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Note: James Puttock (1805-1876) =========================
1841/06/06 Farmer, aged 35 (36?), of Common House, Dunsfold, Surrey - HO107/1045 Bk.3 f.26 p.1 & 2
1851/03/30 Farmer of 214 acres, aged (46?) of Common House, Dunsfold, Surrey - HO107/1597 f.259 p.1
1861/04/07 Yeoman, aged 56 of Common House, Dunsfold, Surrey - RG9/438 f.112 p.1
1871/04/02 Yeoman and Timber Merchant, aged 66, of Common House, Dunsfold, Surrey - RG10/826 f.5 p.1
1875/06/03
This is the last will and testament
of me James Puttock of Dunsfold in the County of Surrey
Gentleman. I bequeath all my household goods and furniture plate
linen china books (but not books of account) prints pictures and
consumable household stores and provisions also the legacy of fifty
pounds (to be paid within one calendar month after my decease)
unto my dear wife Eliza for her absolute benefit I give devise and
bequeath all the real and the residue of the personal estate of which
I shall be seized possessed of or entitled to or over which I shall
have any disposing power at the time of my decease
unto my said wife Eliza and my son Edwin Puttock and my friend
John Hoar of Dunsfold aforesaid Shopkeeper their heirs executors
administrators and assigns respectively upon trust as soon as conve-
niently may be after my decease to call in compel payment of and
convert into money such part of my residuary personal estate as
shall not consist of money or securities for money which my said
trustees or trustee may think expedient to retain on their existing
investments And at such time or times as they she or he may in their
her or his absolute discretion deem expedient to sell my real and
leasehold estates in such manner and with such powers as are by
law provided and vested in Trustees for sale And out of the monies
to arise by the ways and means aforesaid and of the ready money
of which I shall be possessed at the time of my decease to pay for my
just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the aforesaid
legacy And invest the residue of the said monies in their her or
his names or name in or upon the securities hereinafter authorized
And upon trust to pay to or allow the interest dividends and
annual income of my said trust estate monies and premises howso-
ever invested to be received by my said wife Eliza for her life for her
sole separate and unalienable use free from the debts control and
engagements of any future husband with whom she may ??? to marry
and her receipts alone to be good discharges for the same And from
and after her decease Upon trust to pay the legacy or sum of seven
hundred pounds unto my daughter Fanny Puttock for her absolute
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benefit And to stand possessed of the residue of my said trust
estate monies and premises or the stock funds and securities whereon
the same may be invested And the annual income thereof In trust
as to two third parts thereof for my said son Edwin Puttock
absolutely And as to the remaining one third part In trust to
pay four hundred pounds part thereof to my daughter Clara Ann
Puttock absolutely And the remainder to be held for my said
daughter Clara Ann Puttock but subject to the trusts and provisions
hereinafter declared that is to say Upon trust to invest the remainder
of the said one third share in manner hereinafter mentioned and to
stand possessed of the dividends and annual income to arise there
from and pay the same to or allow the same to be received but not
by way of anticipation by my said daughter during her life for her
sole and separate use and benefit exclusive of any husband to whom
she may for the time being be married free from his debts control or
liabilities and so that the receipts of my said daughter alone shall
be sufficient discharge to my trustees or trustee for such dividends and
annual income without the inconvenience of her husband but so that
she shall not have power to charge assign or encumber the said dividends and
annual income by anticipation or otherwise deprive herself of the enjoy-
ment thereof And from and after the decease of such daughter then as to
the remainder of the said one third share in which she had such life
interest as aforesaid Upon trust in case my said daughter shall be
married and shall by her last Will and Testament or any testamen-
tary writing so direct to pay unto any surviving husband of my said
daughter for his own use and benefit during his life or for any shorter
period the whole or any part of the annual produce and income of the
remainder of the same share and the stock funds and securities
thereof in or which the same shall for the time being be invested
and subject to any such payment to be so directed or apportioned as afore-
said Upon trust to pay or transfer the remainder of the same share
and the said stocks funds or securities in or upon which the same
shall for the time being be so invested to such child (if only one)
or amongst such children (if more than one) of my said daughter
living at her decease and such issue then living of any child or
children of hers then dead as shall in the case of a male or males
attain the age of twenty one years or a female or females attain that
age or marry as tenants in common in a course of distribution
according to the stocks and not to the number of individual objects
and so that the issue of deceased children of such daughter may
take as tenants in common by way of substitution the share or
respective shares only whether original or accruing which the parent
or respective parents would if then living have taken And in case
there shall be no child or other issue of my said daughter living at
her decease who being a male or males shall live to attain the the
age of twenty one years or being a female or females shall live to
attain that age or be married then upon trust to pay transfer or
dispose of the remainder of the same share and the stock funds
and securities in or upon which the same shall for the time being
be invested to such person or persons or for such purposes and in
such manner as my said daughter shall notwithstanding coverture
and whether covert or sole by deed to be executed by her in the
presence of and attested by one or more witness or witnesses or by her
Will or any Codicil or Codicils thereto appoint and in default of
appointment In trust for such of my said son Edwin Puttock and my
daughter the said Fanny Puttock as shall be living at the decease
of my said daughter Clara Ann Puttock and the issue then living
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of any of my said son and daughter who shall be then dead as
shall be the case of males attain the age of twenty one years or
females attain that age or marry as tenants in common per stirpes and
not per capita I empower my trustees or trustee for the time being
from and after the failure or determination of any prior life or
other estates or interests to apply all or any part of the yearly
income to which under any of the bequests or dispositions hereinbefore
contained each or any infant devisee or legatee shall be entitled or
contingently entitled in or towards the maintenance and education
or otherwise for the benefit of such devisee or legatee during his or
her minority or at the option of my trustees or trustee to pay the
same unto the hands of the parent or guardian of such legatee
to be so applied but for the application whereof by such parent or
guardian my trustees or trustee shall not be responsible And I
also empower my trustees or trustee for the time being with the
consent of the respective prior life tenants (if any) and if none
at the discretion of my trustees or trustee to advance and apply
any part not exceeding one half of the capital to which under any
of the said bequests or dispositions each or any infant legatee
shall be entitled or presumptively entitled in or towards his or her
advancement or preferment in the world I direct that any invest-
ments of trust moneys to be made by my trustees or trustee for
the time being may be made in their her or his names or name
in or upon some or one or more of the investments or securities
following that is to say the public funds government securities
of the United Kingdom real or leasehold securities in England or
Wales and not elsewhere such leasehold having not less than
sixty years unexpired at the time of the investment thereon
respectively or the bonds debentures or debenture stock or guaranteed
stock or shares of any Railway or Dock Company in England
or India authorised by special Act of Parliament and at the
time of the investment thereon respectively paying dividends And
I empower my trustees or trustee for the time being to vary such
investments at their her or his discretion for any other other or others
of the kinds prescribed Provided always and I hereby declare that
my trustees or trustee for the time being may postpone the sale
conversion and collection of all or any part or parts of my said
real and residuary personal estate respectively so long as they she
or he shall think proper but my real estate shall be considered as
personalty from the time of my death and during such postpone-
ment may grant leases of my said real estate for any term not
exceeding seven years in possession at the best rent that can be
reasonably obtained without taking any fine premium or foregift
and generally to manage and improve the same at their her or
his discretion and also to compound debts and demands and
grant indulgence to debtors and submit disputes to arbitration and
also to give receipts for all monies and effects to be paid or
delivered to them or him by virtue of my Will And I declare that
such receipts shall exonerate the person or persons taking the
same form all liability to see to the application or disposition
of the monies or effects therein mentioned I declare that the
power of appointing a new trustee or trustees of this my
Will shall be exercisable by my said Wife during her life
and after her decease by my said daughter Clara Ann during her life
and after her decease by the surviving or continuing Trustees or Trustee
for the time being or the acting Executors or Executor administrators or
administrator of the last surviving or continuing Trustee or by the last
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referring(?) Trustees or Trustee And upon any such appointment the
number of Trustees may be augmented or reduced And I declare that
no trustee shall be responsible for any loss (?) occasioned by her or his
own wilful neglect or default and every trustee shall be allowed out of
the trust estate all her or his full costs charges and expenses properly
incurred relating to the trust any rule of equity to the contrary not-
withstanding I appoint my said wife Eliza my son Edwin and
the said John Hoar Executrix and Executors in trust of this my
Will and I give and devise to them their heirs and assigns all estates
vested in me upon trust or by way of mortgage subject nevertheless
to the equities affecting the same and hereby revoke all former Wills
by me made In witness whereof I have to this and the three preceding
sheets of paper set my hand this third day of June one thousand
eight hundred and seventy five - Jas Puttock - Signed and
acknowledged by the said James Puttock the Testator as and for his
last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence
at his request and the presence of each other (all three of us being
present together at the same time) I have hereunto set our names as
witnesses - William Harris Clerk to Mr R E Mellersh Solr
Godalming - F James Mellersh Godalming Surrey Gentn.
1876/06/07 "James Puttock, aged 70 yrs"
1876/08/14
Proved in London 14th August 1876 by the oaths of Eliza Puttock Widow the
relict Edwin Puttock the son and John Hoar the Executors to whom
Admon was granted
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