The testator, Thomas Blake, appears on the 1851 Census of England living on King Street, Saint James Westminster, Middlesex. He is a lodger with the Charles Sherburn family whom he mentions in his will below. Thomas is said to be born in Aberdeen and was 72 years of age in 1851 so born circa 1779. He identifies his sister as Elizabeth Morison and the marriage lines found on Scotlands People gives her father as John Blake.
William Morrison and Elizabeth Blake were married 7 May 1825 at Saint Nicholas Blotter and Scroll, Aberdeen, Scotland and she was the daughter of John Blake. Louisa Blake Morison was baptized 2 Mar 1832 at Aberdeen daughter of William Morison and Elizabeth Blake (she is mentioned in the will below and does help to show that this is the sister of the testator). On the 1851 census Elizabeth gives her place of birth as Aberdeen and her birth year circa 1795.
A search of Scotlands People revealed a baptism for Elizabeth Blake daughter of John Blake and Elizabeth Jaffrey 3 Feb 1796 at Bolton. Continuing with the search there was a John Blake baptized 5 Sep 1776 at Bolton son of John Blake and Hellen Begbie. Bolton is a hamlet in East Lothian Scotland and is about 20 miles east of Edinburgh. It is 149 miles from Bolton to Aberdeen. Interesting to find but not helpful at the moment. No Thomas was found baptized in Aberdeen.
From a set of marriage transcriptions “Persons Affiliated w/B. Guiana in British Newspapers, Marriages”
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/Transcriptions/LisaB/MarriagesTrans2015.pdf
Aldrich-Morison marriage: At St Martins in the Fields, on the 30th ult, by the Rev F W B Bouverie, incumbent of St. Paul’s Aberdeen, assisted by the Rev W G Humphrey, BD, vicar, the Rev Frederich James Aldrich, MA, curate of Chingford and formerly of St Martins in the Fields to Louise Blake Morison, sole surviving child of the late William Morison, Esquire, of Aberdeen, and niece of the late Thomas Blake, Esquire, of Vive la Force, British Guiana, 9 Aug 1862. A daughter of this marriage Dame Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake, DBE, was one of the first British women to enter the world of medicine.
There was a marriage of Alexander Foxcroft Ridgway, bachelor of St James Westminster to Jane Gray, spinster, by licence the 14th of August 1824 at St George Hanover Square. Alexander Foxcroft Ridgway was an accountant in Leicester Square. This was possibly the connection as I can not see anything else that might connect this family with the testator.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 31 Jan 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2187
Name of testator: Thomas Blake, Esquire
Place: late of the Colony of British Guiana, now of No 10 King Street, Saint James, Middlesex
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 4 Feb 1853, probated 2 Mar 1854
[In margin] Thomas Blake, Esquire 96
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Thomas Blake late of the Colony of British Guiana but now
3 of No 10 King Street Saint James’s in the County of Middlesex Esquire
4 whereby I give and bequeath out of my ready money To the Poors fund
5 of Demerary in the Colony aforesaid One hundred Spanish dollars and
6 out of the trust monies hereinafter provided the following Legacies that
7 is to say To Dr James Brown Gibson Surgeon of her Majesty 11th and
8 Regiment of Light Dragoons Lancers and to my Sister Elizabeth Morison
9 the wife of William Morison of the City of Aberdeen North Britain the
10 sum of One hundred pounds Sterling each To Jane the wife of Alexander
11 Foxcroft Ridgway of Leicester Square in the County of Middlesex Gentleman
12 the sum of Five hundred pounds Sterling for her sole and separate use
13 independently and exclusively of her now present or any future husband
14 and without being subject to his debts control interference or engagements
15 and so that the receipt of the said Jane Ridgway alone whether covert
16 or sole shall be a sufficient discharge for the same To Mary Sherburn
17 the wife of Charles Sherburn of No 10 King Street Saint James aforesaid
18 the sum of Three hundred pounds for her sole and separate use independently
19 and exclusively of her now present or any future husband and without
20 being subject to his debts control interference or engagements and so that
21 the receipt of the said Mary Sherborn alone whether covert or sole
22 shall be a sufficient discharge for the same To Charles Stewart Parker
23 and William Robertson Sandbach of the firm of Sandbach Tinne and
24 Company Exchange Buildings Liverpool Merchants the sum of One
25 hundred pounds Sterling each as some renumeration to them for the
26 trouble they may be put to in their execution of the trusts of this my will
27 I give and devise all my real estate whatsoever and wheresoever including
28 copyhold or customary messuages lands and tenements and chattels real of
29 or to which I am now or at the time of my death shall be seized or
30 entitled either at law or in equity or of which I have power to dispose by
31 this my Will unto and to the use of the said Charles Stewart Parker and
32 William Robertson Sandbach their heirs executors administrators and
33 assigns according to the nature and tenure thereof Upon trust that they the
34 said Charles Stewart Parker and William Robertson Sandbach and the
35 survivor of them and the heirs executors or administrators of such survivor
36 their or his assigns do and shall when and as they or he shall in their
37 absolute and uncontrolled discretion see fit absolutely sell and dispose of my
38 said real estate either entire and altogether or in parcels and either by
39 Public Auction or private Contract with power to buy in and to rescind any
40 Contract for Sale of the said premises or any part thereof and to resell the
41 same without being answerable for any loss which may be occasioned
42 thereby and also with power to insert any special or other stipulations in
43 any Contract for a Conditions of Sale either as to title or evidence of title or
44 otherwise and with power to enter into make execute do and perform all
45 Contracts Agreements Conveyances Assurances Acts deeds and charges for
46 effectuating such Sale or Sales as may be necessary or expedient and do
47 and shall stand possessed of and interested in the purchase money to arise
48 from such Sale or Sales as aforesaid upon and for the trusts intents and
49 purposes and with under and subject to the powers provisos and declarations
50 hereinafter declared expressed and contained of and concerning the same I
51 give and bequeath all the money securities or money stocks funds and other
52 Personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever of or to which I am now
53 at the time of my death shall be possessed or entitled either at law or in
54 equity for any estate of which I can dispose by this my will (except chattels
55 real included in the said devise of real estate unto the said Charles
56 Stewart Parker and William Robertson Sandbach their executors
57 administrators and assigns Upon trust that they the said Charles Stewart
58 Parker and William Robertson Sandbach and the survivor of them and
59 the executors or administrators of such survivor their or his assigns do and
60 shall at their or his absolute discretion as to such parts of my said personal
61 estate as shall consist of securities for money stocks of funds either permit
62 the same to remain on their then actual state of investment or when and
63 as they or he shall see fit call in sell dispose of and convert into money such
64 parts and all other my personal estate as shall not consist of ready money
65 and do and shall stand possessed of the monies to arise from such calling
66 in the disposition and conversion into money and of the ready money of
67 which I shall be possessed at the time of my death Upon and for the
68 trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to the power
69 provisos and declarations hereinafter expressed declared and contained of
70 and concerning the same And I do direct further declare that the said
71 Charles Stewart Parker and William Robertson Sandbach and the survivor
72 of them and the heirs executors or administrators of such survivor their or
73 his assigns do and shall stand possessed of the monies to arise from the sale
74 or sales of the said real and personal estate hereinbefore created to be
75 respectively sole disposed of called in and converted into money and of the
76 said Stocks funds and securities which shall be permitted to remain in
77 their then actual state of investment and of the ready money of which I
78 shall be possessed at the time of my death Upon trust that they the said
79 Charles Stewart Parker and William Robertson Sandbach and the survivor
80 of them and the heirs executors or administrators of such survivor their
81 or his assigns do and shall with and out of such part of the said monies as
82 shall have arisen from the Sale or Sales of real estate or personal Estate
83 savouring of real estate exclusively and in exoneration of such part of
84 my personal Estate as shall not savour of real estate pay satisfy and
85 discharge all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences and the
86 costs and expences incurred in and about the sale or sales calling in and
87 conversion into money as aforesaid or otherwise in relation to the trusts
88 aforesaid and the several pecuniary legacies given by this my Will and
89 which I may give by any Codicil to this my Will or by any Testamentary
90 disposition whatsoever and do and shall lay out and invest the residue
91 of all the said monies which shall remain after answering the purposes
92 aforesaid in the monies or name of them the said Charles Stewart Parker
93 and William Robertson Sandbach or the survivor of them or the
94 executors or administrators of such survivor their or his assigns
95 (after called the said Trustees or Trustee) in the Parliamentary Stocks or
96 Public funds of Great Britain or at interest on Government or real
97 Securities in England Wales or Ireland but not in Scotland or on shares
98 bonds debentures or securities of any Canal Dock or _____ Railway
99 Company in England Wales or Ireland for which an Act of Parliament
100 shall have been obtained or in any Public Company carrying on
101 business in England Wales or Scotland and being a Corporation under or
102 by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament now or hereafter to be in force
103 and do and shall from time to time alter vary and transpose the said
104 trust monies so to be laid out and invested as last aforesaid and the stocks
105 funds and securities in which the same shall be laid out and invested and
106 also the stocks funds and securities which the said trustees or trustee may
107 think it desirable to continue as aforesaid for or into any other such stocks
108 funds or securities as hereinbefore mentioned or referred to at their or his
109 discretion such trusts or powers for the investment and change in the invest-
110 ment of the said trust monies nevertheless to be so restrained as hereinafter
111 mentioned And I do hereby declare that the said trustees or trustee for the
112 time being shall stand and be possessed of the trust monies aforesaid and
113 of all and every the stocks trusts and securities whereon any part of my
114 real or personal estate or the monies to arise from the sale or reversion
115 thereof shall for the time being be invested and the interest dividends and
116 annual proceeds thereof respectively upon and for the trusts intents and
117 purposes and with under and subject to the powers provisos and declarations
118 hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the same that is to
119 say Upon trust until my niece Louisa Blake Morison daughter of my
120 said Sister Elizabeth Morison shall attain the age of twenty one years
121 to apply the interest dividends and annual produce of the said trust monies
122 stocks funds and securities or so much thereof as they or he shall in their
123 or his discretion think fit for or towards the maintenance and education
124 of the said Louisa Blake Morison and do and shall invest the surplus
125 of such interest dividends and annual produce which shall from time
126 to time remain after answering the sale trust for maintenance and
127 education in their or his names or name in some or one of the stocks
128 funds or securities hereinbefore mentioned or referred to at their or his
129 discretion and do and shall receive the interest dividends and annual
130 produce of the stocks funds and securities whereon such surplus shall
131 from time to time be invested and lay out and invest the same upon other
132 stocks funds and securities of the like nature so that the same and all
133 resulting income and produce thereof may until the said Louisa Blake
134 Morison shall attain the age of twenty one years accumulate in the
135 way of compound interest And I hereby declare that all such
136 accumulations shall be considered as accretions to the trust moneys
137 stocks funds and securities from whence they shall have originally proceeded
138 and that such accumulations and the interest dividends and annual produce
139 thereof shall be respectively held and applied by my said Trustees or
140 Trustee accordingly and I hereby declare that my said Trustees or Trustee do
141 and shall from and immediately after the said Louisa Blake Morison
142 shall have attained the age of twenty one years pay the interest dividends
143 and annual produce of the several trust moneys stocks funds and securities
144 aforesaid during the life of the said Louisa Blake Morison into her
145 proper hands or to such person or persons and for such purposes as she
146 notwithstanding any coverture and whether sole and unmarried by any
147 writing or writings under her hand shall from time to time direct or
148 appoint to the intent that the same may be for her sole separate and
149 peculiar use and benefit independently and exclusively of any husband and
150 not in anywise subject to his debts control interference or engagements and
151 so that she shall not have the power to deprive herself o the benefit thereof
152 by sale mortgage charge or otherwise in the way of anticipation and the
153 receipt or receipts of the said Louisa Blake Morison or her appointees for
154 the said interest dividends and annual produce shall be a good and
155 effectual discharge or good and effectual discharges for the same notwith-
156 standing her being under coverture and after the decease of the said Louisa
157 Blake Morison Upon trust to pay one equal moiety or half part of the said
158 interest dividends and annual proceeds as they shall from time to time become
159 due or permit the same to be received by any husband whom the said Louisa
160 Blake Morison may leave her surviving during his life or until he shall
161 alienate charge encumber or in any manner anticipate the same or shall
162 become Bankrupt or take the benefit of any Act or Acts now or hereafter to
163 be in force for the relief of Insolvent debtors and I hereby declare that
164 immediately upon such surviving husband alienating charging encumbering
165 or in any manner anticipating the said moiety or becoming Bankrupt or
166 taking the benefit of any such Act or Acts as last aforesaid whichever shall
167 first happen then the said trust as to the said moiety in favor of such
168 surviving husband shall wholly cease and be void And I hereby declare
169 that after the death of the said Louisa Blake Morison subject nevertheless
170 and without prejudice to the said trust in favor of her surviving husband
171 if any the said trust moneys stocks funds and securities and the interest
172 dividends and annual produce thereof shall be and remain In trust for all
173 and every or such one or more exclusively of the others or other of the
174 children or child of the said Louisa Blake Morison and the issue of any
175 such Child or Children who may happen to die in her lifetime with such
176 provision for their respective maintenance education and advancement
177 and in such shares if more than one and with such restriction and in such
178 manner as the said Louisa Blake Morison whether covert or sole by any
179 deed or writing or deeds or writings with or without power of revocation
180 and now appointment to be by her sealed and delivered in the presence of
181 and attested by two or more credible witnesses or by her Will or any
182 Codicil thereto in writing or any writing in the nature of or purporting to
183 be her will shall from time to time direct or appoint and in default of and
184 until such direction and appointment and so far as any such if incomplete
185 shall not extend In trust for all and every the child and Children of the
186 said Louisa Blake Morison who being a son or sons shall attain the
187 age of twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters shall attain the
188 age of twenty one years or marry under that age with the consent of her
189 or their parent or parents Guardian or Guardians for the time being and
190 to be divided between or amongst them if more than one in equal shares
191 as tenants in common and if there shall be but one such child the
192 whole to be In trust for that one or only Child provided always and I
193 do hereby declare that if any son of the said Louisa Blake Morison
194 shall die in her lifetime under the age of twenty one years have issue
195 and such issue being a son or sons shall attain twenty one years or being
196 a daughter or daughters shall attain that age or be married then and in
197 every such case such issue of every such son so dying as aforesaid shall
198 have and be entitled to the share or shares of and in the said trust monies
199 stocks funds and Securities which the deceased parent of such Issue respectively
200 would have been entitled to under the trusts aforesaid if such parent had
201 lived to attain the age of twenty one years and such issue if more than
202 one shall take their deceased parents share equally between them provided
203 always And I do hereby declare that no child or children or issue of any
204 child or children taking any part of the said trust monies stocks funds and
205 securities under or by virtue of any direction or appointment in pursuance of
206 the power hereinbefore in that behalf contained shall have or be entitled to
207 any further or other share of and in that part of the said trust monies stocks
208 funds and securities of which no appointment shall have been made as funds and
209 aforesaid without bringing his or her appointed share into hotchpot and
210 accounting for the same accordingly provided always and I do hereby declare
211 that after the death of the said Louisa Blake Morison But subject nevertheless
212 and without prejudice to the said trust in favor of her surviving husband if
213 she shall leave one and in the meantime and until the vesting of the
214 portion or portions so provided for the child or children or issue of any
215 deceased child or children of the said Louisa Blake Morison as aforesaid
216 it shall be lawful for the said Trustees or Trustee for the time being to
217 apply the interest dividends and annual produce of the portion or portions
218 to which such child or children or issue of any deceased child or children
219 shall be entitled in expectancy or a competent part thereof for or towards
220 his her or their maintenance and education whether the father of such
221 child or children or issue of any deceased child or children if alive shall
222 be competent to maintain him her or them or not and that it shall be
223 lawful for the said Trustees or Trustee for the time being at any time or
224 times during the life of the said Louisa Blake Morison with her consent
225 in writing and after her decease at their or his direction to advance
226 any part not exceeding one moiety of the Capital of the portion or portions
227 to which any such child or children or issue of any deceased child or
228 children shall be entitled in expectancy for or towards his her or their
229 preferment advancement or establishment in the world provided always
230 and I do hereby further declare that in the meantime and until all the
231 said trust monies stocks funds and securities shall become absolutely vested
232 in some child or children or issue of any deceased child or children of the
233 said Louisa Blake Morison under the trusts hereinbefore declared concerning
234 the same the said Trustees or Trustee for the time being do and shall (But
235 subject and without prejudice to the said trust in favor of the surviving
236 husband of the said Louisa Blake Morison if she shall leave one and
237 to the trusts for maintenance and advancement lastly hereinbefore declared
238 receive the interest and dividends and annual produce of the said trust
239 monies stocks funds and securities or the uninvested part or parts thereof
240 and lay out and invest the same in their or his names or name in any
241 one or more of the several stocks funds and securities hereinbefore mentioned
242 or referred to And do and shall alter vary and transpose the same stocks
243 funds and securities from time to time at their or his discretion And do and
244 shall receive the interest dividends and annual produce of the said last
245 mentioned stocks funds and securities and lay out and invest the same
246 in their or his names or name in or upon other stocks funds and securities
247 of the like nature so that the same and all resulting income and
248 produce thereof may during such _____ of vesting as aforesaid
249 accumulate in the way of compounds interest And I do hereby further
250 declare that the interest dividends and annual produce of the said last
251 mentioned stocks funds and securities shall belong to and be In trust for
252 the person or persons who under the trusts hereinbefore declared shall
253 become entitled to the fund or funds from which such accumulations shall
254 have proceeded and be considered as part thereof and I do hereby declare
255 that if there shall be no person who shall attain a bested interest in the said
256 trust monies stocks funds and securities under the aforesaid trusts then after
257 the death of the said Louisa Blake Morison and such failure of Issue is
258 as aforesaid subject nevertheless to the said trusts in favor of her
259 surviving husband if she shall leave one and to the trusts for maintenance
260 and advancement hereinbefore contained the said Trustees or Trustee do
261 and shall pay all such part of the said trust monies as shall have arisen
262 from the Sale calling in and conversion of my personal Estate (except such
263 part of my personal Estate as shall have consisted of leasehold messuages
264 lands tenements and hereditaments or of sums secured upon mortgage of
265 lands and hereditaments or of personal Estate which in any manner
266 whatsoever is charged upon or savours of real estate) and transfer all
267 the Stocks funds or securities whereon such last mentioned monies may
268 for the time being be invested and all stocks funds or securities which may
269 be continued in the state of investment in which they are at the time of
270 my decease by the said Trustees or Trustee as aforesaid other than and
271 except any securities connected with a savoring of real Estate to the
272 Rector and Principal for the time being of Marischal College and University
273 in Aberdeen aforesaid to be by them held and disposed of upon and for
274 all trusts intents and purposes hereinafter declared concerning the same
275 and that my intentions may not be defeated with regards to the last
276 mentioned Bequest I hereby direct my said Trustees or Trustee so to
277 arrange the continuing of any Stocks funds and securities which may be
278 continued by the said Trustees or Trustee as aforesaid and the investment
279 of the said trust monies and every change in the investment of the stocks
280 funds and securities for the time being subject to the trusts of this my will
281 that so much of my personal Estate as at the time of my death shall not
282 savour of real Estate shall not at any time or times hereafter until some
283 child or children or issue of a deceased child of the said Louisa Blake
284 Morison shall have attained a vested interest under or by virtue of the
285 trusts aforesaid be invested in any real securities whatsoever but may
286 always be continued in some or one of the stocks funds or securities herein
287 before mentioned or referred to which shall not in any manner be
288 converted into or savour of real Estate And I do hereby declare that the
289 receipt in writing of the said Rector and Principal for the time being of
290 the said College for the monies stocks funds and securities which shall be
291 paid or transferred to them under the trusts aforesaid shall be a good
292 discharge to my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being for the
293 same and that such Trustees or Trustee shall not be obliged to see to
294 the application of the said sum or be answerable or accountable for the
295 misapplication or nonapplication thereof And as to all the residue of my
296 said trust monies stocks funds and securities subject as aforesaid I hereby
297 declare that the said Trustees or Trustee for the time being shall stand
298 possessed thereof and of the interests dividends and annual produce thereof
299 In trust for such person or persons as would by Law be entitled thereto
300 in case I had died intestate And I do hereby further declare that the
301 said Trustees or Trustee for the time being shall pay and apply the
302 rents issues and profits of such of my real and leasehold Estates as shall
303 for the time being remain unsold after satisfying the necessary outgoings
304 to the persons to whom and in the manner in which the interest
305 dividends and annual proceeds of the trust monies stocks funds and securities
306 hereinbefore mentioned are hereinbefore directed to be paid and applied
307 provided always and I hereby further declare that it shall be lawful
308 for the said Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will at their or
309 his discretion to dispose of call in and convert into money the whole or any
310 part of such trust monies stocks funds and securities as aforesaid But as to
311 so much thereof as shall arise from personal Estate which at the time of
312 my death shall not savour of Real Estate subject as aforesaid and to lay out
313 and invest the money arising therefrom or any part thereof in the purchase
314 of any freehold copyhold or customary manors messuages lands tenements
315 or hereditaments in England Wales or Scotland (but not in Ireland) for
316 any Estate of Inheritance or any leasehold messuages lands tenements or
317 hereditaments in England Wales or Scotland (but not in Ireland) for any
318 term of years whereof not less than sixty years shall be to come and unexpired
319 at the time of such purchase to be conveyed surrendered or assigned to those
329 the said trustees or trustee for the time being their or his heirs executors admin-
321 istrators or assigns respectively according to the different natures thereof
322 respectively Upon trust nevertheless that the said trustees or trustee for the time
323 being do and shall when and as they or he shall think fit and at their
324 his discretion absolutely sell and dispose of the said manor messuages
325 lands tenements or hereditaments which shall have been so purchased as
326 aforesaid either entirely and altogether or in parcels and either by Public
327 Auction or Private Contract for such price or prices and upon such conditions
328 and with such stipulations as to title or evidence of title or otherwise and
329 in such manner in every respect as the said trustees or trustee for the time
330 being shall think fit with full power to buy in the said premises or such
331 part thereof at any Sale or Sales by auction and to receive abandon or
332 vary any Contract for Sale and to resell the premises which shall be
333 bought in or the Contract for sale of which shall be so rescinded or
334 abandoned as aforesaid without being in anywise answerable for any
335 loss which may happen thereby respectively And do and shall stand
336 and be possessed or and interested in and apply the money arising from
337 any such sale (after payment of the costs charges and expences attending
338 the same) dispose and for such and the same trusts intents and purposes
339 and with under and subject to such and the same powers provisoes and
340 declarations involving the said power of purchasing freehold copyhold
341 and leasehold hereditaments as the money so raised and laid out in the
342 purchase of such manors messuages lands tenements or hereditaments
343 was subject to before such purchase was made or would then have
344 been subject to if the same has not been laid out thereon And do and shall
345 in the meantime and until such manors messuages lands tenements or
346 hereditaments shall be so sold pay and apply the rents issues and profits
347 thereof (after deducting necessary outgoings to the person for the intents
348 and purposes and in the manner to and for and in which the interest
349 dividends and annual produce of the money laid out in the purchase
350 thereof would have been payable and applicable under the trusts herein
351 before declared in case such purchase had not been made It being my
352 intention that the manors messuages lands tenements and hereditaments
353 which shall be purchased under this present power shall when to
354 purchase be considered as money and be subject to such and the same
355 trusts in all respects as the money laid out in the purchase thereof would
356 have been subject to if the same has not been so laid out And I hereby
357 declare that it shall be lawful for the said Trustees or Trustee for the
358 time being at their or his discretion to lease all of any part of the
359 manors messuages lands and hereditaments for the time being subject to
360 the trusts of this my will for any term or terms of years not exdeeding
361 twenty one years to take effect in possession at ____ rent and so that there be
362 contained in every such Lease a Condition of re-entry for nonpayment of
363 the rent or rents thereby received and so as the Lessee or Lessees so execute a
364 Counterpart and be not thereby made dispunishable for waste And I
365 expressly declare that the said Trustees or Trustee for the time being shall
366 in every case subject to the directions hereinbefore contained have the
367 most full and entire discretion as to the choice of stocks funds and securities
368 in or upon which my said trust estate or any part thereof may be
369 invested as aforesaid and as to the exercise or nonexercise of the said power
370 hereinbefore contained or purchasing Lands or other property and the choice
371 of the property which may be so purchased and in other respects and as to
372 granting any Lease or Leases under the power for that purpose lastly
373 hereinbefore contained And I do hereby declare that it shall be lawful for
374 the said Trustees or Trustee for the time being to adjust settle compound
375 and compromise all Accounts Transactions matters and things which
376 at the time of my decease shall be depending between me and any other
377 person or persons whomsoever or which shall arise in performing the
378 trusts hereby created or any of them and to take any Composition for debts
379 arising to me and to give and allow such reasonable time and indulgence
380 for the pament of the said debts and in the meantime to accept and
381 make such securities for the payment thereof or any part thereof as they
382 or he shall in their or his discretion think fit and to abandon waive
383 and release any such debts liabilities and engagements as they or he
384 shall think was or separate or not worth suing for enforcing or keeping
385 on foot And I do hereby declare that every husband with whom the
386 said Louisa Blake Morison may intermarry shall within the space
387 of six Calendar months after his marriage if he shall then be of the
388 age of twenty one years or if he shall then be under the age of
389 twenty one years then within six Calendar months next after he shall
390 attain such age take upon himself and in all deeds Letters Accounts
391 and Writings whereunto he shall be a party or which he shall
392 execute or sign and upon all other occasions the Surname of “Blake”
393 in addition to and after his own family surname and within the
394 said space of six Calendar months apply for and endeavor to obtain a
395 proper Licence from the Crown or take such other steps as may be
396 requisite to authorize and enable him so to take and use such surname
397 Provided always And I do hereby declare that in case any such
398 husband shall refute or neglect within the space of time hereinbefore
399 in that behalf mentioned to take and use the surname of Blake as
400 aforesaid then and in every such case I hereby declare that such husband
401 although he shall survive the said Louisa Blake Morison shall not
402 take any benefit whatsoever under the trusts of this my Will but the
403 same shall be read and construed in the same manner as if the said
404 Lousie Blake Morison had died without leaving a husband her
405 surviving And I do hereby declare that it is my Will and desire that until
406 the said Louisa Blake Morison shall attain the age of twenty five years
407 or marry whichever shall first happen she shall be and remain under
408 and subject to the guidance and control in all things of the Trustees or
409 Trustee for the time being of this my Will in the same manner as if they
410 and he had been appointed her Guardians or Guardian by this my Will
411 and that until she shall attain that age she shall not marry without
412 their or his previous consent and in case of her marriage under that
413 age without such consent Then I declare my Will to be that the said
414 Louisa Blake Morison shall not take any benefit whatever under
415 the trusts of this my Will but the same shall be read and construed
416 as if she were then already dead without ever having been married
417 And I give and bequeath the Estates vested in me upon any Trust
418 or by way of mortgage and which I have power to dispose of by
419 this my Will with their appurtenances unto the said Charles Stewart
420 Parker and William Robertson Sandbach their heirs executors and
421 administrators and assigns according to the nature and quality thereof
422 respectively Subject nevertheless to the trusts and Equities affecting the same
423 respectively And I appoint the said Charles Stewart Parker and William
424 Robertson Sandbach Executors of this my Will And I do hereby declare
425 that the receipt of receipts of my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being
426 for the purchase money of any property hereby directed or authorized to
427 be sold and for any other monies stocks funds or securities paid or transferred
428 to him or them under this my Will or in execution of any of the Trust
429 thereof shall effectually discharge the person or persons paying the same
430 from being obliged to see to the application thereof or from being answerable
431 or accountable for the misapplication or nonapplication thereof Provided
432 always And I do hereby further declare that if the Trustees appointed in
433 this my Will or to be appointed as hereinafter is mentioned or any of them
434 or their or any of their heirs executors administrators or assigns shall
435 happen to die or be abroad or desire to be discharged from or refuse or
436 decline or be incapable to act in the trusts hereby in them respectively reposed
437 as aforesaid before the said trusts shall be fully executed Then and in such
438 case and when and so often as the same shall happen it shall be lawful
439 to and for the then Trustees or Trustee of this my Will or the executors or
440 administrators of the survivor of them by any deed or deeds instrument
441 or instruments in writing to be by them or him or her sealed and
442 declared in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses
443 from time to time to nominate substitute and appoint any other person or
444 persons to be a trustee or trustees in the stead and place of the Trustee or
445 Trustees so dying or being abroad or desiring to be discharged or refusing or
446 declining or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid and when and so often
447 as any new Trustee shall be nominated and appointed as aforesaid all the
448 Trust Estates monies and premises or such of them as shall be then subject
449 to the trusts shall be thereupon with all convenient speed conveyed assigned
450 and transferred in such sort and manner and so as that the same shall and
451 may be legally and effectually vested in the person or persons so to be
452 appointed as aforesaid either solely or jointly with the surviving or
453 continuing Trustee or Trustees as occasion shall require To the uses and
454 for the trusts intents and purposes hereinbefore expressed and declared of
455 and concerning the trust estate monies and premises or such of them as
456 shall be then subsisting undetermined and capable of taking effect and
457 every person so appointed as aforesaid shall as well before as after the
458 said trust premises shall have been so invested as aforesaid have all the
459 powers and authorities of the Trustee or Trustees in whose room he shall
460 be substituted provided always and I hereby declare that after the said
461 Louisa Blake Morison shall have attained the age of twenty five years
462 and thenceforth during her life no new Trustee or Trustees shall be
463 appointed under the power aforesaid unless such new Trustee or Trustees
464 shall be approved of by the said Louisa Blake Morison by some writing
465 under her hand which approval I hereby empower the said Louisa
466 Blake Morison to give notwithstanding she may at the time or times of
467 giving such approval be under coverture Provided always and I hereby
468 declare that the said several Trustees hereby appointed and to be appointed as
469 aforesaid and such and every of then shall be charged and chargeable respectively
470 only for such monies as they shall respectively receive by virtue of the trusts
471 hereby in them reposed and that no one of them shall be chargeable or
472 accountable for the others or other of them of for the acts receipts neglects or
473 defaults of the others or other of them But each only for own acts
474 receipts neglects or defaults nor shall they or either or any of them be
475 answerable or accountable for any Banker Broker or other person with
476 whom any of the said trust monies or securities may be deposited for safe
477 custody or otherwise in the execution of the said trusts or insufficiency or
478 deficiency of any stocks funds or securities in or upon which any of the said
479 trust monies may be invested in pursuance of and in conformity to this my
480 Will nor for the invalidity of the title or titles to any manors messuages
481 lands or hereditaments which they or he may purchase under the power
482 for that purpose hereinbefore contained or for any other misfortune loss or
483 damage which may happen in the execution of the said trust or otherwise
484 in relation thereto unless the same shall happen by or through their own
485 wilful defaults respectively And also that it shall be lawful for them with
486 and out of the monies which shall come to their respective hands by
487 virtue of the trusts aforesaid to retain to and reimburse themselves and also
488 to allow their respective Co-trustees or Co-trustee all costs charges and expences
489 which they or any of them may respectively sustain expend or be put unto
490 or about the execution of the trusts aforesaid or in relation thereto And I
491 hereby declare that the said Rector and Principal for the time being of the
492 said Marischal College do and shall lay out and invest the monies and
493 stand possessed of and interested in the stocks funds and securities so directed
494 to be paid and transferred to them as aforesaid in their names in some or
495 one of the Public Stocks of Funds of Great Britain or in the purchase of
496 lands and hereditaments in Scotland so far as may be consistant with
497 the Scotch Law and do and shall stand and be seized and possessed of such
498 last mentioned lands and hereditaments stocks and funds and the rents
499 issues and profits dividends interest and annual produce thereof respectively
500 Upon trust out of the said rents issues and profits dividends and annual
501 proceeds to maintain eight Bursaries in the said Marischal College of two of the boys
502 in each of the said four Classes whose Parents or friends in the Opinion
503 of the said Rector and Principal for the time being or either of them are
504 not able or are inable to afford the expence of their education courses such
505 course as aforesaid And I hereby declare that such Bursaries shall be
506 competed for by such Boys as aforesaid by various and several examinations
507 and to be given to such two of such Boys in each of the said four Classes as
508 shall be found on comparative examination most deserving provided that
509 in case of several such boys being found to be equal in merit those (if any)
510 of the name of Blake shall be first preferred and those (if any) of the name
511 of Davidson shall be next preferred before the others or other of such Boys And I
512 hereby declare that the Professors of Greek Humanity and Mathematics for
513 the time being in the said College and the Rector for the time being of the
514 Grammar School of Aberdeen aforesaid shall be the sole Examiners of
515 the said Boys and the Judge of their merits but the mode in which the
516 comparative merits of the said Boys shall be ascertained I leave entirely to
517 such rules and regulations as may from time to time be made for that
518 purpose by the said Examiners And I hereby declare that when any vacancy
519 shall occur in any such Bursary either by search resignation or in any
520 other manner such vacancy shall with all convenient dispatch be made up
521 so that the number of eight Bursars may be always complete And I hereby
522 declare that the said Rector and Principal for the time being of the said
523 College shall devise and pay the said rents issues and profits dividends and
524 annual produce among the said eight Bursars in equal shares And I
525 hereby declare that every Bursary shall become vacant upon the
526 Bursars for the time being holding the same ceasing to be a member of the
527 said College or being expelled or being guilty of any count whereby he
528 shall be excluded either for the whole or any part of the time for which
529 his Bursary would otherwise have lasted from the benefits of his education
530 at the said College And I do hereby declare that the said Rector and
531 Principal for the time being of the said College shall be at liberty to alter
532 vary and transpose any of the Stocks of funds for the time being subject to
533 the charitable trust aforesaid for or into any other stocks or funds of a like
534 nature or to lay out the monies arising from the Sale of such Stocks and
535 funds and in the purchase of lands in Scotland as aforesaid and also to sell
536 any of the lands for the time being subject to the charitable trust aforesaid
537 or exchange the same or any of them for other lands in Scotland as aforesaid
538 and to accept any monies by way of equality of exchange and to lay out and
539 invest the monies to arise from such Sales or to be ration on any such exchange
540 as aforesaid in any other lands in Scotland as aforesaid or in any such public
541 Stocks of funds as aforesaid And I hereby declare that the said Rector and
542 Principal for the time being of the said College shall have full power to do and
543 execute or cause to be done and executed all such arts deeds matters and things
544 whatsoever as they shall deem expedient for carrying into effect or reserving
545 all or any of the trusts or powers hereby in them reposed or vested and that the
546 receipt or receipts of the said Rector and Principal for the time being of the said
547 College for any rents issues or profits dividends interest or annual produce
548 purchase or other monies paid to them under or by virtue or in respect of the
549 charitable trust aforesaid or any of the powers hereinbefore contained with
550 reference thereto shall effectually discharge the person or persons paying the
551 same and such person or persons shall not be bound to see to the application
552 or be answerable for the misapplication or nonapplication thereof And I hereby
553 declare that on every death resignation or other vacancy in the Office of Rector
554 or Principal of the said College the lands and hereditaments stocks and funds for
555 the time being subject to the Charitable trust aforesaid shall be respectively conveyed
556 to transferred and vested in the newly appointed Rector or Principal for the time
557 being jointly with the continuing Rector or Principal as the case may be
558 provided always And I do hereby lastly declare that the said Rector and
559 Principal for the time being shall be charged and chargeable respectively only
560 for such monies as they shall respectively receive by virtue of the trusts hereby
561 in them reposed and that neither of them shall be chargeable or accountable
562 for the other of them or for the acts receipts neglects or defaults of the other of
563 them but each only for his own acts receipts neglects or defaults nor shall
564 they or either of them be answerable or accountable for any Banker or Broker
565 or other person with whom any of the said trust monies may be deposited for
566 safe custody or otherwise in the execution of the said trusts or the insufficiency
567 or deficiency of any stocks funds or securities or in the title to any lands in or
568 upon which any of the said trust monies may be invested in pursuance
569 of and in conformity to this my Will or for any other misfortune loss or
570 damage which may happen in the execution of the said trusts or otherwise
571 in relation thereto unless the same shall happen by or through their own
572 wilful defaults respectively And also that it shall be lawful for them with
573 and out of the moneys which shall come to their respective hands by
574 virtue of the trusts aforesaid to reimburse themselves and to allow their
575 cotrustee all costs charges and expences which they or any of them may
576 respectively sustain expend or be put into in or about the execution of the
577 charitable trust aforesaid or otherwise in relation thereto In witness whereof
578 I the said Thomas Blake the Testator have to this my last Will and
579 Testament contained in fifteen sheets of paper set my hand this thirty first
580 day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
581 forty nine Thos blake Signed published and declared by the said
582 Thomas Blake the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the
583 presence of us present at the same time who in his presence at his request and
584 in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as
585 witnesses John T Campbell 21 Warwick Street Regent Street Solicitor
586 John T Osborn 10 King St St James Planter
587 This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament
588 of me Thomas Blake formerly of the Colony of British Guiana late
589 residing at No 10 King Street Saint James in the County of Middlesex But
590 now of the Cottage London Road Saint Johns Wood in the same County
591 Esquire Whereas by my said Will I have given and bequeathed to Mary
592 Sherburn wife of Charles Sherburn of No 10 King Street Saint James aforesaid
593 the sum of Three hundred pounds Now I do hereby revoke the said Legacy
594 and whereas by my said Will I have declared it to be my Will and desire that
595 until my niece Louisa Blake Morison therein particularly mentioned should
596 attain the age of twenty five years or marry she should be and remain under
597 and subject to the guidance and control in all things of the Trustees or
598 Trustee for the time being of my said Will in manner therein mentioned
599 and that until she should attain that age she should not marry without
600 their or his previous consent and in case of her marriage under that age
601 without such consent then I have declared my Will to be that the said Louisa
602 Blake Morison should not take any benefit whatsoever under the terms
603 of my said Will but the same should be read and construed as if she were
604 then already dead without ever having been married Now I do hereby
605 revoke so much of my said Will as declared that the said Louisa Blake
606 Morison until she attain twenty five years or marry shall be under and
607 subject to the guidance and control of the Trustees or Trustee for the time
608 being of my said Will and also so much of my said Will as tabled the
609 said Louisa Blake Morison to marry under the age of twenty five years
610 without the previous consent of the said Trustees or Trustee And also so much
611 of my said Will as in case she should marry under the age of twenty five
612 years without such consent as aforesaid would deprive the said Louisa
613 Blake Morison of any benefit under the trusts of my said Will it being
614 my Will and desire that the said Louisa Blake Morison shall be under
615 no restraint or disability by virtue of my said Will and that on attaining
616 the age of twenty one years she shall be at full liberty to marry if she shall
617 think fit without obtaining any consent of the said Trustees or Trustee or
618 of any other person whatsoever And I do hereby give and bequeath
619 unto the said Louisa Blake Morison in addition to the other benefits
620 given to or in trust for her under my said Will the sum of Two Thousand
621 pounds Sterling And also all the household furniture plate linen china
622 books pictures prints jewels and ornaments and all other effects and things
623 which shall be in and about the premises in which I shall reside at the
624 time of my decease To hold the same unto the said Louisa Blake Morison
625 absolutely I also give and bequeath unto my Servant William Stuart
626 and Jane his wife if living with me at the time of my decease the amount
627 of three months wages in addition to any wages to be then owing or
628 accruing to them I direct that the receipt of the said Louisa Blake
629 Morison not withstanding any coverture shall be an effectual discharge to
630 the Trustees or Trustee for the true being of my said Will and Codicil for the
631 said sum of Two thousand pounds hereinbefore given to her I desire that
632 the place and manner of my Burial shall be in the absolute discretion of the
633 said Louisa Blake Morison And whereas by my said Will have devised
634 and bequeathed certain Real and Personal Estate and given certain powers
635 to Charles Stewart Parker and William Robert Sandbach as Trustees
636 and appointed them Executors of my Will and bequeathed to them a
637 Legacy of One hundred pounds a piece Now I revoke my said Will so far
638 as the said Charles Stewart Parker and William Robert Sandbach are
639 objects thereof and I substitute and appoint James Brown Gibson and
640 Alexander Foxcroft Ridgway in my said Will named and the said Louisa
641 Blake Morison to be Trustees and Executors of my Will in the place of
642 the said Charles Stewart Parker and William Robert Sandbach and I
643 direct that my said Will she be read and construed as if the names of the
644 said James Brown Gibson Alexander Foxcroft Ridgway and Louisa
645 Blake Morison had been originally inserted therein instead of the names
646 of the said Charles Stewart Parker and William Robert Sandbach I give
647 and bequeath to each of them the said Alexander Foxcroft Ridgway and
648 Louisa Blake Morison the sum of One hundred pounds Sterling I revoke all
649 other Codicils by me at any time heretofore made And I confirm my said
650 Will except as aforesaid In witness whereof I have hereunder set my
651 hand this fourth day of February One thousand eight hundred and fifty
652 three Thomas Blake Signed by the said Thomas Blake as and for
653 a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the
654 same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each
655 other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses Abm Taylor
656 Surgeon 4 Spear Street Leicester Square John T Campbell Warwick Regent Street Solicitor
657 Proved at London the 2nd March 1854 (with a Codicil) before the
658 Worshipful George Webbe Dasent doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths
659 of Alexander Foxcroft Ridgway Esquire and Louise Blake Morison Spinster
660 the niece two of the Executors named in the Codicil to whom Admon was
661 granted having been first sworn duly to administer James Brown Gibson
662 Esquire the other Executor and one of the Residuary Legatees In Trust
663 named in the said Codicil having first renounced the Probate and Execution
664 of the said Will and Codicil and also the Letters of Admon with the said
665 Will and Codicil annexed of the Goods of the said deceased as by Acts of
666 Court appears
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