DSCAM/3/355/3: Will (10 Oct. 1859) of Mary Ann Roberts of Dudley, Worcs., widow of John Roberts of the same, Esq.; £500 to John Orme Brettell of Dudley, land surveyor (nephew); same to George Brettell, residing in Australia (nephew); £500 to Penelope Walker, wife of Henry Walker of Brierley Hill, parish of Kingswinford, Staffs., Doctor in Medicine (niece); £300 to Naomi Ruhannah Mary Cartwright Banckes of Dudley, spinster (cousin); £300 to Mary Anne Tourner, wife of Richard Tourner, now resident at Byculla in the Presidency of Bombay, saddler (great niece; only daughter of late nephew Thomas Perry Brettell); £200 to Cornelius Cartwright Brettell, at present in Australia (nephew), and £200 to his 2nd daughter, Penelope Brettell, and £100 to Elizabeth, his eldest daughter; £50 to Henry Antrobus Brettell (godson and great nephew; eldest son of the Revd William Henry Cartwright of Butcombe, Somerset; same to Mary Anne Brettell (god daughter and great niece; daughter of John Orme Brettell); same to Henry Brettell (godson and great nephew; son of Cornelius Cartwright Brettell); same to Zachariah Cartwright of Himley, Staffs., farmer (godson and cousin); same to Eleanor Walker, wife of Joseph Walker of London, solicitor (god daughter; niece of first husband, James Bourne); £50 to old servant, Phoebe, wife of Thomas Collett of Dixons Green, parish of Dudley, farmer and gardener; £50 to the Female or Lying In Charity in Dudley; £100 to Mrs Cartwright's Charity School, Dudley, founded by her late mother Mary, for books and materials; £50 to Mrs Cartwright's Clothing Charity; clothes, jewellery etc. to Penelope Walker, wife of Dr Henry Walker; wine coolers presented by the inhabitants of Dudley to John Roberts, to his cousin, Henry Brown of Chester, solicitor.
Exercises powers under her settlements (recited) of 5 Sept. 1842 and 20 Oct. 1848 and the will of John Roberts, appointing all property under them to her brother, Cornelius Cartwright, and nephew, William Henry Cartwright, as tenants in common; appoints them executors.
And codicil (7 May 1860); extra legacies of £100 to Penelope Brettell, £50 to Thomas Brettell (son of John Orme Brettell), £10 each to any other children of John Orme Brettell; revokes gift of clothes and jewels to Penelope Walker, instead gives clothes to Penelope Brettell (dau. of Cornelius Cartwright Brettell), and jewellery to be divided between Penelope Walker and all her various great nieces (named). |
DSCAM/3/355/4-5: Duplicate lease (30 Dec. 1856) by Roberts to John Thomas Voce of Dixons Green, parish of Dudley, tallow chandler, of 262.5sq yds of land at Cawney Hill, parish of Dudley, and 2 messuages previously used as a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, and subsequently as a school, and 3 further messuages, all for a term of 7 years, at a rent of £32 p.a.
And poster (enclosed) advertising sale of utensils, plant etc. of the Candle Manufactory, Kate's Hill, 7 May 1863. |