the said Henry Brayley Wedlake shall be entitled to the same cost of any business or proceedings which shall be transacted or carried on by him in his character of Attorney or Solicitor in execution of the Trusts hereby repososed in him or in relation to the said Trust estate as if he had not been such Executor or Trustee and had been employed in such Business or Proceedings by the Trustees or Trustee hereunder in his professional capacity alone any Rule of Equity tto the contrary notwithstanding And hereby revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made I declare this to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty six - Emma Ensor - The writing contained in this and the three preceeding sheets of paper hereto annexed was signed by the said Emma Ensor the Testatrix and by her published and declared as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at one and the same time who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses - Saml. John Pittendreigh Grays Inn Solr. - Jno Yarnold his Clerk.
Proved at London 22d. May 1855 before the Worshipful William Robinson Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oath of John Charles (in the will written John) Mason one of the surviving Executors to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn duly to Administer Power reserved of making the like grant to William Lord the other surviving Executor when he shall apply for the same".
(National Archives PROB 11/2212)
"PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chan-
cery, made in a cause John Charles MASON, plaintiff,
against Thomas Abbott TIBBITTS and others, defendants,
the creditors and incumbrancers on the real estate of Emma
ENSOR, formerly of Fortess-terrace, Kentish Town, in the
county of Middlesex, and late of Leamington Priors, in the
county of Warwick, Widow, who died in or about the
month of March, 1855, are, by their Solicitors, on or
before: the 7th day of November next, to come in and
prove their debts or claims, at the chambers of the Master
of the Rolls, in the Rolls-yard, Chancery-lane, Middlesex,
or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded
from the benefit of the said Decree. Saturday, the 15th day
of November, 1856, at twelve o'clock at noon, at the said
chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon
the claims.— Dated this 7th day of August, 1856.
(London Gazette Issue 21912 page 2795)
NOTES & QUERIES:
When and where was she baptised?
1851 Census: Untraced.
(revised 25.02.2012)