Submitted by: | John Lawson |
Date: | 7 October 2005 |
Original: | MNF: JG 47 LDS: 0106571 |
266 Peel 1911 Frederick Lawson This is the last will and testament of me Frederick Lawson of Selukwe House Laxey, miner. I hereby revoke all former wills codicils and testamentary dispositions by me at any time heretofore made or executed and declare this only to be my last will and testament. I leave and bequeath to my wife Eunice Margaret Lawson all my watches jewels trinkets personal ornaments and wearing apparel and all my household furniture plate plated goods linen glass china books pictures and prints and all other articles of domestic or household use or ornaments in upon or about my dwelling house at the time of my decease. I leave devise and bequeath all the rest residue and remainder of my estate and effects whether real or personal of every kind and description and wheresoever situate unto Ramsey Bignall Moore of the Borough of Douglas, advocate and John Thomas Christian of Athol Street in Douglas aforesaid accountant and their assigns and the survivors of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns of such survivors and the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will being hereinafter designated by and included in the expression “my Trustees” according to the nature and character of such property upon trust as to all my said real estate until sale of the same under the powers hereinafter contained to let or to join with any other person or persons in letting the same upon lease or otherwise for such terms and upon such conditions and for such rents as my Trustees may deem expedient and out of the annual rents and profits of the same to keep such real estate in good substantial repair and insured against fire and to pay all other necessary disbursements and as to the residue of my personal estate so far as the same shall not consist of money or investments representing money of the kind hereinafter authorised to convert the same into money and to invest the proceeds of such conversions together with the money forming part of my personal estate at the time of my decease in the manner herein- after authorised. And as to all moneys invested at the time of my decease upon securities of the kind hereinafter authorised to continue the same in their then state of investment or from time to time to alter and vary the same into other investments of the kind hereinafter authorised and as to the income of all such investments and the net balance of the annual rents and profits of my real estate to pay the same to my said wife Eunice Margaret Lawson for and during the term of her natural life and whilst she remains unmarried she thereout maintaining clothing and supporting any child of mine under the age of twenty-one years. And upon the death or marriage of my said wife whichever event shall first happen I declare that my Trustees shall stand seised and possessed of the said residue of my estate and the investments then representing the same In Trust as to the income of my said estates real and personal until my youngest child shall have attained the age of twenty one years for such of my children living at the time of my decease and the children then living of any child of mine who shall have predeceased me in equal shares such child or children to take equally between them only the share which his, her or their parent would have taken had such parent been living. And as to my said personal estate upon my youngest child attaining the age of twenty one years In Trust to divide the same equally amongst such of my children as shall then be living and the children then living of any child of mine who shall then be dead share and share alike such child or children of any child of mine to take equally between them only the share which his her or their parent would have taken had such parent then been living. And as to the net balance of the annual rents and profits of my said real estate after my youngest child attains the age of twenty one years In Trust until my youngest child shall have attained the age of twenty five years to pay the same to such of my children as shall then be living and the child or children then living of any child of mine who shall then be dead in equal shares such child or children of any deceased child of mine to take only equally between them the share which his her or their parent would have taken had such parent then been living. And upon my youngest child attaining the age of twenty five years my Trustees shall hold my said real estate Upon Trust for such of my children as shall then be living and the child or children then living of any child of mine who shall then be dead in equal shares as tenants in common such child or children of any deceased child of mine to take equally between them only the share which his her or their parent would have taken had such parent then been living. I declare that in every case in which a minor is entitled to any income under this my will my Trustees at their option and in their absolute discretion may either themselves apply such income in or towards the maintenance clothing education and support of the minor or may pay the same to the guardian or guardians of any such minor without seeing to the application thereof And it is hereby declared that it shall be lawful for my Trustees at any time at their discretion to sell all or any part of my real estate should they consider it in the interests of my estate to do so and to make any such sale as aforesaid either by public auction or private contract and to make or agree to any stipulations or provisions as to title or evidence or commencement of the title or otherwise in any condition of sale or contract for sale and to buy in at any sale or contract for sale by auction and to rescind or vary any contract and to enter into any new contract for any of the purposes aforesaid without being responsible for loss. And to any monies which my Trustees are hereby authorised or required or which they may have occasion to invest they shall be invested in their names on the security of land or in any of the securities authorized by the law of the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man for the time being for the investment of trust moneys. And I hereby further declare that any interest under this my will given to any female child of mine or to which issue being female may become entitled by reason of the provisions hereof shall be taken and enjoyed by her for her own sole and separate use free from the debts liabilities and control of any husband or husbands without power of anticipation. And I hereby declare that the said Ramsey Bignall Moore shall notwithstanding his being a Trustee hereof be entitled to charge the ordinary professional charges for any professional work he or his firm may do in the execution hereof or as one of the executors hereof and the Trustee shall be entitled to a commission at the rate of five per centum per annum on all moneys passing through their hands in the management or realisation of my estate And I hereby declare that the benefits hereby conferred on my said wife are to be in lieu of dower or widowright out of my estates real and personal. I nominate constitute and appoint the said R.B.Moore and John Thomas Christian executors of this my will. As witness my hand this fifteenth day of April one thousand nine hundred and ten Fred Lawson Signed published and declared by the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in our presence, who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have set our names as witnesses W Walter Halsall 13 Athol Street Douglas - Advocate’s Clerk T Arthur Craine As above
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