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Will detail

Will of Ambrose Brooker of Hartfield

Date signed: 15 Jan 1842, Probate date: 28 Jan 1856

This is the last Will and Testament of me Ambrose Brooker of the parish of Hartfield in the County of Sussex farmer. I desire my executors hereinafter named to sell and convert into money the whole of my personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever the same may be or consist and to call receive and get in all such part and parts thereof as consist of monies or securities for money and pay apply and dispose of the same after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expences and the legacies given and bequeathed by this my Will in the manner and for the benefit of the several persons hereinafter mentioned and I particularly desire that my business as a farmer shall not be carried on by my executors any longer than may be absolutely necessary for them so to do but that the whole of my farming stock implements and effects may be disposed of with the utmost dispatch and the farm or farms that I hold or may hold at the time of my decease shall be surrendered and yielded up to the Landlord or Landlords of the same at the earliest period that the forms of law will admit. And as to the disposal of my personal estate after the same shall have been converted into money I give and bequeath the same as follows. One fourth part thereof unto my son John Brooker one other fourth part thereof unto my daughter Harriot the wife of John Fry for her use and benefit absolutely free from the debts or controul of her present or any future husband. One other fourth part thereof unto my son Ambrose Brooker. And as to the remaining fourth part thereof I desire that the same may be immediately laid out or invested in Government or real securities or security at interest in the names of my nephew Thomas Brooker of Dowlands Farm in the parish of Burstow in the County of Surrey and Thomas Brooker of Smallfield Place in the same parish farmers my executors hereinafter named upon the trusts and for the purposes hereinafter mentioned that is to say upon trust to pay the dividends interest or yearly produce thereof unto my daughter Elizabeth the wife of George Morphew for her own use and benefit absolutely for and during the term of her natural life free from the debts control or engagements of her present or any future husband and after her decease to divide and pay the principal or capital of the same share unto between and amongst all her children in equal shares and proportions. And I nominate constitute and appoint my said nephew Thomas Brooker and Thomas Brooker executors and trustees of this my Will. And I give and bequeath unto each of them the said Thomas Brooker and Thomas Brooker the sum of five pounds for a compensation for their loss of time and trouble incurred in or about the execution of this my Will. And I hereby direct that they my said trustees their heirs executors administrators and assigns shall not be charged or chargeable with or for any more of the said trust monies and premises than they shall respectively actually receive and that the one of them shall not be answerable for the other of them or for any Banker Broker or other person with whom or in whose hands any part of the said trust monies may be deposited or lodged for safe custody nor for any other misfortune loss or damage which may happen to the said trust monies and premises unless the same shall happen by or through his or their own wilful neglect or default respectively and also that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Thomas Brooker and Thomas Brooker their heirs executors and administrators by and out of the monies which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the trusts aforesaid to retain to and reimburse themselves and himself respectively all costs charges and expences which they shall respectively sustain expend disburse or be put unto in or about the execution of the trusts aforesaid or in anywise relating thereto. And lastly I hereby revoke and make void all former and other Wills by me at any time heretofore made and declare this only to be and contain my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this fifteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty two. Ambrose Brooker.

Signed by the said Ambrose Brooker the testator in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence have subscribed our names as witnesses. Chas N Hashe, Sol’r, East Grinstead; Arthur Hashe of the same place.

Proved at London 28th January 1856 before the Worshipful Thomas Spinks, Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of Thomas Brooker the nephew and Thomas Brooker the executors to whom admon was granted having been first sworn duly to administer.

Transcribed by:

Dave Woolven.

Notes about this will:

Transcribed for and contributed by Stephen Langridge. Ros Dunning has emailed with the following: "I have had a look at the original will of Ambrose Brooker of Hartfield on Ancestry. I think the second Executor is Thomas Hooker not Brooker and that the surnmae of the two witnesses is Hastie not Hashe".

Source:

Unknown.

This will also mentions these parishes:

East Grinstead.

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