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The Will of Ada White

 

I Ada White of “Lynchmere” The Great Quarry Guildford in the County of Surrey Widow hereby revoke all former Wills and Testamentary dispositions made by me and declare that this is my last Will_________________________________________________

1.   I appoint my daughter Muriel Mary Purkis the wife of Cecil Henry Jeffcoat Purkis and Cecil Edgar Hart of Guildford aforesaid, Solicitor to be the Executors and Trustees of this my Will.

2.   I bequeath to my said daughter all my personal chattels within the meaning of Section 55(1) (x) of the Administration of Estates Act 1925 absolutely free of all duties.

3.   I devise and bequeath all the residue of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever to my Trustees And I direct them to sell call in and convert into money all such parts of my real and personal estate as shall not consist of money.

4.   Out of the clear moneys to arrive from such sale calling in and conversion as aforesaid and out of my ready money my Trustees shall pay or provide for my debts funeral and testamentary expenses and subject thereto my Trustees shall invest in manner hereinafter authorised the residue of the aid clear moneys and stand possessed of such investments and of all parts of my estate for the time being unsold (hereinafter called “my residuary trust fund”________________

Upon trust to pay the income thereof to my said daughter Muriel Mary Purkis during her life for her sole and separate use without power of anticipation and from and after her death as to both capital and income In trust for all the children or any the child of my said daughter who being male attain the age of twenty one years or being female attain that age or marry and if more than one in equal shares_______

I declare that all moneys liable to be invested under this my Will may be invested in any one or more of the following modes of investment:_________________________________________

(a)  In any investments from time to time sanctioned by law for the investment of trust funds____________________________

(b)  The purchase of freehold or leasehold property (the latter having not les than sixty years unexpired at the date of such investment) in Great Britain_________________________

 

I declare that my trustees may postpone the sale calling in and conversion of any part of my real or personal estate for such period as they may in their absolute discretion deem fit without being liable to account notwithstanding that it may be of a wasting speculative or reversionary nature and that pending such sale calling in and conversion the income (including the net rents and profits of real estate after payment of rates taxes rent costs of insurance repairs and other outgoings properly attributable in the opinion of my Trustees to income) of property actually producing income shall be applied as from my death as income and on the other hand such sale calling in and conversion or on the falling in of any reversionary property no part of the proceeds of such sale calling in or conversion or such property shall be paid or applied as past income____________________________________

7.   The said Cecil Edgar Hart or any other Trustee being a Solicitor or other person engaged in any profession or business may be so employed or act and shall be entitled to charge and be paid all professional or other charges for any business or act done by him or his firm in connection with the trusts hereof including acts which a Trustee could have one personally_______________________________________________

In witness whereof I have to this and the preceding page of this my Will set my hand this twentieth day of November One thousand nine hundred and thirty three_______________________

Ada White

Signed by the said Ada White as and for her last Will in the joint presence of herself and us who at her request and in such presence have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses

Nora A. Drabble, Highworth Nursing Home Bramley, Married_____

Hubert F. Tester, Clerk to Cecil E. Hart, Solicitor, Guildford___________________________________________________

 

 

This Will was kindly transcribed and sent in by Elizabeth.

 

 

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