Charles Samuel Salt of Nether Broughton 1887 Will
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives DE 462/30
I Charles Samuel Salt of the parish of Nether Broughton in the County of Leicester Cottager do hereby revoke all former wills and testamentary dispositions made by me and declare this to be my last Will and testament
I appoint James Dixon Goy of High Street Lincoln in the County of Lincoln Dentist and my Son Charles Samuel Salt the younger of Bagby Fields Leeds in the County of York Spirit Merchant (hereinafter called “my trustees”) to be the executors and trustees of this my will
I give to my wife Ann Salt such portion of my furniture and other household effects as she may select at my decease for the purpose of furnishing a small house
I devise and bequeath all the residue of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever unto my trustees upon trust that my trustees shall sell call in and convert into money the same or such part thereof as shall not consist of money and shall with and out of the moneys produced by such sale calling in and conversion and with and out of my ready money pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and afterwards pay to my son George Henry Salt the sum of One hundred pounds to my Son Charles Samuel Salt the younger the sum of One hundred and forty pounds and to my Son Edwin Salt the sum of twenty two pounds being moneys from time to time advanced me by them and remaining due to them from me on the date of the signing hereof together with interest thereon from the date hereof until payment at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum
And also to pay the remainder of my just and lawful debts and shall invest the residue of the said moneys with power for my trustees from time to time at their discretion to vary such investments And shall stand possessed of the said residuary trust moneys and the investments for the time being representing the same (hereinafter called the residuary trust funds) Upon the trusts following (that is to say)
In trust to pay the income thereof unto my said wife during her life if she shall so long remain my widow and from and after her decease or second marriage (which shall first happen)
As to one fifth share of such residuary trust funds In trust for my son George Henry Salt
As to one fifth share of such residuary trust funds in trust for my son Charles Samuel Salt the younger
As to one fifth share of such residuary trust funds in trust for my son Edwin Salt
As to one fifth share of such residuary trust funds in trust for my son Harry Salt
And As to the remaining fifth share of such residuary trust funds in trust for my daughter Ann Eliza the wife of Robert Smith Provided Always and I do hereby expressly declare that unless the sum of One hundred and sixty five pounds being the balance now remaining unpaid of the sum of Two hundred pounds advanced to her by me on the fourteenth day of December One thousand eight hundred and seventy seven be repaid to me during my lifetime or to my executors within six months after my deceases together with interest thereon at the rate of Five pounds per centum per annum from the fourteenth day of December One thousand eight hundred and seventy seven then and in such case I declare that she shall not be entitled to any share or interest under this my will and that my Trustees shall stand possessed of the fifth share of my residuary trust funds on trust for my said sons George Henry Salt Charles Samuel Salt the younger Harry Salt and Edwin Salt in equal shares
And I also declare that my Trustees may postpone the sale and conversion of my real and personal estate or any part thereof for so long as they shall think fit and that the rents profits and income to accrue from and after my decease of and from such part of my estate as shall for the time being remain unsold and unconverted shall after payment thereout of all incidental expenses and outgoings be paid and applied to the person or persons and in the manner to whom and in which the income of the moneys produced by the sale and conversion would for the time being be payable or applicable under this my will if such sale and conversion had been actually made
And I also declare that all moneys liable to be invested under this my Will may be invested upon real or leasehold securities in England and Wales such leasehold securities being held for a term whereof sixty years at least shall be unexpired at the time of such investment or upon any stocks funds or other securities authorised by law as investments for trust funds or the debentures or debenture stock or the guaranteed or preference stocks or shares of British or Indian Railway Companies
And I declare that if the trustees hereby appointed or either of them shall die in my lifetime or if any trustee of my will shall die or go to reside abroad or shall desire to retire from or refuse or become incapable to act in the trusts of this my will then and in such case it shall be lawful for the continuing Trustee for the time being or if there shall be no continuing trustee then for the retiring or refusing trustee or the executors of administrators of the last acting trustee to appoint any other person or persons to be a trustee or trustees in the place of the trustee or trustees so dying or going to reside abroad or desiring to retire or refusing or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid And upon every such appointment the trust premises shall be so transferred as to become vested in the new trustee or trustees either jointly with the continuing trustee or solely as the case may require And every such new trustees (as well before and after the said trust premises shall have become vested in him) shall have all the powers and authorities of the trustee for whom he shall be substituted I give and bequeath to each of them the said James Dixon Goy and Charles Samuel Salt the younger for their trouble in acting as such trustees and executors a legacy of five pounds
In witness whereof I have set my hand to this my will the 4 day of June One thousand eight hundred and eighty seven
CS Salt
Signed by the above Charles Samuel Salt as his last Will in the present of us both being present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
John Everitt, Farmer, Nether Broughton
Thomas Skinner, Baker, Nether Broughton
Proved at Leicester on the fifteenth day of August 1887 by the Oaths of James Dixon Goy and Charles Samuel Salt the Son, the Executors to whom Administration was granted
The Testator Charles Samuel Salt was late of Nether Broughton in the County of Leicester Cottager and died on the sixth day of June 1887 at Nether Broughton aforesaid
Personal Estate Gross £298.16.0 No deduction
J Walter Stead, Solicitor, Leeds