This is the last Will and Testament of me WILLIAM JACKSON SHAW of 35 Crescent Road Birkdale Southport in the County of Lancaster Gentleman

·         I hereby revoke all testamentary instruments at any time heretofore executed by me

·         I appoint my brother BENJAMIN SHAW and GEORGE WHEELDON of Southport aforesaid Solicitor (hereinafter called “my trustees”) to be Executors and Trustees of this my Will

·         I declare that in the interpretation of this my will the expression “my Trustees” shall (where the context permits) mean and include the Trustees or Trustee for the time being hereof whether original or substitute

·         I request my Executors to bury my body in my grave at the Cemetery Southport aforesaid and direct them to place a suitable inscription on the memorial stone standing thereon

·         I direct payment as soon as conveniently may be after my decease of my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts (including a debt of One thousand three hundred and fifty pounds now owing by me to the Trustees of the Will of James Lowe deceased)

·         I bequeath free of death duties to my said brother BENJAMIN SHAW my leasehold dwellinghouse with the outbuildings thereto belonging situate in and being numbered 35 Crescent Road Birkdale aforesaid wherein I now reside for the residue which shall be unexpired at my decease of the term for which the same premises are held (subject to the rent reserved by and to the lessees convenants and conditions contained in the Lease under which the said premises are held) together with all my furniture fixtures and household effects in about or belonging to the said dwellinghouse and together also with my wearing apparel and jewellery

·         I bequeath free of death duties my leasehold messuages with the outbuildings thereto belonging situate and being numbered 6 and 8 Cavendish Road Birkdale aforesaid with the appurtenances thereto belonging unto my housekeeper JANE TOOTH provided she shall be in my service at the time of my death for all the residue which shall be unexpired at my decease of the term for which the same premises are held subject to the rent reserved by and to the covenants and conditions contained in the lease under which the said premises are held

·         I devise and bequeath the residue of my estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever both real and personal unto my Trustees upon the trusts following that is to say

a)  Upon trust to sell call in collect and convert into money the same at such time or times and in such manner as they shall think fit and to stand possessed of the proceeds of such sale calling in and conversion

·         Upon trust to pay the following legacies all free of death duties that is to say the sum of Fifty pounds to each of them the said BENJAMIN SHAW and GEORGE WHEELDON in case they shall respectively prove my Will  The sum of Two hundred pounds to ESTHER STOTT (the sister of James Lowe below) the wife of JAMES STOTT of 26 Ladies Lane Hindley in the County of Lancaster  The sum of Twenty five pounds to my servant EMMA DENNETT provided she shall be in my service at my decease

·         And upon further trust to pay the following legacies but I declare that if the moneys to arise from the sale and conversion hereinbefore directed or otherwise forming part of my estate shall not be sufficient to pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and all the legacies bequeathed by them my Will then the following legacies shall abate proportionately in exoneration of the legacies hereinbefore bequeathed that is to say the sum of One thousand pounds to be equally divided between my nephews and nieces the children of my brother the said BENJAMIN SHAW living at my decease (there were five) and the children of any then deceased child of his but so that the children of any deceased nephew or niece shall take equally between them only the share which their parent would have taken had he or she survived me  The sum of One thousand pounds to be equally divided between my nephews and nieces the children of my brother THOMAS JEFFERSON SHAW of Hall Lane Hindley aforesaid living at my decease (there were five – one had died) and the children of any then deceased child of his but so that the children of any deceased nephew or niece shall take equally between them only the share which their parent would have taken had he or she survived me  The sum of six hundred pounds to be equally divided between such of the following children of JAMES LOWE the younger of Castle Hill Hindley aforesaid Grocer as shall be living at my death namely ALICE LOWE  EDITH ATKINSON and MARGARET DAVIES  The sum of Fifty pounds to the Trustees of St Paul’s Congregational Church Hindley aforesaid

·         And upon further trust to pay the residue of the said moneys to arise from the sale and conversion hereby directed or otherwise forming part of my estate unto and for such charitable institutions or institution or other charitable or benevolent objects or object in England as my acting Executor or Extors may in his or their absolute discretion think fit and to be paid to or for such institutions or objects if more than one in such proportions as my said EXECUTOR OR Execturos may think proper and declare that the receipt of the treasurer or other proper officer for the time being of the said Congregational Church and of such charitable institutions as aforesaid shall be a sufficient discharge for all moneys payable to them under this my Will

Signed by WILLIAM JACKSON SHAW 22 November 1915