Will of Elizabeth Rawes of Silverdale, Lancashire. Made 17th October 1830. Proved 30th May 1833 at Chester. (Preston Record Office). (Silverdale Line)

[Will:] [Sheet one:] This is the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth Rawes / of Silverdale in the County of Lancaster Spinster. In the first place / I order and direct all my just debts, funeral and testamentary / expences to be paid off and discharged by my Executors / hereinafter named as soon as conveniently may be after my / decease. Item. I give and bequeath the following Legacies or sums of money, that is to say. Unto Margaret Camill of / Liverpool Wife of William Camill[?] of the same place, Gentleman the sum / of nineteen pounds and nineteen shillings: Unto Mary / Hutton of Burnley in the said County of Lancaster Spinster / the sum of nineteen pounds and nineteen shillings and / unto John Jackson of Silverdale aforesaid, Labourer, / the sum of ten pounds. I also give and bequeath unto my / Executors hereinafter named the sum of nineteen pounds / and nineteen shillings to be by them applied for and / towards the maintenance and support of John Rawes / the natural Son of my Daughter Ann Rawes in such / manner and form as to them my said Executors may / seem meet and proper: and also the sum of nineteen / pounds and nineteen shillings to be by them in like / manner applied for and towards the maintenance and / support of Robert Rawes the natural Son of my said / Daughter Ann Rawes. I also give and bequeath unto my / said Executors the sum of forty pounds to be by them / placed out and invested as they may think proper and to / pay and apply the interest and annual proceeds therof / for and towards the maintenance education and / support of Mary Rawes the natural Daughter of my / said Daughter Ann Rawes until she shall attain the / age of twenty two years and on the said Mary Rawes / attaining her said age of Twenty Two years Then upon / Trust to pay the said sum principal of forty pounds unto her the said Mary Rawes. And in case any of / them my said Legatees shall happen to depart this / life before his or her Legacy shall have become due / and payable leaving lawful issue such issue to take / their deceased parents share per stirpes and not per / capita. And in case any of them my said Legatees / shall happen to depart this life before his or her / Legacy shall have become due and payable without / leaving lawful issue the share or shares to which / he she or they would have become entitled to go and / be divided unto and equally amonst them the said / Margaret Camill[?], Mary Hutton, John Rawes, Robert / Rawes and Mary Rawes share and share alike [Sheet two:] and the issue of such of them as shall have departed / this life leaving lawful issue, such issue to take the share / or shares unto which their deceased parents would / have been entitled share and share alike per stirpes / and not per capita. All the rest residue and remaining / of my estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever / and of what nature and kind soever the same may / be I give and bequeath unto and equally amongst / the said Margaret Camill, Mary Hutton, John Rawes / Robert Rawes and Mary Rawes in manner and / form aforesaid. And I do hereby declare and / direct that them my said Executors shall not one / of them be answerable or accountable for the acts / or defaults of the other of them but each of them for / his own acts and defaults only; nor for any loss which / may happen to the said trust estate and premises unless / such loss shall happen by or through his or their / wilful default or negligence. And I hereby appoint / Amos Jackson of Silverdale aforesaid, Yeoman and / James Barton Armistead of the same place Yeoman / executors and trustees of this my said Will hereby revoking / all former and other Will or Wills, Codicil and / Codicils by me at any time heretofore made and do / declare this alone to be my last and only subsisting / Will and Testament. I witnwss whereof I have / to this my Will set my hand and seal this / seventeenth day of October in the year of our / Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty / The mark and seal X of Elizabeth Rawes. Signed sealed published and declared by the said testatrix Elizabeth Rawes as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses. P.W.Blackson[?] Barton Westm'd Thos: Barton Armistead Milnthrop Westmorland. [Transcript of Proving:] [Sheet three:] On the thirtieth day of May one thousand eight hundred / and thirty three this Will of Elizabeth Rawes late of Silverdale / in the parish of Warton in the County of Lancaster within the / Archdeaconry of Richmond and Diocese of Chester Spinster who / departed this life in the month of December last was / proved in common form and Amos Jackson of Silverdale / aforesaid Yeoman one of the Executors therin named was / sworn well and faithfully to execute and perform the same / and so forth (power being reserved for James Barton, / Armistead the other Executor therin named) and that according / to the best of the knowledge information and belief of the said / Amos Jackson the whole of the Goods Chattels and Credits of / which the said Testarix died possessed within the Archdeaconry / and Diocese aforesaid (exclusive of what the Testatrix might have / been possessed of or entitled to as Trustee for any other person / or persons and not beneficially and without deducting any / thing on account of the debts due and owing by and / from the said Testatrix were under the Value of Three / hundred pounds. Before me / J.Rowley A.M. / Surrogate. Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002