| Description | DSCAM/3/272/1: Copy of the will (dated 22 Sept. 1779) of James Mackmillan of the parish of Stoke Prior, Worcs.; 4 tenements in the parish of Bromsgrove, and all household effects, livestock and personal estate to be sold; annuity of £10 to servant, Ann Willets, ceasing on her marriage, charged on farm at Rowley Regis occupied by Joseph Parkes, and hereby devised to testator's son, John and the heirs of his body; annuity of £100 to son John and the heirs of his body, charged on an estate at Doverdale, which, together with a mill there is devised to son George and the heirs of his body, and likewise all estates at Rowley Regis, Staffs.; to son James 'now in the East Indies if alive' and his heirs, an estate at Finstal Heath, parish of Stoke Prior, but with the rents payable to sons John and George as tenants in common until James or issue of his body come forward to claim the property; cross remainders between John and George in default of issue, then in remainder to sister's son, Andrew Creighton of Rochall Head, parish of Lockmaben in the county of Anandale in North Britain and his heirs, charged with £100 to sisters Jennett and Mary Creighton; residue of estates to son George, who is executor. |
| DSCAM/3/272/2: Office copy of the will (dated 29 Nov. 1792) of George Mackmillan of the parish of Rowley Regis, horn button maker; £2000 to be invested, from which a £70 annuity to wife, Ann Mackmillan, and the balance of income to brother, John Mackmillan; after wife's death, one eleventh share of capital to each of John, Mary and Sarah, children of wife's brother, Thomas Cox of Bromsgrove, Worcs. and to Elizabeth, Shusannah, Martha, Samuel, Fanny and Hezia, other children of Cox, when they are 21, and eleventh shares to George and John Haywood, sons of wife's sister and of John Haywood of Birmingham, at the age of 21 etc.; £1000 to Thomas, son of Thomas Cox, he paying 3/- a week to his great aunt, Sarah Haden, for life; specified household effects to wife; £100 to John Granger, mother's nephew; £50 each to John Hill of Coston, Warwickshire, ribbon weaver and Thomas Hill of Prestwood, wire drawer, sons of mother's nephew John Hill; interest on £100 to widow of Joseph Hill, mother's nephew, until children are 21 when capital to them; interest on £100 to Rebecca Cox, mother's niece, for life, thence capital to 3 children; interest on £100 to Mary, wife of Joseph Adams, mother's niece, for life, thence capital to her daughter Hannah and to the issue of her two deceased sons; £100 to the General Hospital near Birmingham; £100 to Ann Finney, wife of - Finney of Derby, cabinet maker; £300 to the Revd Christopher Stephenson, Curate of Rowley Regis, as a token of respect for his work with the poor and in establishing Sunday Schoosl etc.; real estate (tenants named), all in Rowley Regis and part subject to an annuity of £40, to brother John and his issue, with remainder to Andrew Creighton, eldest son of John Creighton, now of Dryseholm, Annandale, North Britain, subject to the payments of £500 to the descendants of his aunts Margett Hill, Jannet Carleton, Mary Cunningham and to his own brothers and sisters; residue of household effects, tools, stock in trade, implements of husbandry and personal estate to brother, John, subject to the payment of the legacies above; executors, Thomas Aynsworth of Birmingham, Warwickshire, banker and John McMillan (brother). Proved 7 Jan. 1793. |
| DSCAM/3/272/3: Lease (1 Nov. 1815) by John Mackmillan of Rowley Regis, Staffs., horn button maker, to Jane Adie of Walsall, Staffs., widow, of a messuage and shop in High Street and Rushall Street, Walsall, for a term of 21 years, at a rent of £35 p.a. |