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Will of George Jackson Colliery Manager of Carlton, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, 1879 |
This is the last Will and Testament of me
George Jackson of Carlton in the County of York Colliery Manager
I appoint my dear Wife Ann and my friends Allen Beaumont of Carlton
aforesaid Innkeeper and Thomas Armin of Hoyle Hill near Barnsley in
the County of York Boat Owner to be the trustees and executors of this
my Will and the Guardians of my Infant Children But I declare that if
my wife shall marry again she shall cease to be a trustee or executor of
this my will or a Guardian of my infant children I give devise and
bequeath the whole of my real and personal estate unto my trustees In trust
to sell and convert the same into money and after payment of my just
debts and funeral and testamentary expenses to invest the same in or
upon any of the public stocks or funds of the United Kingdom or on real
Securities in England or Wales or upon the Debenture stock of any Railway
In Great Britain And to stand possessed of the said proceeds and the
investments upon trust to pay and apply the income thereof in and towards
the maintenance education and bringing up of my infant children during their
respective minorities until the marriage of any infant daughter of me under
twenty one should she be married before that age And from and after the
time when my youngest child being a son shall have attained the age of twenty
one years poor being a daughter shall have obtained that age or be married under
such age then I direct my said trustees to stand possessed of the said
proceeds and investments and in the first place to pay thereout to my said
Wife the legacy of fifty pounds and Upon trust to divide the net issue
of my estate equally between all my children And I direct that the share
of any daughter of me being married shall be for her own separate use and
benefit and free from the control of any husband with whom she may have
married and her receipts shall be good discharges to my trustees I
devise all estates vested in me as a trustee or mortgagee unto my said
trustees and I declare that the words "my said Trustees" or any similar
expression in this my Will contained shall mean and include my said
Wife the said Allen Beaumont and the said Thomas Armin and the
survivors and survivor of them and the executors of such survivor and other
the trustees ? do make? for the time being of this my Will. In witness whereof
I the said Testator George Jackson have hereunto set my hand this third
day of June one thousand eight hundred and
seventy nine
Signed and acknowledged by the said Testator }
as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence } G Jackson
of us present at the same time who at his request }
in his presence and in the presence of each other }
have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses }
Alfd Clegg Solr Barnsley
George Lomas Miner Calton
This is a Codicil to the above written last Will and Testament
of me George Jackson I direct that James Jenkin Addey of
Carlton Colliery Proprietor shall be a Trustee and Executor of this my Will
and a Guardian of my Infant children in addition to the Trustees Executors
and Guardians named in my said Will In all other respects I confirm
my said Will In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand
this third day of June one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine
Signed and acknowledged by the said Testator }
as and for a Codicil to his last Will and } G Jackson
Testament in the presence of us present at the same }
time who at his request in his presence and in the }
presence of each other have hereunto subscribed }
our names as witnesses }
Alfd Clegg Solr Barnsley
George Lomas Miner Carlton
Proved at Wakefield with a Codicil the 29th day of July 1879 by the Oaths of
Ann Jackson Widow the Relict, one of the Executors named in the Will and James
Jenkin Addy (in the said Codicil written Addey) the executor named in the said
Codicil to whom Administration was granted but as to the said Ann Jackson during
Widowhood only Power reserved of making the like Grant to Allen Beaumont and
Thomas Armin the other Executors named in the said Will.
The Testator George Jackson was late of Carlton, near Barnsley in the County of York
Colliery Manager and died on the 6th day of June 1879 at Carlton aforesaid
Under 800 S C Addy
Solicitor Sheffield
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