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Wills of 19th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills (Pre 1858)
William
MARTIN proved 1840
THIS IS THE LAST
WILL AND TESTAMENT
of me William Martin the Elder
of Ordnance Place in the Parish of Chatham in the County of Kent
Shipwright being infirm in body but of sound and disposing mind memory
and understanding First
I direct that my body be decently interred by or at the discretion of my
Executors hereinafter named I
give and bequeath to my Grandson William Martin Son of my
Son William Martin my watch I
give and bequeath to Caroline Wife of my said Son William Martin
the gold ring which I now wear I
give and bequeath to my good friends William Bate of
Chatham aforesaid Gentleman and George Pemble of the same
place Carpenter their executors admons and assigns all and every other
my Personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever which I may be
possessed of or entitled to at the time of my decease namely all my
household furniture wearing apparel plate linen and trinkets Money
securities for money money in the Savings or any other Bank or Elsewhere
deposited stock money to become due at my decease from the benefit
Society of which I am a member and also any amount of pension due to me
during my lifetime from the Paymaster of Her Majesty's Dock Yard at
Chatham aforesaid and remain unpaid at the time of my decease and also a
certain legacy bequeathed to me under the will of Elizabeth Gilbert
of Chatham aforesaid lately deceased In Trust in the first place to
dispose of all such parts of my Estate and Effects as shall not consist
of money or securities for money and to pay thereout all my just debts
and funeral and Testamentary expenses which they may sustain or be put
to the Executors of the Trusts hereby reposed in them and after the
payments to be made thereout as aforesaid to dispose of the residue or
surplus thereof in manner following that is to say I
give and bequeath to my Son William Martin aforesaid one
third of my residuary personal estate to be paid to him by my Executors I
give and bequeath to my Daughters namely to Sarah the Wife of John
Murtagh formerly of the Royal Marines at Chatham aforesaid to Mercy
formerly the Wife of John Thomas late Sergeant Major of
the Royal Denbigh to Mary the Wife of Robert Steel
Lieutenant and Paymaster of the Sixty Sixth Regiment of Foot Soldiers
and to Ann the Wife of of William Needham Private
in the Ninth Company of the first Regiment of Foot Guards the remaining
two thirds part of my residuary personal Estate to be divided amongst
them in equal parts share or proportion to and for their own proper use
and benefit and not to be at all subject to the control or management of
their or either of their husbands and I declare that the Sole receipt of
each of my daughters notwithstanding their coverture shall be a
sufficient discharge or sufficient discharges to my Executors for the
legacies hereby bequeathed to my said daughters individually provided
nevertheless that if my said daughter Sarah the Wife of John
Murtagh aforesaid shall have departed this life previously to the
proving of this my Will then I give and bequeath to my Grand daughter Ann
Thomas of Greenwich Spinster the share of my residuary personal
Estate herein before bequeathed to my said daughter Sarah and in case my
said Son William Martin or either or any of my said
daughters Mercy Mary and Ann shall have departed
this life previously to the proving of this my last Will leaving lawful
issue then I bequeath the share or shares of my Estate hereby bequeathed
to my said Son or such of my said daughters or daughter as may have
departed this life aforesaid to the surviving lawful issue of my said
Son or such of my said daughters as may have died aforesaid if more than
one share and share alike so that in every case the surviving children
of my said Son or daughters shall possess their own parent's share
respectively or their severally attaining the age of twenty one years
without the control of the surviving parent whom I design to have no
distinctive or separate interest in the bequests hereby made and I
declare that in every case the sole and separate receipt of each
individual so becoming entitled to any part of my personal estate shall
be a sufficient discharge to my Executors for the legacies hereby
bequeathed to them respectively and I further declare that neither of my
Executors shall be responsible or accountable for the receipt or other
acts of the other of them nor for any loss which my said Estate may
sustain unless the same shall arise or be occasioned by his or their
wilful neglect or default and I
hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said William Bate
and George Pemble Executors of this my last Will and
declare this only to be and contain my last said Will and Testament In
Witness whereof I the said William Martin have to this my
Will set my hand and affixed my Seal this first day of November in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine William
Martin Signed sealed published and declared by William
Martin the Testator in the presence of us who at his request and
in his presence and the presence of each other have subscribed our names
as Witnesses W. Saunders John Day
Proved 31st October 1840
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