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Will of William Wade, dated 28 March 1862
(Document 1)
The Last Will and Testament Of me, William Wade, of Trethevy in the
Parish of Tintagel in the County of Cornwall, Gentleman, made this
twenty eighth day of March in the year of
One thousand eight hundred and sixty two
My daughter …..the legacy or sum of three hundred pounds – to my
daughter Frances Wade the legacy or sum of three hundred pounds – to my
daughter Elizabeth Wade the legacy or sum of three hundred pounds – to
my daughter Mary Wade the legacy or sum of three hundred pounds – to my
daughter {???] Amelia Wade the legacy or sum of three hundred pounds –
to my daughter Emma Theresa Wade the legacy or sum of three hundred
pounds – to my daughter Helen Frederica Wade the legacy or sum of three
hundred pounds – and to my daughter Emilie [Henrietta?] Wade the legacy
or sum of three hundred pounds. All which said legacies or sums direct
to be paid to my said several daughters as and when they shall severally
and respectively attain their ages of twenty five years / except the
said legacy or sum of three hundred pounds so hereinbefore given to my
said daughter Jane ?? ?? which I direct to be paid to her at the end of
twelve calendar months ?? after my decease / all which said several
legacies or sums I direct to be paid by from and out of my personal
estate in the first place the interest in the meantime to be applied by
my trustees hereinafter mentioned for and towards the maintenance,
education and bringing up in life of my said several daughters being
under the said age of twenty five years. And my will and meaning is that
in case any or either of them shall die under the age of twenty five
years without leaving lawful issue that then the share or shares of her
or them so dying shall go to and be equally divided among the survivors
or survivor share and share alike but in case any or ?? of them so dying
under the age of twenty five years leaving lawful issue, that then the
share or share of her or them so dying shall go to and be equally
divided among such issue share and share alike and in case I William
Wade / my personal estate shall be insufficient for the payment in full
of the said legacies I hereby charge the same upon my freehold and
leasehold estates given to my wife hereinafter named so far as this my
said estates shall be liable to and charged with the payment of so much
of the said legacies as shall be sufficient only to make up the
deficiency / if any / arising from my personal estate for payment of the
same. But if my said freehold and leasehold estates shall be subject to
any mortgage debts at the time of my decease, then and in that case the
said legacies hereinbefore given to my said daughters shall not be as to
any part of the same legacies respectively charged upon and payable out
of such estates but shall be proportionally ?? and paid solely out of my
personal estate.
Also I give, devise and bequeath all my freehold and leasehold estate
lands and tenements whatsoever and wheresoever situate (subject
nevertheless to all my mortgage debts / if any / charged thereon and
also subject to the payment of the aforesaid legacies in manner
aforesaid / unto and to the use of my wife Mary Wade her heirs executors
administrators and assigns according to the respective ?? thereof for
ever and as her own absolutely. All my goods and chattels farming stock
both live and dead money and securities for money and all the rest ??
reminder of my personal estate and effects not hereinbefore given or
bequeathed whatsoever and wheresoever estate I give unto my friends
Emmanuel Wakeham [check] and Ralph ?? their executors administrators and
assigns Upon Trust nevertheless that they my said Trustees and the
survivors of them and the heirs executors and administrators of such
(Rest of document missing)
(Document 2)
Probate The District Registry of Bodmin
In Her Majesty’s Court of Probate.
Be it known, that on the 23rd day of May 1866, the Last Will and
Testament, hereunto annexed, of William Wade late of Trethevy in the
Parish of Tintagel in the County of Cornwall Gentleman deceased, who
died on the 23rd of March 1866, at Trethevy aforesaid, and who at the
time of his death had a fixed place of abode at Trethevy aforesaid,
within the District of the County of Cornwall, was proved and registered
in the District Registry attached to Her Majesty’s Court of Probate at
Bodmin, and that administration of all and singular the personal estate
and effects of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to
Mary Wade, Widow, the Relict of the said deceased, his 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 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.
Mr Jno Bassett Collins
District Registrar
Extracted by Mr Wale, solicitor, Camelford
Sworn under £1,000
The effects have since been sworn under two thousand pounds.
W George
Inland Revenue Officer
28 December 1866
Forty pounds returned on the pound debts
W George
Inland Revenue Officer
27 April 1867
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