Will of Thomas Blake, Esquire, late of the Colony of British Guiana, now of No 10 King Street, Saint James, Middlesex - The National Archives PROB 11/2187, probated 2 Mar 1854

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

Will of George Blake, Liverpool, Lancashire - The National Archives PROB 11/2049, probated 17 Feb 1847

George Blake, the testator, was married to Margaret Steele but no marriage was found (this surname found on Family Search with the baptism of James).

George and Margaret Blake baptized their children at Oldham Street Presbyterian, Liverpool (records from Family Search):

Isabella born 19 Jun 1814 and baptized 31 Jul 1814
George born 10 Feb 1816 and baptized 18 Apr 1816
James born 30 Jul 1818 and baptized Aug 1818
William Blake born 16 Jun 1823 and baptized 29 Jan 1824
Margaret born 22 Dec 1826 and baptized 10 Feb 1827
Matthew born 6 Mar 1829 and baptized 21 Apr 1829

Isabella Blake married Arthur Oughterson but date is unknown (A bond was created 11 Dec 1834 at St Philip, Liverpool and Isabella was 20 years of age) (1). George Blake Oughterson was born 22 Nov 1837 at Liverpool and baptized 21 Dec 1837 at Oldham Street Presbyterian, Liverpool. Isabella Oughterson died Dec quarter 1837 at Liverpool and she was 23 years of age. A daughter Isabella Oughterson was baptized 6 Oct 1836 at Oldham Street Church, Liverpool (2).

Isabella Blake was born 19 Jun 1814 and baptized 31 Jul 1814 at Oldham Street Presbyterian Liverpool, daughter of George Blake (3).

(1)    England, Cheshire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1606-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FBNX-PJM : 8 December 2014), Isabella Blake in entry for Arthur Oughterson, 11 Dec 1834; citing St. Philip, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, Item 5, Cheshire Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 1,894,628.
(2)    Scotland Church Records and Kirk Session Records, 1658-1919," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2HR-BM1J : 30 November 2016), Isabella Blake in entry for Isabella Oughterson, 06 Oct 1836; citing Baptism, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, The National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh; FHL microfilm .
(3)    England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQL9-WQX : 6 December 2014), Isabella Blake, 31 Jul 1814; citing , reference ; FHL microfilm 304,665.

Margaret Blake married Henry Torrens Browne Jun quarter 1846 in West Derby Registration District (Liverpool is in West Derby). Record located on Find My Past.

An online website for the Stewart family notes that: Anne [Stewart], ….. baptized 30 Mar 1820 at St Peter’s Liverpool was married 9 Sep 1841 (verified on Find My Past) at St Peter’s, Liverpool,  to James who was the second son of George Blake and his wife Margaret (Steele) Blake. James Blake was baptized Aug 1818 at Oldham Street Presbyterian Church, Liverpool and owned soap works in Great George Square, Liverpool, which was later incorporated into Lever Brothers. He died circa 1872 and she died 6 May 1911 having had issue.
This particular record appears under John Stewart but it is difficult to follow on the website (John Stewart named as a JP, architect and surveyor) (a John Stewart is one of the trustees in the will below). http://www.archerfamily.org.uk/family/stewart.htm

On Find My Past (Record set England Marriages 1538-1973) John Stewart is given as the father of Anne Stewart and George Blake as the father of James Blake. A second record in England Births and Baptisms 1538-1975 lists the baptism as 30 Mar 1820 at Liverpool for Anne daughter of John and Mary Anne Stewart.

The London Gazette, Part 2, 1847 on page 1509 notes: Richard Stevenson, Esq one of Her Majesty’s Commissioners authorized to act under a Fiat in Bankruptcy, bearing date the 31st day of December 1847, awarded and issued forth against George Blake and James Blake, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, and also of the city of Dublin, Soap Manufacturers, carrying on business under the firm of G. and J. Blake, will sit on the 27th day of June instant, at eleven in the forenoon precisely, at the District Court of Bankruptcy, in Liverpool, in order to make a Dividend of the estate and effects of George Blake, one of the said bankrupts; when and where the creditors, who have not already proved their debts, are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the benefit of the said Dividend. (Google Book search)

Does this record point to a possible ancestry for George Blake? Is he from Ireland originally (there is a soapworks attributed to his heirs (George and James Blake) in Dublin, Ireland)? There is a record in the 1841 census of Liverpool of a George Blake (independent) married to Margaret and with them James Blake (24 years) Merchant (born in Lancashire). Both George and Margaret are born in Ireland. They are living in Wavertree (District 9), Childwall, Lancashire. George is listed as 76 years of age and Margaret is 57 years of age on this census. Childwall is a suburb of Liverpool.

The Galway Blake family were found in Dublin and George is not a common forename in this family. However, it could not be determined if he was descendant of this family.

Using the new GRO Index for searching, the death of George Blake March quarter 1847 in West Derby at the age of 82 years was located. Given his age of 76 years in 1841, 82 years of age in 1847 is quite reasonable and likely the census record above is correct for this George Blake. It is also prior to the marriage of his son James who is living with them. However both Margaret, their daughter, and William and Matthew, their sons, are not with them on this census and are perhaps in school or visiting.


Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 14 Jan 2017
Source:  The National Archives, PROB 11/2049
Name of testator: George Blake, Gent
Place: Toxteth Park near Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated 23 Dec 1846, probated 17 Feb 1847

[In margin] George Blake 119

1    This is the Last Will and Testament
2    of me George Blake of Toxteth Park near Liverpool Gent whereas my
3    property mainly consists of freehold and leasehold mess[uag]es warehouses ten
4    aments in Liverpool aforesaid Tog[ethe]r with a Soapery and premises there belonging
5    to me now in the occupation of my sons George Blake James Blake who
6    are yearly tenants of the same to me and also of shares and stock in the
7    London and North Western Railway Company and shares in the Commercial
8    Bank of Liverpool and my desire is that subject to the intermediate
9    gifts hereinafter made by me my property until my youngest Son
10    Matthew Blake (now of the age of 18 years or thereabouts) do attain the
11    age of 25 years or previously die shall be administered by John Stewart of
12    L[iver]pool a[s]f[ore]s[aid] Surveyor Duncan Gibb of the same place Merchant and my
13    son the Rev[eren]d William Blake of Cam in the County of Gloucester Clerk
14    (whom I appoint the Ex[ect]ors of my Will) and by the surv[iv]ors and surv[iv]or of
15    them and other the Trustee or Trustees for the time being to be appointed
16    or secured in his or their stead in the manner and with the powers herein
17    after expressed and shall be holden and applied as hereafter directed Now
18    I do make the following dispositions to take effect in the meantime that
19    is to say I give a legacy of £5 to each of my Servants Jane Quail Mary
20    Leather Mary Brice and Thomas Lloyd who shall be in my Service at
21    my decease I give an annuity of  £20 per annum (too from legacy duty
22    during the life of Margaret the Wife of Matthew Gibson of Halifax in
23    the County of York to commence from my decease and to be paid by equal
24    quarterly portions unto such person or persons for such intents and pur
25    poses and in such manner and form as the s[ai]d Margaret Gibson not withstand
26    ding her coverture by the said Matthew Gibson or any other husband
27    and as well when covert as sole by any writing under her hand shall from
28    time to time direct or appoint and in default of such appointment than in
29    to her own hands for her own sole use separate and apart from any hus
30    band and so that the same may not be subject to his respective debts contracts
31    forfeiture or engagements and so that the receipts of the said Margaret
32    Gibson or her appointees may be an effectual discharge for the same
33    notwithstanding her coverture And I give all my furniture plate lin
34    en china pictures paintings prints books and other household and domestic
35    effects including my stock of fuel beer wines spirits and liquors and also my
36    carriage and horses with their harness and stock of hay and corn unto my Wife
37    Margaret Blake absolutely I also give unto her the sum of one thousand
38    pounds sterling And I direct that the trustee or trustees for the time being
39    of this my will do pay unto my s[ai]d wife a clear annuity of £400 per
40    annum during her natural life or until she marry by equal quarter
41    ly portions in every years the first of the s[ai]d quarterly portions to be paid
42    at the end of three months next after my decease provided my s[ai]d
43    wife so long outlive me but should she die or marry on any other day
44    than one of the s[ai]d quarterly days so appointed for payment of her s[ai]d
45    annuity than my will is that a proportionate part of the s[ai]d annuity
46    shall be paid in respect of so much of the currant quarter of the year as
47    shall have elapsed up to the day of her decease or marriage and I give
48    the sum of £3500 sterling unto my son George Blake I also give unto my Son
49    James Blake the sum of £2000 sterling and my desire is that the several
50    pecuniary legacies hereinbefore given shall be paid as soon as conv
51    iently can be after my decease I give unto my Grandson George Blake
52    Oughterson if he attain the age of 25 years but not otherwise the sum of
53    £1000 to be paid to him as soon after he shall attain that age as can be but
54    without interest in the meantime but should he attain such age in
55    my lifetime than to be paid within six months after my decease with in
56    terest after the rate of £4 per cent per annum from the day of my death
57    And I give all my real and personal Estate of every description not hereinbe
58    fore disposed of unto and to the use of the s[ai]d John Stewart Duncan Gibb and
59    W[ilia]m Blake their heirs ex[ecut]ors adm[instrat]ors and ass[igns] upon the trusts and for the intent
60    and purposes and under and subject to the powers and provisions hereinafter
61    contained that is to say upon trust that they the s[ai]d John Stewart
62    Duncan Gibb and William Blake and the surv[iv]ors and surv[iv]or of them and the heirs
63    exors and admors of such survor and other the trustee and trustees for the time being
64    of this my will do hold and administer my said Estates and sell let and manage the
65    same in such manner as by virtue of the special provisions herein
66    after contained or for the general benefit of my Estates or for the advan
67    tage of the persons who may be interested therein as my sd trustee or
68    trustees shall think fit And upon truat that he and they (subject to the pay
69    ment of my debts funeral and testamentary expences and of the legacies and
70    annuities as af[ore]s[ai]d) do and shall accumulate by way of compound interest on
71    investment and reinvestment in his or their names or name in or upon
72    such stocks funds securities and share as he and they is and are hereinafter author
73    is[su]ed to take retain purchase or acquire all the rents profits dividends interest
74    and income of my said residuary real and personal and of my testamentary estate
75    as from the day of my death until my youngest son Matthew Blake
76    shall attain the age of 25 years of shall previously die and when and as my sd
77    youngest son Matthew shall so attain the age of 25 years or shall pre
78    viously die my Will is that the following appropriation payments distri
79    bution and division of and from my sd estates and the accumulation and other
80    produce thereof shall be made and take place as hereafter directed that is to
81    say I direct that the sum of £5000 or such stocks funds securities and
82    shares as afsd as may be of the amount or value of £5000 sterling on
83    the day when my sd son Matthew shall attain the age of 25 years or
84    on the day of his death previously shall by the trustee or trustees for the
85    time being of this my Will be retained or appropriated in his or their
86    name or names or be paid or transferred by him or them to such 3 Trus
87    tees as he or they may order and as my daughter Margaret the wife of
88    Henry Torrens Brown if she be living shall approve to be holden and
89    applied upon or according to the terms hereinafter expressed that is to say
90    Upon trust that the sd Trustee or Trustees for the time being of the said
91    fund do and shall with the consent or approbation in writing of my sd
92    daughter if and whilst living and after her decease then in the discretion of the sd
93    trustee or trustees lay out and invest the sd £5000 if retained or paid in mo
94    ney in or upon such stocks funds securities and shares as hereinbe
95    fore referred to and with such consent or approbation or in such discret
96    ion as afsd vary and transfer the stocks funds securities and share and also all
97    such stocks funds securities and shares as may be so appropriated or
98    transferred for or towards satisfaction of the said £5000 into and for other
99    stocks funds securities and shares of the like nature as opportunity
100    may present or occasion shall require and stand possessed of the sd
101    £5000 or the stocks funds securities or shares to be appropriated or
102    transferred in satisfaction of or to be invested from the same and of the dividends
103    interest and monie thereof upon the trusts hereinafter before afsd that is to say
104    upon trust to pay the dividends interest and income of the same from time to
105    time to become due during the lifetime of my sd daughter Margaret
106    Brown unto such person or persons and for such intents and purposes and in
107    such manner and form as she notwithstanding her coverture by the sd Henry
108    Torrens Brown or any other husband and as well when covert as sole shall
109    from time to time by any note or writing under her hand direct or appoint
110    and in default of such direction or appointment then unto her own hands
111    for her own sole use separate and apart from the said Henry Torrens Brown
112    or any other husband and so that the same may not be subject to his respect
113    tive debts contracts forfeitures or engagements and so that the receipts in writ
114    ing of the sd Margt Brown or her appointees may be effectual discharges
115    for the same notwithstandg her coverture and from and after the decease of the
116    sd Margt Brown then upon trust that the sd trustee or trustees do and shall
117    from and out of the sd dividends interest and income thenceforth to be continue
118    due and during the life of the sd Hy Torrens Brown or until any Fiat of
119    Bankruptcy shall be issued against him whereout he shall be found
120    Bankrupt and which shall not be annulled within twelve months after
121    wards or until he shall file any declaration of Insolvency or take the
122    benefit or any act made or to be made for the relict of Insolvency debtors or
123    any vesting order in Bankruptcy and Insolvency shall be obtained
124    against him which shall not be vacated within twelve months afterwards
125    or until any Judgment or Judgments to the amount of £500 or upwards
126    shall be registered against him which shall not be satisfied within twelve
127    months after[war]ds or until he shall do any Act which but for the effect of this
128    provision would be an assignment charge incumbrance or anticipation
129    so in the lifetime of my said daughter Margaret Brown put unto the sd
130    Henry Torres Brown the clear annuity of £100 by equal quarterly portions
131    on the 25th day of March the 24th day of June the 29th day of Sept and the
132    24th day of December in every year the 1st quarterly payment to be made on
133    such of the sd days as shall next happen after the decease of my sd daugh
134    ter provided the sd annuity so long have continuance but no proportional
135    part thereof to be paid in respect of any current quarter of a year during
136    which the sd annuity shall determine and from and after the decease of my sd
137    daughter and subject to the said annuity of £100 during its continance
138    that as to the sd trust monies stocks funds securities and share and the divide
139    nds interest and income of the same or of so much thereof as may not be re
140    quired for payment of the sd annuity of £100 during its continuance the sd
141    trustee or trustees shall stand possessed of the same upon trust for the Child
142    Grandchild or other issue or all or any one or more of the children grand
143    children or other issue of my sd daughter Margt Brown (such grandchild
144    dren and issue resp[ective]ly to be born in her lifetime in such manner and form and if
145    more than one in such shares and proportions and for such times with such
146    limitations over or substitutions in favor or any one or more of the oth
147    ers of the sd children Grandchildren and issue resply and either by way of legacy
148    portion present or remote interest or otherwise and to vest and be paid transferred
149    or assign[e]d at such age day or times ages days or times and upon such con
150    tingencies and under and subject to such directions and regulations for mainten
151    ance education and advancement and such conditions and restrictions as my
152    said daughter as well when covert as sold and notwithstanding her cov
153    erture by any husband shall from time to time by any deed or deeds
154    writing or writings with or without power of revocation and new appoint
155    ment (such new appointment to be in favor of some one or moreof the
156    objects of this present provision to be sealed and delivered by her in the presence
157    of 3 to be attested by 2 or more credible witnesses or by her last will and
158    Testament or by any writing purporting to be in the nature of or purport
159    ing to be her last Will and Testament or any Codicil or Codicils thereto to be
160    resply signed by her in the presence of and attested by the like number of credible wit
161    nesses shall direct or appoint and in default of and subject to every or any such
162    direction or appointment then the said trustee or trustees shall stand poss
163    essed of the sd trust monies stocks funds securities and shares and the dividends
164    interest and income of the same (subject to the sd annuity of £100 during its
165    continuance) upon trust for the child if one or all the children if more
166    than one of my said daughter Margt Brown who being a son or sons
167    shall attain the age of 21 years or die under that age leaving surviving
168    issue or who being a daughter or daughters shall attain that age or
169    be previously married and equally among such children if more than one
170    and his her or their exors admors or assigns but in case my said daughter
171    shall not have any child who being a son shall attain the age of 21 years
172    or die under that age leaving surviving issue or who being a daughter
173    shall attain that age or be previously married Then from and after her de
174    cease (and subject to the sd annuity of £100 during its continuance) the sd trust
175    monies securities and shares and the dividends interest and income of the
176    same shall fall into and form part of my residuary and personal estate and go
177    as the same is hereinafter disposed or and upon further trust that the
178    sd trustee or trustees for the time being do and shall also in life manner
179    retain lay out appropriate or invest the sum of £5000 sterling or such
180    stocks funds and securities hereinbefore referred to either in the name or
181    names of the trustee or trustees for the time being of this my Will or of 3
182    Trustees to be appointed by him or them and to be approved of by my
183    son George Blake living to the intent that the trustee or trustees for
184    the time being of such (and so and shall with the consent or approbations
185    my sd son George Blake if and whilst living and after his decease then in
186    the discretion of the sd trustee or trustees of the sd fund lay out and invest
187    the sd £5000 if retained or paid in money or do much thereof as may be
188    retained or paid in money in the name or names of the sd trustee or
189    trustees in or upon such stocks funds securities and shares hereinbefore re
190    ferred to and with such consent or approbation or in such discretion as afsd
191    vary and transpose the sd stocks funds securities and shares and also all such
192    stocks funds securities and shares as may be appropriated or transferred for
193    or towards satisfaction of the sd £5000 into or for other stocks funds secure
194    ties or shares of the like nature as opportunity may present or occasion
195    shall require and stand possessed of the sd £5000 or the sd stocks funds securities
196    or shares to be appropriated for or invested from the same and the dividends
197    interest and income thereof upon the trusts hereinafter expressed that is to say
198    Upon trust that the sd trustee or trustees during the lifetime of my sd son
199    George Blake or until any fiat in Bankruptcy shall be issued against
200    him whereon he shall be declared Bankrupt and which shall not be
201    annulled within twelve months afterwards or until he shall file
202    any declaration of Insolvency or take the benefit of any act made
203    or to be made for the relict of Insolvent debtors or any vesting order
204    in Bankruptcy or Insolvency shall be obtained against him which
205    shall not be vacated within twelve months afterwards or until any
206    Judgment or Judgments to the amount of £500 or upwards shall be
207    registered against him which shall not be satisfied within 2 years afterwards or
208    until he shall do any act which but for the effect of this provision would be
209    an assignment charge incumbrance or anticipation of the same or any
210    part thereof or provided that any such act or event shall not have hap
211    pened do and shall pay the dividends interest and income of the sd last
212    mentioned trust monies stocks funds securities and share unto the sd
213    George Blake or his assigns for his and their own use and benefit and from and after
214    the decease of my sd son Geo Blake or the determination of his life
215    interest by any such act or event as afsd then the sd trustee or trustees shall stand
216    possessed of the sd £5000 or the stocks funds securities and shares to be appropri
217    ated for or invested from the same and the divds interest and income of the same
218    upon trust for the child grandchild or other issue of all or any one or more
219    of the Children grandchildren or other issue of my sd son George Blake to be
220    born in his lifetime in such manner and form as if more than one in such shares
221    and proportions and for such terms with such limitations over or substitutions in
222    favor of any one or more of the others of the sd children grandchildren and issue
223    resply and either by way of legacy portion present or remote interest or other
224    wise and to vest and be paid transferred or assignd at such age day or time ages
225    days or times and upon such contingencies and under and subject to such direc
226    tions and regulations for maintenance education and advancement and such con
227    ditions and restrictions as my sd son George Blake from time to time by any
228    deed or deeds writing or writings with or without power of revocation and new
229    appointment such new appointment to be in favor of the objects of this pre
230    sent provision to be sealed and delivered by him in the presence of and to be attested
231    by 2 or more credible witnesses or by his last will and Testament or by any
232    writing purporting to be in the nature of his last Will and Testament or
233    any Codicil or Codicils thereto to be resply signed by him in the presence of
234    and attested by the like number of credible witnesses shall direct or appoint and in
235    default of and subject to every or any such direction or appointment than the sd
236    trustee or trustees shall stand possessed of the trust monies stocks funds secure
237    ties and shares and the dividends interest and income thereof upon trust for the Child
238    if only one or all the children if more than one of my sd son Geo Blake who
239    being a son or sons shall attain the age of 21 years or die under that age
240    leaving surviving issue or who being a daughter of daughters shall
241    attain that age or be previously married and equally among such children if
242    more than one and his her or their exors admors or assigns but in case my
243    sd son George Blake shall not have any child who being a son shall
244    attain the age of 21 years or die under that age leaving surviving issue
245    or who being a daughter shall attain that age or be previously married
246    Than the sd trustee or trustees shall stand possessed of the sd last mentioned
247    trust monies securities and shares and the dividends interest and income thereof
248    upon trust for such person or persons for such intents and purposes and in
249    such manner and form as the sd George Blake either before or after such fail
250    ure of issue or by any deed or deed instrument or instruments in writing
251    to be sealed and delivered by him in the presence of and attested by 2 or more
252    credible witnesses or by his last Will and Testament or any writing in the na
253    ture of or purporting to be his last Will and Testament or any Codicil or Codi
254    cils thereto to be resply signed by him in the presence of and to be attested by 2
255    or more credible witnesses shall direct and appoint and in default of and
256    subject to such direction or appoint as last afsd the sd £5000 or the stocks
257    funds securities and shares which may be appropriated for or invested from
258    the same and the interest dividends and income thereof or so much thereof as may
259    not be so appointed as afsd shall fall into and form part of my residuary
260    and personal estate and go as the same is hereinafter disposed of And
261    upon further trust that the said trustee and trustees of this my Will do also
262    retain lay out appropriate or invest in like manner the sum of £5000 ster
263    ling or such stocks funds securities and shares as hereinbefore referred to for
264    the benefit of each of my sons James Blake William Blake and Matthew
265    Blake and his or their family or families and so that each of my 3 last named
266    sons may have a similar life interest in and the like power of appoint
267    ment to or in favor of his child children grandchildren and other issue of and
268    concerning £5000 sterling or such stocks funds securities and shares to be so
269    appropriated for or invested from the same and that in default of and subject to
270    such appointment the same may go to his respective child or children and in
271    case he resply have not have any child who being a son shall attain
272    the age of 21 years or who being a daughter shall attain that age and be pre
273    viously married then he resply may have the like power of appoint
274    ment of and concerning such £5000 resply or the stocks funds securities and shares
275    to be appropriate for or invested from the same and that in default of such ap
276    pointment the same or the unappointed portion thereof may fall into and
277    go as part of my residuary personal Estate as hereinbefore declared concern
278    ing the first mentioned £5000 or the stocks funds and securities to be ap
279    priated for or invested from the same and the dividends interest and income
280    thereof for the benefit of my sd son Geo Blake and his family Provided always
281    and my Will is that is shall be lawful for each of my sd sons George
282    Blake James Blake Wm Blake and Mattw Blake by any deed or writing
283    whether testamentary or otherwise to be executed by him in the presence of
284    and attested by two or more credible witnesses and notwithstanding his life inter
285    est may have determined in his lifetime by any such means as afsd to
286    appoint all or any of the dividends interest and income of the £5000
287    or the stocks funds securities and shares wherein he respectively is or was to
288    have a life interest unto or for the benefit of any Wife whom he may
289    then having living or with whom he may thereafter intermarry for her
290    life to take effect from and after his respective decrease or such determina
291    tion of his respective life interest and so that in case such appointment shall
292    take effect in possession during the lifetime of my son so resply appointing
293    in consequence of his life interest having determined by any such
294    means as afsd the sd dividends interest and income so to be appointed
295    shall during the joint lives of such son and his sd wife be for her sole and se
296    parate use apart from him and free from his control debts forfeiture or en
297    gagements as if she were a feme sole but so that she shall not have
298    any power of charging incumbering or anticipating the same And I
299    further declared concerning the sd sum of £5000 or the stocks funds securities
300    or shares of that amount or value for the benefit of my sd daughter
301    Margt Brown and her husband and family or from the execution of the
302    trusts hereinbefore declared concerning the Sum of £5000 or stocks in
303    funds securities or shares of that amount or value for the benefit of
304    each any or either of my sd sons Geo Blake James Blake and Wm Blake
305    and his respective family that in every or any such case it shall be lawful
306    for the said trustee or trustees to pay or transfer such respective fund unto
307    any 3 trustees to be appointed by my sd trustee or trustees and to be
308    approved by my sd respective daughter or son if living and to have at the
309    expence of the resp[ect]ive trust fund a deed of Settlement of the same executed
310    conformable to the provisions of this my Will and that subsequently there
311    to the trustee or trustees for the time being of this my Will shall be entirely
312    absolved from any responsibility concerning such respective settled fund
313    And I further declare that the trustee or trustees for the time being of this
314    my Will may in such respective settlement consent to the introduction
315    of such clauses for the investment of the respective settled funds in
316    Government or real securities or such stocks funds securities and shares as here
317    tobefore referred to and for varying and transforming the same and to such pro
318    visions for the advancement maintenance and education of the child
319    or children of my said daughter or such respective Son of and from the
329    fund to be so settled and the dividends interest and income thereof and such
321    powers of appointment of new trustees and clauses or Indemnity to persons
322    dealing with the trust funds and to the trustee or trustees thereof as the sd trustee
323    or trustees for the time being of this my Will shall think fit and my Will
324    further is that subject to the trusts and purposes afsd all my real and personal
325    Estate and the produce of the same shall go to and be equally divided among
326    my sd sons George Blake James Blake William Blake and Matthew
327    Blake and their respective heirs exors admors and assigns but that in case my
328    sd son Matthew Blake shall be under the age of 21 years his share
329    shall go to my said sons George Blake James Blake and William Blake
330    equally amongst them provided also and my will is that in the meantime
331    and until my sd son Matthew Blake shall attain the age of 25 years or shall
332    previously die (and when the division of my property is hereinbef directed to
333    take place as afsd) the yearly sum of £200 shall out of the produce of
334    my general residuary estate be paid unto my said son William provided
335    he so long live and by equal quarterly portions on the 25th day of March
336    the 24th day of June the 29th day of September and the 24th day of December
337    in every year the first quarterly portion to be paid on such of the sd days
338    as shall next happy after my death provided my said son William so
339    long outlive me but no proportionate part of the said £200 to be paid
340    in respect of any current quarter of a year during which my sad son
341    Matthew shall attain the age of 25 years or shall previously die or my
342    sd son William shall have died And I further direct that the sd trus
343    tee or trustees for the time being do until my sd son Matthew shall
344    attain the age of 25 years or shall previously die pay unto him or apply
345    for his benefit whilst a minor the yearly sum of £100 by such payments
346    and at such times as the sd trustee or trustees shall think fit And I further
347    declare that the trustee or trustees for the time being of this my will may
348    in his or their discretion advance into or for the benefit of my Son
349    Matthew an amount of and to be deducted from his ultimate share of
350    the residue of my estate any sum or sums of money not exceeding alto
351    gether £2000, sterling and so that he may be established in any trade trus
352    tees may deem advisable And my will is that the sd trustee or trustees do
353    permit my said sons Geo Blake and James Blake who now hold as yearly
354    tenants my Soapery and premises at L[iver]pool and the survivor of them to con
355    tinue to occupy the same at the same rent which they now pay for the
356    same until my sd trustee or trustees shall think fit for or dispose of the
357    same And I further declare that my sd sons George Blake and James Blake
358    or the survivor of them upon the sale of the said Soapery shall have
359    the option of purchasing the same at the like price as any other person
360    or persons may bona fide be willing to give for the same but that to
361    prevent any difficulty in my trustee or trustees selling the same this
362    not having available evidence that such option has been given or
363    been declined or omitted to be accepted the declaration in writing many
364    such respect of my sd trustee or trustees shall be a full protection to any
365    purchaser or purchasers And inasmuch as I have on behalf of my
366    sd sons George Blake and James Blake given a guarantee or guar
367    antes to the Company of Proprietors of the Bank of Liverpool by
368    means whereof my said sons are enabled to draw or have advances
369    to the extent of £9000 my Will is that altho such guarantee might
370    determine upon or subsequently to my decease the same if the trustee
371    or trustees for the time being of this my Will so think fit to declare in
372    writing shall continue for such further period or periods as he or they
373    from time to time shall think proper and in such case I declare that the
374    guarantee so to be continued shall have the same force and efficacy
375    upon and against my Estate assets as if the same had originally been
376    given by me up to the end of such period or periods and I further
377    declare that the sd trustee or trustees if he or they think fit may make
378    any similar guarantee in substitution for such first mentioned
379    guarantee in favor of my sd sons to an extent not exceeding £9000
380    with the same Bank or any other Banking firm or Establishment
381    or any Merchant or Capitalist and that the sd trustee or trustees may if
382    he or they so think fit declare that he or they will hold the ultimate
383    shares of my sd sons George Blake and James Blake in my residu
384    ary Est[at]e subject to the lien of any such guarantee and my will is that in
385    case my Estate or assets have to pay bear or sustain any sum of money
386    loss or expense by reason or in consequence of such guarantee as I
387    may have already made or hereafter may make in favor of my said
388    sons George Blake and James Blake or by reason or in consequence of
389    any such guarantee being so continued or affected in their favor after
390    my decease then the same shall be made good and be deducted from and out
391    of their respective ultimate shares in the residue of my estate or if such
392    shares would not be sufficient to meet or discharge the deficit then from and out of
393    the sd respective sums of £5000 or the stocks funds securities and shares of
q    such respective amount of value hereinbefore directed to be appropria
395    ted or holden for the benefit of them respectively and their respective families
396    and I declare that the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my
397    Will may for the purposes of the distribution and division of my Estate
398    and effects hereinbefore directed or (or any other purpose previously thereto or
399    in case it shall appear eligible to him or them and in his or their full andun
400    fettered discretion sell dispose of and convert into money all or any part of
401    my real and personal Estate when and as he or they from time to time shall
402    think fit and also that he and they may cause or let all or any portion
403    of my freehold and leasehold property for such term or terms and at such rent
404    or rents and either with or without taking a premium for any such renting
405    or letting (the monies to be waived for such premium or premiums
406    forming part of my personal Estate as he or they make think proper and
407    also that he and they when and as they shall think fit may renew the
408    lease or leases of my leasehold Estates for such term or terms and pay such
409    fine or fines and make sure Surrender or Surrenders as he or they may
410    think proper for any such purpose and may raise and pay such fines and the
411    expences of such removal from and out of the produce of my said Estates and
412    he or they may repair and insure against damage from fire all or such
413    portion of my freehold and leasehold Estates as he or they may judge pro
414    per And I authorize him or them to retain so long as he or they may
415    judge convenient and to sell and dispose of what he and they may think fit all
416    my shares and stock in the London and North Western Railway or in any
417    other Railway which may belong to me at my decease and all my shares
418    in the Commercial Bank of Liverpool or in any other Establishment en
419    terprise or undertaking and also to pay all calls which may be requisite in
420    respect of any shares which may form part of my personal Estate and also
421    to pay all instalments and calls on any new shares that may be appropri
422    ated in respect of any shares which may form part of my personal Estate
423    or any stock which may be issued or received in respect or or on account
424    of such shares in case my said trustee or trustees shall not think fit to sell
425    and dispose of the same And I authorize and empower the trustee or trustees
426    for the time being of this my Will to lay out and invest the produce of the
427    sale collection or reversion of my real and personal Estate from time
428    to time and also the accumulations of income hereinbefore directed to be
429    made until my said youngest Son Matthew Blake shall attain the
430    age of 25 years or shall previously die at interest in the name or names
431    of the sd trustee or trustees in or upon some of the Government or parli
432    amentary stocks or funds of Great Britain now Bonds of the Corporat[io]n
433    of Liverpool or Bonds of The Trustees of The Liverpool Docks or Freehold
434    leasehold or copyhold securities such leasehold being holden of or under
435    the Corporation of Liverpool and having at least 60 years to run or in
436    the purchase of or upon the security of shares stocks debentures or
437    securities of any Company Society or undertaking which may be in
438    corporated by Act of parliament and may be paying a dividend and from
439    time to time to sell or dispose of such stocks funds securities and shares
440    or any of them and invest the produce of the same in or upon or vary and
441    transpose all or any of such stocks funds securities and shares into funds of the
442    like nature as the sd trustee and trustees for the time being may think proper
443    and my Will is inasmuch as the said trustee or trustees may in the ad
444    ministration or management of my Estate find it convenient from time to
445    time to sell and dispose of portions of my freehold Estate that for preventing
446    any questions between the representatives of my sd sons all my freehold
447    Estate shall as between such representatives be considered person
448    Estate altho any Sale thereof may not take place either previously to or for
449    the purposes of the distribution afsd my intention not being to convert
450    such freehold out and out but only to give power to sell the same And my
451    will further is that it shall be lawful for the sd trustee or trustees for the
452    time being of this my will as to the respective funds hereinbefore design
453    ed for the benefit of my sd 5 Children resply and their respective families
454    which may not be settled by distinct Settlement as hereinbefore author
455    ised from and after the death of my sd respective children or the determina
456    tion of their respective life interests (but as to the funds designed for my
457    daughter subject to the annuity for her husband during its continuance
458    and as to the fund designed for each of my Sons subject to any owner
459    ship to be appointed to his respective wife to apply the interest divide
460    nds and annual income of the than vested or presumptive share of each
461    of the children resply of my sd respective children of and in the sd respect
462    tive trust monies stocks funds and securities in or towards the mainten
463    ance education and advancement of such my Grandchild or Grandchil
464    dren and also in or towards his or her schooling pocket money and clothing
465    And further that so much of the interest dividends and annual in
466    come arising from the portion or share of each of the same Grandchil
467    dren resply as shall not be applied for his or her maintenance educati
468    on and advancement shall from time to time be added to the principal mo
469    nies of the same portion or share and improved at interest together with
470    the same and as part thereof by way or in the nature of compound
471    interest and follow and be subject to all the terms and dispositions herein
472    expressed declare and ccontained or and concerning the principal of the same
473    portion or share until the same principal monies or the securities on
474    which the same shall be invested shall become payable or is or
475    are hereby directed to be paid assigned and transferred and further
476    that it shall be lawful for the sd trustee or trustees for the time being
477    of this my Will at anytime after the death of my said Children resply
478    or the determination of the respective life interest of my sd sons in
479    such funds resply but as subject as afsd or in the lifetime of my sd
480    children resply with their respective written consent and also as to my
481    daughters share in the funds with the written consent of the sd
482    Henry Torrens Brown Surg the continuance of his annuy and as
483    to the fund respectively designed for each of my sosn with the written
484    consent of my Wife to whom he may have made any appointment
485    as aforesaid to advance to and for each or any of the children of my said
486    respective Children any part not exceeding one half of the expectant
487    part or share of such Grandchild resply of and in the sd trust monies
488    stocks funds and securities for the advancement and preferment in the world
489    of the same Grandchild and that the money to be so advanced to and for
490    each of the same Grandchild[re]n shall be deducted taken and allowed out of
491    his and her share of the sd trust monies stocks funds and securities not
492    withstanding his or her death before the same share shall become
493    absolutely vested in him or her And I do hereby authorise and empower
494    my  sd exoors and trustees and the survivors and survivor of them and other the
495    trustee or trustees for the time being of my sd will to settle and adjust
496    all accounts which shall or may be open or expecting between me or my
497    estate and any person or persons or the estate of any person or persons and to re
498    ceive and pay the balance or balances which shall appear to be due and owing
499    to or from me or my estate and also if the sd Exors or the successor or successors of
500    them or the sd trustee or trustees shall so think fit to compound for any debt or
501    debts which may be due to me or to my estate and to accept and take such composi
502    tion for the same as they or he shall think advisable and on receipt of all
503    debts due and owing to me or my estate or any such composition for the same
504    as afsd to give such releases and discharges for the same as shall be proper
505    and also to submit any such accounts or debts as afsd to arbitration and to re
506    lease compound for or otherwise act in relation to the same as the arbi
507    trator or arbitrators shall arward and generally to manage and get in my sd
508    debts and all my testamentary estate and effects in such manner as they my
509    sd Executors or the survivors or survivor of them or the trustee or trus
510    tees for the time being of this my Will shall think most for the advantage
511    of the parties beneficially interested therein under the gifts and trusts herein
512    before contained provided always and my Will further is that the person
513    or persons whom it may concern to pay any money on the sale colec
514    tion or reversion of several or personal Estate or who have or hath or from time
515    to time shall or may have all or any part of my personal or testamenta
516    ry estate or any monies subject to this my Will in his her or their hands
517    or upon securities given or to be given by him her or them or whom it
518    may concern to pay any other monies forming part of my Estate resply
519    shall not be obliged or required to see to the application of disposition of
520    the same purchase trust or other money or any part thereof or the inter
521    est dividends and annual income thereof or of any part thereof after pay
522    ment of the same to the person or persons who for the time being shall
523    be the acting trustee or trustees under this my Will or be answerable or
524    accountable for the misapplication or nonapplication of the same mo
525    ney or any part thereof by him or them and that every receipt which
526    shall be given for the sd purchase trust or other monies or any part
527    thereof or the interest dividends and income of the same or any part
528    thereof by the person or persons who for the time being shall be the acting
529    trustee or trustees under this my Will shall be a good effectual and sufficient
530    acquittance and discharge for every sum therein acknowledged to be recei
531    ved provided also and my Will further is that in case each any or either of
532    them the sd John Stewart Duncan Gibb and Wm Blake or any trustee or
533    trustees to be appointed under this present provision or to come or succeed
534    their or either of their place shall die or be desirous of being discharged
535    of and from the afsd trusts or shall go or be about to go to reside beyond
536    Seas or shall neglect or refuse or become incapable to act in the sd trusts
537    before the sd trusts shall be fully executed and performed then and in that case
538    and as soon and as often as the same shall happen it shall be lawful for
539    my sd 4 sons or the survivors or survivor of them or the exor or admor
540    of the survivor of them or in case of his her or their default for 1 cal
541    endar month after being thereunto requested by the acting trustee or trus
542    tees for the time being or the last acting trustee under this my Will or
543    the exor or admor of such last acting trustee or in case there be not any
544    exor or admor of the survivor of my sd 4 sons then for the acting trustee
545    or trustees for the time being or the last acting trustee his exors or admors
546    to nominate any fit person or persons to supply the place of the trustee
547    or trustees respectively so dying desiring to be discharged or going or being
548    about to go to reside beyond Seas or refusing or neglecting or becoming
549    incapable to act as afsd and that immediately after every such appointment
550    the trust estate monies and efforts which under and by virtue of this my Will
551    shall be or have been vested in the tr[ust]ee or tr[ust]ees so dying desiring to be
552    discharged or going or being about to go to reside beyond Seas or refu
553    sing neglecting or become incapable to act as aforesaid and shall then
554    be subject to the trusts of this my Will shall be conveyed assigned and
555    transferred so and in such manner that the same may vest in such
556    in such new trustee or trustees solely or jointly with the surviving or con
557    tinuing trustee or trustees and in his her or their heirs exors admors and
558    assigns upon the trusts hereinbefore expressed and declared of and concerning
559    the same and that every such new trustee either before or after such convey
560    ance assignment or transfer shall be made or executed shall have and may
561    exercise the same powers privileges and authorities of approbation con
562    tent discretion and of giving effectual receipts maintenance advancement
563    and education and all other powers and authorities whats[oeve]r as if he had been
564    appointed a trustee by this my Will provided also and I further declare
565    that the sd several trustees and the trustees to be appointed by virtue of
566    the provision last hereinbefore contained respectively and their respective
567    heirs exors admors and assigns severally shall be charged and chargeable
568    only for such monies as they respectively shall actually receive by vir
569    tue of the trusts hereby created And notwithstand[in]g his or their or any of
570    their giving or signing or joining in giving or signing any receipt or
571    receipts for the sake of conformity and that any one or more of them
572    shall not be answerable or accountable for the other or others of them
573    or any or either of them for the acts receipts neglects or defaults of the other
574    or others of them but each of them only for his own respective acts re
575    ceipts neglects or defaults And that they or any of them shall not be
576    answerable or accountable for any Bank or Broker or other person within
577    whom or in whose hands any part of the sd trust monies shall or may
578    be deposited or lodged for safe custody or otherwise in the execution of
579    the trust hereinbefore contained and that they or any of them shall
580    not be answerable or accountable for the rise or fall in the price or val
581    ue of stocks or the insufficiency or deficiency in title or value of any secur
582    ity or securities stocks or funds in or upon which the sd trust monies or
583    any part thereof shall be placed out or invested nor for any other misfor
584    tune loss or damage which may happen in the execution of the aforesaid
585    trusts or in relacing thereto except the same shall happen by or through
586    his or their own wilful default resply and then and in the case each person
587    resply shall alone be answerable for such loss or damage as shall
588    arise from his or her own default and also that it shall be lawful for the sd
589    trustees herein named and such future trustees or trustees to be appoint
590    ed as aforesaid and every or any of them their and every of their heirs exors
591    admors and assigns by and out of the monies which shall come to their res
592    pective hands by virtue of the trusts afsd to deduct retain and reimburse
593    and for himself and themselves resply and also to allow to his and their Cotrustee all
594    costs charges damages expences and fees to counsel for advice which they
595    or any of them shall of may suffer sustain expend disburse lay out be
596    at or be put into in or about the execution of the afsd trust or in exec
597    ution thereunto and also that it shall be lawful for the sd trustee or
598    trustees for the time being in his her or their discretion to settle adjust
599    and allow the accounts of any trustee or trustees who shall die or be de
600    sirous of being discharged of and from the afsd trusts or who shall go or
601    be about to go to reside beyond Seas or shall neglect or refuse or become
602    incapable to act in the sd trusts and in whose place or stead a new trustee
603    or trustees shall be appointed as afsd and also to receive and give dischar
604    ges for the money which shall appear to be the balance of the same
605    accounts without any responsibility in the person or persons paying
606    the same money to see the application thereof or be answerable or
607    accountable for the misapplication or nonapplication of the same And
608    I hereby revoke every other will or testamentary disposition and declare
609    that this writing contains the whole of my last Will and Testament
610    In witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament
611    written on forty seven sheets of paper set my hand the twenty third day
612    of December one thousand eight hundred and forty six Geo Blake
613    Signed and declared by the said George Blake the Testator as and for
614    his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same
615    time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other
616    have subscribed our names as witnesses hereto John Eden Solicitor
617    Liverpool Mary Leather
618    In the Consistory Court of Chester
619    In the Goods of George Blake deceased
620    The 21st day of January 1847
621    Appeared Personally John Eden of Liverpool
622    in the County of Lancaster Gentleman and Mary Leather of Toxteth
623    Park Spinster and being sworn upon the holy Gospels made oath as
624    follows and first the deponent John Eden for himself saith that he is one
625    of the subscribed witnesses to the last Will and Testament of George Blake
626    late of Toxteth Park near Liverpool Gentleman deceased bearing date the
627    twenty third day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty six
628    and hereto annexed that he was present on the said twenty third day of
629    December one thousand eight hundred and forty six and saw the said
630    George Blake duly execute the same as and for his last Will and Testa
631    ment by signing his name “Geo: Blake” at the foot or and thereof as it now
632    appears in the joint presence of this deponent and the said Mary Leather
633    the other subscribed Witness and this deponent and the said Mary Leather
634    did then in the presence of the said George Blake and of each other at the
635    same time act and subscribe their names as witnesses to the due execution
636    of the said Will as they now appear And this deponent the said
637    John Eden for himself further saith that with reference to the different al
638    terations obliterations interlineations and erasures appearing in the
639    said Will that the same was originally intended only as the draft of a
640    Will of the deceased and was prepared by this deponent as the Solicitor of
641    the deceased and executed by him the said deceased in manner aforesaid as
642    his will in consequence of his very advanced age and sinking state of
643    health and the possibility of his death before the same could be regularly
644    engressed for his execution and this deponent further saith that the said
645    George Blake actually did die without executing any Jugeossment or fair
646    or other Copy of his said Will whereby the said draft became his only last
647    Will and Testament And this deponent further saith that the several
648    alterations interlineations and erasures appearing in the said Will as
649    hereinafter mentioned that is to say The words “and premises” interlined the
650    word “named” struck through and the word “made” interlined also the
651    words “County of Gloucester” and the word “by” interlined in the first page
652    thereof The word “described” struck through and the word “directed” interlin
653    ed The words “2 Carriage and horses” struck through and the words “and
654    also my Carriage and horses with heir harness and stock of hay and corn” inter
655    lined and the words “equal” interlined and the words “On the     day
656    of   the    day  of       the        day of
657    and the      day of       in every” struck through and
658    the words “in every” interlined in the second page thereof The words “on
659    such of the sd days as shall happen” struck through and the words “at the end
660    of three months” interlined the word “no” struck through and the letter “a”
661    interlined the words “I also give unto him whatever balance may be found
662    to the debit of his account in my books at my decease” struck through also the words “possibly” struck through and
663    the word “conveniently” interlined in the third page thereof The word “that”
664    struck through and the word”shall” interlined the word “should” struck
665    through the word “described” struck through and the word “directed”
666    interlined the figures “£4000” struck through and the figures “£5000” interlined
667    the figures “£4000” struck through and the figures “£5000” interlined the
668    words “these presents” struck through and the words “the said fund inserted
669    in the sixth page thereof The figures “£4000” struck through and the figures
670    “£5000” interlined the word “so” interlined the figures “£4000” struck through
671    and the figures “£5000” interlined in the seventh page thereof The word and “for
672    such intents” struck through in the eighth page thereof the word “resting”
673    struck through and the word “acting” interlined the word “whereby”
674    struck through and the words “in Bankruptcy” interlined in the ninth
675    page thereof The word “continued” struck through and the word “continuance”
676    interlined in the tenth page thereof The words “or more” struck through in
677    the eleventh page thereof the words “more than” struck through in the
678    twelfth page thereof the words “the sd trustee or trustees shall stand possess
679    ed of” struck through The words “upon trust for such person or persons
680    for such intents and purposes and in such manner and form as the sd Margaret
681    Brown as well when cover as sole and notwithstanding her coverture by the
682    sd Hy Torrens Brown or any other husband and either before or after such
683    failure of the issue as afsd by her last Will and Testament or any writing in
684    the nature of or purporting to be her last Will and Testament or any Codi
685    cil or Codicils thereto to be resply signed by her” struck through on the thir
686    tenth page thereof The words “in the presence of and attested by 2 or more
687    credible witnesses shall direct and appoint and in default of and subject to such direc
688    tion or appointment as last aforesaid then the said £4000 £5000 or the
689    stocks funds securities and shares which may be appropriated for or invest
690    ed in the same and the dividends interest and income thereof or so much of the
691    same as may not be so appointed as afsd shall but subject to the said an
692    nuity of  during its continuance” struck through the words “shall” inter
693    lined also the word “all” struck through and the word “or” interlined in the
694    fourteenth page thereof The words “as afsd” struck through and the words “or
695    upwards” interlined in the sixteenth page thereof The word “in” struck
696    through in the seventeenth page thereof The words “more than” struck through
697    and the word “only” interlined also the word “surviving” interlined in the
698    nineteenth page thereof The word “interest” struck through in the twentieth
699    page thereof The words “and in” struck through the word “such” struck thro
700    and the word “each” interlined in the twenty second page thereof The word
701    “has” struck through and the word” was” interlined in the twenty third
702    page thereof The figures “£4000” struck through and the figures “£5000”
703    interlined in the twenty fourth page thereof The word “William” struck
704    through in the twenty sixth page thereof The word “first” interlined in the
705    twenty seventh page thereof The words “and James Blake” and the words”
706    premises” interlined in the twenty eighth page thereof The words “or
707    Guarantees” interlined and the words “at Liverpool” struck through in the
708    twenty ninth page thereof the word “effects” struck through and the
709    word “assets” interlined the words “in substitution for such first mentioned
710    Guarantee” interlined the word “attest” struck through and the word
711    “extent” interlined in the thirtieth page thereof the word “estates” struck
712    through and the word “shares” interlined also the word “shall” struck
713    through in the thirty first page thereof the words “or” and “on” interlined
714    the word “dock” struck through the word “the” interlined the word “docks”
715    interlined the word “or” struck through and the word “and” interlined the
716    words “in the purchase of or and from” also interlined in the thirty fourth
717    page thereof The word “on” being struck through and the word “or” inter
718    lined the words “desiring it continued” struck through and the words “dur
719    ing its continuance” interlined in the thirty sixth page thereof The words
720    “ of his annut part or” interlined and “ten”  part of the word Grandchildren
721    struck through in the thirty eighth page thereof The word “or” interlined
722    in the thirty ninth page thereof The words “to be” struck
723    through and the words “or the” interlined in the fortieth page thereof
724    The word “contrary” struck through in the forty first page thereof the word
725    “so” interlined in the forty third page thereof The word “neglects” interlined
726    in the forty fourth page thereof The word “wilful” interlined in the forty fifth
727    page thereof and the words “and every sheet of” struck through in the forty
728    seventh and last page thereof were all made obliterated written interlin
729    ed struck through and erased as they now appear in the course of drawing
730    out the said draft and reading the same over to the said Testator or by his
731    direction and previous to the execution of the same by the said Testator as
732    his Will in manner aforesaid and the said Will is now in the same state
733    as when executed by him as aforesaid And this deponent Mary Leather be
734    herself saith that being merely called up to see the said George Blake
735    sign the said Will and to attest his signature and her attention not being
736     at all directed to the said alterations she is entirely unable to depose to
737    them not having noticed the state of the said Will when executed as afore
738    said but she saith that the said Will was executed by the said George
739    Blake and attested by this deponent and the said John Eden in the
740    manner to which he hath deposed in all respects John Eden
741    Mary Leather Signed and sworn at Liverpool aforesaid by the
742    said deponents John Eden and Mary Leather the twenty first day of
743    January one thousand eight hundred and forty seven Before med
744    Thomas Nolan Surrogate
745    In the Consistory Court of Chester
746    In the Goods of George Blake deceased
747    The 20th day of January 1847
748    Appeared Personally John Eden of Liverpool in the
749    County of Lancaster Gentleman one of the subscribed Witnesses to the
750    last Will and Testament of George Blake late of Toxteth Park near
751    Liverpool in the County of Lancaster Gentleman deceased bearing date
752    the twenty third day of December 1846 and now remaining in the public
753    Episcopal Registry of Chester and being sworn upon the holy Gospels
754    made oath that he was employed by the said George Blake to prepare
755    the said Will as his Solicitor and that the same was written as it now
756    appears previous to its execution on forty eight sheets of draft paper
757    which have been number as 47 only in consequence of the mistake of
758    this deponents Clerk who numbered the two sheets following the first
759    with the number “2” as they now appear and that the said sheets
760    numbered respectively “2” formed a part of the said Will when executed
761    by the said Testator George Blake no alteration addition or substitution
762    being made of or to any of the sheets forming the said Will when executed
763    but two having been numbered alike soley through the inadventence
764     of this deponent’s Clerk as aforesaid John Eden Signed and him
765    sworn at Liverpool aforesaid the day and year aforesaid Before me
766    M W Falloon Surrogate
767    Proved at Chester in Common form of Law on the 30th day of
768    January 1847 by John Stewart Duncan Gibb and the Reverend
769    William Blake the Executors therein named the right of every
770    person being saved and time allowed to exhibit all Inventory
771    H Kaikes Registrar
772    Proved at London 17th Feb 1847 before the Judge by the oaths of
773    John Stewart Duncan Gibb and the Reverend William Blake Clerk
774    the son the Executors to whom Admon was granted having been first
775    sworn by Comon duly to administer