Isaac Hallam of Goadby Marwood 1840 Will
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1840/72
This is the last Will and Testament of me Isaac Hallam of Goadby Marwood in the County of Leicester Farmer that is to say
I give and bequeath to my Son Henry Hallam a Legacy of one hundred and fifty pounds to be paid to him within twelve calendar months next after my decease and to my Son Isaac Hallam a Legacy of one hundred and fifty pounds to be paid to him when he shall attain the age of twenty four years but without any interest in the mean time the said Legacy to be a vested interest in my said Son Isaac immediately upon my decease but subject to this condition that in case he shall depart this life unmarried and without issue before he shall attain the said age of twenty four years the same to sink into and form part of the residue of my personal Estate
Subject to the payment of the said Legacies my just Debts and funeral and testamentary expences and also the several Legacies hereinafter mentioned I give and bequeath all the rest residue and remainder of my personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever to James Stokes of Hose in the said County Farmer and James Musson of Colsterworth in the County of Lincoln Farmer their executors and administrators Upon trust nevertheless that they the said James Stokes and James Musson or the survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such Survivor do and shall permit and suffer my dear Wife Ann Hallam and my Son Edward Hallam with the permission of my Landlord to occupy my farm House and farm for their mutual benefit profit and advantage and to have the use profit benefit interest income and produce of all my live and dead stock monies and personal Estate whatsoever during the life of my said Wife in case she shall continue my widow and not marry again provided that they permit my two daughters Elizabeth Hallam and Vashti Hallam to have a home and residence with them my said Wife and Son and that they find and provide sufficient food and cloathing for my said daughters respectively so long as they respectively remain unmarried
And from and after the decease or second marriage of my said Wife I give and bequeath all my said personal Estate and Effects to my said Son Edward his executors administrators and assigns subject nevertheless to the payment of the Legacies hereinafter mentioned
I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary the Wife of Edward Smith of Nottingham to my daughter Ann the Wife of John Pearson of London to my daughter Sarah the wife of Thomas Clayton of Thorpe Arnold to my daughter Charlotte the wife of Samuel Beswick of London to my daughter Elizabeth Hallam and my daughter Vashti Hallam a Legacy or sum of fifty pounds each all which said several Legacies I will shall be paid within twelve calendar months next after the decease or second marriage of my said Wife which shall first happen the said Legacies to be vested interests in the said Legatees respectively immediately upon my decease but subject to the Proviso or condition hereinafter contained that is to say
Provided always and I do hereby expressly will and direct that in case any or either of my said daughters whether now married or hereafter to be married shall depart this Life without leaving lawful issue before the decease or second marriage of my said Wife then the several Legacies hereinbefore by me bequeathed to them respectively shall not be paid but shall sink into and form part of the residue of my said personal Estate But in case any or either of them shall depart this life as aforesaid leaving a Husband then I give to such respective Husband a Legacy of Ten pounds each
I give and bequeath to my grandson John Hallam a Legacy of Thirty pounds and to my Grand daughter Mary Hallam a Legacy or Twenty pounds to be paid to them respectively when they shall severally attain their respective ages of twenty one years but without any interest in the mean time Provided always that in case my said Grand son or Grand daughter shall depart this life under the age of twenty one years his or her said Legacy shall not be paid but shall sink into and form part of the residue of my said personal Estate
And I do hereby further will and direct that in case my said Son Edward shall depart this Life unmarried and without leaving lawful issue before the decease or second marriage of my said Wife then and in such case from and immediately after the decease or second marriage of my said Wife which shall first happen subject in the first place to the payment of a Legacy of Ten pounds each to the Husband of any of my daughters who may then be dead leaving a Husband I give and bequeath all the said residue of my said personal Estate and Effects unto and equally between and amongst all and every my children who shall be then living and the issue of such of them as shall be then dead leaving issue and my said two Grand children share and share alike provided always that the issue of any deceased child shall only have or be entitled to one proportionate share equally amongst them and my said two Grand children one proportionate share equally between them
Provided further that in case either of my said Grand children John Hallam and Mary Hallam shall depart this life under the age of twenty one years then the share of him or her so dying shall go to and be equally divided between and amongst my said children or their issue and my other Grand child in manner hereinbefore mentioned
I make constitute and appoint the said James Stokes and James Musson joint Executors of this my Will And my Will and Meaning is and I do hereby expressly declare that my said Trustees and Executors and their respective executors and administrators shall and lawfully may by and out of the monies which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the trusts aforesaid retain to and reimburse themselves respectively all such loss costs charges damages and expences as they or either of them shall or may sustain or be put to in the execution of the Trusts hereby in them reposed or any thing relating thereto And further that they shall not be answerable or accountable for any monies to be by them or either of them placed out at interest or deposited for safe custody or otherwise that may be lost nor for any loss damage or diminution in value of my said Stock personal Estate and Effects whatsoever or any part thereof unless it be through their or his own wilful neglect or default And that they shall not be answerable or accountable the one for the other of them or for the Acts receipts neglects or defaults of the other of them but each of them only for his own separate Acts receipts neglects and defaults
Lastly I hereby revoke and make void all former and other Wills by me made and I declare this to be my last Will and Testament
In Witness whereof I the said Isaac Hallam the Testator have to this my last Will and Testament contained in this and the two preceding Sheets of paper Set my hand and seal to wit my hand to the two preceding sheets and my hand and seal to this third or last sheet thereof the Twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
Isaac Hallam
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Isaac Hallam the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the joint presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses his Twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
John Pulsney/Pulfrey [?]
Jas Tho Bishop
James Stokes of Hose in the County of Leicester Farmer and James Musson of Colsterworth in the County of Lincoln Farmer the joint Executors in this Will named were duly sworn to the truth and faithful performance thereof as usual and that the Goods chattels and credits of the deceased without deducting any debts owing by him therefrom do not amount in value to the sum of Eight hundred Pounds and that the deceased died on the eighteenth day of August last
Before me RF Creighton Surrogate to the Commissary
18th February 1840