Copy will of Mary Witton [of Whitchurch?]

Scope and Content

Nominates as executors and trustees her nephew R. Savage, her niece N. Bunnell, and J. Bunnell. Enumerates many bequests, several relating to the disposal of various stocks (railways, London docks, government securities, Stourbridge Canal etc.) Her niece S[arah] Kenrick figures as follows, as she is to receive : the dividend accruing from 1 share in the Stourbridge Canal [Company] for life with remainder to her daughters, following the death of the testator's brother J. Roe; the dividend accruing from another share in the same to be divided equally between S K and N. Bunnell, following the death of N. Bunnell and her children [unfortunately, only initials are used in this copy to distinguish the various beneficiaries, hence the confusion between two Bunnells with the initial N]; the dividends on £100 p.a. Bank Long Annuities to S K personally for life, and afterwards to her children; the dividend accruing on a similar sum to be divided equally between S K and N B and their respective children, after the death of W. Woollatt and his children; the moiety of a sum sufficient to produce an annuity of £40 to S K and N B following the death of the testator's niece Ellen Townsend; £300 to S K and N B in trust to apply the interest on the same to the maintenance of the said Ellen Townsend's three children up to the age of 21 years, the principal sum then to be divided between them, with remainder to E T; the use of the testator's silver casters for life, thereafter to be given to S K's daughter S[arah]; S K and N B to receive all the testator's wearing apparel apart from specific bequests; S K and N B to be residuary legatees.

A codicil is annexed, dated 31 January 1878.

A second codicil is also annexed, dated 16 May 1821, whereby S K is to receive one third share of a principal sum producing £35 p.a., following the death of the testator's brother J. Roe; S K to receive the first of 2 volumes written by the testator's late husband from the diary of his grandmother, and N B to receive the second volume; S K, N B and the children of the testator's late niece E. Woollatt to receive the remainder of her books between them.

1 notebook; also contains personal accounts of Sarah Kenrick, 1822 - 1823; and an account of the manner in which she disposed of the money received from her aunt Witton, 1823 - 1824