And I give and bequeath all my real and personal estate unto John White of Ramsgate aforesaid
Upholsterer his heirs executors administrators and assigns according to the nature and quality thereof respectively
Upon trust to sell my real estate together or in parcels by public auction or private
contract and to convert and get in my personal estate and to invest the monies to arise from such real
and personal estate in or upon any of the public funds or securities of the United Kingdom or any real securities in England with liberty
to vary and transpose the investment from time to time for any other investment of the description aforesaid
And Upon trust to permit and empower my Wife Mary Oldfield to receive the annual income of the said monies and the stocks funds
and securities whereon the same shall be invested during her life
And after her death I give and bequeath the same monies stocks funds and securities unto the said John White his executors
administrators and assigns absolutely
Subject nevertheless and charged and chargeable with an annuity or yearly sum of twenty pounds to his brother Herbert White of the City of Canterbury Hair Dresser during the term of his life payable by equal quarterly payments, the first quarterly payment to be made on the first usual quarter day after the decease of my said Wife
And I declare that no Sale of my real estate or any part thereof shall be made in the lifetime of my said Wife without her previous
consent in writing
And that my trustee shall have a discretionary power to postpone for such period as to him shall seem expedient the conversion or getting
in of any part of my residuary personal estate which shall at my decease consist of stocks funds or securities of
any description whatever but the unsold real estate and outstanding personal estate shall be subject to
the trusts hereinbefore contained concerning the monies stocks funds and securities aforesaid And I
devise all real estates (if any) vested in me as trustee or mortgagee to the said John White subject to
the equities affecting the same respectively
And I empower the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will to give receipts for all monies to be paid to such trustees or trustee by virtue of my Will and declare that such receipts shall exonerate the person taking the same from liability to see to the application or disposition of the money therein mentioned
And I appoint the said John White sole Executor of this my Will hereby revoking all former Wills by me made
In Witness whereof I the said Joseph Oldfield the Testator have to this my last Will and Testament contained in two sheets of paper annexed
together hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid
Joseph Oldfield
Signed by the said Joseph Oldfield the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence
of us present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other
have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
John Mercer Solicitor, Ramsgate - Geo: Griggs his Clerk
Proved at London the 20th Jun 1854 before the Worshipful Samuel Jewkes Wainbey, Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oath of John White the
sole executor to whom adm[inistrati]on was granted having been first sworn duly to administer.
Exd.
Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 11th March 2021
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