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Wills of 19th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills  (Pre 1858)

Isaac PEMBLE proved 1842

THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
of me Isaac Pemble of The New Road Chatham in the County of Kent Shipwright that is to say after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses I give devise and bequeath all my real and personal Estate unto my executors hereinafter named their heirs executors administrators and assigns according to the nature and quality thereof upon trust to permit my dear Wife Sarah Pemble to have the use of my household furniture and effects and to receive the rents issue and profits of my real and personal estate for and during her life and from and immediately after her decease I direct my said trustees and executors to divide the said household furniture and effects and real and personal estate unto and equally between all and every my children who shall be living at my decease unto whom I give devise and bequeath the same and to their respective heirs executors and administrators as tenants in common and it is my will and desire that my said trustees and executors shall have the power at the decease of my said Wife to make sale and dispose of all or any part of my said real or personal estate if they shall think fit either by public sale or private contract and I direct that the receipt of my trustees and executors or the survivor of them his executors administrators or assigns shall be a good and sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers thereof or of any party thereof and that such purchaser or purchasers shall not be answerable or accountable for non-application or misapplication of such purchase money or any part thereof and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint Thomas Austin of Chatham in the County of Kent Tailor and Robert Beck of the same place Stationer Executors of this my will In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twenty sixth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty Isaac Pemble Signed by the said Isaac Pemble the Testator in the presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses William Gowen No 2 Naval Row Poplar Coachman John Thomas Austin Gentleman 56 Great Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields London

Proved 15th June 1842 Thomas Austin and Robert Beck have renounced executorship of the will.

Note in margin: 14th April 1857
The will was was not administered by Sarah Pemble. Granted to    ?    Pemble one of her children.

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