Edward Wilford of Wartnaby 1828 will
National Archives PROB 11/1745/39
This is the last Will and Testament of me Edward Wilford of Wartnaby in the County of Leicester Grazier
I give and bequeath all my monies securities for money Stocks Goods and Personal Estate and Effects whatsoever of which I shall die possessed unto my Friends William Neale of Melton Mowbray Architect and Thomas Shipman of Stathern [?] Grazier both in the said County of Leicester their Executors Admors and Assigns Upon the Trusts following
To pay my debts and funeral and testamentary expences
As a provision for my wife Maria Wilford I direct my Trustees to deliver to her for her own use such household goods plate linen and effects as they may think reasonable and proper for the comfortable furnishing of a house and to pay her immediately on my death one hundred pounds and four hundred pounds more at the expiration of twelve months after my death to invest on good Security which may be varied from time to time in the discretion of my Trustees the sum of One thousand pounds to pay the Interest or dividends thereof unto her for her life and after her death divide the principal amongst all my Brothers and Sisters who shall then be living my deceased Sister Dorothy’s children and the child or children of such of my Brothers and Sisters as shall then be dead leaving child or children such child or children as well as the child or children of my deceased Sister Dorothy to take only amongst them the shares their respective parents would have taken if living
I direct Interest at the rate of five per cent per annum shall be paid to my Wife from the day of my death until the principal is invested
To pay within two years after my death unto my brother Francis Wilford four hundred pounds
To my brother Thomas Wilford three hundred pounds
To my brother Andrew Wilford five hundred pounds
To my Sister Sarah Wilford three hundred pounds
And to the children of my late Sister Dorothy or to such of them as shall live to attain the age of twenty four years the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds to be equally divided amongst them
To place out at Interest the sum of three hundred pounds and pay such Interest to commence from six months after my death unto my brother John Wilford during his life and after his death to divide the principal amongst such of his children as shall be then living and the issue of such as shall be dead bearing issue such issue to take amongst them only the shares their parents would be intitled to if living
It is my Will that the money to be paid to and raised for the benefit of my wife shall be first discharged in full and if there shall be any deficiency in payment of the other Legacies they shall abate in equal proportions
The sum of three hundred pounds to be raised for the benefit of my brother John Wilford and his family I direct to be paid free from Legacy duty which shall be paid out of my residuary fund
If any Residue shall remain after fully paying and satisfying all the above Legacies and provisions such residue shall go to my brother Andrew Wilford for his own use
Provided always and I do hereby declare that it shall be lawful for the acting Trustee or Trustees for the time being of this my Will and for the executors or administrators of the surviving Trustee from time to time as often as there shall be occasion to appoint any person or persons to supply the place or places of any present or future Trustee or Trustees of this my Will who may die or become unwilling or unable to act in the execution of the aforesaid Trusts before the same shall be fully performed And that from and after such Appointment the said Trust monies and the Stocks Funds and Securities in and upon which the said Trust monies may be invested shall be assigned and transferred so and in such manner that the same may rest jointly in any new and old Trustees or solely in the new Trustees as occasion shall require
And that the Trustees hereby appointed and to be appointed in manner aforesaid respectively and their respective heirs executors or admors shall in no wise be answerable or accountable for the acts or receipts of each other nor for any loss or damage which may happen in the execution of the aforesaid Trusts without their own wilful neglect or default
And it shall be lawful for the said Trustees respectively and their respective heirs executors and administrators to deduct and retain out of the monies which may come to their hands under the Trusts aforesaid all costs and expences which they may sustain or be put unto in the execution of the aforesaid Trusts or in relation thereto
And I appoint the said William Neale and Thomas Shipman joint Executors of this my last Will and Testament and I revoke all former Wills by me made
In Witness whereof I the said Edward Wilford the Testator have to this my last Will and Testament contained on three sheets of paper set my hand and seal that is to say to the two first sheets my hand and to this third and last sheet my hand and seal this fourteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
Edward Wilford
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Edward Wilford the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
William Stevens
Thos Stevens
This is a Codicil to my Will
Instead of one hundred & fifty pounds I have given to my late Sister Dorothys children I give them three hundred pounds
And I direct that Interest on my brother Johns Legacy shall not commence till two years after my death
And I further direct that in case my wife Marrys the sum of four hundred pounds out of the thousand pounds I have left her the Interest of be equally divided amongst such of my Brothers and Sisters as shall be then living
Edward Wilford
Witnesses
William Stevens
Thos Stevens
This is a second Codicil to my will
Instead of three hundred pounds which I have left to my brother Thomas Wilford I give him only one hundred pounds and the remaining two hundred pounds I give to my brother Francis Wilford in addition to what I have before given him
And that the share of my Sister Dorothys children be respectively paid as they attain the age of twenty four years
Witness my hand this tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
Edward Wilford his mark
Witnesses
Thos Thorold
Sarah Thorold
Proved at London (with two Codicils) 13th August 1828 before the Judge by the Oaths of William Neale and Thomas Shipman the Executors to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer