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The Will of William Brokenshaw, dated 30 June 1855
This is the Last Will and Testament
of me William Brokenshaw Shipbuilder Fowey in the County of Cornwall.
All my Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments wheresoever and all
my Household Furniture Goods Chattels Vessels Shares in Vessels and all
my real and personal Estate and Effects of every description of which I
may die possessed I give devise and bequeath unto my dear Wife Ann her
heirs executors administrators and assigns according to the tenure and
nature thereof respectively and I hereby appoint my said Wife Ann sole
executrix of this my Will and I do hereby revoke all other Wills In
Witness whereof I have hereunder subscribed my name this Thirtieth day
of June One thousand eight hundred and fifty five
Wm. Brokenshaw
Signed by the same William Brokenshaw The Testator as and for his last
Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at
his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have
hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
Rob Bishop attorney at law Fowey
Arthur A Davis
The District Registry of Bodmin
In Her Majesty’s Court of Probate
BE IT KNOWN, that on the thirteenth day of April 1858, the last Will and
Testament, hereunto annexed, of William Brokenshaw late of the Parish of
Fowey in the County of Cornwall Shipbuilder deceased, who died on or
about the 30th November 1857, at _ _ Fowey aforesaid, and who at the
time of his death had a fixed place of abode at Fowey aforesaid within
the District of the County of Cornwall, was proved, and registered in
the said District Registry of Bodmin attached to Her Majesty’s Court, of
Probate and that the administration of all and singular the personal
estate and effects of the said deceased, was granted by the aforesaid
Court to Ann Brokenshaw the Widow of the said deceased and sole
Executrix named in the said Will, she having been first sworn well and
faithfully to administer the same, by paying the just debts of the
deceased and the legacies contained in his Will so far as she is
thereunto bound by law, and to exhibit a true and perfect inventory of
all and singular the said estate and effects, and to render a just and
true account thereof whenever required by law so to do. Given at Bodmin
under the Seal of Office.
Jno Bassett Collins
District Registrar
Extracted by Commins & Son Soltrs. Bodmin
Sworn under Fifteen Hundred Pounds and that the Testator died on or
about 30th November 1857
Transcribed by Tom Francis from
a document in the Malcolm McCarthy Collection
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