Transcript of will of Sarah Mills 1839

	I Sarah Mills of Drury Lane in the County of Middlesex Widow Do on this second day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven make and declare this to be my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills made by me I give and bequeath to each of my Children Hannah, Jane, Eliza (the Wife of Edward Cantwell), Sarah, James Henry, Frederick William and Emily, and also to my brother in law John Mills the Sum of five pounds for the purchase of mourning and the said legacies and also whatever debts may be due from me at my death and my funeral and testamentary expenses I desire to be paid out of the monies due to me so far as they will extend and the deficiency out of my money in the public funds. I give unto my said daughters Hannah, Jane and Sarah and the said John Mills all my property whatsoever upon trust nevertheless to permit my said daughters Hannah, Jane and Sarah to receive the Interest and dividends of my property in the funds and to hold and enjoy my leasehold houses situate No.129 Drury Lane, No.26 Wild Street Drury Lane and No.27 Wild Street aforesaid (they paying the rent and performing the covenants to be paid and observed by the Lessees thereof) and also to enjoy the use and benefit of my furniture and stock in trade being in and upon my said house No.129 Drury Lane and other my Effects (except wearing apparel which I give to all my daughters between them) so long as upon condition that they my said daughters Hannah, Jane and Sarah do carry on the business which I am now carrying on in the said house and do properly and respectively maintain my said Sons James Henry & Frederick William and my said daughter Emily until they have respectively attained the age of twenty one years and when and as soon as all of my said Children or in case any of them shall die all my surviving Children shall be of the age of twenty one years or if my said daughters Hannah, Jane and Sarah shall in the meantime refuse or neglect to carry on the said business or to maintain my said Sons and Daughters as aforesaid Then I direct that my leases business Stock and all other my property except money in the funds (and except my furniture and household goods) shall be got in and sold for the best price to be had for the same and the produce thereof invested in the funds and if any of my said children shall then be under the age of twenty one years I desire the dividends to arise therefrom and from the money now in the funds to be divided between my said six Children (other than Eliza Cantwell) until they shall have all attained that age in equal sixth parts and to be applied in and towards the maintenance of such of them as are under that age and when they have all attained the age of twenty one years then I desire the whole of the said property to be divided between all my said seven Children including Eliza Cantwell equally share and share alike and as to my furniture and household goods I give the same at the time of the said division to all my said daughters (except Mrs Cantwell) to be equally divided between them and it is my will if my said Daughters Hannah, Jane and Sarah can at the time of such division arrange between themselves to take my said leasehold houses or any of them at a fair valuation that the same be fairly valued by some valuer to be appointed by the said John Mills and that they do take the same of such valuation in part and on account of their shares of my said property and if any of my said daughters Hannah, Jane and Sarah shall die or shall marry or leave the said business before all my said Children shall have attained the age of twenty one years it is my will that the survivors or survivor others or other of them shall continue to have the same use of all the said property but upon the same conditions and trusts as aforesaid and shall also have the same option of taking the said leasehold houses or any of them at a valuation as aforesaid and if they or any of them shall waste or by any means loose the Stock in trade in my business and other effects of which they have the use so that the same shall not be at the division of the same amount as at my death they shall be respectively charged with the loss as part of their shares and it is my will that if any of my said Children shall die before the time of such division without leaving issue living at the time of such division his or her share whether original or accrued under this proviso shall go in equal shares between or to the others or other of my said Children who shall be then living. It is my will that upon the said division the Sum of fifteen pounds which is due to me from my Son Frederick William and of thirty pounds which is due to me from my Daughter Mrs Cantwell be deducted from their respective shares but that in the mean time they be not called upon for the same And as to the share of my said daughter Eliza Cantwell I desire that the same shall be held by my Executrixes and Executor for the sole and separate use of her my said daughter during her life free from the debts, control and engagements of her present or any future husband and after her death upon trust for those who shall be her next of kin exclusive of her said present or future husband (and I appoint my said daughters Hannah Jane and Sarah and the said John Mills Executrixes and Executor of this my Will and Guardians of my said Sons James Henry & Frederick William and my daughter Emily) In witness whereof I the said Testatrix Sarah Mills have to this my last Will & Testament contained in three sheets of paper subscribed my hand and Seal that is to say my hand to the two first sheets and my hand and Seal to this third and last sheet thereof the day and year first written - Sarah Mills - SS - Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the Testatrix Sarah Mills as and for last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses - Rob Webber 43 Bedford Row Solr. - Thos. Pratt - Cors. Mahony S Clerks to Messrs. Webber & Bland 43 Bedford Row - James Mills No.4 Arbour Terrace Commercial Road London. Proved at London 28th Feby. 1839 before the Worshipful John Danbury Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths of Hannah O'Niell (wife of James Augustus O'Neill) Jane Mills Spinster and Sarah Tranchard (wife of James Eli Tranchard) the daurs of the decd three of the Executors to whom admon was granted having been first sworn duly to administer, power reserved of making the like grant to John Mills the other Executor.
[the note below appears in the right-hand margin, beside the above paragraph]

		11th July 1840 John Mills one of the Executors and one of the Residuary Legatees in Trust renounced as well the Probate and Execution of the Will as the Letters of Administration (with the same annexed) of the Goods of the Deceased


[Copy obtained from The National Archives Online by Natalie Witt]

The will of Sarah Mills, 1839