| DSCAM/3/326/3: Draft will (1832) of Thomas Pitt of Queen's Cross, parish of Dudley, yeoman; 2 messuages in Stepping Stone Lane or Dock Lane, parish of Dudley, to grandson, Thomas Pitt Stokes, and a £100 mortgage secures on premises of Mrs Taylor of Tipton; income from rest of real estate and personal estate to daughter, Mary Stokes, for life, thence to her husband, John Stokes, for life, then real estate to be sold and proceeds to fall into personal estate; income from one ninth of personal estate to grandson Thomas Pitt Stokes for life, then to his wife, Elizabeth, for the support and miantenance of great-grandchildren, thence the capital to be divided between the issue of Thomas Pitt Stokes and Elizabeth Stokes at the age of 21; residue of presonal estate after death of John and Mary Stokes, to testator's grandchildren, Thomas Pitt Stokes, Sarah, wife of Charles Grainger, Elizabeth, wife of William Timmins, Mary Stokes, Ann, wife of John Darby, Maria Stokes, Hannah Stokes, William Stokes, and Samuel Stokes, and great-grandson William Stokes (son of late John Stokes); trustees, James Bourne the younger of Tansley Hill, parish of Dudley, gentleman, John Jesson of Holly Hall, parish of Dudley, yeoman and Thomas Pitt Stokes; executors, John Stokes and Thomas Pitt Stokes. |