THIS IS THE LAST
WILL AND TESTAMENT of
me Mead Raymond of Craven
Place Old Kent Road in the County of Surrey lighterman
I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth
absolutely for her own sole use and benefit all the furniture
plate linen glass and china which shall be in about or
belonging to the house in which I may be residing at the
time of my decease I give and bequeath unto my friends John
Nelson of the Old Barge House in the parish of Lambeth
Gentleman and John Brooks of the Commercial Road Lambeth,
Timber Merchant the sum of £10 a piece to purchase a mourning
wig as a small token of my respect for them I devise and bequeath
all the residue and remainder
of my real and personal estate and effects unto and to the use
of the said John Nelson and John Brooks as to the
real and personal estate not belonging to me beneficially upon
Trust to dispose thereof according to equities affecting the same
and as to the real and personal estate belonging to me beneficially
upon Trust to dispose thereof according to the directions
hereinafter contained that is to say I direct my said trustees
to pay out of the rents and profits of my real estate and my
house in Craven Place Old Kent Road unto my daughter Anne now the wife
of Mr John Gould the
clear yearly sum of one
hundred pounds payable quarterly for her own sole and
separate use independent of her present or any future husband
and so that she shall have no power to anticipate the same
and for which her receipt alone shall be a discharge to my
trustees the same to be paid and payable to her for and during
the term of her natural life unless determined sooner as
hereinafter mentioned I also direct my trustees to pay out of
the rents and profits of my real estate and my house in Craven
Place Old Kent Road to my daughter Elizabeth
the clear yearly sum of one
hundred pounds payable quarterly for
her own sole and separate use independent of any husband with whom she
may intermarry and so that she shall have no power to anticipate the
same and for which her receipt alone shall a discharge to my said
trustees the same to paid and payable to her for and during the term of
her natural life unless determined sooner as hereinafter mentioned and
I direct that upon the death of either of my said daughters in the
lifetime of the other of them the annuity of her sibling shall be paid
and payable to the survivor of them for the same period in the
same manner and subject to the same conditions limitations
qualifications and ... as herein ...the annuity originally bequeathed
to her by this my will and I direct that in case either of my said
daughters shall make do or execute or raise or procure or permit or
suffer to be made done or executed any instrument deed act matter or
thing whatsoever whereby or by means whereof the said annuity whether
original or ... would but for the .. and limitations hereinafter
contained become vested in or payable to or receivable by any other
person or persons whomsoever then and immediately thereupon the annuity
so attempted to be aliened or changed as aforesaid shall wholly and for
ever cease and determine as to my said daughter making such
attempt and be then immediately thereupon paid and payable to the other
of said daughters and if either of my said daughters shall after her
sister's annuity shall have ... to her either by death or forfeiture
attempt to alien charge incumber or in any manner prejudicially effect
the same or any part thereof or her own original annuity or any part
thereof then immediately thereupon their said annuity so attempted to
be aliened charged incumbered or prejudicially affected and every part
thereof shall wholly and for ever cease and .. (determine?) and fall
into and become part of the residue of my estate and go over to the
persons entitled to the said residue and be subject to the directions
hereinafter contained concerning the same and it is my will that if it
should happen that the rents and profits of my real estate and my house in
Craven Place aforesaid should be insufficient to pay the said annuities
hereinbefore bequeathed to my said daughters the same annuities shall
decrease and abate rateably in proportion to the amount of the rents and
profits which shall be available for payment of them it being my
express will and intention that the said annuities shall be chargeable
on my real estate and my house in Craven Place only and that my said
daughters shall look for payment of them to my real estate and said
house in Craven Place and whereas I am now indebted unto my friend the
said John Nelson to a
considerable amount and I am desirous that provision should be made for
payment and liquidation of the same in such manner as to interfere with
and disarrange as little as possible the directions limitations and
provisions of this my will I declare and direct that the whole of my
property real and personal shall be liable equally and without any
priority of one or the other to the payment of the debt so due to my
fiend said John Nelson and my other debts and that the directions
limitations provisions and bequests declared and contained herein
shall give way and be subject to and take effect and come into
operation only after the provisions arrangements and directions
and measures which my trustees may make and think advisable for
the payment and liquidation of my said debts it being my will
that the same should be paid and provided for in such manner as
to fall upon and affect equally as near as may be my real and
personal estate regard being had to their ... value and amount and
give my trustees full authority for this purpose declare that their
arrangements and directions shall be absolute and binding on all
parties taking under this my will as I repose the fullest trust and
confidence in my trustees knowing that they will make such arrangements
and provisions as will be ... (consistent?) with the directions and
provisions of this my will and I direct my said trustees
so long as my son Augustus
shall be under the age of
twenty two years to carry on my
business of lighterman at the Wharf where I now carry on the
same situate in the parish of Saint Mary Rotherhithe in the County of
Surrey and known as "Raymond's Wharf"
and that either together or in partnership with my son Mead should he be in partnership
with me at the time of my decease or alone and by themselves should my
said son not be in partnership with me at the time of my decease as the
case may be and in order to enable my said trustees to carry on and
continue the said business I hereby authorize and empower them to act
as fully and effectually in every respect as I myself could do so if
acting therein and I hereby empower and direct them to employ and or
... in my said business such part of my personal estate as shall
constitute the capital or my share of the capital employed therein at
the time of my decease with any additional capital my trustees shall
think requisite or necessary and to employ for that purpose the surplus
if any of the rents and profits of my real estate and my house in
Craven Place as after payment of the outgoings thereof and the
annuities hereby bequeathed to my said daughters and I direct my
trustees of the profits of the said business to pay unto each of my
sons Mead and Augustus until Augustus shall attain
the age of twenty two years the clear yearly
sum of one hundred pounds
payable quarterly and I direct my
trustees after payment of the said annuities to my said sons to apply
the residue of the profits of my said business either in the said
business or to invest the said residue in and upon Government or real
securities in England for the benefit of my said sons and I direct my
said trustees when and so soon as my son Augustus shall attain the said
age of twenty two years to make over and assign to them my said sons
Mead and Augustus the whole of my
said business in such manner that my said sons may be
possessed thereof and interested therein in equal share between them
and the ... of debts and effects of the same and to divide equally
as between them my said sons all the accumulated profits if any of
my said business and I direct my trustees to stand possessed
of and interested in all the residue and remainder of my real and
personal estate upon trust to invest such part thereof as shall consist
of personal estate and the surplus of the rents and profits of my real
estate upon Government or real securities in England for the benefit of
my said sons Mead and Augustus and keep the same so invested and from
time to time to invest the growing ... thereof until my said son
Augustus shall attain his said age of twenty two years and as soon as
my said son Augustus shall attain that age then I direct my trustees to
pay over assign convey and transfer the said residue unto my said
sons to hold to them
my said sons for their own absolute ... and benefit as
tenants in common and that I direct and declare that if from any cause
whatever the trusts hereinbefore contained for carrying on my said
business should fail or become impracticable that the whole of the
residue of my property after payment of my debts and the annuities
hereinbefore bequeathed to my daughters shall go to and become vested
in my said sons Mead and Augustus absolutely as tenants in common and
in case of the death or refusal to act of any or either of my trustees
I hereby empower the surviving continuing or acting trustee or trustees
to appoint another person to be a trustee in the place of the trustee
so refusing dying or declining to act subject nevertheless to the
approval of my said sons of such appointment testified in writing and
upon such appointment the surviving or continuing trustee shall do all
acts ... to vest the trust property in a new trustee jointly with such
surviving or continuing and such new trustee shall thereupon have the
same powers and authorities in all respects as if had been appointed by
this my will and I appoint my friends the said John Nelson and
John Brooks EXECUTORS of this my will in witness thereof I have
to each of the five sheets of paper upon which this my will is
written set my hand this twelfth day of February in year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty. Mead
Raymond, Signed by the testator Mead Raymond in the
presence of us John
Raymond Jr. - W. C. Raymond.
IN THE PREROGATIVE COURT
OF CANTERBURY - IN THE GOODS
OF MEAD RAYMOND DECEASED APPEARED PERSONALLY William Chapman Raymond of 15 Saint Saviours Church Yard Southwalk in the County of Surrey Wharfinger and made oath that he is a subscribed witness to the last will and testament of Mead Raymond formerly of Craven Place Old Kent Road in the County of Surrey but late of Paradise Street Rotherhithe in the same County lighterman deceased the said will being now hereunder annexed and carrying date the twelfth day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty and the deponent now having carefully perused and inspected the said will observed the words or any part thereof interlined between ... further made oath that such interlineations were respectively made previous to the execution of the said will and that the said deceased duly executed the said will on the day of the date thereof by signing his name at the foot or end thereof in the presence of this deponent and John Raymond the younger the other subscribed witness thereto both being present at the same time and that this deponent and the said John Raymond the younger there upon respectively attested and subscribed the said will in the presence of the said Testator. - W. C. Raymond on the 26th day of September 1843 - the said William Chapman Raymond was duly sworn to the truth of this affidavit before me A. F. Bayford etc. PROVED at London 28th September 1843 before the Worshipful John Elliot Pasley Robertson Doctor of Law and Surrogate by the oaths of John Nelson and John Brooks the Executors to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn duly to administer. Transcribed
Oct. 2007 by John G. Raymond, Brisbane, OLD., Australia
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