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The Will of Henry Langdon, dated 17 April 1860

The District Registry of Bodmin

In Her Majesty’s Court of Probate
 
BE IT KNOWN, that on the twenty sixth day of June 1860, the last Will and Testament, hereunto annexed, of Henry Langdon, late of the Borough of Camelford in the County of Cornwall, Yeoman, deceased, who died on the 2nd May 1860, at Camelford aforesaid, and who at the time of his death had a fixed place of abode at Camelford 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 Nancy Langdon widow the Relict 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 to do so. Given at Bodmin under the Seal of my Office
 
Jno Basset Collins
District Registrar
 
 
This is the last Will and Testament of me Henry Langdon of Camelford in the County of Cornwall Yeoman. I give devise and bequeath All my Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments all my Household Furniture ready money Securities for Money Goods and Chattels and all other my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever unto my dear Wife Nancy Langdon her heirs executors administrators and assigns to and for her and their own absolute use and benefit according to the nature and quality thereof respectively subject only to the payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the charges of proving and registering this my Will. And I appoint my said Wife Executrix of this my Will and hereby revoke all other Wills. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the seventeenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
 
The mark or sign of Henry Langdon
 
Signed by the said Testator as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses

Gerrance Pethick of Camelford
Thomas Symons of Tintagel

 
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Transcribed by Joy Langdon from a document in the Malcolm McCarthy Collection