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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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