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Will of William Cragoe, dated 28 December 1876

I William Cragoe of Penhellick in the parish of Saint Clement in the County of Cornwall do declare this to be my last Will and testament. I direct that my debts and funeral and testamentary charges be paid out of my personal estate. I give and bequeath all my household furniture to my Wife absolutely. I also give to my wife for her life a clear annuity of sixty pounds to be paid to her quarterly, and I charge the same on all my real and personal estate. I bequeath to my daughter Grace Magor Smith all that estate called Collins’s Tenement situate in the village of Trevelmond in the parish of Liskeard in this county for her life, and at her death to my Grandson Sidney Andrew Smith to his heirs, administrators and assigns, for their absolute use and benefit and I hereby direct that my said daughter’s receipt shall be a sufficient discharge for the rent and I appoint my sons Thomas and Albertus joint trustees to carry out the same according to my will. I give and bequeath to my daughters Grace Magor Smith and Mary Emma Cragoe the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds each, one hundred each at my decease and the remainder at my Wife’s decease the same to be paid to them respectively for their own separate use and not to be paid to or received by, or subject to the debts, control or engagements of their respective husbands, or in the case of their decease to their children in equal parts to share and share alike and I charge the same on all my real and personal estate. I give devise and bequeath the residue of my property real and personal to my sons Thomas and Albertus their heirs executors administrators and assigns, according to the nature thereof for their own absolute use and benefit and I appoint my said sons Executors of this my Will 28th day of Decr. 1876 In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal Wm Cragoe
The above will of the above named testator William Cragoe was signed sealed published and acknowledged by him as his will in the presence of us being both present at the same time who in his presence in the presence of each other and at his request have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Wm Woolcock  John Woolcock

The District Registry at Bodmin

In Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice
Be it known that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of (a copy whereof is hereunder annexed)
WILLIAM CRAGOE, late of Penhellick in the Parish of Saint Clement in the County of Cornwall.
Gentlemen
Deceased who died on the 9th Day of June 1877 at Penhellick aforesaid, and who at the time of his death had a fixed place of abode at Penhellick of the County of Cornwall, was proved and registered in the District Registry attached to the Probate Division of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice at Bodmin, and that administration of the personal estate of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid court to, THOMAS ADOLPHUS (in the will of Will Cragoe written Thomas and Albertus Martin) (in the will written Albertus) Cragoe Esquires, the sons, The executors named in the said will. They having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same.
 
Jno Basset Collins
District Registrar
Dated the 28th Day of July 1877
Personal Estate under £600
Stamp Bodmin 5-6-77
20
 
Extracted by Gewn Nalder, Sol
Falmouth.

 
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Transcribed from a document in the Malcolm McCarthy Collection