Will of George Yeulet, carrier and dealer in coal, 1862 (proved 1865)

Principal Probate Registry

This is the last Will and Testament of me George Yeulet of Winslow in the County of Bucks Carrier and Dealer in Coal. I direct that all my just debts my funeral and testamentary expence shall be paid as soon as conveniently may be after my decease and subject thereto I devise all the real estate of which I may be seized at the time of my death and all the personal estate of which I shall be then possessed unto my friends Joshua Lewin French of  Winslow aforesaid Grocer and Ironmonger and Alfred Barton of the same place Innkeeper their heirs executors administrators and assigns according to the \several/ natures and tenure thereof Upon trust to permit my Wife Elizabeth or her assigns during her natural life if she shall so long continue my Widow to occupy my real estate or receive the rents and profits thereof (she and they keeping the same in good and tenantable repair and insured against loss or damage by fire and to use or receive the income and profits of my personal estate to her own use and benefit Upon further trust from and after the decease or second marriage of my said Wife which shall first happen to sell my real estate together or in parcels and by public auction or private contract with full power to buy in and resell the same and to sell convert and get in my personal estate and to divide the monies thereby arising after paying all incidental expenses unto and among my sons John, William, George and James and my daughter Elizabeth the Wife of William Grace in equal shares and proportions I declare that the receipts of my said trustees shall exonerate purchasers and others from all liability to see to the application of the money therein mentioned to be received I declare that when and so often as a vacancy shall occur in the trusteeship of my Will by reason of any of my said trustees or their successors dying declining or being unwilling or incompetent to act the trustees or trustee for the time being competent to act whether intending to continue in the trust or not if there shall be no such trustee then my executors and administrators for the time being or either or any of them shall have power to nominate a trustee or trustees to supply the vacancy and thereupon my trust property shall be vested in the old jointly with the new trustees or trustee or in the new trustees solely as the case may require Provided always that my trustees or trustee for the time being their heirs executors and administrators shall be answerable for their own respective receipts and wilful neglects and defaults only and shall be at liberty to retain and allow to each other their respective reasonable disbursements and expenses And I appoint the said Joshua Lewin French and Alfred Barton to be Executors and Trustees of my Will I appoint my said Wife during her Widowhood and after her decease or second marriage the trustees for the time being of my Will to be Guardian and Guardians of my Minor Children Lastly I revoke all other Wills  In Witness whereof I the said George Yeulet the Testator have to each sheet of my Will contained in two sheets of paper set my hand this seventh day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty one
The mark of George Yeulet
This sheet and the sheet hereto annexed were severally signed by the said George Yeulet in the joint presence of us who in his presence at his request, and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses the above Will having before its execution been read over by the undersigned James Elford in our presence to the said Testator who declared to us that he had a full knowledge of its contents and that it contained his last Will and Testament
Dav Tho Willis [signature] Solicitor, Winslow. James Elford [signature] Clerk to Mr Willis
Proved at London 25th of October 1862 by the Oaths of Joshua Lewin French and Alfred Barton the Executors to whom Ad(ministrati)on was granted.

ON the 25th day of October 1865, the Will of George Yeulet late of Winslow in the County of Bucks Buckingham, Carrier and Dealer in Coal, deceased, who died the 27th day of August 1862, at Winslow aforesaid, was proved in the Principal Registry of Her Majesty’s Court of Probate, by the Oaths of Joshua Lewin French of  Winslow aforesaid Grocer and Ironmonger and Alfred Barton of the same place Innkeeper the Executors named in the Will they having been first sworn duly to administer.
Effects under £1000.

Notes

George Yeulet was also the landlord of the Black Horse, q.v. for more information about the family and coal business. He married his first wife Sarah Edwin in 1812; she died in 1836 aged 47. In 1837 he married Elizabeth Dumbleton, originally from Cropredy.The children named in the will (others died young) are:

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