Will of John Cheesman

of East Peckham, Kent

I give and devise unto my dear Mother Elizabeth Cheesman and her assigns one annuity or clear yearly rent charge of twenty five pounds of lawful British money to commence from the day the youngest of them my brother and sister William Cheesman and Ann Cheesman shall attain his or her age of twenty one years and to be payable thenceforth during the term of my said Mother’s natural life by even and equal quarterly payments

And I do hereby charge and make chargeable all that my moiety or half part of and in the messuage or tenement farm lands and hereditaments situate in the Parish of East Peckham aforesaid devised to me by my late Father with the payment thereof And I direct and declare that my said mother and her assigns shall have and be entitled to the usual powers and remedies of entry and distress to enforce the payment thereof when in arrear

And I give and bequeath unto each of my three Sisters Elizabeth, Mary and Anne the sum of five hundred pounds of like lawful money to be payable and paid to them respectively when the youngest of them for the time being of them my said brother and Sister William and Anne shall attain his or her age of twenty one years and I do hereby also charge and make chargeable my said moiety or half part of the said messuage or tenement, farm, lands and hereditaments with the payment thereof respectively And I direct that the same several legacies shall not carry interest in the meantime until the same shall become payable and subject to the payment of the aforesaid annuity and legacies to my mother and sisters

I give devise and bequeath all that my said Moiety or half part of and in the said messuage or tenement, farm, lands and hereditaments and all other my real and Personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever unto my brother William Cheesman his heirs executors administrators and assigns

And I nominate and appoint my friends William Golding of East Peckham aforesaid Gentleman and James Larkin of the same place Gentleman and my uncle William Foster of Penshurst in the said County joint Executors of this my last Will and testament

In Witness whereof I have set my hand this twenty second day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty one
John Cheesman

Signed by the said John Cheesman and by him declared to be his last Will and testament in the presence of us who were both present at the same time and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
William Henham, East Peckham Thomas Carnell, Solicitor, Sevenoaks

I John Cheesman do hereby declare my will to be that in case of the decease of either or any of my sisters before her or their legacy or legacies should become payable that the same shall belong to and be payable and paid to the survivors or survivor of them in equal shares (if more than one) to whom I do give and bequeath the same accordingly
As Witness my hand this twenty second day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty one
John Cheesman
Witnesses: William Henham Thomas Carnell

Appeared Personally Thomas Carnell of Sevenoaks in the County of Kent Solicitor and made oath that he is one of the attesting Witnesses to a Codicil to the last will and testament of John Cheesman late of East Peckham in the said County of Kent deceased the said Will and Codicil bearing date respectively the twenty second day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty one now hereunto annexed and the further made oath that on the twenty second of May one thousand eight hundred and forty one aforesaid the said deceased duly executed his said Codicil by signing his name at the foot or end thereof in the presence of this deponent and the said William Henham the other attesting witness thereto who were then together present at the same time with the said deceased and this deponent and the said William Henham thereupon attested and subscribed the said Codicil in the presence of the said Testator
Thomas Carnell
On the 1st day of July 1844 the said Thomas Carnell was duly sworn to the truth of this Affidavit before me
Herbert Jenner, Surr. [Surrogate] Present: Decimus Dyke Not. Pub. [Notary Public]

Proved at London 8th July 1844 before the Worshipful Herbert Jenner, Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oath of William Golding, James Larkin and William Foster the Uncle, the Executors to whom Administration was granted having been first sworn duly to administer
Exd.

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 17th March 2021

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