11 April 1849 Will of Edward Carter of Portsmouth, esquire (proved 30 September 1850)

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This is the last Will and Testament
of me Edward Carter of Portsmouth in the County of Southampton Esquire I be-
questh to my eldest son Edward Carter and to my second son John Markham Carter
and to George Markham Giffard Esquire Barrister at Law and to the executors of the
survivor five thousand pounds three per centum Consolidated annuities and five thou-
sand pounds three per centum Reduced annuities in trust to pay the dividends during
her life to my eldest daughter Louisa the wife of Captain George Evelegh of the Royal
Artillery for her sole use and benefit and separate use and benefit and not to be liable to
the debts of her present or any future husband and her sole receipt to be a discharge
to the trusteees and at her decease the principal stock to be divided equally amongst
all her children who may live to attain the age of twenty one years I give the
like amount of three per centum consolidated annuities and three per centum
Reduced annuities to the same trustees in trust for my second daughter Elizabeth
Ann Carter and all her children in the same manner I give to my second son John
Markham Carter and his heirs executors administrators and assigns all that
farm called Marsh Farm or Farr Farm in the occupation of Thomas Jones situate
in the Parish of Ambrosden in the County of Oxford which I purchased of John
Greaves and also three policies of Assurance for seven hundred pounds each in the
Law Life Assurance Office which I also purchased of John Greaves also all that Farm
called Hane Farm or Blackthorne Farm in the occupation of John Jones situate
in the parish of Ambrosden in the County of Oxford and the Great Tithes within
the said Parish and also three Policies of Assurance for one thousand pounds each in the
??conomic Life Assurance Office all of which I purchased of Messrs Bulpett Dunn 
and Mulcock also all those four closes of land in the occupation of W  Everett
situate in the Parish of Carisbrooke in the Isle of Wight which were conveyed to
me in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight by Robert Bird Wilkins
and others and also all those lands and titles in the occupation of John Morgan
called Cockeltons Poll close Steakers and Burnthouse also situate in the Parish of
Carisbrooke in the Isle of Wight which were conveyed to me in the year one thousand
eight hundred and thirty nine by Mr John Tucker I give to my fourth son Bonham
William Carter and his heirs all that estate in the parishes of Hardham Cold
Waltham and Greatham in the County of Sussex which came to me by the will of the



late Thomas Bonham of Petersfield all the Rest Residue Remainder
of my estate both real and personal I give equally between my two sons Edward Carter and
Henry Carter their heirs executors administrators and assigns as tenants in common and
not as joint tenants and I appoint my two elder sons Edward Carter and John Markham
Carter Executors of my will and I direct that the legacy duties of all the aforesaid legacies be
paid out of the residue of my personal estate my will is that any disposition of property herein
contained is not to extend to any power of appointment I may have over six thousand pounds
three per centum Consolidated annuities under my marriage settlement In witness where-
of I the said Edward Carter the testator have at the end of this my will signed my name this
eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty nine  Edward Carter  Signed
and declared by the above named Edward Carter the testator as and for his last will and testament
in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence and the presence of each
other have hereunto set our names as witnesses hereto  Edwd Hunt  Thos Bigwood

This is a Codicil to the will of me Edward Carter of Portsmouth in the County of South-
ampton Esquire dated the eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty nine
which I confirm with the following exception whereas I have given to the trustees of my son
John Markham Carter by his marriage settlement the sum of five thousand pounds three
per centum Reduced annuities Now I do hereby give to my son Henry his heirs executors
administrators & assigns all those four closes of land in the occupation of W everett situate
in the Parish of Carisbrooke in the Isle of Wight which were conveyed to me in the year
one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight by Robert Bird Wilkins and others and also
all those lands and tithes in the occupation of John Morgan called Cockeltons Poll Close
Steakers and Burnt House also situate in the Parish of Carisbrooke in the Isle of Wight
which were conveyed to me in the year       one thousand eight hundred
& thirty nine by Mr John Packer in lieu of my son John Markham Carter to whom
I had given them by my will In witness whereof I the said Edward Carter the testator have
at the end of this Codicil to my will signed my name this eighth day of August one thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty  Edward Carter  and thank God I have been able to execute
this Codicil  Signed and declared by the above named Edward Carter the testator as and for his
Codicil to his last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who
in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto set our names as wit
nesses hereto the word eleventh having been blotted through before execution 
Tho Bigwood  John Astridge

This is a second Codicil to the Will of me Edward Carter of Portsmouth in the County of
Southampton Esquire I hereby revoke the devise in my first Codicil of the lands and tithes therein
described to be in the occupation of John Morgan and conveyed to me by Mr John Tucker and I
devise the same to my son John Markham Carter and his heirs and I hereby declare that if I
have not sufficient monies in the stock to satisfy the two sums of ten thousand pounds stock given by
my will for the benefit of my two daughters and their children the deficiency shall be made up out
of my residuary estate and if my said daughters or either of them should not leave children
who shall live to be entitled to vested             interested in the said trust
funds respectively such daughter shall whether married or sole have the power to appoint the
trust fund provided for her by will and in default of such appointment the same shall be in trust
for such persons as shall be her next of kin at her death as if she had died sole and unmarried
and as to both the said funds of five thousand pounds stock I direct and declare that the trustees
or trustee thereof for the time being shall have all such powers of investement thereof and of the
application of the income and principal thereof for the maintenance and benefit of children
as in the settlement of my daughter Louisa is expressed respecting the moneys of how there-
by settled for the benefit of her children as if such powers and provisions were herein repeated
as applicable to a will and if my trustees or either of them shall die or decline to act the sur-
vivors and survivor and the others and other of them shall have the usual power to ap-
point other trustees and trustee in their stead And I hereby ratify and confirm my will and
first Codicil in all other respects In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this tenth
day of August 1850  Edward Carter  Signed and declared by the testator as and
for a second Codicil to his will in the presence of us present at the same time who in his pres-
ence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses
Edwd Rannie Portsmouth   Edwd Hopkins Solr Alresford

Proved at London with 
2 Codicils 30th Sepr 1850
before the Worshipful Alfred
Maddilove Doctor of Laws
and Surrogate by the oath
of Edward Carter and
John Markham Carter
Esquires the Sons the Exors
to whom admon was granted
having been first sworn
duly to administer



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