Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HF53/6/8
  • Title
    Will of William Pope of Biggleswade, merchant, farmer and maltster.
  • Date free text
    12 October 1881
  • Production date
    From: 1881 To: 1881
  • Scope and Content
    - to wife Amelia all household goods in dwelling house at time of testator’s death, and £200 to be paid within one month. - all real estate except copyhold to the use of brother James Pope of Biggleswade, son William John Pope and son in law John George Raynes of Great James Street Bedford Row, upon trust with power to sell subject to wife being allowed to occupy dwelling house for life. - all copyhold to such uses as James Pope, William John Pope and John George Raynes appoint by deed to be executed within 21 years of testator’s death and dispose of them, so far as their nature will permit, according to the trusts for the freehold and other real estates. Trustees to: - set aside investment to pay annuity of £200 to wife by four equal quarterly payments. Residue of trust funds to provide - pay son Walter Henry Pope £3500 upon his attaining the age of twenty-five. If dies before leaving issue money to go to issue. Until he is 25 pay him £140 per year to accrue from day to day but be payable quarterly. - set aside £1500 for the benefit of daughter Mary Amelia, the wife of John George Raynes. - set aside £1500 for the benefit of daughter Jessie Susan, wife of Thomas Flower. Interest to go to daughters for their own use. If daughter dies then in trust for children of daughter. If either daughter dies without issue then part or share of daughter upon trust for all other children living at time of testator’s death in equal shares, if child dies before monies become divisible leaving issue then issue to take parent’s share. - If at time of testator’s death he still holds his shares in the County Fire Office trustees should treat six of them as being of the value of £900 as part of daughter Mary Amelia’s £1500 and the remaining five to the value of £750 as part of daughter Jessie Susan’s £1500. - to pay sons Arthur Frederick Pope and George Kershaw Pope £1500 pounds each. - residue to be divided among all children living at the time of testator’s death. Clauses re. maintenance and education of children, letting Newton Bury Farm at Dunton for gardening purposes, permitting wife during her widowhood to occupy the private dwellinghouse garden and private part of the premises in Shortmead Street now occupied by the testator at the annual rent of one shilling. In case of sale of dwelling house etc eldest son, William John to have first refusal, in case of his declining then sons in succession to have the refusal. - permit any son carrying on business of merchant and maltsters to become purchasers of the wharf and premises adjoining the dwelling house in Shortmead Street and to allow part of the purchase price to remain as a mortgage or charge. Clauses re investment of trust monies, appointment of new trustees. James Pope, William John Pope and John George Raynes appointed executors. Wife and executors appointed guardians of infant child during his minority. Envelop marked ‘revoked in 1883’
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