Will of Robert Lancaster Rawes of London. Made 4th January 1858. Proved 23rd April 1858 at the PCC. (Seatoller Line)

I Robert Lancaster Rawes Secretary to the / Royal College of Physicians in the parish of Saint Martins in the Fields / City of Westminster do declare this to be my last Will and Testament / I give and bequeath all my real and personal Estate of whatever nature / and kind soever after payment of my just debts funeral and Testamentary / expences unto my dear wife Sophia for her absolute use and benefit and I / appoint my said wife sole Executrix of this my Will in Witness whereof / I the said Robert Lancaster Rawes have hereunto set my hand this / fourth day of January eighteen hundred and fifty eight. - Robert Lan- / caster Rawes [signs] - Signed and acknowledged by the said Robert Lan- / caster Rawes as his Will in the presence of us present at the same time and / who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto sub- / scribed our names as witnesses - Edward Pettingal Major General in / the Honourable East India Company Service, Bengal - George / Wilkin 10 Spring Gardens. Proved at London 23rd April 1858 by the oath of Sophia Rawes / widow the Relict the sole Executrix to whom admin was granted. Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002