1837 ANN BATEMAN OF
BITTON
Ref:
GLS 1837/234
Proved 1837 Written: 1832 Jul 11
Transcribed by Reg Harris
This is the last will and testament of me Ann BATEMAN of the parish of Bitton in the county of Gloucester widow.
I give and devise all that my messuage or dwelling house wherein I reside situate in the parish of Bitton aforesaid and also all that piece of garden ground thereunto adjoining and belonging containing by a recent admeasurement thirty five perches now and sometimes past in the occupation of my daughter Harriet BATEMAN as my tenant and heretofore part of the garden adjoining and belonging to the said messuage or dwelling house and lately separated and divided from the other part of such garden by a hedge or fence and bounded in the east and north east by the piece of garden ground uses herein after devised on the south west by a lane leading to a messuage or dwelling house belonging to Jane LEAR widow and the west by a garden in the occupation of and belonging to George REEVES labourer
and all my estate and interest whether in possession reversion or otherwise of and in the same messuage or dwelling house and piece of garden ground hereby devised respectively unto and to the use of William LOVELL of the parish of St George in the said county of Gloucester schoolmaster and his heirs during the life of my said daughter Harriet BATEMAN (subject nevertheless to and I do hereby expressly charge all the same hereditaments and premises with the payment of the sum of fifteen pounds sterling to my daughter Mary Ann the wife of the said George REEVES and also with the payment of the sum of fifteen pounds sterling to my son William BATEMAN their respective executors adminstrators and assigns and also of interest for both the same sums at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum to be computed and paid from and after the expiration of six calendar months next after my decease until the said principal sums shall be respectively discharged) In trust to permit her my said daughter Harriet to occupy the said premises during her life
but in case she shall not choose so to do then in trust to let the same or so much thereof as she may not choose to occupy and receive the rents thereof and therewith and thereout to cause the same to be kept in good and substantial repair and subject thereto and to the payment of the principal and interest monies as aforesaid in trust to pay such rents or so much thereof as shall remain undisposed of for those purposes into the proper hands of my said daughter Harriet during her life for her separate use exclusively of any husband with whom she may at any time intermarry but so as she may not anticipate such rents and her receipts whether covert or sole shall be the only effectual discharged for the same and after her decease
I give and devise the same hereditaments and premises (subject and charged with the payment of the said principal and interest as aforesaid or so much thereof respectively as shall not have been then paid and discharged) To the following uses (that is to say) to such uses as Charles BATEMAN the natural son of my said daughter Harriet now an infant of about four years shall by deed duly executed with or without power of revocation and new appointment of by his last will and testament or any writing purporting to be such or any codicil thereso to be by him respectively signed and published in the presence of and to be assessed by three or more ... witnesses direct or appoint give or devise the same and in default of any and subject to every such direction administration or appointment by deed as aforesaid to the use of the said Charles BATEMAN and his assigns for his life without impeachment of waste
and after his decease and in default of any and subject to such gift or devise to the use of all or every his children and child lawfully born and begotten as tenants in common and the heirs and assigns of such children respectively and if there be but one such child the whole and entirety to be to the use of such one child his or her heirs and assigns with cross remainders between the survivors and other of the same children there several and respective heirs and assigns as tenants in common in case of the death of either of such children under the age of twenty one years without leaving lawful issue living at his or her death both as to the original and accruing or surviving shares of the child so dying and in default or failure of such issue of the said Charles BATEMAN to the use of my said daughter Harriet her heirs and assigns for ever
And I give and devise all that piece of garden ground with the outhouse or shed erected and being thereon also containing by a recent admeasurement thereof thirty five perches now and for sometime past in the occupation of the said George REEVES as my tenant and heretofore likewise part of the said garden adjoining and heretofore belonging to the said messuage or dwelling house herein before devised and also lately separated and divided from the other part of such garden by a hedge or fence and bounded on the north east by the piece of garden ground ... hereinafter devised on the east by land belonging to and in the occupation of Aaron STONE victualler on the south west partly by the said piece of garden ground hereinbefore firstly devised and partly by the said land leading to the said messuage or dwelling house belong to the said Jane LEAR and on the west by a road or way leading from Kingswood Hill to Hanham and all my estate and interest whether in possession reversion or otherwise of and in the said ... devised piece of garden ground and hereditaments unto and to the uses of the said William LOVELL and his heirs during the life of my daughter Mary Ann wife of the said George REEVES in trust to permit to occupy the said lastly devised premises during her life
but in case she shall not choose so to do then in trust to let the same and receive the rents thereof and to pay such rents into the proper hands of my said daughter Mary Ann during her life for her separate exclusively of present or any future husband but so as she may not anticipate such rents and her receipts notwithstanding her present or any future ... shall be the only effectual discharges for the same and after her decease
I give and devise the said lastly mentioned hereditament and premises to ... use of all and every her children or child already or hereafter to be lawfully born and begotten equally to be divided between them if more than one as tenants in common and the heirs and assigns of such children respectively and if there shall be but one such child the whole and entirely to be to the use of the one child his or her heirs and assigns with cross remainders between the survivor and others of the same children their several and respective heirs and assigns as tenants in common in case of the death of either such children under the age of twenty one years without leaving lawful issue living at his or her death both as to the original and accruing or surviving shares of the child so dying and in default or failure of such issue to the use of my said daughter Mary Ann her heirs and assigns for ever
And I give and devise unto and the use of my son William BATEMAN his heirs and asssigns for ever all that piece of garden ground also containing by a recent admeasurement thereof thirty perches now and in sometime past in his occupation as my tenant and likewise heretofore part of the said garden adjoining and heresofore belonging to the messuage or dwelling house hereinbefore devised and as lately separated and divided from the other part of such garden by a hedge or fence and bounded on the south east by land belonging to and in the occupation of Daniel BRITTON coalminer on the east by land belonging to and in the occupation of the said Aaron STONE on the south west by the said piece of garden ground hereinbefore lastly devised and on the west by the said road or way leading from Kingswood Hill to Hanham aforesaid and all my estate and interest whether in possession reversal or otherwise of and in the said piece of garden ground now devised
and I give and bequeath unto the said George REEVES my grind stone and frame standing and being near to or adjoining the before mentioned outhouse or shed on the piece of garden ground hereinbefore secondly devised
and after and subject to the payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses I give and bequeath my household goods and furniture linen china glass and other ware together with my clothes and wearing apparel of every kind and description unto and between my said three children Mary Ann the wife of the said George REEVES, Harriet BATEMAN and William BATEMAN equally divided between them share and share alike
And I hereby authorise and empower the said William LOVELL his executors and administrators after the effective decease of the said Charles BATEMAN or any or either of the children of my said daughter Mary Ann to receive the rents of their or his or her presumtive shares or share of and in my said real estate to which they he or she would be entitled if adult and apply such rents for his her or their maintainance and education
And hereby further declare that the receipts in ... of the said William LOVELL his heirs executors or administrators for any kind of money payable to him or them by virtue of this my will shall be effectual discharges for all monies for such receipts shall be acknowledge to be received and that the said William Lovell his heirs executors and administrators shall not be responsible for more monies that he or they shall actually receive nor for involuntary losses which may happen thereto and that he or they may reimburse himself and themselves out of any monies which my be received by him and them by virtue of this my will all costs and expenses to be incurred by him or them in the execution of trusts or powers aforesaid and anywise in relation thereto
And lastly I appoint the said William LOVELL whole and sole executor in trust of this my will hereby revoking all former and other wills by me at any time heretobefore made and declaring this to be last. In witness whereof I the said Ann BATEMAN have to the first three sheets of this my last will and testament contained in four sheets of paper set my hand and to this the fourth and last sheet thereof my hand and seal this eleventh day of July in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
the mark X of Ann BATEMAN
witnesses: John Rocke HOYLE, George Edgell COLES, Chas KNAPP
Transcriber's Notes
This Ann was the widow of Solomon whose admin is dated 4.11.1818.
| CHILDREN | ||
| Mary Ann | 21.11.1784 | Bitton |
| Harriet | 7.6.1790 | Bitton |
| William | 9.2.1793 | Bitton |