Will of CHARLOTTE POWELL 1802c - 1864 of East Lavant Sussex
THIS IS THE LAST WILL & TESTAMENT of me, CHARLOTTE POWELL, of East Lavant Chichester Sussex widow who being of sound mind arrange my temporal affairs in a manner following. That is to say First I direct that all my just debts, funeral expenses and the costs and charges of moving this my Last Will and Testament be fully paid. I GIVE DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all my household goods and furniture, money due owing, or is belonging to me, or payable at my decease with the residue of my personal estate all and every my Freehold Leashold and copyhold messuages tenements land and hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever situate lying or being where in or whereto I am in any manner seized possessed or entitled either in possession reversion or expectancy and over which I have any disposing or right or power unto CHARLOTTE POWELL , (Wife of EDMUND POWELL, Armourer in the Royal Navy) now residing in Chichester Sussex, her heirs , Executors, Administrators and assigns for ever according to the different natures and qualities thereof I hereby Nominate, Constitute and Appoint CHARLES GROOM of Landport, in the County of Southampton, Sailmaker and Ship Chandler, (Brother of the said Charlotte Powell) Sole executor of this my Last Will & Testament, Hereby Revoking all former Wills, by me made. I DECLARE and ACKNOWLEDGE this only to be and contain my last Will and Testament.
IN
WITNESS, whereof I have hereto set )
my hand and seal this Twenty eighth day )
of November in the year of Our Lord, )
Charlotte Powell LS
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty )
Three
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SIGNED, SEALED & ACKNOWLEDGED by )
the said Charlotte Powell, the
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Testatrix as, and for her Last Will and )
Testament on the day of then date in the )
presence of us present at the time who )
have at her request in her presence and )
in the presence of each other subscribed)
our names as witnesses hereto.
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LEONARD BUCKELL, Doctor of Medicine, Chichester
CHARLES GROOM Sailmaker Exd. Portsmouth.
PROVED AT CHICHESTER, the TWENTY SECOND
day of DECEMBER 1964, by the OATH
of CHARLES GROOM, the SOLE EXECUTOR,
named in the said Will, TO WHOM Administration was
granted.
THE TESTATRIX, CHARLOTTE POWELL was late of EAST LAVANT in the COUNTY of SUSSEX , Widow who died on the 16th JANUARY 1864, at East Lavant, aforesaid. UNDER £20