Will Of Ezekiel Edmonds (Proved 20th
Sept 1852 )
This is the last will and testament of me Ezekiel Edmonds of
Berryfield House of the parish of Bradford in the County of Wilts Esquire
which revoking all other wills by me at any time heretofore made I make as
follows
I will and direct that all my just debts and funeral and tetstamentary
expenses be fully paid and satisfied by my executors hereinafter named and
appointed out of my personal estate and effects
I give and bequeath to my wife Mary Edmonds all my household
goods and furniture plate linen china boats
prints and pictures wine and other liquors horses carriages and live and dead
stock of which I shall be possessed at the time of my decease and also the
legacy or sum of two hundred pounds to and for her own use and benefit
absolutely
Also I give and bequeath unto the Reverand John Little of Swidow in the County of Bedford Cleric John Hator of Trowbridge in the County
of Wilts Banker and my said wife Mary Edmonds the sum of twenty thousand
pounds of lawful English currency upon trust to lay out and invest the same
upon Government or real securities in Great Britain in their names and to pay
and apply the interest dividends and annual produce thereof to and for the use
of or to permit and suffer the same coniced by my said wife Mary Edmonds for her
own use and benefir during the term of her natural life in case she shall continue my widow and unmarried until the youngest
child I shall leave at the time of my decease or born in the time after my
decease or the youngest of such children respectively as shall survive shall
attain the age of twenty one years
And from and immediately after the decease of my said wife Mary
Edmonds or her marriage again before the youngest of my children living at
the time of my decease or born some time after my decease or the youngest child
who shall survive and attain the age of twenty
one years I will and direct that my said trustees shall pay and transfer the
sum of ten thousand pounds part of the said principal sum of twenty thousand
pounds unto my son Frederick Ezekiel Edmonds his executors
administrators and assigns to and for his and their own use and benefit
absolutely
And do and shall continue at interest on Government or real securities
aforesaid the sum of five thousand pounds of lawful English currency and pay
and apply the interest dividends and annual produce thereof to and for the
benefit or permit the same to be received by my daughter
Mary Anne Edmonds to and for her own use and benefit absolutely independent
of and without being subject to the debts control arrangements or interference
with any husband with whom she may at any time happen to marry and so that my
said daughter Mary Anne Edmonds shall not in any way incvrimivor or charge the same or anticipate the
payment thereof
And the receipt and receipts of my said daughter Mary Anne Edmonds
alone whether sole or covort shall be a good and
effectual discharge and good and effectual discharges to my said trustees for
the payment thereof or for so much money as in such receipt or receipts shall
be acknowledged to be received
And from and after the decease of my said daughter Mary Anne Edmonds
upon trust to pay and apply the said sum of five thousand pounds or the stocks
funds or securities in or upon which the same may be invested and placed unto
and equally between all and every the child and children of my said daughter Mary
Anne
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Edmonds if more than one in equal shares and proportions and if but one then to such only child
on his her or their attaining their respective age or ages of twenty one years
and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof in the meantime or until
such child or children shall attain the age or respective ages of twenty one
years to be paid and applied to and for the maintainance and education and
bringing up of such child or children until he she or they shall respectively
attain such age
And in case all and every such children and child shall depart this life
under the age of twenty one years leaving any husband of my said daughter him
her or them surviving then in trust to pay and transfer the said sum of five
thousand pounds or the stocks funds or securities in or upon which the same
shall or may be invested or placed unto and for the benefit of such husband of
my said daughter Mary Anne Edmonds so surviving to and for his own use
and benefit absolutely
And I do further will and direct that my said trustees and the survivor
and surviviors of them do and shall continue at interest on Government or real
securities the sum of five thousand pounds of lawful English money ……
(and he repeats it all exactly above for his first daughter, for his
second daughter Anna Maria Edmonds) ……
…….. for the benefit of such husband of my said daughter Mary Anne
Edmonds so surviving to and for his own use and benefit absolutely
Also I give and bequeath unto my said trustees John Little John
Hator and Mary Edmonds their
executors administrators and assigns the further sum of three thousand pounds
in trust to invest the same upon Government or real security in Great Britain
in their or his names or name And
to pay and apply the interest dividends and annual produce thereof to and for
the benefit and advantage of my said daughter Mary Anne Edmonds until
she shall
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attain the age of twenty five years and on her attaining such age if
then unmarried to pay assign and transfer the said principal sum of three
thousand pounds and the stocks funds and securitiesin or upon which the same
shall be invested and placed unto my said daughter Mary Anne Edmonds for
her own use and benefit
And in case my said daughter Mary Anne Edmonds shall happen to marry
with the consent in writing of my said wife Mary Edmonds before she shall
attain the age of twenty five years
in trust to pay transfer and assign the said sum of three thousand
pounds and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be
invested and palced unto my said daughter Mary Anne Edmonds for her own
use and benefit at any time after she shall have attained her age of twenty one
years
….. (and then he says the same thing in full for his other daughter) …..
Also I give devise and bequeath unto my son
Frederick Ezekiel Edmonds all and singular my freehold leasehold and copyhold Estate and all the Rest Residue and Remainder
of my personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever to holod the same
unto my said son Frederick Ezekiel Edmonds his heirs executors
administrators and assigns for his and their own use and benefit according to
the several daneires and qualities thereof
respectively
And I do hereby further will that in case either of my said children
shall happen to depart this life under the age of twenty one years that the
share of the child so dying under the age of twenty one years shall go to and
be divided between the survivors of them their heirs executors and
administrators
And in case more than one of my said children shall depart this life
under the age of twenty one years then as well as the original and the
remaining share shall go to the survivor his or her heirs executors or
administrators
And in case all my said children shall depart this life under the age of
tweny one years I give devise and bequeath all my said real and personal estate
subject to the estate and interest hereby given and bequeathed to my said wife
unto and equally between all and every the children and child of my brother
John Edmonds who shall be living at the time of the decease of the survivor
of my said children and the issue of any such children or child of my said brother
John Edmonds who shall happen to have departed this life leaving issue
their heirs executors administrators or assigns in equal shares and
proportions But such issue of any
deceased child or children of my said brother John Edmonds shall have
and be divided between them if more than one to
the share only which such deceased child or children would have taken and
become entitled to in case such deceased
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child had then been living
And I do hereby will and direct that the provision hereby made for my
said wife is (a word inserted above) ……….(?) to be in augmentation of the
provision made for her by the settlement executed by me
provisions to my marriage with her
And I do hereby further will and direct …. (absolves trustees from
losses?) … (appoints trustees and gives one hundred pounds each for their
"trouble") … (certain disrcetion on investment) …
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…(all the usual terms of investment, rights and obligations) …
… witness whereof I the said Ezekiel Edmonds the testator have at
the foot of this my will and of oath of the preceeding sheets thereof set my
hand this twenty second day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty
nine Ezekiel Edmonds signed published and declared by the said
Ezekiel Edmonds the testator as and for his last will and testament in the
presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have at
his request subscribed our names as witnesses the obliteration and interlination in the fifth and sixth sheets being
first made
John Bush Solicitor Bradford George
Martin Clerk (for Bush)
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I Ezekiel Edmonds of Berryfield House in the parish of Bradford
in the County of Wilts Esquire do hereby make this a Codicil to my will
(adds a fourth exec "my friend John Overbury of Fredericks
Place Old Towry in the city of London Merchant" …. on tenth day of August
1852 … witns George Hackman Servant of Mr Edmonds and
John Bush Solicitor)
Proved in London 20th Sept 1852