Reference
ST1691/3
Title
Copy probate of will of Thomas Fairey
Date free text
15 Aug 1855
Production date
From: 1855 To: 1862
Scope and Content
Copy probate of will of Thomas Fairey of Harrold, maltster, proved on 4 Feb 1862:
- bequeathing to his wife Martha £20;
- bequeathing to his wife furniture, plate, linen, china, wearing apparel, consumable household stores and provisions etc.;
- devising all real estate to use of his wife, who was to insure them against fire etc. and then the remainder, after her death, as follows;
- devising his dwellinghouse in Harrold with barns and outbuildings, yards and ground, (except garden adjoining which was devised to his son Samuel), to his son John subject to a charge of £100 to his daughter Mary Ann, wife of Stephen Stevens, who also received £100, and £100 to his daughter Elizabeth;
- devising freehold close at Harrold "nearest to the town" of 7 acres in occupation of John Fairey (one of two adjoining closes near Little Odell devised to him by his brother - see ST1691/2) to his son William, charged with paying £100 to his daughter Martha;
- devising freehold close in Harrold "farthest from the town" of 7 acres in occupation of John Fairey (the other close devised in ST1691/2) to his son Thomas charged with £100 legacy to his daughter Charlotte;
- devising three freehold cottages and copyhold barn in Harrold in occupation of Mary Clayson, widow, David Robinson and Thomas Denton and freehold garden adjoining belonging to his son Samuel and appurtenant to the testator's own dwelling (devised to him in ST1691/2) to his son Samuel;
- bequeathing to his sons John and William his money, securities, stock in trade, book debts etc. upon trust for conversion into money and use in paying debts and legacies and to invest the surplus and pay the interest to his wife for her life and after her death to divide it equally between all the children, including themselves;
- appointing John and William executors;
- witnesses Richard William Sherwood of Wellingborough, solicitor and Robert Burditt, his clerk
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