This is the last Will and Testament of me WILLIAM EDWARD WELLS of 52 Windsor Road, Ealing in the County of Middlesex Gentleman.
I give devise bequeath and appoint all my estates and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever unto my dear wife MARY WELLS and my friends EDWARD WHITE THE YOUNGER of Cannon Street in the city of London Brushmaker and JAMES HAMILTON TOWNEND of 86 Queen Street Cheapside in the said City of London Gentleman upon trust that the said trustees or the survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor or other the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will shall as soon as conviently may be after my decease sell call in and convert into money such part or parts thereof as shall not consist of money and shall out of the money to arise from such said calling in and conversion and the money of which I shall be possessed at my death in the first part pay my debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the primary legacies given by this my will and shall lay out and invest the residue of the monies aforesaid in their or his names or name in any parliamentary stocks or public funds of Great Britain or at interest upon Government or real security in England or Wales.
And I declare that the trustees or trustee for the time being of my will shall during the natural life of my said wife pay and devise the annual income of the said trust monies stock funds and securities in or upon which the same may be invested unto and between my said wife and and my daughters SARAH MATILDA WELLS, ELIZABETH MARY WELLS and MARIA WELLS in equal shares and proportions.
And I declare that after the decease of my said wife the said trustees or trustee for the time being shall stand possessed of the said trust monies stocks funds and securities and the annual income thereof. The trust for all such of my aforesaid daughters as shall be living at the time of the decease of my said wife their heirs executors administrators and assigns absolutely share and share alike as tenants in common. I authorize the trustees or trustee for the time being of my will to convert any part of my personal estate on the security on which it may be invested at my death. I give to each of them the said EDWARD WHITE and JAMES HAMILTON TOWNEND the sum of nineteen pounds nineteen shillings. And I appoint my said wife and the said EDWARD WHITE and JAMES HAMILTON TOWNEND Executors of this my will. And lastly I revoke all former wills by me at any time heretofore made and declare this to be my last and only Will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and seventy one.------W.E.WELLS-----signed and declared by the said WILLIAM EDWARD WELLS 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 all being present at the same time have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
ALFRED PILL 51 Cheapside Confectioner
ANNE CHARLOTTE ELTON Housemaid

PROVED at London 3rd April, 1872 by the oaths of Mary Wells Widow the Relict Edward White the younger and James Townend the Executors to whom administration was granted.