Will of Thomas Nadin of Woodville (1833-1896)
South Derbyshire Wills Collection
--- Thomas NADIN of Woodville (1833-1896) ---


[WILL excerpt]
This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Nadin of Woodville in the county of Derby Earthenware Manufacturer I appoint my son-in-law William Thomas Harvey and my friend Tom Parker of Woodville hereinafter called my trustees to be the Executors and Trustees of this my will I give the legacy or sum of one hundred pounds to my wife Mary Nadin to be paid to her within one calendar month after my decease and give and bequeath all my household furniture and effects plate linen china glass books pictures prints wines liquors and consumable [.] which shall be in and about my dwellinghouse at my decease excepting monies and securities for money unto my said wife absolutely I devise that my messuage on tenament known as the Laurels and the gardens and appurtenances thereto belonging situate at Woodville aforesaid and now in my own occupation unto my said wife for her life without impeachment [?] of waste and from and after her decease I direct that the said messuage and premises shall fall into and form part of my residuary estate and be subject to the trusts hereinafter declared of and concerning the same
I give to my stepdaughters Sarah Ann Parker [nee Adcock] and Bertha Emma Elizabeth Elliott [nee Adcock] the legacy or sum of fifty pounds each. I give all my real and personal estate not hereinbefore disposed of unto my trustees upon trust that they shall sell each in and convert into money the same or such part thereof and all my ready money pay my just debts funeral and testementary expenses and the legacies hereinbefore and hereinafter bequeathed and shall invest hereinafter called "the residual trust funds"
Interest out of the income thereof to pay to my said wife during her life the clear sum of two pounds per week to be payable on Saturday and also out of such income to appropriate and set apart the clear sum of fifty pounds per year and to accumulate the yearly income appropriated and set apart by investing the same and the resulting income [?] until the said yearly sums and the resulting income thereof shall amount in the aggregate to the sum of five hundred pounds whereupon the appropriation and setting apart .[?] shall cease and to stand possessed of the said five hundred ponds and the investment thereof upon the trust hereinafter declared concerning the same and as to the residue of the income of the residuary  trust funds to pay the same until the decease of my said wife on the ceasing of the said appropriation (whichever shall last happen) unto my daughters Emily Mary Harvey and Bertha Amy Nadin in equal share I declare either daughter die before the decease of my wife without leaving a child/children who being a son or sons  inherit at 21 years or a girl on marrying - grandchildren inherit dead daughter's share, etc
I direct that £500 shall be held by my trustees for my granddaughter Effie Mary Goodwin at 21yrs.
Provisions to pay the above sums should the residuary  not produce the interest expected. [These provisions take up a page and a half]
To my trustees the sum of £25 each for the trouble in carrying out
6th day of May 1895
Probate granted 22 Jan 1897 to WT Harvey & T Parker

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