Francis Pettifor of Scalford 1874 Will

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives DE 462/17 page 588

This is the last Will and Testament of me Francis Pettifor of Scalford in the County of Leicester Inn Keeper

First I direct all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences to be fully paid

I Give devise and bequeath all my Messuages or Tenements Lands hereditaments and premises and all other my real estate situate in Scalford aforesaid or elsewhere and also all my money Securities for money Stock in Trade Furniture and all other my personal Estate and Effects of whatsoever nature or kind the same may consist of unto my affectionate Wife Mary Ann Pettifor her heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns absolutely

Also I devise and bequeath all Estates vested in my by way of Mortgage with the Appurtenances unto my said Wife her heirs Executors and Administrators according to the nature of the same premises subject to the equity of redemption subsisting therein the money secured on such mortgage to be considered as part of my personal estate

And Lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint my said Wife sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all others by me heretofore made

In Witness whereof I the said Francis Pettifor have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand this First day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty nine

                                                                                                                Francis Pettifor

Signed and acknowledged by the said Francis Pettifor as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time and who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses the word March being previously written on an erasure

EHM Clarke Melton Mowbray

J Miles Melton Mowbray

Proved at Leicester the twenty eighth day of September 1874 by the Oath of Ann Pettifor Widow the Relict of the deceased the sole Executrix to whom Administration was granted

The Testator Francis Pettifor was late of Scalford in the County of Leicester Innkeeper and died on the twentieth day of August 1874 at Scalford aforesaid

Under £600