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This is
the last Will and Testament of me George Wallis
of Stony Stratford in the County of Buckingham
Gentleman which I make and declare as follows I
nominate and appoint my son William Talbot
Wallis of Shifford in the County of Oxford
Farmer and my son in law Thomas Knighton of
Stony Stratford aforesaid Gentleman Executors of
this my Will And I give and bequeath to the said
Thomas Knighton the sum of one hundred pounds as
an acknowledgement for the trouble he may have
in the execution of the trusts of this my Will I
give and devise unto my dear wife Leah Anna
Wallis the messuage or dwellinghouse and
premises with the appurtenances wherein I now
dwell situate standing and being in Stony
Stratford aforesaid and all other my real estate
whatsoever and wheresoever to hold the same with
the appurtenances thereto belonging unto my said
dear wife Leah Anna Wallis and her assigns for
and during the term of her natural life she my
said dear wife and her assigns keeping the same
dwellinghouse and all other buildings well and
sufficiently insured in some good office or
Company against injury by fire and from and
immediately after her decease I give and devise
the same hereditaments and premises unto and to
the use of my said son William Talbot Wallis his
heirs and assigns for ever I give and bequeath
unto my grandson William Godfrey the legacy or
sum of ten pounds ten shillings And I give and
bequeath unto Joseph Pickering the former
husband of my late daughter Temperance Wallis
deceased now residing in London the legacy or
sum of fifty pounds I declare and direct that my
said dear wife Leah Anna Wallis shall have the
use of all my household goods and furniture,
plate linen and china being in or about my said
dwellinghouse and premises at Stony Stratford
aforesaid during the term of her natural life
and from and immediately after her decease I
give and bequeath the same household goods and
furniture plate linen and china unto my said son
William Talbot Wallis and my daughter Catherine
Knighton the wife of the said Thomas Knighton to
and for their own absolute use and benefit to be
equally divided between them share and share
alike as tenants in common I give and bequeath
all my moneys and securities for money debts
stocks funds and securities and all and singular
other my goods chattels Personal estate and
effects whatsoever and wheresoever (subject to
the payment of my just debts funeral and
testamentary expences which I direct in the
first place to be thereout fully paid and
satisfied) unto the said William Talbot Wallis
and Thomas Knighton their executors and
administrators upon trust that they the said
William Talbot Wallis and Thomas Knighton or the
survivor of them or the executors or
administrators of such survivor do and shall lay
out and invest the same in their or his names or
name or continue the same invested in or upon
any of the Public stocks or funds of Great
Britain or at interest on Government or real
securities in England with power to vary and
alter the securities in or upon which the same
trust moneys shall be invested for others of a
like nature as occasion shall require and do and
shall pay the interest dividends and annual
produce of the said trust moneys stocks funds
and securities unto my said dear wife Leah Anna
Wallis during her natural life to and for her
own absolute use and benefit and from and after
the decease of my said dear wife do and shall
stand possessed of the said trust moneys stocks
funds and securities upon trust as to one moiety
or equal half part thereof for all and every my
grandchild and grandchildren being the children
of my said son William Talbot Wallis (except my
grandson William Talbot Wallis for whom I have
already made provision) who shall be living at
the time of the decease of my said dear wife to
be equally divided between such grandchildren if
more than one share and share alike as tenants
in common and to be paid to them respectively on
their respectively attaining the age of twenty
one years the interest in the meantime of their
respective shares to be paid and applied to and
for their respective maintenance and support and
if but one such grandchild then upon trust for
such grandchild with like power to apply the
interest thereof for his or her maintenance and
support during his or her minority And as to the
remaining moiety or equal half part of the said
trust moneys stocks funds and securities upon
trust for all and every my grandchild or
grandchildren being the children of my said
daughter Catherine Knighton (except my grandson
George Wallis Knighton for whom also I have
already made provision) who shall be living at
the decease of my said dear wife to be equally
divided between such grandchildren if more than
one as tenants in common and to be paid to them
respectively on their respectively attaining the
age of twenty one years the interest in the
meantime of their respective shares to be paid
and applied to and for their respective
maintenance and support and if but one
grandchild then upon trust for such one
grandchild with like power to apply the interest
thereof for his or her maintenance and support
during his or her minority I give and devise all
such messuages lands tenements hereditaments and
real estate whatsoever which at the time of my
decease I shall be seized or possessed of
entitled to or interested in by way of mortgage
or in trust unto the said William Talbot Wallis
and Thomas Knighton their heirs executors
administrators and assigns according to the
nature and quality of such estates respectively
.. upon the trusts and under and subject to the
powers provisoes and conditions which shall be
then subsisting in or upon such estates
respectively provided also and I do hereby
declare that it shall and may be lawful for my
said trustees by and out of my said personal
estate to retain to and reimburse themselves all
costs and expences which they may sustain in or
about the execution of this my Will and also
that they and their respective executors and
administrators shall be chargeable only for
their own respective receipts payments acts and
wilful defaults and shall not be charged or
chargeable with or for any sum or sums of money
other than such as shall actually and
respectively come to their hands nor for
involuntary losses And lastly hereby revoking
all former wills by me at any time made I
declare this only to be my last Will and
Testament In witness whereof I the said George
Wallis, the testator have to each sheet of this
my Will contained on three sheets of paper set
my hand this twenty fifth day of January in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty four _____ George Wallis _________
Signed and declared by the said George Wallis
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 and at the same time have hereunto
subscribed our names as witnesses
James
Attkins Draper G
Attkins
Proved
at London the 19th August 1848 before
the Worshipful Robert Joseph Phillimore Doctor
of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of William
Talbot Wallis the son and Thomas Knighton the
executors to whom admon was granted having been
first sworn only to administer.
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