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This is the last Will and Testament of me / Thomas Rawes of "Brooklyn", Stainton, Penrith in the / County of
Cumberland, Gentleman. I appoint my wife / Mary Ann and my sons Isaac and Frederick Renshaw / to be Trustees and
Executors of this my Will and I declare / that the words "my Trustees" herein used shall comprise / the three
persons aforesaid and the survivors and survivor / of them and the Executors and Administrators of such / survivor
or other the Trustees or Trustee or / Executor for the time being of this my Will. I give to my wife / the sum of
Fifty pounds to be paid within one month of my / death. I give the sum of One hundred and fifty pounds / each to
my sons William Rawes, Thomas Rawes and Edward / Rawes to be paid to them as soon as conveniently may be after /
my decease. I bequeath unto my said Trustees my Stock / and Shares in the Warrington Corporation amounting to /
about Three thousand pounds Upon Trust to sell the said / Stock and Shares and to invest the same in such
investments / as the Law allows and pay the annial income thereof to my / wife during her lifetime. And after her
death Upon Trust to divide / the principal as follows: To my son Thomas Fifty pounds. To / my son Edward Two
hundred pounds. To my son William / Three hundred and fifty pounds. And the residue of the said / sum of three
thousand pounds or thereabouts to be equally / divided amongst my said sons Isaac and Frederick / Renshaw and my
son John in equal shares as Tenants in / Common. And I empower my Trustees to postpone the sale / of the said
Stock and Shares if they so consider it desirable / and expedient, but if at any time prior to my decease the /
said Warrington Corporation Stock is disposed of I direct / my Trustees to raise first out of my Estate and before
any of / the Legacies are paid the said sum of Three thousand / pounds in substitution for the gift of the said
Warrington / Corporation Stock and invest the same and distribute the / residue in the same manner as I have
before directed as / regards the Sale proceeds of the said Warrington Corporation
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Stock I give to my son John the sum of One / thousand and five hundred pounds in addition to the / gift
previously made to him. I devise unto my Trustees / all the houses in Wellington Street, Warrington that I may be
/ possessed of at my death Upon Trust for my son Frederick / Renshaw absolutely. Whereas it is my intention
shortly to / to purchase a house in Penrith and if I carry out my intention / I shall expend the money which would
in the event of my / death fall into my Residuary Estate and thus go to my son / Isaac as my Residuary Legatee and
therefore I direct my / Trustees in the event of my purpose being carried out to / hold the same Upon Trust (or
the rents and profits thereof / in case of the same being let during the life of my wife) for my / wife for her
life And after her decease Upon Trust for my / said son Isaac absolutely. I direct that if at any time after / my
death my wife may wish to make a home for herself my / Trustees shall permit her to take from Brooklyn what they /
consider sufficient Furniture or to furnish the house suitable for her position and I / direct that on her decease
all my Furniture shall fall into / my Residuary Estate and become the absolute property of my / said son Isaac And
in the event of a portion of my Furniture / being taken by my wife for the purpose aforesaid I direct my /
Trustees to make an Inventory therof duly signed and / acknowledged to be correct by my said wife a copy whereof /
shall be delivered to my said son Isaac. All the rest residue / and remainder of my Estate of what nature or kind
soever or / wheresoever invested including my Stocks and Shares in the / firm of Mackie and Company Limited. I
give devise and / bequeath unto my Trustees Upon Trust after payment of / my just Debts Funeral and Testamentary
expenses and the / Legacies bequeathed by this my Will Upon Trust to pay the / same to my said son Isaac
absolutely And I hereby declare / that the Legacies hereby given are in addition to any sums / advanced by me to
my children in my lifetime And I direct / my Trutees to deliver up any Securities I may hold to any child / or
children who may have given me the same And I declare
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that any Debts owing to me by my son Thomas shall be / forgiven him and I direct my Trustees to hand over to him
any / Security that I my have taken from him Provided / Always that if any child of mine shall die in my lifetime
/ leaving a child or children who shall survive me and / being a son or sons shall attain the age of Twenty one /
years or being Daughter or Daughters shall attain that / age or marry under that age then and in every such case /
the last mentioned child or children shall take (and if more / than one equally between them) the share which was
her or / their parent would have taken under this my Will if such / parent had survived me and attained the age of
Twenty one / years And hereby revoking all my former Wills by me at any- / time heretofore made I declare this to
be my last Will and / Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand / the twenty first day of October
1901.
Signed by the above named Thomas
Rawes as his last Will and Testament in
the presence of us both being present at the Thomas Rawes [signed]
same time who in his presence and in the
presence of each other have hereunto
subscribed our names as witnesses
Robt. R. Edleston / Solicitor - Crewe
W. J. Huretfield / Clerk to R.R. Edleston - Solicitor - Crewe.
On the twenty sixth day of of May 1902 Probate of
this Will was granted at Carlisle to Mary Ann
Rawes and Frederick Renshaw Rawes two of
the Executors.
Certified copy.
Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002
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