Will of Francis Russell Rawes of Maresfield, Sussex. Made 10th July 1933. Proved 9th April 1934 at London. (Russell Line)

[Page 1] This is the last Will and Testament / of me Francis / Russell Rawes of Greenside Budletts / Maresfield near Uckfield in the County / of Sussex Master of Arts and Clerk in / Holy Orders. I appoint Edward Hebdon of Number / 2, Garlinge Road, Cricklewood London / Edwin George Broughton of "Dunedin" / Number 42, Godstone Road Purley in / the County of Surrey and Edward Gordon / Bretherton of Number 2, The Priory / Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent / Solicator to be the Executors and Trusties / of this my Will and Trustees for all / the purposes of the Conveyancing settled / Land and Trustee Acts for the time / being in force And I declare that the / said Edward Gordon Bretherton or any / other Executor or Trustee may be employed / and paid for any work done by him or / his firm in his profession as a Solicitor / in respect of anything relating to the / proving of this my Will and the execution / of the Trusts thereof. I wish to be buried in the Churchyard / of the Parish in which I happen to die / and according to the Rites of the / Established Church of England or if / such Churchyard be closed therein the / nearest Cemetery. I give the following legacies namely:- / to my wife Ellen Rawes the following / articles namely:- The service Pistol & / Binoculars Compass and Regimental [Page 2] Photographs belonging to my late son / Hugh also the two framed Memorials / sent to me in the name of King George / and all the silver articles of whatsoever / description marked with the Rawes / Crest (a mailed forearm holding a club) my large silver tray ("Bickington" / Silver) and case of medallion portraits / and all my furniture and all / indoor and outdoor effects except such / articles as are hereinafter mentioned / Provided always that if my said wife / shall predecease me then I give and / bequeath the various articles and / effects hereinbefore bequeathed to her to / my son Francis Arthur Montague Rawes / To my daughter Henrietta Mary / Florence Rawes: the Portrait in oils of / my Mother Henrietta Rawes by Jamyn / Brook all my silver plate marked "H / R" (my Mother's initials) the teapot / milk jug and sugar basin similarly / marked the framed photo of my / Mother taken in the ninety third year / of her age the picture of "Gladioli" / painted by my said daughter the / painting of a Dog's head by my daughter / Ellen Winifred May my Photographs / in my small writing desk marked / "H R" and any sums payable on my / death under any policy in the Sun / Life Assurance Society and my shares / in Priest Houses Limited A.A. Jones & / Shipman Limited and the Army and / Navy Co Operative Society Limited the / Branch which formerly belonging to my / brother and the trinkets that are in [Page 3] my cash box. To my daughter Gwendoline Violet / Clarke: My Grandfather's writing desk / with secret draw my two cameras and / other photographic apparatus and my / medicine cabinet My copy of "The Book / of the Rose" and all other books about / the Rose "The Gardens of England" "The / Cottage Homes of England" "The Book / on Birds" and all my books on gardening. / To my son Francis Arthur Montague / Rawes requesting him to preserve the / same during his lifetime and to leave / the same by a Will to the eldest / daughter of mine who shall survive / him The Oak Paper Cabinet presented / to me by the Parishioners of Cousley / Wood Wadhurst and the double ink / stand with silver tray presented to me / by the Maidstone Parishioners My / Father's gold watch and cable chain / All silver articles marked with a crest / of a Greyhound on a Crown The Rawes / Crest stamp General Gordon's bust / paper weight in bronze my match tray / representing Girl and Well and my Brother's / key box The kneehole mahogany writing / table with eight drawers and the Military / travelling chest in two parts that / belonged to my Brother My two hundred / Gaius College Cambridge sports cup my / glass bottomed Pewter Pot and my / Biscuit Bucket which I used at Cambridge / Provided always that if my said son / Francis Arthur Montague Rawes shall / predecease me then I give and bequeath / the articles hereinbefore bequeathed to him [Page 4] to my eldest daughter of mine who shall / be living at my death. To my daughter Irene my books on / British Israel my Dresden clock / candlesticks and other Dresden ornaments / of whatever description. To my daughter Elsie my other / binoculars my "Swiss Cottage" and any / ornaments not hereinbefore mentioned. To my daughter Phyllis all my books / by or about Charles Dickens four / volumes of "The Land we live in" four / volumes of "Wonders of Land and Sea" / "The Amateur Mechanic" "The Aquarium" / and "Arabian Nights". To my grandson Donald May all / my books of whatever description on / Electricity and Botany and all my tools. And whereas I am entitled to a certain / share or shares of a trust fund called / the "Reverend W. F. and H. Rawes / Marriage Settlement Trust Fund" / upon which notice of a mortgage of / Seven hundred pounds and interest / was purported to have been given to / the Trustees thereof namely the Public / Trustee and myself but doubts have / been raised as to the validity of the / said mortgage Now I hereby direct / declare and appoint that all my / said share or shares in the said / settlement Trust Fund either subject / to such mortgage or freed therefrom / either by payment off or by / rectification or cancellation of the / said purported charge of seven / hundred pounds shall be paid or [Page 5] transferred to my said wife for her / own benefit absolutely And as to / the rest and residue of my estate / (whether real or personal and whether / in possession reversion or expectancy) / I give devise and bequeath the same / unto the said Edward Hobden Edwin / George Broughton and Edward Gordon / Bretherton (hereinafter called my / "Trustees") upon trust to sell call in / and convert into money such parts of / my said estate as shall not consist / of money and shall with and out of / the proceeds of such sale calling in / and conversion as aforesaid and of my / ready money pay my debts funeral / and testamentary expences And shall / stand possessed of the residue of such / proceeds aforesaid Upon trust to pay / transfer and divide the same to / and between my children in equal / shares absolutely Provided always / that if any child or children of mine / shall have predeceased me then the / issue of such child or children shall / take and equally amongst them if / more than one the share which his her / or their parent would have taken if / he she or they had survived me. I commit the said Ellen Rawes to the / care of all my children as circumstances / have presented me from making any / further provision for her myself owing / to legal appointments which necessity / has caused me to make being sure that / they will look after and provide for her / comforts during her lifetime. [Page 6] I revoke all former Wills and Testamentary / dispositions at any time heretofore made / by me. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set / my hand this tenth day of July / One thousand nine hundred and thirty / three. F Russell Rawes Signed by the said testator Francis / Russell Rawes as and for his last Will / and testament in the presence of us both / being present at the same time who / at his request in his presence and in / the presence of each other have / hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses / Hercules Hanward South View Budltts / Maresfield Wheelwright [in very small faint writing] G R Marshall Clerk to the Msrs[?] Bros Bretherton under[?] [writer?] / Solicitors Tonbridge Wells Transcribed by Julian Rawes, 2009