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Will of Edmund Edwin, gentleman, 1882 (proved 1887)
Oxford Probate Registry
This is the last Will and Testament of me Edmund Edwin of Winslow in the County of Bucks, Gentleman. I devise and bequeath all my real estate (if any) and also all my personal estate whatsoever unto and to the use of Thomas Price Willis Gentleman of Winslow aforesaid and George King the Younger of the same place Grocer their heirs executors and administrators respectively according to the nature and tenure thereof Upon trust that they the said Thomas Price Willis and George King the Younger or the survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor (all which several persons and others the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will are hereinafter referred to as “the Trustees or Trustee”) shall permit my housekeeper Sophia Jackman to have the use and enjoyment of my household furniture and effects during her life and shall sell call in in collect or otherwise convert into money such parts of my said trusts premises as shall not consist of ready money And shall out of the moneys to arise from such sale calling in collection and conversion and the ready money of which I shall be possessed at my death pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts And shall invest the residue of the said moneys in the names or name or under the legal control of the said Trustees or Trustee in or upon any of the Public Stocks or Funds or Government Securities of the United Kingdom or upon Freehold Copyhold or Leasehold of England or Wales or in or upon any of the shares stocks or securities of any Company or Corporation whether Commercial Municipal Local or otherwise carrying on business or constituted for any purpose in the United Kingdon And may vary the shares stocks or securities at their discretion And shall pay the income of the said trust moneys and the investments for the time being representing the same to my housekeeper Sophia Jackman during her life And after her death shall sell my household furniture and effects and shall hold the proceeds of such sale (after payment thereout the expenses of attending the same) with the residue of the said trust premises In trust as to one seventh part thereof for my first Cousin John Tompkins as to one other seventh part thereof for my first Cousin Elizabeth Hedges as to one other seventh part thereof for my first Cousin Ann Turney as to one other seventh part thereof for my first Cousin James Jarvis as to one other seventh part thereof for the Children of my second Cousin William Inwards or for such of them as shall be living at the death of the said Sophia Jackman As to one other seventh part thereof for the Children of my second Cousin Thomas Jarvis or for such of them as shall be living at the death of the said Sophia Jackman And as to the remaining seventh part thereof for the Children of my second Cousin Ann Norman or for such of them as shall be living at the death of the said Sophia Jackman I hereby declare that the Trustees or Trustee for the time being may lend money on the security of Leasehold hereditaments without investigating or requiring the production of the Lessors title and may lend on the security of any hereditaments with less than a marketable title without being responsible for loss occasioned thereby And I appoint the said Thomas Price Willis and George King the Younger Executors of this my Will and revoke all other Wills. In Witness whereof I the said Edmund Edwin have to this my Will set my hand this Sixteenth day of December One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
Edmund Edwin [signature]
Signed and acknowledged by the above named Edmund Edwin as his Will in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses.
Arthur S. Midgley [signature] Clerk to Messrs Willis & Willis, Sol(icito)rs, Winslow.
Henry Sharp [signature] Surgeon’s Assistant, Winslow, Bucks
Proved at Oxford, the Seventh day of October 1887, by the Oaths of Thomas Price Willis and George King the Younger, the Executors to whom Administration was granted.
The Testator Edmund Edwin was late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Gentleman, and died on the Twenty seventh day of February 1886, at Winslow aforesaid.
Personal Estate Gross £854 – 18 - 2
“ “ Net £815 – 12 – 2
Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow
It is hereby certified the foregoing is a correct Copy. Dated this Thirteenth day of October 1887.
Notes
Edmund was the son of Thomas Edwin (d.1852) of Rands Farm. He was born at Soulbury in 1816. He left Rands Farm in 1858. In 1881 he was living in Sheep Street in the house now called Yew Tree Cottage with his servant Sophia Jackman, and called himself a retired farmer. He was the tenant of Samuel Burnham Dudley.
The cousins mentioned in the will don't seem to have been Winslow people. The following announcement appeared in 1899, suggesting that there had been difficulty in locating some of them:
Leighton Buzzard Observer, 13 May
EDMUND EDWIN, Deceased.
IF ANY PERSON or PERSONS claiming descent from or relationship to THOMAS EDWIN, the Father of the above named deceased, both of whom died at Shipton, Winslow, will communicate with the undersigned, they may hear of something to their advantage.
Dated the 23rd day of May, 1899. WILLIS & WILLIS, Solicitors, Winslow, Bucks.