Aspects of Kentish Local History

Wills of Rochester Shipwrights 1652 - 1837
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills  (Pre 1858)

Sanders MAYOR 1800

THIS IS THE LAST WILL and Testament of me SANDERS MAYOR of Saint Margaret's Bank within the Liberty of the City of Rochester in the County of Kent Shipwright which I make in manner following (that is to say) I do hereby Give Devise and Bequeath unto my Housekeeper ANN OLIVER Widow All that my freehold Messuage or Tenement Yard Garden Hereditaments and premisses thereunto belonging And wherein I now reside situate on Saint Margaret's Bank aforesaid To hold the same with the appurtenances from the next usual quarter day after my decease unto her the said ANN OLIVER her heirs and assigns for ever
   And I give devise and bequeath All those my five freehold Messuages or Tenements or Dwelling houses with the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging situate and being in the High Street Brompton in the Parish of Gillingham and now in the several tenures or occupation of Mrs PARKS ANN MUDDLE JAMES CANHAM WILLIAM BEALE and ELIZABETH TRAHAWK? Unto my Cousin SARAH COUCHMAN of Chatham in the said County of Kent Spinster (and Daughter of DANIEL COUCHMAN of Chatham aforesaid Shipwright by his late Wife MARY) To hold the said five Messuages Tenements or Dwelling houses with the Hereditaments and Appurtenances thereunto belonging from the next usual quarter day after my decease unto the said SARAH COUCHMAN her heirs and assigns for ever
   And I do also give devise and bequeath all those my five freehold Messuages or Tenements situate in Wood Street and a certain Alley called the Broad Alley in Brompton and Parish of Gillingham aforesaid as the last is two Messuages or Tenements now in the several tenures or occupations of FRANCIS AREY? and JOHN DENTON unto my Cousin MARY COUCHMAN of Chatham aforesaid Spinster (and also daughter of the said DANIEL COUCHMAN Esq by his late Wife MARY) to hold the said two Messuages or Tenements with the Hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging from the usual quarter day next after my decease unto her the said MARY COUCHMAN her heirs and assigns for ever
   And I do also give devise and bequeath All those my three Messuages Tenements Yards Gardens and Premisses thereto belonging and which I hold by Lease from the Dean and Chapter of Rochester in the said County of Kent as the said last mentioned Messuages or Tenements are now in the several tenures of occupations of [         ] SHARP [         ] ELFORD and JOHN ATTERWAY unto the said MARY COUCHMAN To hold the same from the next usual quarter day after my decease unto her the said MARY COUCHMAN her Executors Administrators and Assigns for her own use and benefit for and during the residue and remainder of the term of years thereby granted and I devise with such rights and benefits of the renewal I thereunto appertaining But subject nevertheless to the rents covenants and (         ?         ) to (        ?         ) reserved (         ?         ) and (         ?         )
   And I do give and bequeath the sum of Two thousand pounds Stock reduced three per Cent Annuities (being part of the Stock now standing in my name in the books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England) unto the said ANN OLIVER (my Housekeeper) for her own absolute use and benefit and do direct the same to be transferred into her name by my Executors herein after named and appointed immediately after their receiving the half year's dividend thereof which shall be arriving at the time of my decease and which half year's dividend I desire shall be considered as part of the residue of my personal Estate and go as I have bequeathed the same
   And I do hereby give devise and bequeath the sum of One thousand and    ?    hundred pounds Stock reduced three per Cent Annuities being the remainder of my property in the Public Funds and which is also now standing in my name in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England unto GEORGE OSBORNE of Chatham aforesaid Draper and JAMES? CANHAM of Brompton aforesaid Shipwright (my Executors hereinafter named and appointed) their Executors and Administrators upon the several trusts and to and for the several intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) Upon Trust to receive and take the first half year's Dividend which shall be arriving and grow due next after my decease and apply the same as part of the residue of my Personal and go (Subject as after mentioned ) as I have bequeathed the same and from and after their receiving the said first half yearly dividend as to the Sum of Nine hundred and fifty pounds Stock reduced three per Cent Annuities (being one moiety or half part of the said One and nine hundred pounds Stock) Upon Trust to receive and take the interest and dividends of the said Nine hundred and fifty pounds Stock as and when the same shall arrive and become due and payable and pay and apply the same for and towards the support and maintenance of my Cousin GEORGE DAY FENNER of the Parish of Hoo in the said County Miller or otherwise appropriate the said Interest as an accumulating Fund in such way and manner as they my said Trustees in their discretion shall think fit during the minority of the said GEORGE DAY FENNER & until he arrives at the age of twenty one years And from and after his attaining that age Upon Trust that they my said Trustees and the survivor of them his Executors and Administrators shall stand possessed of the said Sum of Nine hundred and fifty pounds Stock reduced three per Cent Annuities and such other Sum or Sums of money as may be accumulated as aforesaid for and for Sole use and benefit of the said GEORGE DAY FENNER his Executors Administrators and Assigns and pay assign and transfer the same as he he or they shall direct or appoint And as to the remaining Sum of Nine hundred and fifty pounds of Nine hundred and fifty pounds Stock reduced three per Cent Annuities (being the residue of the said One thousand nine hundred pounds Stock) Upon Trust to receive and take the interest and dividends of the said last mentioned sum of Nine hundred and fifty pounds Stock as and when the same shall become due and payable and pay and apply the same for and towards the support and maintenance of my Cousin RICHARD FENNER of Brompton aforesaid Butcher (Brother of the said GEORGE DAY FENNER) or otherwise appropriate the said interest as an accumulating Fund in such way and manner as they in their discretion shall think fit during the minority of the said RICHARD FENNER and until he arrives at the age of twenty one years and from and after his attaining that age Upon Trust that they my said Executors and the Survivor of them his Executors and Administrators shall stand possessed of the said last mentioned sum of nine hundred and fifty pounds Stock reduced three per Cent Annuities and such other sum and sums of money as may be accumulated as aforesaid for and for the sole use and benefit of the said of the said RICHARD FENNER his Executors Administrators and Assigns and pay assign and transfer the same as he or they shall direct or appoint
   And I do hereby give and devise all my household Goods and Furniture Plate Linen and China wearing Apparel and Books unto my Housekeeper the said ANN OLIVER for her own absolute use and benefit and I do hereby give and bequeath all and every the Wages which may be due and owing to me as a Shipwright in his Majesty's Dock Yard at Chatham on my own account and I give the Wages of JOHN HALL and THOMAS SANETT which I purchased unto the said JAMES HOOK CANHAM for his own use and benefit And I also give and bequeath unto the said GEORGE OSBORNE the Sum of ten pounds as a token of respect
   And as to the rest residue and remainder of my Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever (Subject to after payment of all my just Debts Funeral and Testamentary charges and expenses) I do hereby give devise and bequeath the same unto them the said GEORGE OSBORNE and JAMES HOOK CANHAM in equal parts shares and proportions for their own absolute use and benefit
   And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint them the said GEORGE OSBORNE and JAMES HOOK CANHAM joint Executors hereof and hereby revoking and making void all former and other Will and Wills by me at any time heretofore made Do declared this only to be and contain my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said SANDERS MAYOR the Testator have to this my last Will and Testament contained in three sheets of paper set my hand to the two first sheets thereof and my hand and seal to the third and last sheet this seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand and eight hundred SANDERS MAYOR Signed Sealed Published and Declared by me the said SANDERS MAYOR the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses hereto GEO CONQUEST J. STEPHENS ROB. FRY
   WHEREAS I the within named SANDERS MAYOR made and duly published the within writing as and for my last Will and Testament bearing date the seventeenth day of September instant and thereby gave and bequeathed the sum of nineteen hundred pounds Stock unto and to the use of my two Cousins GEORGE DAY FENNER and RICHARD FENNER in the manner within set forth Now I do hereby declare this to be a Codicil to my said Will and direct that in Case they the said GEORGE DAY FENNER and RICHARD FENNER shall both of them departed this life before they arrive at the age of twenty one years then and in that Case I do hereby direct my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his Exors or Admons immediately after the decease of them the said GEORGE DAY FENNER and RICHARD FENNER under the age of aforesaid to transfer and assign the said Nineteen hundred pounds Stock reduced three per Cent Annuities unto my within named Cousins SARAH COUCHMAN and MARY COUCHMAN in equal parts shares and proportions as tenant in Common for their respective use and benefit And I do hereby declare this to be a Codicil to my said Will to be accepted as part thereof as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if the same had been actually inserted therein
   In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of September One thousand eight hundred SANDERS MAYOR Signed Sealed and Delivered by the said Testator as a Codicil to his Will in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request have subscribed our names as Witnesses hereto J. STEPHENS ROB. FRY

Proved 29th October 1800