This is the last Will and Testament
of me Frances Faithorn of Maidstone in the County
of Kent, Widow, made the Sixteenth day of April, One Thousand
Eight Hundred and Fifty Five.
I appoint my friends the Reverend Edmund Jinkings of Maidstone
aforesaid Minister of the Gospel and William White of
Maidstone aforesaid gentleman Executors of this my Will.
First I request that all my just debts if any and my funeral
and testamentary expences and the several legacies hereinafter
bequeathed may be paid by my executors with all convenient speed
after my decease.
I give and bequeath all the household goods and furniture, plate,
linen, china, books and other household effects and all trinkets
and ornaments of the person which at the time of my decease may
in about or belonging to the messuage or tenement and premises
now occupied by me and my great nephew Stephen
Barker unto my said great nephew the said Stephen Barker
for his own absolute use and benefit.
And I give and bequeath unto the several persons hereinafter
named the several legacies or sums following (that is to say)
to my brother Thomas Kidwell
the sum of fifty pounds sterling to my brother William Kidwell
the sum of five pounds sterling to my friends Richard
Smitherman of Maidstone aforesaid Gentleman and Henry
Smitherman now Foreman at Mr Muggeridges of Carshalton in
the County of Surrey Paper Maker the sum of Five pounds sterling
each to each of them the said Edmund Jinkings and William
White the sum of Ten pounds sterling and to The Treasurer
for the time being of the Sunday school held at the Independent
Chapel, Week Street, Maidstone aforesaid to be applied for the
benefit of the said school the sum of five pounds sterling.
And (subject to the payment of all my just debts and my funeral
and testamentary expenses and the several legacies or sums hereinbefore
bequeathed I give and bequeath all my wearing apparel, money,
securities for money and all other my personal estate and effects
whatsoever not hereinbefore specifically bequeathed) unto my
nieces Sarah Mead the wife of
Henry Mead of Maidstone aforesaid Baker and Avis
Barker the wife of James Barker
of Tovil in the Parish of Maidstone aforesaid Paper Maker equally
to be divided between them share and share alike for their own
respective use and benefit.
I give and devise unto my great nephew the said Stephen Barker
All that my freehold messuage or tenement and shop with the yard
garden and appurtenances thereunto belonging and now used therewith
situate on the east side of the upper part of Week Street in
or near the town and in the Parish of Maidstone aforesaid now
in the occupation of myself and the said Stephen Barker.
And also all those my four freehold messuages or tenements with
the yards gardens and appurtenances thereunto respectively belonging
and now used therewith situate and being in and on the west side
of a certain street or road called the Queen Ann Road in the
Parish of Maidstone aforesaid now or late in the occupation of
???? Eaton, ???? Arerton, ???? Peale and
???? Springett and which were devised to me by the will
of my late husband and were purchased by him of William Holloway
and all other (if any) the real estate which I may be seized
of or entitled to at the time of my decease (except by estates
which may be vested in me upon any trust or by way of mortgage)
To hold the same unto and to the use of the said Stephen Barker
his heirs and assigns for ever I give and devise all the estates
which at the time of my decease may be vested in me upon any
trust or by way of mortgage of which I have power to dispose
by this my will with their appurtenances unto and to the use
of the said Edmund Jinkings and William White their
heirs executors administrators and assigns according to the nature
and quality thereof respectively Upon the trusts and for the
ends intents and purposes for which the same shall respectively
be held by me at the time of my decease.
And I hereby declare that my said executors shall not be answerable
one for the other and for such money only as they respectively
shall actually receive and not afterwards pay over to his co-executor
for the purpose of this my will and by no means for involuntary
losses.
And that they shall be allowed and may retain to and reinburse
himself or themselves all their costs charges damages and expences
to be incurred or occasioned in the execution of the trusts of
this my Will with reasonable renumeration for their loss of time
in journies or otherwise in or about the execution of the same.
In witness whereof I the said Frances Faithorn the Testatrix
have to each of the three sheets of this my last Will and Testament
caused my name subscribed the day and year first above written
- Frances Faithorn - Signed by Henry Baldwin of
Maidstone in the County of Kent Gentleman as the last Will and
Testament of Frances Faithorn the Testatrix in her present
and by her direction and by the said Frances Faithorn
declared to be her last Will and Testament in the presence of
us present at the same time who at her request in her presence
and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our
names as witnesses the Sixteenth day of April One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Fifty Five - William White Jnr Grocer ???
Maidstone - Edward Elphee, Tailor, County Road, Maidstone.
Proved at London 9th October 1857
before the Worshipful Thomas Hutchinson Tristram Doctor
of Laws and Surrogate by the Oath of William White the
surviving Executor to whom Admon was granted having been first
sworn duly to administer. |
KIDWELL