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

John TOOKEY proved1849

THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
of me John Tookey of Chapel Steps in the Parish of Chatham in the County of Kent Shipwright I give devise and bequeath all my Real and personal estate property and effects whatsoever and wheresoever whether in possession reversion remainder or expectancy which I shall be seized or possessed or have power to dispose of at the time of my decease (subject to the payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses) unto my Wife Charlotte Tookey her heirs executors administrators and assigns according to the nature of the same estate respectively and hereby revoking all former Wills I appoint my said Wife Charlotte Tookey Executrix and my son John Henry Tookey Executor hereof In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of November One thousand eight hundred and forty eight John Tookey Signed by the said John Tookey 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 in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses William Davis Jarrett Chatham Mariner? Jarrett Clerk to Messrs Essell Hayward & Essell Solr Rochester

Proved 15th March 1849 Power reserved to John Henry Tookey, who is a Minor

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