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Will of Edward Houghton of Swanwick, Titchfield Gentleman 1808
This is the last will and Testament of me Edward
Houghton of Swanwick
in the parish of Titchfield
in the County of Southampton Gentleman in the first place I
direct that all my debts costs funeral expenses and the cost and
charges of proving this my Will may be fully paid and discharged. I give
and bequeath unto my dear wife Dorcas Houghton
all my household furniture plate linen china whatsoever ready money and
all other things in and about my dwelling house and premises at the time
of my decease to and for her own absolute use and benefit and whereas my
own wife has out of her own monies advanced and lent to William Gower on Mortgage the sum of two hundred pounds now in order that
she may receive the same for her own use and benefit I do hereby give
and bequeath all my rights interests and property in and to the said Mortgage(?)
money and all Interest thereon and in the said Mortgaged(?)
premises unto her my said wife her executors admons and assigns and I
give and bequeath unto my said wife and her assigns the interest and
dividends of all such monies as shall be in my name in the Bank of
England at the time of my decease for and during as long time as she
shall remain my widow and from and after her decease or remarriage which
shall first happen. I give and bequeath unto my daughter
Mary the wife
of William Guillaume
of Swanwick
aforesaid farmer her executors admons and assignees the sum of five
hundred pounds three per cent consolidated Bank Annuities part of the
said Stock and the residue of the said Stock I give and bequeath unto my
daughter Elizabeth Houghton but in case my said daughter Elizabeth
shall die during the life and widowhood of my said wife under the age of
21 years and unmarried then I give and bequeath such residue of the said
Stock unto my said daughter
Mary Guillaume
her executors admons and assignees.
And I give and bequeath unto James
Whettam of Burnt
House in the
said parish of Titchfield
Gentleman and William Randall of Fareham in the said county of Southampton Linen Draper
their heirs executors admons and assigns for and every my copyhold
estates lands tenements and hereditaments situated within and held of
the Several Manors of Swanwick, Titchfield, Bishops Waltham in the said
county the same having been surrendered to the rest of my will. And
also all that my Leasehold estate called Burrage
to hold the same unto the said James
Whettam & William
Randall
their heirs executors admons
and assigns upon trust that the said James
Whettam & William
Randall or
the survivor of them his heirs or assignees shall and do manage the said
estates according to the best of their skill and judgement in the same
manner in all respects as if they were the actual owners and
beneficially entitled to the same until all the xxx hereinafter deceased
thereof shall be fully performed and shall and do pay the rents issues
and profits of all such copyhold and leasehold estates and premises and
every part thereof unto my said wife and her assignees or permit and
suffer her or them to receive and take the same for and during so long
time as she shall remain my widow and from and after her decease or
remarriage which shall first happen then as to and remaining the lease
my messuages or tenements lands hereditaments and premises called Burrage Lands and Burrage
Coppice and
also all that messuage or tenement farm lands hereditaments and premises
situate at Hoe and held by copy of court Roll of the Manor of Bishops
Waltham and also all that my Messuage or tenement lands hereditaments
and premises held by copy of Court Roll of the said Manor of Swanwick
heretofore belonging to and now called Sussee(?) and also all that my Messuage or
tenement lands hereditaments and premises held
by copy of Court Roll of the said Manor of Swanwick heretofore becoming Adams with their and every of their appurtenances upon xxx that
they the said James
Whettam and William
Randall or
the survivor of them his heirs executors admons or Assigns do and shall
theretofore pay the rents issues and profits thereof and of every part
thereof as and when the same shall from time to time accrue due and be
received into the proper hands of my said daughter
Mary Guillaume
as and for all unalienable provision for her own personal support and
maintenance independent of her present or any future husband and I
declare that her receipt alone shall be the only proper discharge for
the same and from and after the decease of the survivor of them my said
wife and daughter then In trust for all the children of her my said
daughter Mary
Guillaume
lawfully begotten or to be begotten who shall live to attain the age of
twenty one years equally to be divided if more than one, their heirs
forever and if but one then the whole on the xxx for their heirs forever
and I do hereby xxx that the amount of the expectant share of every such
child shall and may be applied and disposed of during his or her
minority in or for and towards his or her maintenance and education and
in case no child of my said daughter Mary
Guillaume
shall live to attain the age of twenty one then upon cxxx the said James Whettam and William Randall or the survivor of them his heirs executors admons or
Assigns shall and do after the decease of my daughter Mary Guillaume and such failure of her children living
to become entitled thereto as aforesaid stand and be seized and
possessed of all the said estates and hereditaments herein before given
to or in trust for my said daughter Mary
Guillaume
and her children as aforesaid for my said daughter Elizabeth Houghton and her children for the same estates and
interests and in the same manner as is or are hereinafter xxx xxx to the
estates and xxxx hereinafter given to or in trust for my said daughter
Elizabeth Houghton and her children and from and after the decease or
remarriage of my said wife which shall first happen then as to and
concerning all that my messuages or tenement farm lands x and premises
wherein I now live held by copy of court roll of the said manor of
Swanwick and all and every other my copyhold messages or tenements lands
hereditaments and premises whatsoever and wheresoever not now before
specifically given and I devise in trust for my said daughter Mary
Guillaume
and her children as aforesaid upon trust that they the said James Whettam
and William Randall
or the survivor of them his heirs executors admons or Assigns shall and
do therefore pay the rents xx and profits of all the said land mentioned
copyhold hereditaments and premises and of every part thereof as and
when they shall from time to time become due and be received into the
proper hands of my said daughter Elizabeth Houghton to and for her own
use and for her own personal support and maintenance independent of any
husband she may happen to intermarry and for which I direct that her
receipt alone shall be the only proper discharge from and after the
decease of my said daughter Elizabeth Houghton then in trust for all the children of my
said daughter Elizabeth
Houghton
lawfully to be begotten which shall live to attain the age of 21 years
equally to be divided between them share and share alike and if more
than one their heirs executors admons or Assigns forever
and if but one then the xx of the said last mentioned copyhold
hereditaments and premises in trust for that one child and his or hers
forever and I do hereby declare that the amount of the expectant share
of every such child shall and may be applied and disposed of during his
or her minority in or for and towards his or her maintenance and
education And in case my said daughter
Elizabeth Houghton shall have no heirs or children or having such
all of them shall die under the age of 21 years then the said James Whettam and William
Randall or
the survivor of them his heirs executors admons or Assigns shall and do
after the decease of my daughter Elizabeth
Houghton and
such failure of her children living to become entitled thereto as
aforesaid stand and be seized and possessed of all the said estates and
hereditaments herein before given to or in trust for my said daughter Mary Guillaume and her children for the same estates and interests and
in the same manner as is or are therein before given to or in trust for
her my said daughter Mary
Guillaume
and her children and in case there shall not be any heirs or children pf
my said daughters or either of them who shall live to attain the age of
21 years then in trust as to my copyhold estates for my own right heirs
according to the customs of the said respective Manors and as to the
leasehold for my next of kin and I give and bequeath unto the said James
Whettam and William
Randall the
sum of £20 each as a small acknowledgement for the trouble they may
have in the execution of the trusts of this my will and all the rest and
residue of my personal estate and effects whatever and wheresoever I
give and bequeath unto my wife and I do hereby nominate constitute and
appoint my said wife and the said JW and WR executors of this my last
will and testament and I do hereby devise the guardianship and care of
my said daughter Elizabeth during her minority unto my said wife
Dorcas Houghton
provided always and I do hereby declare that they my said trustees and
executors in and by this my will nominated and appointed or any or
either of them or any future trustee or trustees to be appointed as
hereinafter is mentioned or their or either of their heirs executors
admons or Assigns shall not
be answerable the one for the other or others of them or for the Acts
Deeds Defaults Receipts payments or disbursements of the other or others
of them xxx or with or accountable for any further or other property
Suit or Land of Money Rents Issues and Profits than what shall actually
come to the hands and received by them respectively notwithstanding they
or any or other of them shall give or xxx or xx or xxx for conformity
and they or any or either of them shall not be answerable or accountable
for their insufficiency defect or failure of any security or securities
whereon or wherein the said Trust Premises or any part or parts thereof
shall or may be payed out or invested or for any other involuntary loss
or xxx which or may happen or arise of or to any of the said trust
estate and premises or the Proviso? Thereof or of any part thereof and
also that it shall and may be lawful to and for them each and every of
them from time to time to have receive retain debit and reimburse in the
first place to themselves and himself respectively by and out of the
said trust estates and premises all such loss costs charges damages and
extraneous whatsoever as they or either or any of them shall
respectively bear pay expend or be put unto by reason or means of the
trust hereby in them respectively reposed or otherwise howsoever
relative thereto provided also and I do hereby further will and declare
that if they my said executors trustees of the aforesaid trust estate or
funds shall die or desire to be discharged of and from or xxx neglect or
reject or become incapacitated to act in the aforesaid trust or any of
them before the same shall be fully exercised and preformed then and in
such case and as often as the same shall so happen it shall and may be
lawful to and for the survivors or survivor or others or other of them
my said trustees thereof for the time being or their executors admons of
the survivor of them to nominate substitute and appoint any other fit
person or persons to be trustee or trustees in the place and stead of
the present or any succeeding or other trustees who shall so sit or
desite to be discharged from or xxx to act in the aforesaid trust and
that when and as often as any such now trustee or trustees shall be
nominated and appointed as aforesaid all the trusts estates premises
which were vested in the trustee or trustees so dying or declining to
act as aforesaid either solely or jointly with any other the then
trustees or trustee thereof upon the trust aforesaid shall be thereupon
forthwith with all convenient speed conveyed surrendered assigned and
transferred so that the same may be legally and effectually vested in
the surviving or continuing former trustee or trustees if there shall be
any and such new trustee or trustees jointly but if there shall be no
surviving or continuous trustee or trustees then in such new trustee or
trustees only upon the trusts hereinbefore xxx of the same
trusts estates and premises that the trustee or trustees whereof
shall sit or desire to xxx xxx xxx xxxx or refuse or xxxx incapable to
act and that xxx new trustee or trustees shall and may in all
xxx … xxx 20th day of July one thousand eight
hundred and seven Edward Houghton
signed and sealed etc witnesses Thomas Howitt
and Asher Humphreys
Proved in
London
26 August 1808
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