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This is the last Will and Testament of me / Elizabeth Raws of Sherburn in the County of Durham / widow, I give and
devise unto my Daughter Elizabeth Nicholson / for and during the term of her natural life All that my Freehold /
Messuage or Dwelling House situate in Barclay Street in Monk / Wearmouth Shore in the said County And after her
decease I give and / devise the same unto her child John Thomas Coulson his Heirs and / Assigns in case he shall
attain the age of twenty five years. And in case the / said John Thomas Coulson shall happen to die before
attaining the age of / twenty five years Then and in that case I give and devise the said / Messuage or Dwelling
House unto my nieces Elizabeth Lynn Ann Lynn / and Margaret Lynn (daughters of my brother Ingram Lynn) in equal /
shares as Tenants in Common their respective Heirs and Assigns forever / And I hereby declare and direct that the
said Freehold premises hereinbefore / devised and interest monies and annual produce hereinafter bequeathed / to
my said Daughter Elizabeth Nicholson during her natural life shall / be for her sole and seperate use and benefit
and shall not be subject to / the debts controul disposition or engagements of her present Husband / or any person
after his death she may happen to intermarry And I / give and bequeath unto my said Daughter Elizabeth Nicholson
for her / sole and seperate use and benefit All my Household Goods and Furniture / Plate linen and china and
Household Articles of every description And / I give and bequeath All my ready money securities fir money debts /
goods chattels personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever / not hereinbefore specified disposed of
unto my said Daughter Elizabeth / Nicholson and my said Brother Ingram Lynn their Executors / Administrators and
Assigns Upon Trust with all convenient speed / after my decease to sell dispose of collect get in and convert the
whole whereof / into money and thereout to pay my just debts and funeral Expences and / the Expenses of proving
this my Will and to place out and invest the / residue of such Money at Interest upon Government or real
Securities / in their names and from time to time to alter vary and transpose such / Securities and funds until
the Money therein to be invested shall become / payable by virtue of the trusts and directions of this my Will
when and / as often as they shall think proper. And I declare and direct that the / said Elizabeth Nicholson and
Ingram Lynn their Executors Administrators
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and Assigns shall stand and be possessed of and interest in the money / hereinbefore declared to be invested or
placed out at interest and the Stocks / and ffunds and Securities whereupon the same may for the time being be /
invested Upon the Trusts following (that is to say) Upon Trust to pay the / Interest Dividend and Annual produce
of the money so directed to be / invested or placed out at interest as aforesaid to my said Daughter Elizabeth /
Nicholson and her assigns or to permit her and them to receive the same / during the term of her natural life when
and as the same shall be received / And I declare and direct that the said Ingram Lynn his Executors /
Administrators and Assigns shall from and after the decease of my / said Daughter Elizabeth Nicholson stand and be
possessed of and / interested in the money so directed to be invested or placed out at interest / as aforesaid and
the Stocks ffunds and Securities whereupon the same / shall for the time be invested Upon Trust thereout with all
convenient / speed after the decease of my said Daughter to pay the same unto my / said Grandson John Thomas
Coulson his Executors Administrators / and Assigns in case he shall attain the age of twenty five years And in /
case the said John Thomas Coulson shall happen to die before attaining / the age of twenty five years then and in
that case Upon Trust to pay / transfer and divide the said trust monies and ffunds unto and equally / amongst my
said nieces Elizabeth Lynn Ann Lynn and Margaret Lynn their respective Executors Administrators and Assigns And I
/ give to the said Elizabeth Nicholson and Ingram Lynn their Heirs and / Assigns all such real Estates as are now
vested in me by way of mortgage / in order to enable them with the greater ease and convenience to recover /
receive and get in the money secured by such mortgages for the purposes of / this my Will. And I constitute and
Appoint my said Daughter Elizabeth / Nicholson and my Brother Ingram Lynn Executors of this my last Will / and
Testament and I hereby revoke all former Wills And I declare and / direct that if either of them the said
Elizabeth Nicholson and Ingram Lynn / shall die or be desirous to be discharged of and from or refuse or decline
to act / in the Trusts hereby in them respectively reposed as aforesaid before the said / Trusts shall be fully
performed or discharged than and in such case and / when and as often as the same shall happen it shall and may be
lawful / to and for the continuing or surviving Trustees or Trustee or the Executors or / Administrators of the
surviving Trustee by any writing or writings
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under his or their Hands and Seals respectively to / nominate substitute and appoint any other person or persons
to be a / Trustee or Trustees for the purposes aforesaid in the place of the person or / persons so dying or
desiring to be discharged or refusing or declining to act / as aforesaid and that when and as often as any new
Trustee or Trustees shall / be nominated and appointed as aforesaid all the said trust monies / securities and
funds shall be thereupon with all convenient speed / assigned and transferred in such manner as that the same
shall be / effectually vested in the surviving or continuing Trustee and such new / Trustee jointly or if ther
shall be no continuing Trustee then in such / new Trustees wholly upon the same trusts and to and for the same
intents / and purposes and with under and subject to the same powers / provisoes and declarations as and
hereinafter mentioned expressed and / declared of and concerning the same trust monies and premises / respectively
or upon and under and subject to such of the same trusts / powers provisoes and declarations as for the time being
shall be existing / or capable of taking effect And I declare and direct that it shall and / may be lawful to and
for the said Elizabeth Nicholson and Ingram \ Lynn and the Trustees or Trustee to be named and appointed as
hereinbefore / mentioned their respective Executors Administrators or Assigns by and / out of all or any of the
money which by virtue of this my Will shall come to / their or any of their hands to deduct retain and reimburse
themselves / herself and himself and pay to his her and their Co-Executor and Trustee / or Trustees as such Costs
Charges and Expences as they shall or may sustain / expend or be put in or out the execution of this my Will or
any of the / trusts herein contained. And also that they and their respective Executors and / Administrators shall
be charged and chargeable only every of them for / and with his her and their own respective receipts payments
acts and wilful / defaults and not otherwise and shall not be charged or chargeable with or for / any sum or sums
of Money other than such as shall actually and / respectively come to his hers or theirs hands by virtue of this
my Will nor / with or for any loss or damage which may happen in or about the execution / thereof or any of the
trusts hereby declared without his her or their respective / wilful default. In Witness whereof I the said
Elizabeth Raws have to this / my last Will and Testament contained in this and the two preceeding / sheets of
paper set my Hand and Seal to wit my Hand at the bottom of each
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of the same preceeding sheets my Hand and Seal to this last sheet and my / Seal at the top on the first of the
said sheets where all the same sheets and fixed / together this fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord
One thousand / eight hundred and forty nine. Elizabeth Raws [signed] The writing / contained in this and
the two preceeding sheets of paper was by the said / Testatrix Elizabeth Raws Signed Sealed published and declared
as and / for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in her presence / at her request and in the
presence of each other have hereunto subscribed / our names as Witnesses thereto - Henry Eggleston
Solicitor, Sunderland / Edward Fulton his Clerk. Wm Eggleston Junr. Grocer, Monk Wearmouth Shore.
On the 19th day of October 1861 Letters of Administration / with the Will annexed of all and singular the personal
estate / and effects of Elizabeth Raws late of Sherburn in the County / of Durham, widow, deceased, left
unadministered by Ingram / Lynn, deceased, whilst living, the surviving Executor and / Residuary Legatee In Trust
were granted to Margaret Graham, / of Monkwearmouth, in the said County of Durham, widow (heretofore /
Margaret Lynn, Spinster) the Niece and one of the surviving / Residuary Legatees substituted in the the said Will,
she having been / first Sworn duly to administer. - Elizabeth Nicholson (wife of / Thomas Nicholson) the other
Executor, Residuary Legatee In Trust / and also Residuary Legatee for life, Proved the said Will, but died / 19th
September 1853 intestate, and John Thomas / Coulson the grandson, the Residuary Legatee substituted on the / death
of the said Elizabeth Nicholson (in case he should have / attained the age of 25 years) died in month of June 1858,
without / having attained that age. Effects under £450.
Probate Extracted by / W. Brignal, Solr. South Shields.
Examined and I hereby Certify the same to be a correct / Copy.
[margin note] Former Grant / 31st August 1830. / Effects under £100.
Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002
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