Will & Admon of Jane Rawes of Lancaster, Lancashire. Made 20th January 1868. Proved 28th December 1871 at Lancaster. (Russell Line) |
This is the last Will and Testament of me / Jane Rawes / of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster, widow. I
bequeath unto my son Henry Rawes the / legacy or sum of Ten pounds. I bequeath my wearing apparel unto my
granddaughter (the / daughter of my daughter Margaret Lord). I give devise bequeath all my real estate and the /
residue of my personal estate unto my son George Rawes and my said daughter Margaret Lord / their heirs executors
administrators and assigns respectively. As to such part thereof as shall not / belong to me beneficially Upon
Trust to dispose thereof according to the equities affecting the / same And as to such part thereof as shall
belong to me beneficially Upon Trust that they the said / George Rawes and Margaret Lord or the survivor of
them or the executors or administrators of / such survivor their his or her assigns at such time after my decease
as they he or she / shall think fit sell and dispose of my real estate by public auction or private sale together
/ or in lots and convert and get in the residue of my personal estate and stand possessed of the / proceeds
thereof Upon Trust to divide the same equally between and amongst such of my / sons the said George Rawes
and John Rawes and my daughter the said Margaret Lord as / shall be living at my decease and the issue then living
of such of them my said sons George / Rawes and John Rawes and my daughter Margaret Lord as shall have died in my
/ lifetime as being males shall attain the age of Twenty One years or being females shall / attain that age or
marry distributing yet so that the issue shall participate only as / representing their deceased parents
Provided Always and I hereby direct that the share / and interest of and in my residuary estate hereinafter
given to my said daughter Margaret / Lord shall be paid to her sole and seperate use and her receipt alone shall
be a sufficient / discharge for the payment thereof And I direct that any moneys or contingent or other shares /
or share of and in my said trust property required to be invested under this my Will shall be / made in any of the
public stocks or funds or government securities in the United Kingdom or / in or upon real securities in England
or Wales or in or upon the debentures mortgages or securities / of any Railway Canal or other public Company
incorperated by Act of Parliament and paying a / dividend or in or upon the guaranteed preference or ordinary
stocks or shares of any such Company / In witness whereof I have hereunder set my hand this twentieth day
of January one thousand / eight hundred and sixty eight
Jane Rawes Signed by the Testatrix Jane Rawes as her last Will and Testament in the presence / of us present at the same time who at her request and in her sight and presence and in the presence / of each other have subscribed our names as attesting witnesses.
Robt. Hall Solicitor Lancaster.
At Lancaster the twenty eighth day of December 1871 Administration
Under £20. No Leaseholds Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002 |