Will of Thomas Rawes of Monkwearmouth, Durham. Made 11th November 1863. Proved 16th September 1872 at Durham. (Innkeeper Line)

This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Rawes of / Monkwearmouth in the County of Durham Innkeeper made this eleventh day of / November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty three with / reference to two Acts of Parliament passed respectively in the twenty second and / twenty third and the twenty third and twenty fourth years of the reign of Her / present Majesty the first intituled "An Act to further amend the Law of Property / and to relieve Trustees" and the second intituled "An Act to give to Trustees / Mortgagees and others certain powers now commonly inserted in Settlements / Mortgages and Wills" I revoke all wills by me heretofore made I appoint / Henry Grear of Sedgefield in the said County Smith and William / Law of Willington in the same County Innkeeper Trustees and Executors / of this my Will I give and devise unto and to the use of my / said Trustees their heirs and assigns my two Copyhold dwellinghouses / and tenements situate in the village of Sedgefield aforesaid now / occupied by the said Henry Grear and Mary Todd widow as my / tenents And all other my real estate whatsoever and wheresoever / Upon Trust that they my said Trustees or the survivor of them / his heirs or assigns shall as soon as conveniently may be / after my decease sell and dispose thereof and receive and stand / possessed of the purchase money arising from the sale thereof and / any intermediate rents and profits after payment thereof of all expenses / attending such sale or sales In Trust for my daughters Mary the / wife of Henry Grear, Elizabeth the wife of the said William / Law, Jane the wife of William Herron of Stranton in the said County / Brick and Tile Maker, Dorothy Rawes Spinster Alice the wife of Matthew Stamp Luckby of West Hartlepool in the said County Officer of / Customs and Sarah Rawes Spinster in equal shares I bequeath / to my said Trustees and Executors all my household furniture stock / in trade ready money book debts term tenancy and all other my personal / estate and effects whatsoever subject to the payment thereout of my just debts / and funeral expenses and the expense of proving this my will In trust for / my two unmarried daughters Dorothy Rawes and Sarah Rawes in equal shares / Provided always and my will is that in case at any time within twelve / calendar months after my deceasemy said daughter Dorothy Rawes shall / signify her wish to do so it shall be lawful and optional for her to take / to herself and retain and have solely and exclusively the whole of my household furniture stock in hand and other articles with and upon my / dwellinghouse and premises and my Goodwill License and tenency therein / upon her paying or securing to my said daughter Sarah Rawes in such manner / as to my said Trustees and Executors may seem expedient or sufficient one / moiety of the fair and reasonable value of the said household furniture / stock in trade and other articles within and upon my said dwelling / house such value to to be fixed and ascertained by my said Trustees and / Executors or by whom they may appoint as if on an ordinary sale by auction / irrespective of Goodwill or of the said Dorothy Rawes continuing in possession / of the said dwellinghouse And as of all estates vested in me as / Trustee or Mortgagee I give and devise the same unto and to the use of / the said Henry Grear and William Law their heirs and assigns Upon the / trusts and subject to the equities affecting the same respectively In witness / whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year first hereinbefore written Thomas Rawes [signed] Signed by the Testator Thomas Rawes and by him published as his will in the presence of us present together at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. J.J. Allison Undercliffe W.W. Robson Bishop Wearmouth Attorney at Law Proved at Durham 16th September 1872 by the oath / of Henry Grear the surviving Eecutor, to whom Administration was / granted The Testator Thomas Rawes was formerly of Monkwearmouth in the County of Durham / Innkeeper but late of Crook in the same County and died on / 15th May 1872 at Crook aforesaid Under £20 Extracted by R.F. Middleton, Solicitor, Durham This is a true copy / John Earles / District Registrar Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2003