Will of Margaret Rawes of Kendal, Westmorland. Made 4th May 1897. Proved 25th July 1900 at Carlisle. (Plumgarths Line)

This is the last Will and Testament of me / Margaret Rawes of Number 148 Stricklandgate, Kendal in / the County of Westmorland Widow. I appoint Robert Rawes / of Number 148 Stricklandgate aforesaid Aeriated Water / Manufacturer and James Rooks of High Barne, Levens / in the County of Westmorland Farmer, hereinafter called my Trustees, / Executors and Trustees of this my Will. Whereas Agnes / Rooks late of Beathwaite Green in the County of / Westmorland by her Will dated twenty fourth day of April / one thousand eight hundred and sixty five gave and bequeathed / to her Trustees James Rooks and Myself in trust her five cottages / with outbuildings Tenements and hereditaments whatsoever / situate lying and being at Beathwaite Green aforesaid for the / benefit of myself then the wife of Robert Rawes, Lime Merchant / Plumgarths near Kendal in the County of Westmorland for / and during the term of my natural life and after my decease / to the said Robert Rawes my late husband during the term of his / natural life and in case my death or the death of the said / Robert Rawes my husband to be divided in three equal shares / between my heirs or whom I might appoint and her nephew and nieces or their heirs children of her sister Jane Wood, Widow / of Joseph Wood, Keswick in the County of Cumberland Draper / and the children or heirs of her sister Elizabeth Townley, wife / of Christopher Townley, Lancaster in the County of / Lancashire, Tailor. Now I the above named Margaret Rawes in / exercise and execution of the power for this purpose given to me / by the said Will as aforesaid and all other powers (if any) me / hereunto enabling hereby appoint the one third share and all / other the share and interest (if any) of me the said Margaret / Rawes or which I have power to appoint under the said Will of / the said Agnes Rooks to the said Robert Rawes of 148 Stricklandgate aforesaid, Aeriated Water Manufacturer absolutely for his own / use I devise and bequeath all other my Real Estate and all / my personal Estate unto my Trustees upon Trust that my / Trustees shall thereout pay my Funeral and Testamentary / expenses and Debts And shall stand seized and possessed of the / residue thereof In Trust for and I devise and bequeath / the same unto the said Robert Rawes of 148 Stricklandgate / aforesaid absolutely. I revoke all Wills and Testamentary / dispositions heretofore made by me. In witness whereof I have / hereunto subscribed my name this fourth day of May one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven. Signed by the said Testatrix Margaret Rawes as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who           Margaret (her mark) Rawes at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses G.W. Brumwell - M.R.C.S.E. Kendal J.B. Wilson - Solicitor - Kendal On the twenty fifth day of July 1900 Probate of this Will was granted at Carlisle to Robert Rawes and James Rooks the Executors Certified Copy - Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002