SARAH RAWES OF MANCHESTER

Will of Sarah Rawes of Manchester. Made 30th March 1860. Proved 27th February 1868 at Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC). (Somerset House)
This is the Last Will and Testament / of me Sarah Rawes of Manchester in the county of Lancaster Spinster I will / and direct that all my just[?] debts funeral and testamentary expenses be paid by / my executrix and executor hereinafter named as soon as conveniently may be / after my decease I give devise and bequeath unto Elizabeth Amelia Mason of / Watersville Road, Upper Hornsey Rise, Middlesex, Widow and Chadd Ragsdale / Randall of 14 Bakerhouse[?] Yard, Solicitor, my executrix and executor hereinafter / named all the estate share and interest which at my decease I may be seized / or possessed of or entitled to in the lands dwellinghouses and other properties / situate in Coventry or elsewhere and all other my real estate and also all / my Personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever be held that same unto the / said Elizabeth Amelia Mason and Chadd Ragsdale Randall their heirs / executors and administrators according to the several natures and qualities / thereof respectively[?] upon trust for Frances Mason Pratt and Catherine Clarke / the children of my late cousin Martha Clarke widow of Francis Clarke late of Manchester deceased and Helen Mauguall[?] the youngest of my late cousin Martha Mauguall[?] and granddaughter of the said / Martha Clarke share and share alike as tenant in common and in case any / or other of them the said Frances Mason Pratt and Catherine and Helen / Mauguall[?] shall be in my lifetime leaving lawful issue such issue shall / stand in the place of their deceased parent and take such estate and interest / under this my Will as such deceased parent would have taken if she had / survived and I do hereby fully authorise and empower the said Elizabeth / Amelia Mason and Chadd Ragsdale Randall and the survivor of them her and / his heirs or assigns if he she or they in his or their absolute discretion shall / think it advisable to be so of their or his own proper authority and without the / consent or concurrance of any or either of the persons beneficially interested therein / to sell and absolutely dispose of all or any part of my said estate and effects in / anyway he she or they may think proper and to receive the purchase money for / the same and to give value and effectual receipts and discharges for such purchase / money which receipts shall effectually discharge the purchaser or respective purchasers / from all responsibility in respect of the application of the money which in any such / receipt shall be expressed to have been received And that the said Elizabeth Amelia / Mason and Chadd Ragsdale Randall their executors or administrators shall have / assessed attending the same upon trust for the persons who would have been / entitled to the said estate under this my Will in case it had not been sold And I / hereby appoint the said Elizabeth Amelia Mason and Chadd Ragsdale Randall executrix and executor of this my Will and revoke all former Wills by / me at any time made and declare this only to be my last Will and Testament in / witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 30th March / 1860 - Sarah Rawes - signed by the said Sarah Rawes as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us / both present at the same time who in her presence at her request and in the / presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our name as witnesses - Thomas / Parsons[?] - Edward Cheshire.

Proved at London 27th February 1808 [1868] by the oath of Elizabeth Amelia Mason widow one of the executors to whom admon was granted power reserved of / making the grant to Chadd Ragsdale Randall the other executor.

Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliff, 2002