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ON the thirty first day of January 1877, the Will of Julia Susanna Edwards late of Number 1 Gloucester Terrace Southsea in the parish of Portsea in the county of Southampton Spinster deceased, who died on the Nineteenth day of December 1876, at No 1 Gloucester Terrace Southsea aforesaid was proved in Her Majesty's High Court of Justice in the District Registry attached to the Probate Division thereof at Winchester by the Oaths of The Reverend Henry Hawkes of Saint Pauls Square Southsea aforesaid clerk James Roberts on No 8 Thyra Grove North Finchley in the County of Middlesex Esquire and William Beresford Chambers Christy of Marston Lodge Elm Grove Southsea aforesaid Esquire MD a retired Surgeon from the Royal Navy the surviving Executors therein named they having been first sworn duly to administer Effects under L600 No Leaseholds Extracted by Pearce & Son Solrs Portsea This is the last Will and Testament of me Julia Susanna Edwards of Number 1 Gloucester Place Southsea in the parish of Portsea in the County of Southampton Spinster I appoint my Sister Dorothy Gooch Widow and my friends The Reverend Henry Hawkes of Saint Paul's Square Southsea aforesaid James Roberts of number 8 Tyra Terrace North Finchley in the County of Middlesex Esquire and William Beresford Chambers Christy Esquire Doctor of Medicine and a retired surgeon from the Royal Navy Trustees and Executors of this my Will and I devise to them their heirs executors and administrators all estates vested in me as a Trustee or Mortgagee subject to the trusts and equities affecting the same respectively I Give and bequeath all my jewels, trinkets, plate, linen, china, glass, books, pictures, furniture and other household effects unto my said Sister Dorothy Gooch absolutely I direct my said Trustees or the Trustees or Trustee for the time being to set apart out of the income of the residue of my real and personal estate a sum sufficient to pay an annuity of Ten pounds clear of all legacy duty and other deductions to Mrs Harriet Bishop of Christchurch in the County of Southampton aforesaid Widow (who was the companion to my late friend Mrs John Spicer deceased) for her separate and inalienable use by quarterly payments the first of such payments to be made at the expiration of Three Calendar months from the time of my decease I bequeath the following Legacies namely To Jane Christy Kane the Wife of John Keymer Kane of the Ordnance Department at Dublin the sum of Two thousand pounds for her sole and separate use To the said Henry Hawkes the sum of Five hundred pounds to be paid to him within Three Calendar months after my decease To the Minister for the time being of the High Street Chapel in the Town of Portsmouth out of such part of my personal estate as the law permits to be bequeathed for charitable purposes the sum of One hundred pounds to be applied and disposed of by him in repairs or improvements in the Schools or otherwise for the benefit of the Charitable Societies in connection with the said Chapel as the said Minister may think proper and I direct that the receipt alone of the said Minister for the time being shall be a sufficient discharge to my said Trustees and Executors for the said Legacy and that the two last mentioned legacies shall be paid free from legacy duty and other deductions To Ann Hobbs the late Mistress of the Lancasterian School of Portsea aforesaid the sum of Nineteen pounds and nineteen shillings To Lucy Foord the present Mistress of the said School the sum of Nineteen pounds and nineteen shillings To my Servants Alexander Habens Thomas Bond and Ann Marshall the sum of Nineteen pounds and nineteen shillings each To Charlotte Reid of Number 5 Southsea Terrace Southsea aforesaid the sum of Nineteen pounds and nineteen shillings To my Gardener John Evans the sum of Nineteen pounds and nineteen shillings I give devise and bequeath all my share and interest of and in the freehold messuage and premises where I and my said Sister now reside situate and being Number 1 Gloucester Place Southsea aforesaid Also of and in the two pieces or parcels of land or garden ground situate in or near Gloucester Place aforesaid Also of and in the two freehold messuages land and premises situate in Oakley Place King's Road Southsea aforesaid And also of and in my freehold messuage and premises in Orange Street in the Town of Portsea And all other my real estate (if any) whatsoever and wheresoever situate and being of or to which I may be possessed or entitled at the time of my decease And also all my ready money and securities for money, money at my Bankers and all the rest and residue of my personal estate whatsoever unto the said Henry Hawkes James Roberts and William Berisford Chambers Christy their heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively Subject to the payment thereout of my just debts and funeral and testamentary expences Upon Trust that the said Henry Hawkes James Roberts and William Beresford Chambers Christy or the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs executors or administrators of such survivor or other Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will (hereinafter referred to as my sais Trustees or Trustee) shall stand possessed thereof and of the stocks funds and securities in or upon which my moneys or any part thereof may be invested Upon Trust to receive the rents dividends and annual income thereof and pay the same unto or permit my said Sister Dorothy Gooch to receive the same during her life and from and after her decease Upon Trust to sell the said Messuages land hereitaments and real estate either by public auction or private Contract with power to make any special conditions or stipulations as to title or evidence of title or otherwise and with power to buy in the said hereditaments and permises or any part thereof at any attempted sale thereof by auction and to rescind or vary either on terms or gratuitously and Contract for the sale thereof and to resell the premises so bought in or the contract for sale whereof shall have been so rescinded as aforesaid without being answerable for any loss occasioned thereby and to execute assurances give effectual receipts for the purchase money and do all such acts and things for comppleting any such sale or sales as they or he may think fit And to sell call in and convert into money such parts of my said personal estate as shall not consist of money and to stand possessed of the money to be produced by such sale or sales calling in and conversion Upon Trust after payment thereout of the expences of and attending such sale or sales to set apart and invest a sufficient sum to produce by the income therefrom the clear yearly sum of Forty pounds and to pay the same quarterly to my faithful servant Mary Fletcher during her life the first of such quarterly payments to be made within three Calendar months after the death of my said Sister or of my death in case I shall survive her I bequeath the following Legacies which I also direct to be paid within three calendar months after the death of my said Sister or of my death in case I shall survive her namely to Alicia Wright the daughter of the late Doctor Wright of Haslar Hospital the sum of Five hundred pounds To Mary Wright Widow of the late Lieutenant Colonel Wright of the Royal Marine Light Infantry the sum of One thousand pounds To Wyvell James Christy of Southsea aforesaid Architect and Surveyor and his Sister Benham Piers Christy the sum of One thousand pounds to be equally divided between them and if either of them shall die before the same shall become payable then I give the whole of the said sum of One thousand pounds to the other of them To Susan Undy and her Brother in law the said James Roberts the sum of One thousand pounds to be equally divided between them and if either of them shall die before the same shall become payable then I give the whole of the said sum of One thousand pounds to the other of them To Emily Jane Payne the Widow of the late James Edward Payne late of York Place City Road Solicitor deceased the sum of Four hundred pounds To James Edward Undy Payne Emily Louisa Payne and Margaretta Payne the children of the said James Edward Payne the sum of Two hundred pounds each To Isabella Sadler the Widow of the late John Sadler of the Portsmout Dockyard the sum of Four hundred pounds To Helen Ashton the Wife of James Ashton and Isabella Sadler the daughters of the said John Sadler the sum of Four hundred pounds to be equally divided between them and if either of them shall die before the same shall become payable then I give the whole of the said sum of Four hundred pounds to the other of them To John Paul Sadler the Son of the said John Sadler the sum of Four hundred pounds and if he shall die before the same shall become payable then i give the same unto and equally between his Sisters the said Helen Ashton and Isabella Sadler and if either of them shall die before the same shall become payable then I give the whole of the said sum of Four hundred pounds to the other of them To Mary Waller the Sister of the late Ann Pines the sum of Two hundred pounds free from Legacy duty and other deductions To Maria Pines the Niece of the said Mary Waller the sum of Five hundred pounds To Susan Stone the Widow of the late Captain Stone the sum of Five hundred pounds and if she shall die before the same shall become payable then I give the said sum of five hundred pounds unto and equally between her two Sons William Stone and Charles Henry Stone and in case of the death of either of them before the same shall become payable then I give the whole of the said sum of Five hundred pounds to the other of them To the said William Stone the sum of Two hundred pounds To Frances Dowse the Sister of Captain Dowse of the Royal Navy the sum of Five hundred pounds To Annie, Louisa and Sarah Foster the daughters of the late Reverend Thomas Foster of Southsea aforesaid the sum of Two hundred pounds to be equally divided between them and if either of them shall die before the same shall become payable then I give the same to the survivors or survivor of them for their respective sole and separate use To Eliza Christy the Wife of the said William Beresford Chambers Christy the sum of Three hundred pounds for her sole and separate use To the said John Keymer Kane the sum of One hundred pounds To his Son Francis Inman Kane the sum of One hundred pounds To Beresford Kane Barton Kane and Mary Caroline Stevens Kane the sum of One hundred pounds each And as to all the rest and residue of my said moneys securities and personal estate after payment of the said Legacies and providing for the aforesaid Annuity and from and after the decease of my said Sister I give and bequeath the same unto the said Henry Hawkes James Roberts and William Beresford Chambers Christy in equal shares if more than one and if there shall be only one of them then living then I give and bequeath the whole thereof to that one I declare that any money which under this my Will may become payable to a female shall be for her own sole and separate use free from the debts control and engagements of any husband to whom she may be married at the time when the same shall be paid and that her receipts along notwithstanding her coverture shall be sufficient discharges for the money in such receipt or receipts expressed to be received And I declare that if either of the Trustees herein named shall die in my lifetime or shall desire to retire from or refuse or become incapable to act in the trusts of this my Will before the same shall be fully performed then and in every such case it shall be lawful for my said Sister during her life and after her decease for the continuing Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will and if there shall be no continuing Trustee then for the retiring or refusing Trustees or Trustee or the executors or executor administrators or administrator of the last acting Trustee to appoint any other person or persons to be a Trustee or Trustees in the place of the Trustee or Trustees so dying or desiring to retire or refusing or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid and upon every such appointment the trust premises shall be transferred as to become vested in the new Trustee or Trustees either jointly with the continuting Trustee or Trustees or solely as the case may require And every such new Trustee (as well before as after the said trust premises shall have become vested in him) shall have all the powers and authorities of the Trustee for whom he shall be substituted In Witness whereof I have to this my Will contained in this and the four preceding sheets of paper set my hand to each of the said Sheets this fifth day of August One thousand eight hundred and seventy six Julia Susanna Edwards Signed and and declared by the said Julia Susanna Edwards the Testatrix as her last Will and Testament in the presence of us both being present at the same time who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunder subscribed our names as Witnesses Wm Pearch Solicitor Portsea Arthur Pomery his Clerk Proved at Winchester the thirty first day of January 1877 by the Oaths of The Reverend Henry Hawkes Clerk James Roberts Esquire and William Beresford Chambers Christy Esqr Doctor of Medicine the surviving Executors to whom administration was granted The Testatrix Julia Susanna Edwards was late of No 8 Gloucester Terrace Southsea in the parish of Portsea in the County of Southampton Spinster and died on the nineteenth day of December 1876 at No 1 Gloucester Terrace Southsea aforesaid Under L600 Pearce & Son Solrs Portsea
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