[WILL:]
This is the last Will and Testament / of me Sarah Rawes of Kendal in the / County of Westmorland Widow
and / Relict of Richard Rawes of the same / place Esquire Deceased as follows I give / devise and
bequeath unto my sister / Mary Webster who now resides / with me All my real and personal / Estate and
Effects whatsoever and / wheresoever that I have power to dispose / of by this my Will to and for her
own / use and benefit. I appoint her sole executrix / of this my Will 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 Twenty Third / day of December One thousand eight / hundred
and fifty one.
Signed and declared by the
said Sarah Rawes as her last
Will and Testament in the
presence of us present at the Sarah Rawes
same time who in her presence
and in the presence of each other
have hereunto subscribed our
names as Witnesses
Ann Mason Servant with Mrs Rawes
Hugh Langhorn.
[PROBATE:]
On the fourteenth day of July in the Year of our Lord one / thousand eight hundred and fifty four, this
Will of Sarah Rawes, late / of Kendal in the Parish of Kendal in the County of Westmorland, within the /
Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Diocese of Chester, Widow of the late / Richard Rawes Esquire of Kendal
aforesaid who departed this life on or about / the fourteenth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and
fifty four, was / proved in common form, and Mary Webster of Kendal in the Parish of / Kendal aforesaid,
Spinster the sole Executrix therein named, was sworn well and faithfully to / execute and perform the
same and so forth, and that accepting to the best of the Knowledge / Information and Belief of the said
Mary Webster the said Executrix, the whole / of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of which the said
Testatrix Sarah Rawes died / possessed within the Diocese of Chester and Manchester and Deaconry / of
Richmond in the Diocese of Ripon, (exclusive of what the said Testatrix / might have been possessed of,
or entitled to as Trustee for any other Person / or Persons, and not beneficially and without deducting
anything on account / of the Debts due and owing, by and from the said Testatrix) were under / the
Value of One thousand pounds. -
Before me
Joseph Fawcett
Surrogate
Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002
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