This is the last Will and Testament
of me Nathaniel Beadles late of the town of Pontypool in the County of
of Monmouth but now of the parish of Ross in the County of Hereford Gentleman
being weak in body but of a sound and disposing mind memory and judgement. Whereas my two sons Capel Beadles and
Charles Fowler Beadles are already provided for I give devise and
bequeath to my wife Honor Beadles all my plate linen china books
household goods furniture bonds mortgages notes of hand money and all other my
real and personal property whatsoever my will and meaning is that my said wife Honor
Beadles is to receive the rents of my real estate and the interest of all
monies wether on mortgage, bonds notes or in the funds during her natural life
and the principal together with all and every my personal property shall
immediately after the decease of my said wife become the property of my two
daughters Honor Beadles the younger and Mary Ann Lewis the wife
of John Lewis of Coed y Pane in the parish of Langibby in the County of
Monmouth to be equally divided between them share and share alike as tenants in
common and not as joint tenants to whom I give the same free from and in no
ways subject to the debts and control or intermeddling of any husband or
husbands they may have either of them except such part of my plate as my wife
may think proper to give to any child in her life time. I also give devise and bequeath unto my two
daughters Honor Beadles and Mary Ann Lewis their heirs and
assigns as tenants in common one moiety of the estate and lands situated in the
parishes of Lanvrechva Upper and Panteague in the County of Monmouth late in
the occupation of John Hands but now of John Roberts. And also I give and bequeath unto my two
aforesaid daughters Honor Beadles and Mary Ann Lewis the one half
of the farm and lands situate in the parish of Christ Church in the County of
Monmouth late occupied by David Williams but now occupied by Wm Goff
to be equally divided between them my aforesaid daughters Honor Beadles
and Mary Ann Lewis their heirs and assigns as tenants in common and not
joint tenants immediately after the decease of my said wife. And it is my will and meaning and meaning
and I do hereby declare and direct that neither John Lewis the present
husband of my said daughter Mary Ann Lewis or any future husband with
whom she might intermarry nor that husband or husband with whom my daughter Honor
may hereafter intermarry shall at any time or times have any control over any
property hereby given to my said daughters and their respective children be it
real or personal but that the same shall be free from the debts and engagements
of such husband or husbands. And I
hereby direct that the receipt or receipts alone of my said daughters for the
same and the rents and profits thereof shall be a full discharge for the same
and from and immediately the decease of my said daughter Mary Ann Lewis
I give devise and bequeath all the property wether real or personal hereby
given to her equally unto and between all and every the child and children of
my said daughter Mary Ann Lewis as tenants in common and not as
joint tenants and the issue of any child that may be then dead such issue to be
entitles only to the parents share.
Lastly I nominate and appoint my dear wife Honor Beadles the
elder my whole and sole executrix of this my Will hereby revoking every Will
and Testament heretofore made. In
witness whereof I the said testator have hereunto set my hand and seal this
twenty sixth day of June one thousand eight hundred and nineteen 1819. Nathaniel Beadles
Signed sealed
published and declared by the said testator Nathaniel Beadles as and for
his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in the sight of each
other have subscribed our names as witnesses.
Thos King of Ross; Eliza King of Ross;
Mary King of Ross
NB. The word ‘Real’ in the tenth line is as
wrote before the testator signed this Will and also the word ‘Given’ in the
beginning of the forty fourth line and the words ‘ and children’ in the fifty
second line were wrote before the testator signed this Will.
6th day
of August 1819. Honor Beadles
widow the relict of the deceased and sole executrix in this Will named was duly
sworn as such and that the personal estate and effects of the deceased are
under the value of one hundred pounds before me Benj? Hall, Chancellor
NOTE:
On the cover to this Will it states that Nathaniel Beadles was of
Newport, formerly of Ross. The Admon
also states that he was of Newport. DW
In the goods of Nathaniel
Beadles deceased. In the Consistory
Court of Landaff.
Honor Beadles of the town of Newport in the County of
Monmouth widow executrix named in the last Will and Testament of the said Nathaniel
Beadles late of the town of Newport aforesaid Gentleman who died on the
twentieth day of July 1819 maketh oath that she hath made diligent search and
due enquiry after and in respect of the personal estate and effects of the said
deceased in order to ascertain the full amount and value thereof; and that to
the best of her knowledge information and belief the whole of the goods
chattles and credits of which the said deceased died possessed within the
Diocese of Landaff (exclusive of what the deceased may have been possessed of
or entitled to as a trustee for any other person or persons and not
beneficially but including the leasehold estates for years of the deceased
whether absolute or determinable on lives and without deducting any thing on
account of the debts due and owing from the deceased) are under the value of
one hundred pounds. Honor Beadles.
Sworn on the sixth
of August 1819 before me Benj Hall, Chancellor
Transcribed from a
photocopy by Dave Woolven, 2 Aspen Way, Malpas Park, Newport, South Wales. NP20 6LB
Tel 01633 858 359 15 February
2003