| Reference Number | DSCAM/5/8/7/12-22 |
| Title | Hawkes wills, settlements etc. (Part 2) |
| Description | DSCAM/5/8/7/12: Copy of the will (dated 9 Jan. 1800) of Abiathar Hawkes of Dudley, Worcs., glass merchant; £150 to wife, Mary Hawkes; messuage in High Street, Dudley, with newly-erected buildings, in own occupation, for life, thence to son Thomas; household effects to wife for life, then to sink in residue; annuity of £700 to wife charged as to £500 on his glass trade premises and £200 on his nail trade premises; glass trade premises, stock, utensils etc. to sons, Thomas Hawkes and George Wright Hawkes, as tenants in common, executing a due security for their mother's annuity; nail trade premises to trustees, to transfer half each to sons, Roger Wright Hawkes and Abiathar Hawkes, when they are of age, trustees using incoem to pay the relevant portion of his wife's annuity during the minorities, with surplus sinking into residuary estate, and the sons when in possession to execute due security for their mother's annuity; his £2800 capital in a blast furnace with Messrs Wainwright and Banks to be transferred to Roger Wright Hawkes when of age, Roger paying £1400 into the resdiuary estate; in case of his death or declining to pay the £1400, all to fall into residue; to daughters Maria Wright Hawkes and Sarah Hawkes as tenants in common, 2 shares in the British Tontine, £150 debt from John Wheeldon, all turnpike securities, £2500 3% Consols, 6 shares in the Stourbridge Canal, £100 due from Joseph Gibbs, £75 from Mrs Phillippa Mee and 3100 from Jeremiah Wheeldon; £1175 in cash to each daughter individually; £21 each to his trustees, Edward Dixon and Joseph Amphlett of Dudley, Esquires; residue upon trust for sale for the equal benefit of all sons and daughters when of age; powers of management; power to support and maintain minor children; provisions are in satisfaction of those in marriage settlement and in lieu of dower etc.; share of daughter marrying without consent of trustees to be forfeit; provisions for wife void unless she renounce dower; wife, two elder sons and Dixon and Amphlett to be executors and guardians, etc.
Codicil (11 Jan. 1800); dealing with minorities;daughters to receive £150 due from John Foley and £75 from Patience Mee (not John Wheeldon and Phillippa Mee); further £75 each to daughters; provisions regarding George Wright Hawkes modified to deal with his still being a minor until May 1801, and not 1800 as originally thought. |
| DSCAM/5/8/7/13: Draft pre-nuptial settlement (13 Oct. 1802) of the Revd Robert Crockett of Hodnett, Salop, Clerk and Maria Wright Hawkes; trustees, Mary Hawkes of Dudley, widow, Edward Dixon now of Horseley House, parish of Tipton, Staffs., Esq., Thomas Hawkes and George Wright Hawkes and Henry Crockett of Little Onn, parish of Churcheaton, Staffs., Esq.; trustees for raising younger children's portions, Thomas Hawkes and John Marshall Crockett of Stafford, Esq.; trustees for raising £5000 to be at wife's disposal, Roger Wright Hawkes and Richard Crockett of the parish of Church Eaton, Esq. |
| DSCAM/5/8/7/14: Will (21 Apr. 1804) of Thomas Hawkes of Dudley, Worcs., glass merchant; £100 annuity to mother, Mary Hawkes; £1500 each to brothers, Roger Wright Hawkes and Abiathar Hawkes, and sisters, Maria Wright Crockett and Sarah Hawkes, to be paid in instalments as specified; all interest in his father's real and personal estate and under the will of Roger Wright, to aforementioned brothers and sisters, shares of sisters to be held in trust for them for life, thence to their issue, with provisions covering minorities, deathe tc.; £100 to his clerk, Benjamin Cooke., payable 12 months after death of testator and only if Benjamin is in the employ of testator's brother George; residue of estate to brother George; executors, mother, and brothers George Wright Hawkes and Roger Wright Hawkes. |
| DSCAM/5/8/7/15: Copy of bond of indemnity (24 May 1806) of Thomas Hawkes of Dudley, Esq., Roger Wright Hawkes of the same, Esq., Robert Crockett of Hodnett, Salop, Clerk and Edward Dixon of Dudley, Esq. to Benjamin Phillips of Ewer Street, Borough of Southwark, Surrey, gentleman, in £4800, in respect of the transfer of the funds comprising the residuary estate of Roger Wright; recites will of Roger Wright of Goswell Street, parish of St James Clerkenwell, Middlesex, Esq., under which the residuary legatees are the issue of the late Abiathar Hawkes, and Phillips is executor; residue; details the funds and mortgages making up the residue, the death of Mary Blagborne, Wright's widow, and of all other annuitants under the will, except Edward Francis of Oswestry, Salop, yeoman (£20); request to transfer the residue, with the agreement of all interested parties to, Thomas Hawkes (two-sixths), Roger Wright Hawkes (two-sixths, inc. the share of his brother Abiathar), Robert Crockett (jure uxoris) and Sarah Hawkes |
| DSCAM/5/8/7/16: Copy pre-nuptial settlement (dated 25 Aug. 1806) of Sarah Hawkes of Dudley, spinster and Michael Malonek of Liverpool, Lancashire, merchant; and made between tham and Mary Hawkes of Dudley, widow, Edward Dixon of Horseley House, parish of Tipton, Staffs., Esq., Thomas Hawkes and George Wright Hawkes of Dudley, glass merchants (surviving trustees and executors of Abiathar Hawkes), Roger Wright Hawkes of Dudley, Esq., Abiathar Hawkes of Dudley, Esq. (trustees), and Thomas Hawkes and George Wright Hawkes; Sarah's fortune settled to the use of Malonek for life, with protection against and bankruptcy of his, then income to Sarah for life, thence capital to their issue equally as tenants in common, remoter issue taking per stirpes, and in default of issue, to such uses as Sarah shall appoint, and otherwise, to the use of her brothers and sister, Thomas, George Wright, Roger Wright and Abiathar Hawkes and Maria Wright, as tenants in common; part to be realised to purchase a freehold dwellinghouse for the Maloneks; Malonek to execute a bond to Thomas Hawkes and George Wright Hawkes for the payment of £9000, should their be surviving issue of the marriage, after his deceease, upon trust for that issue as specified; recites the will of Abiathar Hawkes and other deeds; Sarah's fortune listed as £285 secured on a mortgage of property at Studley, Warwickshire, to £280 on mortgage of the tolls of the Dudley, Wolverhampton and Birmingham turnpike, £275 on those of the Streetway and Wordsley Green turnpike, 3 shares in the Stourbridge Canal, 1 share in the British Tontine, and £7569 11s 7d 3% Consols, £500 secured on the tolls of the Dudley-Pedmore Turnpike and one sixth of the residuary estate of Abiathar Hawkes. |
| DSCAM/5/8/7/17: Attested copy of the will (dated 29 Feb. 1808) of John Lawrance of the City of New York, Esq.; $15000 to son John; $15000 in trust for daughter Mary, wife of Willet Taylor; balance due under marriage settlement to be paid to son-in-law, George W. Hawkes, Esq., husband of Ann; $15000 to daughter Elizabeth; 3 youngest children have property in Philadelphia settled on them by their late mother; $6000 each to them, Emily, Frances and Margaret as specified; residue of estate in sevenths to (or in trust for) all children, with provisions for redistribution should any of his younger children die unmarried and a minor; provisions as to real estate of the late Major Ronald Stephen McDougall conveyed by testator to his daughetr Ann; executors, William Tilghman of Philadelphia, Egbert Benson, Robert Troup and Matthew Clarkson, Esquires, and son, John McDougall Lawrance. Certified, 3 December 1810; examined, 18 Feb. 1825. |
| DSCAM/5/8/7/18: Will (10 Dec. 1808) of Thomas Hawkes of Dudley, merchant; £100 annuity to mother; £400 to Benjamin Cooke, his clerk, if in the family's service 10 years after testator's decease; £100 to Joseph Cox of Dudley, nail ironmonger; residue to brothers and sisters, George Wright Hawkes, Roger Wright Hawkes, Abiathar Hawkes, Maria Wright Crockett and Sarah Malonek, equally as tenants in common; mourning rings to partners in brewery and coal trade and to Edward Dixon, Esq.; brothers are executors. |
| DSCAM/5/8/7/19: Copy pre-nuptial settlement (dated 17 Jan. 1809) of Abiathar Hawkes, late of Dudley, Esq. now a Captain, 21st Regiment of Dragoon, and Mary Ann Borradaile of Streatham, Surrey, spinster (edlest daughter of William Borradaile of the same, Esq.); the Revd Robert Crockett of Hodnett, Salop, Clerk, John Michael Malonek of Liverpool, Esq., John Atkinson of Salford, Lancashire, merchant and John Watson Borradaile of Fenchurch Street, London, merchant (trustees); fortune of Abiathar is £5000 advanced to his brothers and secured to the trustees by bond of even date, and one sixth of the residuary estate of Abiathar Hawkes the father; £4000 to be provided as marriage portion, to be placed at interest with William Borradaile and Richardson Borradaile, Esq. his brother, secured by bond of even date to the trustees; one sixth share (as above) in trust for Abiathar for life, then to Mary for life, thence to their issue in such manner as they shall jointly appoint or the survivor shall appoint, and in default of such appointment, to the children equally, as specified at the age of 21 etc., and for want of issue, to Abiathar and his executors etc.; £5000 on like remainders; £4000 similarly, but in ultimate remainder to William Borradaile; trust arrangements and powers, including discretion to trustees to advance £2500 to Hawkes for his advancement in the army or to establish him in business after he withdraws from the army. |
| DSCAM/5/8/7/20: Attested copy of the will (dated 29 June 1812) of George Wright Hawkes of Liverpool, Lancashire, merchant. Examined, 18 Apr. 1821. [See #24 below]. |
| DSCAM/5/8/7/21: Draft pre-nuptial settlement (10 Aug. 1814) of Thomas Hawkes of Dudley, Esq., and Alice Anna Blackburne, spinster, daughter of John Blackburne of Hawford, parish of Claines, Worcs., Esq.; trustees, John Leigh of Liverpool, Lancashire, Esq. and Roger Wright Hawkes of Dudley, Esq.; her fortune is a reversionary interest in £3000 under the will of her grandfather, Jonathan Blundell of Wavertree Hall, West Derby, Lancashire, Esq.; £5000 to be paid upon marriage; £12000 to be paid in the 3 years following the death of John Blackburne and £20000 to be paid in the 3 years following that of Thomas Hawkes; £200 p.a. to Miss Blackburne for her own use during Thomas Hawkes's life, then all the income from her £20000 to her if she survives him, but to Hawkes if he survives her; arrangements to protect against bankruptcy; she to receive £500 p.a. from his £20000 if she survives him; subject to these various life interests, then settled monies to their issue, in such manner as Hawkes and Miss Blackburne jointly appoint, or the survivor appoints, and otherwise of the issue equally as tenants in common at the age of 21 etc., as specified, with ultimate remainder in the Blackburne monies to John Blackburne, his executors and assigns, and in the Hawkes money to such persons as Thomas may appoint, and failing that to his executors (if his wife be dead), otherwise in trust for his next of kin to eb divided according to the rules governing intestacy as though he were unmarried. |
DSCAM/5/8/7/22: Draft release [lease wanting] (10 Aug. 1814) by way of mortgage, by Thomas Hawkes to Leigh and Hawkes., of a capital messuage and lands etc. in High Street, Dudley, at the corner of Wolverhampton Street (formerly occupied by Abiathar Hawkes the father; abuttals given; history of wonership given), a kitchen garden of three quarters of an acre adjoing it and Dog Lane, and a moiety of the glass house, warehouses, etc. at Horse Pool Green, Dudley (abuttals given), and the entirety of 2 messuages, mills, warehouses, shops etc. adjoining Priory Street, Dudley, at or near Horepool Green (abuttals given) to secure £8000, part of the £20000 payable after Thomas Hawkes's death under the settlement - viz, £6666 13s 4d, the first of three instalments, and £1333 6s 8d, part of the second instalment
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| Date | 1800-1814 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 11 items |
| Level | Item |