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Will of Joseph Foster Palmer of Olney [Buckinghamshire], ironmonger and tanner of 18 Dec 1823 - appointing wife Mary Palmer and friends William Andrews of Olney, esquire and James Perry of Lavendon Mill [Buckinghamshire], miller trustees and executors and guardians of his children during their minorities; - bequeathing £15 each to William Andrews and James Perry; - bequeathing £200 each to his seven children Elizabeth, Ann, Joseph, Sarah, William, Mary and Maria when they each became 21; - devising to his wife for her life, remainder to William Andrews and James Perry in trust for sale, his dwellinghouse with yard, garden etc and 1.5 acres of pasture in Olney purchased from George Grindon; - devising residue of his real estate in Chellington, Harrold, Olney and Lavendon to William Andrews and James Perry in trust for sale with rents and profits and eventual sale money added to his personal estate; - bequeathing all personal estate to his executors and trustees in trust for sale and realisation of assets and subsequent investment; interest to be paid to his wife for her life as a widow, remainder on her death or remarriage for equal division amongst their children; his wife to have enjoyment of all household goods she desired; - empowering his wife and trustees to continue his ironmongery and tanning business for his wife's benefit so long as she remained a widow, or shorter time if she thought fit; - empowering his wife to sell house, if she wished, to their son Joseph for £500; - reciting fourteen year lease of 30 Apr 1823 from John Dainty of dwellinghouse, tan yard, tan vats, pits, mills, sheds, buildings and premises, three cottages and close of pasture in Olney; the lease containing a covenant to convey the premises on payment of £1,600; - empowering William Andrews and James Perry to purchase Dainty's tanning yard etc. if they think fit for £1,600; - witnessed by: Ann Hopkins Smith of Olney, spinster; S.T.Mason of Olney, watchmaker; George Burnham of Wellingborough [Northamptonshire], attorney Codicil of 15 May 1827: - revoking bequests of £200 and one eighth of his personal estate to his son Thomas [not actually bequeathed in the preceding will, because the testator had erased references to Thomas and to eight children replacing the word "eight" with "seven"]; - bequeathing 10/- per week to Thomas for life charged on testator's dwellinghouse and 1.5 acres in Olney; - allowing Joseph and William in partnership to purchase his dwellinghouse for £500 rather than Joseph alone; - empowering his trustees to realise his personal estate and divide it between the seven children [i.e. not Thomas] if his wife remarried but investing sufficient money to pay her an annuity of £50 per annum for life; - witnessed by Ann Hopkins Smith; Mary Smith of Olney, spinster; S.T.Mason Codicil of 10 Jun 1827: - willing that if his wife remarried or died in the lifetime of their son Thomas that Joseph alone or with William should purchase the dwellinghouse and 1. 5acres for £500; - witnessed by Ann Hopkins Smith, S.T.Mason and George Burnham Copied 27 Nov 1828 by John Garrard and William Garrard

1823-1828

From: 1823 To: 1828

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Palmer, Joseph Foster,
Palmer, Mary,
Andrews, William,
Perry, James,
Palmer, Elizabeth,
Palmer, Ann,
Palmer, Joseph,
Palmer, Sarah,
Palmer, William,
Palmer, Maria,
Grindon, George,
Dainty, John,
Smith, Ann Hopkins,
Mason, S T,
Burnham, George,
Palmer, Thomas,
Smith, Mary,
Garrard, John,
Garrard, William

Joseph Foster will: Palmer, ironmonger, tanner, miller, non-agricultural leases, tanning, watchmaker, George Burnham, John Garrard, William Garrard, Lavendon Mill, Olney, Lavendon, CHELLINGTON, HARROLD