I give devise and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Sandwell George my Brother in Law Richard Hopper Shrewsbury and my Son in Law Robert Thomas Parnell all and singular my freehold and leasehold estates parts and shares (if any) in any freehold and leasehold estates whatsoever and wheresoever and all my household furniture plate linen china books money stocks bonds bills and securities for money and all other my Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever to hold the same freehold leasehold and personal estate respectively according to the several natures and qualities thereof unto the said daughter Sarah Sandwell George Richard Hopper Shrewsbury and Robert Thomas Parnell their Heirs Executors and Administrators respectively
Upon Trust to permit my dear Wife Ann to have the use and enjoyment of my said household furniture plate linen china and books during her natural life if she should so long continue my widow and unmarried And I release my executors from all responsibility respecting such goods and chattels during the time the same may be in her control and possession and subject as aforesaid
And I hereby direct my executors to convert into money all my property not consisting of money or securities for money or realty as soon as conveniently may be after my decease and such money and securities to call in and convert at their discretion and from time to time to sell and dispose of all the said trust estate as and when the same may come in and to invest the produce thereof in their names in Government or good mortgage securities and to stand possessed thereof and of every part thereof with full power to vary and alter the same as circumstances may require and of the interest dividends and annual proceeds thereby
Upon trust to pay unto or permit my said will [Wife?!] to have and receive the whole amount of the yearly rents and produce of my said trust estate and of such investments when so made by them as aforesaid as the same shall become due for her widowhood and from and after the decease or second marriage of my said wife whichever may first happen Upon trust by and out of the annual income interest and produce of my said trust property to set apart and appropriate a sufficient capital sum to realise the several annual amounts as may from time to time be required for the purposes following (that is to say)
for the purpose of and I give and bequeath unto each of my unmarried daughters if four unmarried the sum of twenty five pounds sterling per annum to each of my unmarried daughters if only three the sum of thirty pounds sterling per annum to each of my unmarried daughters if only two the sum of thirty five pounds sterling per annum and to my unmarried daughter if only one the sum of forty pounds per annum such several annuities to be paid and payable to my said unmarried daughters during their natural lives if they should continue unmarried by half yearly instalments from the period of my said Wifes decease and a proportional part of the same several annuities to each of them or their representative of their assigns up to the day of their respective deaths or marriage whichever may first happen
And from and after the decease or future marriage of my said Wife and the several deceases or marriages of my said daughters Upon trust to divide the residue of my said trust estate unto and among my several children equally who may then be living and the issue of any of them who may be then dead such issue taking amongst themselves respectively only a parents share and the shares of such of my said children being a daughter or daughters shall be invested interests in them respectively on attaining the age of twenty one years or marriage
Provided always and I hereby direct and empower my said trustees for the time being whenever they may think fit and at their discretion to sell my real estate every and any part thereof together or in parcels by public sale or private contract or partly by each such mode with power to buy in such estate at any such auction and to resell the same at any future auction or by private contract without having to answer for any conditional loss to be thereby occasioned and to convey and assure the same hereditaments when so sold unto or according to the direction of the purchase or purchases thereof and the money to be produced by such sale to fall into and become part of my said residuary personal estate and be applicable accordingly
And I hereby declare that every receipt of my said trustees for the time being shall be an effectual discharge to the person obtaining the same for as much money as may be thereby expressed to have been received and a complete exoneration from all liability to see to the application of such money Provided also and I hereby empower the trustees for the time being of this my will to compound or allow time for payment of any debt or debts due to my estate and to satisfy or settle all demands against my estate whether supported by legal evidence or not and also accounts between me and any person or persons on such terms as my said trustees or trustee may in their or his discretion think expedient and to refer any matters in discourse relating to my estate to arbitration and to advise by and perform the award thereupon made
Provided also and I do hereby direct that it shall not be compulsory upon my trustees or executors to call in any money which I may have advanced to any of my several children immediately or at any particular period after my decease unless they my said trustees and executors should think it expedient and necessary so to do but they my said trustees and executors shall and may excise and pursue their own discretion as to the time and mode of calling in and requiring such payment as aforesaid And that in case of any loss being sustained by my said trust estate by reason of such moneys not being called in by my said trustees and executors the same shall not be charged upon my said trustees nor shall they be answerable or accountable for any loss sustained or misfortune happening or occasioned thereby but the same shall be borne and paid by my trust estate and my said trustees and executors shall be in them exonerated therefrom
Provided further and I hereby declare and direct that if my trustees or either of them or any trustee or trustees to be appointed under this clause should die or be unwilling or incompetent to act in the trusts of my will or remove beyond (the) seas or be desirous of discontinuing to act therein it shall be lawful for my said Wife during her Widowhood and after her second marriage or decease for the surviving or continuing trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will (if any) or for the heirs executors or administrators of the last surviving trustee to substitute any person or persons in whom alone or as the case may be jointly with any surviving or continuing trustees or trustee my trust estate shall be vested And I hereby exempt every trustee under this my will from all liability for losses occurring without his own wilful default and discharge him from responsibility for his cotrustee and authorise him retain and allow to his cotrustees all expences incidental to the trusteeship
And I hereby appoint the said Sarah Sandwell George Richard Hooper Shrewsbury and Robert Thomas
Parnell joint Executrix and Executors of this my will and revoking all former Wills by me made do
declare this to be and contain my last Will In Witness whereof I the said Robert George the Elder have
hereunto set my hand this nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty
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Signed published and declared by the said Robert George the Elder as for his last Will and Testament in
the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
subscribed our names as witnesses the testator and witnesses being all present at the same time
George Acworth Solr Rochester - Alfred Morgan his Clerk
This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me Robert George the Elder dated the nineteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty
I hereby revoke and declare void the bequest contained in my said Will so far as concerns my Son Robert Georges participation of my residuary personal estate and declare that he shall have no interest therein or right to any part thereof inasmuch as I have already advanced to him or on this account more than his proper share therein would amount unto And I bequeath to the said Robert George Junior the sum of nineteen pounds nineteen shillings as a mark of my affection to be deducted from the sum which he now owes me
I give and bequeath unto my grandson Robert George Parnell my Silver Watch and appendages and nineteen pounds and nineteen shillings to be delivered to his Father immediately after my decease and his receipt to be a discharge
I hereby direct and declare that the portion of my daughter Elizabeth Slatterie under my said Will shall
be retained by the trustees thereby for the time being and kept out at interest Upon trust to pay to her
solely the interest and dividends thereof free from the control or engagements of her husband and the
receipt alone after such dividends and interest shall become payable shall be a valid discharge for (the)
same from time to time
And after my daughters decease the principal money and interest to be divided
and payable to her children or child under the directions and by my said trustees And in case my
daughter Elizabeth shall have no child or children or there being such and all shall die under twenty one
years of age then the share of my said daughter Elizabeth to fall into my residuary personal estate and go
amongst my children in like manner as is now provided by my said Will and this Codicil
And in all other respects I confirm my said Will and direct this Codicil to be considered as part thereof
In Witness whereof I the said Robert George the Elder have hereunto subscribed my name this
fourteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one
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Signed and declared by the said Robert George the Elder as for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament
in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
subscribed our names as witnesses the testator and witnesses (the words “to be deducted from the sum
which he no owes me” having been first interlined and the cash legacy to my Grandson Robert George
Parnell was previously altered to nineteen pounds and nineteen shillings
J.G. Ely Chatham - George Acworth Solr Rochester
Proved at London with a Codicil 21st October 1841 before the Worshipful Augustus Frederick Bayford Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths of Sarah Sandwell George Spinster the daughter Richard Hopper Shrewsbury and Robert Thomas Parnell the Executors to whom Admon. [Administration] was granted having been first sworn duly to administer.
Notes:
Robert George, Ba. of St. Lawrence (in Thanet), married Ann Shrewsbury, Sp. of Deal on 21st
January 1800 at St. Leonard Deal, which marriage was witnessed by a great deal of her family: Jane
Bradby Cole, William Shrewsbury, Edward Shrewsbury, Sarah Browning and Mercy Shrewsbury.
Their 13 known children were christened at Non-Conformist churches, thus:
Born 11 Dec 1800, Chr. 8 Feb 1801, Ann, d. of Robert & Ann, Ebenezer Independent Chapel, Ramsgate.
Born 21 Sep 1802, Chr. 21 Nov 1802, Susanna --- (as above) ---
Chr. 6 May 1804, Robert; Chr. 29 Sep 1805 Elizabeth Smith; Chr. 15 Mar 1807 Sarah Sandwell,
Born 2 Oct 1808, Chr. 13 Nov 1808 William; Born 20 Jun 1810, Chr. 28 Oct 1810 Jane Pritchard;
Chr.: 9 May 1812 Edward; Born 7 Nov 1813, Chr. 26 Nov 1813 Dorothy Smith;
Born 22 Apr 1815, Chr. 16 Nov 1817 Eliza Smith; - all at the Ebenezer Independent Chapel, Ramsgate.
Born 24 Jul 1817, Chr. 16 Nov 1817 Richard Burcham, at the Zion Chapel, Hardres Street, Ramsgate.
Born 18 Nov 1820; Chr.: 4 Feb 1823 Matilda; Born 22 May 1822; Chr.: 4 Feb 1823 Emma – both at Clover Street Ebenezer Chapel, Chatham.
Robert George was buried at St. Margaret, Rochester, aged 73 on 25th September 1841.
Ann George age 69 buried 19 Sep 1848 at St. Margaret, Next Rochester
See: PROB 11/2170/243 Will of Ann George, Widow of Robert of Chatham, dated 8th September 1848 and Proved 18th April 1853.
See also: PROB 11/1963/410 Will of Richard Burcham George, Architect and Surveyor of Chatham, dated 7 Apr 1842 and Proved 9 Jun 1842.
Robert George (senior), Ba., married Susanna Sandwell, Sp., both of St. Laurence in Thanet, at St.
Laurence on 5 Apr 1757. Witnesses were John Cock, Richard Moverly.
Robert and Susanna George’s children:
27 Dec 1757 Mary; 23 Feb 1758 Robert (dies); 18 Nov 1759 Dorothy; 30 Nov 1761 William (dies); and 7
Sep 1763 William – all christened at St. Laurence.
23 Feb 1768, Robert; and 3 Jul 1770 Sarah - both christened at St. Nicholas, Ash-next-Sandwich.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 24th February 2020. All rights waived for personal use – BUT please quote source and reference.
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