Will of Joseph Rawes of 11 Carbilly Cottages, Beadnell, Forest Hill, Kent. Made 1st March 1880. Proved 6th February 1880 at the PCC. (Swindale Line)

This is the last Will and Testament / of me Joseph Rawes of No.11 Carbilly Cottages, Beadnell Road, Forest Hill, / in the County of Kent, Gentleman. I appoint my friend Henry Augustus Eliot a / Clerk in the Bank of England and my nephew John Gerrard Rawes / Executors of this my Will I give devise and bequeath unto Mary Harvey / wife of William Harvey now living with me as my House Keeper all that my / leasehold house No.11 Carbilly Cottages in which I now reside together with all / the furniture and effects in and about the same at my decease for her own absolute / use and benefit free from the debts or engagements of her present ot any future / future with power to dispose of the same by deed or will notwithstanding her / coverture and her receipt alone shall be a good discharge to any purchaser in the / event of her selling the same I give to the said Henry Augustus Eliot £5 / for a ring I direct the payment of all my just debts and funeral and testa / mentary expenses and subject to the payment thereof I give devise and bequeath / all the rest and residue and remainder of my estate of whatever nature or kind the / same may be unto my said nephew John Gerrard Rawes for his own use and / benefit I hereby revoke all former Wills and declare this to be my last Will and / Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this first day of / March one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine - Joseph Rawes - / Signed by the testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of / us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have here- / unto subscribed our names as witnesses - F.W. Denny Solr. Coleman St. / London - William Cook, Stanstead Road, Forest Hill. Proved at London 6th day of Feby 1880 by the oath of Henry / Augustus Eliot one of the Executors to whom Admon was granted Power / reserved to John Gerrard Rawes the nephew the other Executor. "A" / (Translated from the Portuguese) / [Stamp] Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002