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1847 Will of Thomas Ricketts
Glover
This is the last Will and Testament
of me
Thomas Ricketts
of Yeovil in the County of Somerset
Glover First I
give devise and
bequeath unto my
Wife Ann
Ricketts all
that cottage or
dwelling house
situate in Huish
in Yeovil
aforesaid now in
my occupation
together with
the garden and
other premises
belonging
thereto for her
natural life and
also the use of
all the
furniture that
may be therein
at the time of
my decease the
furniture
mentioned in the
Inventory
hereunto annexed
is to belong to
my said Wife
absolutely and
after the
decease of my
said wife I
direct the said
house and
premises to be
sold by my
Executrix and
Executor
hereinafter
mentioned and
the money
arising
therefrom to be
equally divided
between my
children George
Ricketts Edmund
Ricketts David
Ricketts Maria
Bicknell Wife of
James Bicknell
of the United
States of
America and
Harriett Cupper
Wife of John
Cupper of Yeovil
aforesaid Glover
subject to the
payment thereout
of the sum of
fifty pounds to
my granddaughter
Eliza Sherring
late of Yeovil
now residing in
the City of
London and also
subject to the
payment of the
expences
attending the
Burial of my
said Wife in a
decent and
respectable
manner I also
give devise and
bequeath all
those
dwellinghouses
belonging to me
situate in Park
Street and South
Street in Yeovil
aforesaid and
now in the
occupation of
Samuel Young and
others to be
sold twelve
months after my
decease the
rents and
profits arising
thereof in the
meantime to be
received by my
said Wife for
her own ole use
and benefit and
the money
arising from
such sale to be
equally divided
between my said
children and it
is my express
will and
direction that
the shares of
such money
belonging to my
children David
Ricketts
Jonathan
Ricketts and
Maria Bicknell
shall
immediately on
its being
received by
placed by my
Executrix and
Executor in
Stuckeys Banking
Company at
Yeovil aforesaid
in the
respective names
and to the
Credit of my
said three
children I give
devise and
bequeath all my
Carpenter Tools
whatever to my
grandson Thomas
Ricketts Son of
Edmund Ricketts
and I hereby
declare that all
debts that may
be coming to me
at my decease
are to be
received by my
said Wife and
she is to
discharge all
the expences of
my burial and
any lawful debts
that I may owe
And lastly I
hereby nominate
constitute and
appoint my
Brother George
Ricketts of
Yeovil Marsh in
the said County
of Somerset
Farmer if he
shall be living
at the tie of my
decease
Executor of this
my said Will
together with my
Wife and my Son
George Ricketts
whom I hereby
appoint
Executrix and
Executor
of my said Will In Witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal
this twenty
fourth day of
January in the
year one
thousand eight
hundred and
forty five
Thomas Ricketts
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Thomas Ricketts as and for
his lat Will and
Testament in the
presence of us
who have
hereunto set our
nbames as
Witnesses
thereto in his
presence and in
the presence of
each other the
words "the
furniture
mentioned in the
Inventory
hereunto annexed
is to belong to
my said Wife
absolutely"
having been
first interlined
John Ricketts
H A
Warren
Yeovil
In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
In the Goods of
Thomas Ricketts deceased
Appeared Personally
John Ricketts
of Yeovil Marsh in the Parish of
Yeovil in the
County of
Somerset Leather
Dresser and
Ann Ricketts of Yeovil in the County of Somerset Widow and made Oath as follows and
first the said
John Ricketts
for himself
saith that he is
one of the
subscribed
Witnesses to the
last Will and
Testament of
Thomas Ricketts
late of Yeovil
aforesaid Glover
deceased the
same being now
hereunto annexed
bearing date the
twenty fourth
day of January
one thousand
eight hundred
and forty five
and referring to
the following
clause in the
said Will "The
furniture
mentioned in the
Inventory
hereunto annexed
is to belong to
my said Wife
absolutely" he
deposes and says
he very well
recollects being
present at and
attesting the
execution of the
said Will by the
said deceased
but that no
paper of the
nature referred
to or any other
paper whatsoever
was then annexed
to the said Will
or produced at
the time to the
best of his
belief and the
said Ann
Ricketts for
herself saith
that she is the
Widow of the
said deceased
and one of the
Executors named
in the said Will
and that
immediately
after the said
Will was made
the said decease
delivered the
same to her for
safe custody and
that she then
deposited it in
a [word
illegible] where
it remained
until after the
death of her
said husband
when she
delivered the
same to George
Ricketts another
Executor thereof
appointed that
no other paper
whatsoever was
annexed thereto
at the time it
was so delivered
to her or
afterwards found
by her in the
deceaseds house
and that she has
made diligent
search in the
various
repositories
wherein the
deceased was in
the habit of
keeping his
papers of
importance but
that she has not
discovered any
Inventory or
document of the
purpose referred
to in the said
Will nor any
other paper of a
testamentary
nature whatever
and she believes
that the said
deceased
departed this
life without
having made any
such Inventory
as mentioned in
his said Will or
any document of
the kind
John Ricketts
Ann Ricketts
On the twenty first day of July 1847 the said John Ricketts and Ann Ricketts
Widow were duly
sworn to the
truth of this
Affidavit by
virtue of the
annexed
Commission
Before me
Thomas Hare Commissioner
Proved at London 24th July 1847 before the Judge by the Oath of George Ricketts the
Brother one of
the Executors to
whom
Administration
was granted
having been
first sworn by
Commission duly
to administer
Power reserved
of making the
like grant to
Ann Ricketts
Widow the Relict
and George
Ricketts the son
the other
Executors when
they shall apply
for the same
Transcribed by Bob Osborn
