A wonderful will to have for the family of the Reverend Arthur Buller second son of Richard Buller and Felizarda Guerhelmina Burmester (maiden name unknown). Arthur was married to Grace Bell Ward. Richard's will was blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/03/will-of-richard-buller-esquire-of-saint.html
as was the will of his mother Sarah Stert Buller:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/03/will-of-sarah-buller-widow-saint-george.html
Arthur had five siblings: Anna Guilhermina Buller married to Sir Peter Pole, Baronet; Felizarda Matilda Buller married to Charles Pole (brother of Sir Peter), Marianna married to Reverend Henry Isham, eldest brother Cornelius Buller married Mary Down and youngest brother Daniel.
In his will he mentions his nieces and nephews:
Arthur Isham
Cornelius Buller
Marianna Buller
Spencer Wellington Buller
Vivian Arthur Buller
Plumer Alexander Buller
Frederick Pole Buller
John Burmester
Susan Pullene
Mariana Barker
Harriet Burmester
and his great niece
Charlotte Emma Bulkeley
Although he hasn't remembered all of his nieces and nephews, this will is still a great family linker.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 16 Mar 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2125/93
Testator: The Reverend Arthur Buller, Clerk
Place: Milverton, Warwickshire
Date of document 21 Aug 1850, probated 30 Jan 1851
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: The Rev[erend]
[Margin]: Arthur
[Margin]: Buller
[Margin]: 13 Clerk
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me the Reverend Arthur Buller of Bertie Terrace in the parish of Milverton
3 in the County of Warwick Clerk I desire to be buried in the Church yard of
4 Milverton aforesaid in an unostentatious and quiet manner I will and desire
5 that all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences and the legacies due
6 on the several legacies hereinafter by me bequeathed be first fully paid and
7 satisfied out of my personal estates I give and devise all that my freehold
8 messuage or tenement with the premises and appurtenances thereto belong-
9 ing situate in and being number eight in Bertie Terrace aforesaid now in
10 my own occupation unto my dear wife and her assigns for and during the
11 term of her natural life and from and immediately after her decease I give
12 and devise the same unto my nephew the Reverend Arthur Isham his
13 heirs and assigns for ever and my will and desire is that my said wife
14 do not let the said messuage or tenement unfurnished without the consent
15 of my said nephew Arthur Isham and that in case she do let the same
16 the sum of twenty pounds per annum part of the cost for which
17 the same is let be paid to my said nephew Arthur Isham and be ap-
18 propiated by him in and towards keeping the said messuage or ten-
19 ement and premises in good a tenantable state and condition and
20 give and bequeath unto my said nephew Arthur Isham ten shares
21 in the Guardian Life and Fire Insurance Company and two shares in
22 the Imperial Fire Insurance Company for the purpose of keeping
23 the same messuage or tenement and premises in repair I give and
24 devise all that my freehold messuage or tenement with the premises
25 and appurtenances thereto belonging situate in and being number
26 seventeen in Clarendon Square in the Parish of Leamington Priors
27 in the same county unto my nephew Cornelius Buller his heirs and
28 assigns for ever I give and bequeath unto my dear wife all the house-
30 hold goods and furniture wines spirits linen pictures ornaments (except
31 my five Saxon vases which I had from my father ) pianofortes and
32 other musical instruments and music books in and belonging to my
33 house in Bertie Terrace aforesaid at the time of my death and all the
34 plate plates goods and books which my said wife has at the time of our
35 marriage and thirty volumes of books to be selected by her and also the
36 following articles of silver plate belonging to me that is to say twelve
37 table spoons twelve desert spoons twelve tea spoons twelve table forks
38 twelve dessert forts two salt cellars with ladles one pair of candlesticks
39 (not the high candlesticks with branches that stand with cruets and
40 mustard spoon To hold to her my said wife to and for her own absolute
41 use and benefit I give and bequeath unto my said nephew Arthur
42 Isham fifty shares in the York Newcastle and Berwick Railway Also
43 my crole repeater watch and gears and the remainder of my books
44 after my wife has made her selection and after the decease of my said
45 wife I also give and bequeath unto my said newphew Arthur Isham two
46 thousand pounds in the three per cent asured annuities part of a
47 sum settled upon my said wife for her life I give and bequeath unto
48 my said nephew Cornelius Buller two shares in the Imperial Fire
49 Assurance Company and my five Saxon vases which I has from my
50 father and also after the decease of my said wife two thousand
51 pounds in the three per cent reduced annuities further part of the said
52 sum settled upon my said wife I give and bequeath unto my niece
53 Marianna Buller fifty shares in the London and South Western
54 Railway also after the decease of my said wife two thousand pounds
55 in the three per cent reduced annuities further part of the sum settled
56 upon my said wife I give and bequeath unto my nephew Spencer
57 Wellington Buller twenty five shares in the Imperial Life Assurance
58 Company and also after the decease of my said wife one thousand
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59 pounds three percent reduced annuities further part of the said sum
60 so settled I give and bequeath unto my nephews Vivian Arthur Buller
61 twenty shares in the York and North Midland Railway Also after the decease
62 of my said wife one thousand pounds three per cent reduced annuities further
63 part of the sum settled as aforesaid I give and bequeath unto my nephew
64 Plumer Alexander Buller twenty shares in the York and North Midland
65 Railway Also after the decease of my said wife one thousand pounds three per
66 cent reduced annuities likewise further part of the sum settled upon her I
67 give and bequeath unto my grand niece Charlotte Emma Bulkeley two shares in the
68 Imperial Fire Insurance Company Also after the decease of mys aid wife
69 one thousand pounds three per cent reduced annuities further part of the
70 sum settled on my said wife I give and bequeath to each of my nephews
71 and nieces Frederick Pole Buller John Burmester Susan Pullene Marianna
72 Barker and Harriet Burmester a legacy of fifty pounds sterling I give and
73 bequeath the remainder of my plate equally between the said Cornelius
74 Buller Marianna Buller Spencer Wellington Buller Vivian Arthur Buller
75 and Plumer Alexander Buller All the Rest Residue and Remainder
76 of my money securities for money goods chattels effects and personal
77 estate whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever
78 I give and bequeath unto and equally between and amongst my said wife
79 and nephews Arthur Isham and Cornelius Buller and I direct that the
80 said several legacies and bequests shall be paid free of legacy duty and that
81 the provisions of this my will shall be carried out and fulfilled as far as
82 may be within three calendar months next after my decease and I con-
83 stitute and appoint my said nephews Arthur Isham and Cornelius Buller
84 joint Executors of this my will and hereby revoke all other wills by me
85 at any time heretofore made In witness whereof I the said Arthur
86 Buller the testator have hereunto set my hand this twenty first day of
87 August one thousand eight hundred and fifty Arthur Buller
88 Signed published and declared by the said Arthur Buller the testator
89 as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his
90 request in his presence and in the presence of each other have set our
91 names as witnesses Tho[ma]s Sam[ue]l Wright Sol[icito]r Leamington
92 George Pole his Clerk
93 Proved at London 30th Jan[uar]y 1851 before the worshipful James
94 Parker Deane Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths of The Rev[eren]d
95 Arthur Isham Clerk and Cornelius Buller Esquire the newphews the
96 Executors to whom adm[inistratio]n was granted having been first sworn
97 duly to administer
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