This is the last Will and Testament of me Aaron Hatch of Kingston in the parish of Portsea in the County of Southampton late Licensed Victualler and now a Grocer made whilst in a good state of health and of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding whereby I dispose of al my real and personal estate and effects in manner following that is to say and first I charge all my personal estate with and to payment of my joint debts funeral expenses and the costs and charges of proving this my Will I give and devise all my messuages lands and hereditaments with their respective rights members and appurtenances and all other my real estate whatsoever and wheresoever situated that I may be interested in or entitled to at the time of my decease unto my said dear wife Mary Hatch To hold the same to her my said dear wife Mary Hatch for and during the time and term of her natural life And from and immediately after the decease of her my said dear wife Mary Hatch I give and devise all my said messuages lands tenements and hereditaments with their respective rights members and appurtenances and all other my said real estate whatsoever and wheresoever situated as aforesaid unto and equally between my sons and daughters namely William Hatch Henry Hatch Charlotte the wife of James Purkis of Portsea aforesaid Shipwright Emma the wife of John Bramsden of Portsea aforesaid Brewer and George Hatch To hold the same to them my said Sons and Daughters said William Hatch Henry Hatch Charlotte Purkis Emma Bramsden and George Hatch their Heirs and assigns for ever as tenants in common and not as joint tenants I give and bequeath all my household goods and furniture of household plate linen china books prints and pictures monies and securities for money, money payable by reason of my death from the License Victualler’s Association The Good Samaritan Society of the Sawyers Dockyard Association or any other Society or Association and all other my personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever unto my Son and Sons in Law the said William Hatch John Bramsden and James Purkis their executors administrators and assigns Upon trust to permit and suffer my said dear wife Mary Hatch to have the use and usage of my said household goods and furniture of household plate linen china books prints and pictures and to receive and take the interest dividends and proceeds of all my said monies and securities for money for and during the time and term of her natural life And from and immediately after her decease I give and bequeath my linen and the wearing apparel of my said dear Wife unto and equally between my said two daughters the said Charlotte Purkis and Emma Bramsdon And all my said household goods and furniture of household plate linen books prints pictures monies and securities for money and all the rest residue and remainder of my personal estate and effects I give and bequeath unto and equally between my said Sons and Daughters the said William Hatch Henry Hatch Charlotte Purkis Emma Bramsden and George Hatch to and for their own use and benefit absolutely And I hereby direct that they my said Trustees shall be responsible only for so much money as they respectively shall actually receive and not the one for the other of them and each of them only for his own separate acts deeds receipts and defaults only and not the one for the other or others of them neither shall either of them my said Trustees be answerable for any loss that shall happen to my aforesaid Estate and Effects unless the same shall happen through his or their wilful neglect or default And that they my said Trustees shall reimburse themselves and himself all necessary costs and expenses that they or either of them may be put to in the execution of the trusts of this my Will I devise all the real estate vested in me as mortgagee or Trustee to my said Trustees subject to the /ities affecting the same respectively And I hereby nominate and appoint my said Trustees the said William Hatch John Bramsden and James Purkis Executors of this my Will and hereby revoking all former and other wills by me made I declare this only to contain my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I the said Aaron Hatch the Testator have to this and the foregoing sheet of paper set my hand this thirtieth day of August one thousand and eight hundred and fifty The mark x of Aaron Hatch signed sealed published and declared by the said Aaron Hatch the Testator /o and for his last will and Testament on the day of the date in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other present at the same time have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses the interlineation of the words “I give and bequeath” in the ninth line of this sheet being first made. G.C. Stigant Solr Portsea, J.R. Goldsmith his Clerk

On the thirty first day of December 1858 the Will of Aaron Hatch late of Kingston in the parish of Portsea in the County of Southampton Licensed Victualler deceased was proved by the Oaths of John Bramsden and James Purkis Sons in Law of the said deceased two of the Executors named in the said will having been first sworn duly to administer Power being reserved of making the like Grant to William Hatch son of the said deceased the other Executor named in the said Will whenever he shall apply for the same

Effects under £50

Probate Extracted by G.C. Stigant Sol Portsea