Otway Will 1833

Will of Edmund Otway

of Woolwich, Kent


Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury Prob11/1894
Submitted by Ros Dunning
This is the last Will and Testament of me Edmund Otway of the Parish of St Mary Woolwich in the County of Kent Smith being of sound disposing mind memory and understanding First I will and direct that all my just debts funeral expences and the charges of proving this my Will be fully paid and discharged and my body I direct shall be decently interred

I will and bequeath to my Brother Thomas Otway of the Parish of Lambeth Surry
to Mary Ann Otway Elizabeth Otway Granddaughters of the above named Thomas Otway
to John Rawlings Edmund Rawlings William Rawlings and Mary Watson my Nephews and Niece
to Robert John Faulkner Nephew of the above named John Rawlings

All the Rest Residue and Remainder of such worldly goods or property that I am or may be possessed of at the time of my decease of whatever name nature or kind soever the same may be whether it shall consist of ready money stock in the public funds household furniture wearing apparel or otherwise howsoever to be equally divided between the said Thomas Otway Mary Ann Otway Elizabeth Otway Thomas Otway John Rawlings Edmund Rawlings William Rawlings Mary Watson and Robert John Faulkner share and share alike

I desire that the shares of Mary Ann Otway Elizabeth Otway and Robert Faulkner be deposited by the Executors hereinafter named in the Woolwich and Plumstead Savings Bank until they arrive at the age of twenty one years should one or two of these die before they come to the age of twenty one years the Survivors or Survivor to have their share or shares should they all die before they come of age there shares to be equally divided between the above named to John Rawlings Edmund Rawlings William Rawlings and Mary Watson share and share alike

and I do hereby nominate and appoint the above named John Rawlings of the Parish of Plumpstead in the County of Kent Labourer and Henry Mason of the said Parish of Plumstead Carpenter Executors to this my Will hereby revoking and disannulling all Wills heretofore made and do declare this only to be my last Will and Testament

Witness whereof I the said Testator to this my last Will and Testament have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifteenth day of January in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one The mark X of Edmund Otway
(Attestation Clause)
Geo: Burgess _ Richd Blundell

Proved at London 10 April 1833


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