| Description | DSCAM/5/6/1/8: Copy of the will (dated 19 [April] 1825) of Thomas Martin of Dudley, yeoman; Pumphouse Farm, Westbromwich to nephews and nieces, Benjamin Evans, William Evans, Rebecca Hutchinson, Sarah Evans, Mary Evans and Elizabeth Evans, children of later sister, Katherine Evans, as tenants in common, subject to payment of £1 10/- a week to sister, Hannah Parott, and 10/- a week to her husband, John Parott, from the time of her death until his own, and reserving minerals; mines to Joseph Cowdry, acid maker and Job Pitt, miller, both of Dudley, upon trust for sale, to distribute proceeds to nephews and nieces, Daniel Wright, Thomas Wright, Jane Lloyd, Benjamin Evans, William Evans, Rebecca Hutchenson, Sarah Evans, Mary Evans, Elizabeth Evans, John Martin, Benjamin Lay, Sarah Faulkner, Anne Rutland, Thomas Lovel junior, Mary Preston, Esther Lovel and Jane Lovel, each one 20th share, one 20th to nephews John and Thomas Tibbotts, one 20th to Ackworth School, and remaining share to Joseph Cowdry, Job Pitt, Elizabeth Nock, Thomas Priest, John Priest, William Priest and James Priest; Thomas Lovel junior, Mary Preston, Esther Lovel and Jane Lovel to pay their father 4/- a week for life;
to Benjamin Lay, Martha England, Elizabeth Broster, John Lay, Samuel Lay, Hannah Lay, Jane Lay and Anne Rutland, children of late sister, Sarah Lay, 2 dwellinghouses and a malthouse etc. in King Street, Dudley, a garden at the Great Hill near Dudley, 3 leasehold house in High Street and King Street, Dudley, as tenants in common, plus £400 due on a mortgage of premises in High Street, Dudley from Zacharyah Blocksidge; 4 dwellinghouses in Mill Street, Dudley, to great niece Hanah Gill for life, with remainder to her children 'both natural and legal' in equal shares; to nephew Thomas Wright and niece Jane Lloyd, money due from J.M. Capewell on mortgage of premises in Wolverhampton Street, Dudley, in equal shares, also a newly erected dwellinghouse called the New Field House, near Mill Street, Dudley, as tenants in common; to Thomas Lovel junior the first house in Pleasant Row, Dudley, to his sister, Mary Preston, the next two, to Esther Lovel the next two, and to Jane Lovel the last two; £120 due from Benjamin Shaw on mortgage of premises in Birmingham Street, Dudley, to Thomas Lovel junior; charges premises devised to the Lovels etc. with the payments to their father and 1s 6d a week each to Nancy or Anne Lovel after the death of her husband the said Thomas Lovel senior;
4 houses lately occupied as a Baptist chapel in Rowley Town, Staffs., to John Tibbotts for life, thence to children as tenants in common; 7 houses in Rowley Regis, adjoining the last, to nephew Thomas Tibbotts for life, thence to children as tenants in common; the next 4 in Rowley Regis, to nephew Joseph Attwood for life, thence to his children; house testator lives in and adjoining premises, to nephew William Tibbotts; next 6 dwellinghouses for Joseph Burley and Nancy Burley, children of John Burley, at age 21; next 6 to great nephew Thomas Priest, in trust for himself and his younger brothers (William, John and James Priest), allowing testator's sister, Hannah Parott, to occupy the one of these six where she now lives for life; to niece Phebe Billingham, the house next to the last lot and adjoining the fish pool, plus the pool and several closes of lands in Graystone Fields, she not to advance the rents of the lands let to John Parkes for 7 years after inheriting; £570 due from David Gorton on mortgage of premises at Eve Hill, to niece Susanna Hammett; £200 due from Thomas Willcox on a mortgage of premises at Ells Wall, parish of Dudley, to great niece Esther Lovel; 10 dwellinghouses and malthouse, 7 of them fronting High Street or Castle Street and 3 behind, to nephew, J. Martin for life, thence to his children, with remainder to Sarah Lay, Thomas Lay, John Lay and Edward Lay, children of nephew Benjamin Lay, as tenants in common;
£300 to the Birmingham Hospital, £300 to Worcester Infirmary; £20 each to William Banister, John Didgry and Lucy Crump, old servants, and to sister, Hanah Pavott; £200 each to his trustees; £100 to relative, Hannah Richards, wife of John Richards of Coseley, straw cutter; £200 to kinswoman, Anne Crossfield, wife of Joseph Crossfield, schoolmaster; residue of estate to Ackworth School.
Tenants of houses given; many are nailshops.
Attached: Copy baptism entry for John Lay, son of Benjamin Lay and Maria Lay, 23rd March 1810. |