Will and Inventory of Elizabeth Blackburn Rawes of Portobello, Midlothian, Scotland. Made 29th April 1890. Proved in 20th May 1890 in Scotland. (Scottish Record Office) (Will: Ref. C.5594, page number 354. Inventory: Ref. ?. page number 903.) (Augustus Line)

WILL: Testament by Elizabeth B. Rawes: 29 April 1890. I Miss Elizabeth / Blackburn Rawes residing at / number Thirty one Mellville Street Portobello / being desirous to provide for the management / and disposal of my moveable estate after / my death Do hereby make constitute and / appoint John Balfour Doctor of / Medicine Portobello and James Gibson Agent of the / Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited Mus / selburgh to be my sole Executors and / Administrators with full power to them / to intromit with my whole moveable estate / and excentry of every description to give up / Inventories thereof and to confirm the same / and generally to do everything in the / premises competent to the office of Executor / nominate Declaring always that the said / John Balfour and James Gibson shall be / accountable to the Residuary Legatees herein / after named for their intromissions in / virtue hereof after payment of all my / lawful debts deathbed and funeral charges / the necessary expenses to be laid out / in confirming and recovering my said / estate and excentry and the Legatees herein / after appointed to be paid And I / ordain my said Executors to pay the / following Legacies at the first term of / Whitsunday or Michaelmas happening after / my death and of the readiest of my / means and estate falling under this / Testament vizt (First) To The Roman Catholic / Church in Portobello the sum of Two / hundred and fifty pounds sterling (Second) / To The Very Reverend John Smith Canon / in Saint Marys Roman Catholic Church / Stirling as a slight consideration for / the great interest he has taken in my / family for many years the sum of / One hundred pounds sterling (Third) To the / said John Balfour in consideration of the / kind attention he has paid to me for / some years as my Medical attendant / the sum of Fifty pounds sterling (Fourth) / To the said James Gibson in consideration / of his having transacted all my business / and money matters for me for many / years without remuneration the sum of / Fifty pounds sterling (Fifth) To Agnes Hall / Wife of George Hall Portobello who was a / domestic servant with me for five years / the sum of One hundred and fifty pounds / sterling but declaring that the said Legacy / shall be paid to her exclusive of the / jus mariti of her said husband and / that the said Agnes Halls' receipt thereof / by herself alone shall be a sufficient / discharge to my said Executors (Sixth) To / Charlotte Wilson[Milson?] presently residing with me / in consideration of her faithful services / as a domestic servant to me for / seven years the sum of One hundred and / fifty pounds sterling (Seventh) To the Treasurer / of the Edingburgh Royal Infirmary for / behoof of the said Infirmary the free / sum of One hundred pounds sterling (Eighth) / To the Provost of Portobello for the time / being for behoof of the Poor of Portobello / the free sum of Twenty pounds sterling / which sum shall be distributed among / the poor in Portobello in such manner / as the said Provost shall think proper / And before proceeding to dispose of the / Residue of my means and estate I / wish to record that I have left and / intend to leave nothing to any of / my relatives on account of the neglect / they have shown me during my lifetime / And with regard to the Residue and / Remainder of my means and estate / falling under this Testament I direct / and ordain my said Executors to divide / the same into four equal parts or / shares and to pay one of said / fourth parts or shares to the said / Roman Catholic church in Portobello: to / pay another of the said fourth parts / or shares to the said Very Reverend / Canon John Smith: to pay another of / said one fourth parts or shares to the / said John Balfour and to pay the / remaing one fourth part or share / to the said James Gibson; hereby appoint / ing the said Roman Catholic Church Porto / bello the said Canon John Smith John Balfour / and James Gibson my Residuary Legatees / And I Provide and declare with reference / to the foresaid Legacy of Two hundred / and fifty pounds and the bequest of / one fourth of the Residue of my means / and estate to the Roman Catholic Church / Portobello that the same shall be paid / to the Pastor of the said Church for / the time being and that the receipt / and discharge shall be of sufficient exo / neration to my said Executors And I / hereby express it to be my wish that / my body shall be buried in the / Grange Cemetery beside my mother and / my sister And I revoke all Wills and / Testaments made by me at any time / heretofore And I reserve my own liferent / in the whole premises and full power / to alter or revoke these presents at pleasure / And I dispense with delivery herreof And / I consent to Registration hereof for preser / vation In Witness Whereof I Have subscribed / these presents written by William McMichael / Solicitor Callander at Callander the Twenty / first day of April Eighteen hundred and / ninety before these witnesses Hugh McLaren / Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery / residing in Callander and Mrs Margaret / Thomson Widow residing at Heathbank Cal / lander. By authority of the above named / and designed Elizabeth Blackburn Rawes who / declares that she cannot write on account / of sickness and bodily weakness I William / McMichael Solicitor Callander notary Public / subscribe these presents for her she having / authorised me for that purpose and the / same having been previously read over to / her all in presence of the Witnesses / before named and designed who subscribe / this docquet in testimony of their having / heard authority given to me as aforesaid / and heard these presets read over to / the said Elizabeth Blackburn Rawes (Singed) / Fideliter William McMichael Notary Public / Hugh McLaren M.B. C.M. Witness Margaret / Thomson Witness Written by James Lumsden Collated by M.U.Forbes INVENTORY: Page 903 Elizabeth Blackburn Rawes Stamp £78 Testate 20 May 1890 At Edinburgh the twentieth day of May eighteen hundred and ninety the following Inventory of the personal estate of the deceased Elizabeth Blackburn Rawes and deed relative to the disposal thereof were presented by Mr Marcus J. Brown Inventory of the Personal Estate wheresoever situated of Miss Elizabeth Blackburn Rawes who resided at number thirty one Melville Street, Portobello who died at Callander on the twenty fourth day of April eighteen hundred and ninety. Scotland 1 Cash in house £14 14 11 2 Value of household furniture And effects conform to valuation By Messrs Douglas & Smart £145 05 00 3 Sum at deceased’s credit with Page 904 the Commercial bank of Scotland Limited, Musselburgh £151 07 07 Interest thereon to date of death 12 08 Interest thereon to date of oath 7 06 £152 07 09 4 Value of Ten shares of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited Nos. 4900 to 4909 both inclusive at £58. £580 00 00 Interest to date oath 8 14 00 £588 14 00 5 Value of Debenture No.99 @ 4½ per cent by The Scottish and New Zealand Investment Company Limited having it’s head office in Edinburgh £500 00 00 Interest from 11 November to date of death 10 02 02 Interest to date of oath £510 12 02 England Page 905 1 Value of five City of Ottowa 6% Debentures Number 001 005 of £100 each Repayable in London @115% Inclusive of current interest £575 00 00 2 Value of Debenture @ 4½% No.196 by the south Australian Land Mortgage and Agency Company Limited London £500 00 00 Interest from 1st January 1890 to Date of death 7 00 06 Interest to date of oath to Inventory 10 00 £507 10 06 3 Value of do @ 4% No.99 do do £350 00 00 Interset from 1 January 1890 to date of death 4 07 06 Interest to date of oath 6 00 £354 13 06 4 Proportion of Interest on Annuity Payable under Deed of Agreement dated 31 December 1861 entered into between Page 906 The Right Reverend Henry Edward Manning and others And the deceased £13 17 00 Total amount of Personal Estate -------------- in the the United Kingdom £2862 14 10 -------------- Note: The Deceased had no personal estate elsewhere Schedule of Debt due and owing From the deceased at the time of her death to persons resident in the United Kingdom and Funeral Expenses. Debts Messrs R & J. Kellock Wine Merchants Portobello £56 01 00 Mr John Fowler 178 High Street do 18 03 10 Mrs Thompson. Callander 9 08 03 Thomas Hepburn & Sons Blacksmiths do 22 14 01 R. Edward, Painter, High St. do 6 02 02 George Pringle, Coal Merchant do do 10 01 02 James Inglis, Cabinet Maker do do 17 15 01 Dr.McLaren, Callander 5 00 00 Daniel Ross, Shoemaker, High Street, Portobello 5 04 07 Page 907 James Ritchie & Sons, Watchmaker Edinburgh 2 19 02 J.S. Ewen, Ironmonger, Portobelllo 2 11 00 William Brown, Fishmonger, do 1 13 06 Portobello Gas Light Company 1 10 01 Miss M.H. Kirkwood, Portobello 16 00 John Shepherd, Stationer, do 11 11 William McVey, Watchmaker do 4 11 William McMichael, Solicitor Callander 6 04 00 Ker & Co. Woollen Warehousemen, Peeble 3 13 03 A. Innes, Draper, Portobello 2 02 02 The Portobello Advertiser 1 06 Mrs W. Gibbon, Callander 8 00 D & J McEwen & Co, Chemist Collander 10 05 Caledonian Railway Company 2 05 Mrs Robertson, 13 Bellfield Lane Portobello 4 03 William Kellett, Ironmonger, do 5 06 John Gray, Coachhirer do 4 01 Drs And & J.H. Balfour do 4 10 06 John Maxton, Plumber do 6 03 07 Miss Charlotte Neilson 7 07 06 Page 908 John Nisbet, Chemist, Portobello 7 13 03 John Thomson, Fruiterer do 15 05 Half years rent 18 00 00 A.N. Smith, Draper do 22 16 06 A. Brand, Baker do 19 04 02 Knitting Machine Company, Glasgow 6 16 00 Thomas Inglis, Coachhirer Portobello 1 02 06 Blanshe Brothers, Grocers do 11 18 05 Mrs James Neilson, 34 Henderson Road do 1 05 00 C. Neilson do do 4 06 Anne Neilson do do 1 15 James Gibson, Commercial Bank Musselburgh 22 10 00 ------------ £310 11 11 Funeral Expenses Douglas & Smart, Undertakers, Portobello 38 02 06 ------------ £348 14 05 ------------ Abstract Total amount of Personal Estate as per foregoing Inventory £2862 14 10 Amount of Debt and funeral Expenses as per Schedule 348 14 05 --------------- Nett value of Personal Estate Chargeable in the duty £2514 00 05 --------------- (signed) Jas. Gibson - And: Aikman, J.P. Page 909 At Edingburgh the fourteenth day of May eighteen hundred and ninety. In the presence of Andrew Aikman Esquire one of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of the City of Edinburgh. Appeared James Gibson, Agent, Commercial Bank of Scotland, Limited, Musselburgh one of he Executors of the deceased Miss Elizabeth Blackburn Rawes who resided at number thirty one Melville Street, Portobello who being solemnly sworn and examined depones that the said Elizabeth Blackburn Rawes died at Callander domiciled in Scotland upon the twenty fourth day of April eighteen hundred and ninety That the deponent has entered upon the possession and management of the deceased’s estateas Executor nominated by her along with John Hutton Balfour, Doctor of Medicine, Portobello (named Page 910 In the Trust Disposition and Settlement after mentioned John Balfour) in Trust Disposition and Settlement dated the twenty second and recorded in the Books of Council and Session at Edinburgh the twenty ninth, both days of April eighteen hundred and ninety an extract whereof is now exhibited and signed by the deponent and the said Justice of the Peace as relative hereto. That the deponent does not know of any Testamentary Settlement or Writing relative to the disposal of the deceased’s personal estate or effects or any part thereof other than the said Trust Disposition and Settlement. That the foregoing Inventory signed by the said deponent and the Justice of the Peace is a full and complete Inventory of the said deceased’s Page 911 Personal estate and effects wheresoever situated belonging and due to her beneficially at the time of her death in so far as same has come to the deponents knowledge. That the said deceased had her heritable estate in this Country in so far as is kown to the deponent. That the said deceased Elizabeth Blackburn Rawes was due and owing at the time of her death to persons resident in the United Kingdom the debts enumerated in the foregoing Schedule. That these debts are payable by law out of the estate and effects comprised in the foregoing Inventory are nor any of them voluntary debts made payable on the death of the deceased or voluntary debts payable under some Instrument delivered to the donee thereof with in three months Page 912 Before the death of the said deceased or debts which are primarily payable out of any real estate belonging to the said deceased, or debts in respect whereof a reimbursement is capable of being reclaimed from any real estate of the said deceased or from any other estate or person whatsoever. That these debts with the funeral expenses of the said deceased as also shown in the said Schedule amount to Three hundred and forty eight pounds 41/5 sterling. That the nett value at the date of the said personal estate and effects situated in Scotland including the proceeds accrued thereon down to this date and after deducting the amount of the said debts and funeral expenses is Two thousand five hundred sterling Page 913 and does not exceed Two thousand Six hundred pounds sterling. That confirmation of the said personal estate is required in favour of the deponent and the said John Hutton Balfour all which is truth as the deponent shall answer to God. (signed) Jas. Gibson (signed) And: Aikman. J.P. For Deed see Test Record I to p.179. Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002 & 2006