Will of Harry Rawes of Lancaster. Made 22nd February 1917, Proved 14th May 1917 at Lancaster. (Harry Line)

This is the last Will and Testament of me / Harry Rawes / of 31 Sun Street Lancaster a Private in the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. I appoint / my brother William Rawes and my brother in law John Davis, Draper hereinafter called / my trustees to be the Executors and Trustees of this my Will and I appoint my wife during / her life and after her death my trustees to be the Guardian and Guardians of my children / and I give all my property unto my trustees in trust to convert into money the same / and to invest the proceeds with power to vary the investments thereof and to pay the income / thereof to my wife during her life if she shall so long remain my widow and after her death / or marriage again which shall first happen to decide the coffers[?] equally among all my children / who being sons attain the age 21 years or being daughters attain that age or marry / with power for my trustees with the consent of my said wife if living and if not at their own / discretion to raise the whole or any part of the prospective share of my infant child and to apply / the same for his or her advancement or benefit And I empower my trustees to postpone the / conversion of any part of my property for so long as they shall think fit and it is my wish that / they shall postpone such conversion during the life of my said wife unless my trustees shall at / any time see reason to the contrary and the income of any property remaining unconverted of shall / from the time of my death be paid and applied in the same manner as the income of the proceeds / thereof would have been payable and applicable for the time being if the same had been converted. / In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twenty second day of February One / thousand nine hundred and seventeen. Harry Rawes [signs] Signed by the said testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us both present at the same time who at his request in his sight and presence and in the presence of each otherhave hereunto subscribed our names as the attesting witnesses John R. Jolly William W. Green Clerks to Hall Marshall and Seward[?] Solicitors Lancaster On the 14th May 1917 Probate of this Will was granted at Lancaster to William Rawes and John Davis Draper the Executors. Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2003