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John Allen Adamthwaite of Peckham Rye, Gentleman,
deceased 1850 : Will
This is the last Will and Testament of me
John Allen Adamthwaite of Peckham Rye in the County of Surrey Gentleman
I devise and bequeath All the Real and Personal Estate to which and
shall be entitled at the time of my decease unto Robert Gibson of
Sandhouse Lodge in the County of Berks Gentleman and Alexander Ridgeway
of no 2 Royal Exchange Notary their heirs administrators and assigus
respectively upon trust to sell and convert the same into money or to
suffer my said real and personal estate or any part thereof to remain as
at present invested as they may deem adviseable and to invest the moneys
to arise from such real and personal estate in the name of the trustees
or trustee for the time being of this my will in or upon any of the
stocks funds or securities of the United Kingdom or any real securities
in England or Wales with power to vary such investments as they shall
deem fit and to continue such investments until the youngest survivor of
my four infant children Thomas Bryan Adamthwaite John Allen Adamthwaite
William Vipond Adamthwaite and James Adamthwaite shall attain the age of
twenty one years and after the said youngest survivor shall have
attained the age of twenty one years in trust to be equally divided
among my said children and I declare that it shall be lawful for my
trustees in their discretion to raise and apply in or towards the
advancement in life of each or any of my said children and part of his
share of my said trust estate and to apply the whole or any part of the
yearly product of the same trust estate for the common maintenance
education and bringing up of my said children not having been advanced
in life as aforesaid I declare that the trustees or trustee for the time
being of this my will shall be responsible only for their or his own
respective acts defaults and scripts and be exempt from liability for
involuntary lapses and be at liberty to deduct nd allow to each other
all expences incident to the execution of the trusts of my will I
appoint the said Robert Gibson and Alexander Ridgeway Executors of this
my will and guardians of my four infant children. Lastly I revoke all
other testamentary writings in witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand this twenty third day of August one thousand eight hundred and
fifty. J A Adamthwaite. Signed by the said testator as his last will
and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his
request in this presence and in the presence of each other have
subscribed our names as witness. Wm H J Stratford. J Rowland. Martha
Dimmock.
Proved at London 17
Sept 1850 before the worshipful James Parter Deane Doctor of Laws and
Surrogate by the oaths of Robert Gibson Esquire and Alexander Ridgeway
the executors to whom administration was granted having been first sworn
duly to Administer.
Note: there is some mystery as to the identity of Martha Dimmock,
one of the witnesses to this will. In the 1841 census she was a servant
in John Allen Adamthwaite's household - however following the death of
John Allen Adamthwaite (his wife Susan had died a few years earlier), by
the time of the 1851 census the four Adamthwaite boys had become wards
of Martha Dimmock and were living with her in Stoke Newington. If you
know more, please let us know!
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