This is the last Will and Testament of me Charles George Gill of the Town of Leicester in the County of Leicester Ironmonger I appoint my brothers in law John Goosey of Kettering in the County of Northampton Draper and William Brand of the said County of Northampton Grocer Executors of this my Will and I give to each of them the sum of ten pounds as an acknowledgement for the trouble they will have in executing the trusts thereof I give to my dear Wife Miriam Gill all my household goods and furniture plate linen china and books for her own absolute use And I give and bequeath all the rest residue and remainder of my Personal Estate and Effects of every sort kind and description which I may be possessed of or entitled to at the time of my decease unto the said John Goosey and William Brand upon trust that they or the survivor of them his executors or administrators do and shall immediately after my decease sell and dispose of and convert into money such part of my said personal estate and effects as shall not consist of money and do and shall collect get in and receive so much and such parts thereof as shall consist of moneys or debts owing to my at the time of my decease on securities or otherwise and I direct that they my said trustees and the survivor of them his executors and administrators do and shall by and out of the moneys to arise and be made as aforesaid fully pay satisfy and discharge all my just debts and my funeral and testamentary expences and as to all the surplus and residue of the said moneys upon trust that they the said John Goosey and William Brand and the survivor of them his executors or administrators do and shall lay out and invest the same in their or his own names or name in the Public stocks or funds of Great Britain or at Interest on Government or real security and from time to time Alter and vary the same as they or he shall think fit and do and shall pay the dividends and interest to arise and be made therefrom unto my said dear Wife Miriam Gill for and during the term of her natural life for the support and maintenance of herself and of my children and from and after the decease of my said Wife do and shall stand possessed of the said trust moneys stocks funds and securities In trust for all and every my present and future born child and children who shall live to attain the age of twenty one years or die under that age leaving lawful issue to be divided between and amongst such children in equal shares but in case any such child or children shall depart this life under the age of twenty one years leaving lawful issue such issue shall have and be entitled to such part or share of and in the said trust moneys stocks funds and securities as his her or their parent or respective parents would have been entitled to if he she or they had lived to attain the age of twenty one years and I do hereby direct that they my said trustees and the survivor of them his executors or administrators shall and do from and after the decease of my said Wife pay and apply the dividends and interest of the expectant share or shares of such of his children or issue respectively for and towards his her or their maintenance and education during his her or their minority Provided always and I declare that my said trustees and the survivor of them his executors or administrators may at any time either in the lifetime of my said Wife or after her decease in their or his discretion apply any part of the principal of the expectant share or shares of such child children or issue respectively (such part or parts if more than one not exceeding in the whole one half of the clear residue of my said estate and effects) for his her or their advancement in the World, in such way and manner as my said trustees shall think best not withstanding that such child children or issue may not then have attained the age of twenty one years Provided nevertheless that in case I shall leave no child or children or issue of a deceased child living at the time of my decease or born in due time afterwards or leaving such if all such children shall depart this life under the age of twenty one years and without leaving lawfull issue them him or her surviving then and in such case I direct the whole of the principal moneys of which my said residuary personal estate shall be then composed or the stocks funds and securities on which the same may then be invested shall after the decease of my said Wife go and be paid transferred and assigned unto and between my brothers and sisters (either of the whole or half blood) who shall be living at the time of my decease and the issue of such one or more of them as shall be then dead in equal shares such issue nevertheless to take a parent’s share only and I declare that my said trustees and executors shall not be answerable for each other or for involuntary losses and that they shall be allowed and may retain all their costs and expences to be incurred in the due execution of the trusts hereby in them reposed and I hereby revoke all former Wills In Witness whereof I the said Charles George Gill the testator have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty four Charles George Gill

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George Danielle
G J Coleman

Proved at London 21 April 1855
PCC
Prob11/2210