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The Will of Charles Olliver, dated 15 November 1883
The District Registry Office at Bodmin
In Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice
BE IT KNOWN, that at the date hereunder written, the last Will and
Testament (a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed)
of Charles Olliver, late of Fowey in
the County of Cornwall Farmer
deceased who died 21st day of May 1884
at Fowey aforesaid
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 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 John Olliver and Francis
Bennett Williams, the Executors
named in the said Will they having been sworn well and
faithfully to administer the same.
And it is hereby that an Affidavit in verification of the Account of the
said
estate has been delivered duly stamped wherein it is shown that the
gross value of
the said estate amounts to £1006.10.6 and no more.
Dated the 7th day of July 1884
Jno. Basset Collins
District Registrar
Executed by A. H. Carlyon Solr Fowey
I, Charles Olliver, of Fowey in the County of Cornwall,
Farmer hereby revoke all former Wills and Testamentary dispositions made
by me and declare this to be my last Will and Testament I appoint my
cousin John Olliver of the Parish of St Neot in the said County
Blacksmith and my friend Francis Bennett Williams of Lawhire in the
Parish of Fowey, Farmer, (hereinafter called my trustees) to be the
Executors and Trustees of this my Will. I devise my freehold estate
called Lower Willsland in the Parish of St Veep in the said County with
the appurtenances therewith usually occupied or enjoyed unto my step
sister Jenefer Bath now residing in Cecil Street Plymouth and her
assigns for her life after her decease to the said John Olliver in fee
simple I bequeath the specific legacies following namely To my cousin
Ann Maria Ball formerly of St Ewe but now residing in London the sum of
Two hundred pounds To Charles Edward John Bath son of my said step
sister the sum of Fifteen pounds on his attaining the age of twenty one
years To Annie Olliver a blind girl daughter of my cousin William Henry
Olliver of the Parish of Saint Cleer in the said County the sum of
Twenty pounds To Laura Beatrice Whitford Bath a daughter of my said step
sister two sixty fourth shares in the Schooner "Little Beauty" of the
Port of Fowey To the said Francis Bennett Williams two sixty fourth
shares in the vessel "Ocean Swell" I devise and bequeath all my real and
personal estate not hereby otherwise disposed of unto my Trustees Upon
trust that my trustees shall well call in and account into money the
same or such part thereof as shall not consist of money and shall with
and out of the moneys produced by such sale calling in and conversion
and with and out of my ready money pay my funeral and testamentary
expenses and debts and the legacies bequeathed by this my Will or any
Codical hereto and shall at their discretion invest the residue of the
said moneys with power from time to time and at such discretion to vary
such investments and shall stand possessed of the said residuary trust
moneys and the investments for the time being representing the same In
trust to pay the income thereof to Hannah Jane Condy Bath (being another
daughter of my step sister) during her life and after her decease In
trust for all the children of the said John Olliver who being sons shall
attain the age of twenty one years or being daughters shall attain that
age or marry under that age in equal shares and if there shall be only
one such child the whole to be in trust for that one child And I declare
that my trustees may postpone the sale and conversion of my real and
personal estate or any part thereof for so long as they shall think fit
and that the rents profits and income to accrue from and after my
decease of and from such parts of my estate as shall for the time being
remain unsold and unconverted shall after payments thereof of all
incidental expenses and outgoings be paid and applied to the person or
persons and in the manner to whom and in which the income of the moneys
produced by such sale and conversion would for the time being be payable
or applicable under this my Will if such sale and conversion had
actually been made And I also declare that my Trustees may let and
hereditaments for the time being remaining unsold either from year to
year or for any term of years at such rents and subject to such
covenants as they shall think fit and generally may manage the same at
their uncontrolled discretion And I also declare that all moneys liable
to be invested under this my Will may be invested in or upon any stocks
funds or securities of or guaranteed by the Government of the United
Kingdom or any British Colony or Dependency or in stock of the Bank of
England or the Debentures or Debenture stock or Guaranteed or preferred
stock or shares of any Railway or other Company in Great Britain or
India incorporated by Act of Parliament or Royal Charter and paying or
dividend on its ordinary stock or shares or upon real or leasehold
securities in England or Wales but not elsewhere such leasehold
securities being held for a term whereof sixty years at least shall be
unexpired at the time of such investment In Witness whereof I have set
my hand to this my Will the fifteenth day of November One thousand eight
hundred and eighty three.
Charles Olliver
Signed by the said Testator Charles Olliver as his
last Will 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
Alex. K. Carlyon Solicitor Fowey
Henry Hooper Bootmaker Fowey
Transcribed by Jessie Evans from a document in the Malcolm McCarthy Collection
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