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1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Thomas Corsellis late of upper Bedford Place in the County
3 of Middlesex knight Commander of the Bath a Major General
4 in the service of the Honourable the East India Company I give
5 and bequeath allmy furniture plate linen china pictures trinkets
6 wine carriages or any other household effects to my natural Daugh
7 ter Eliza Williamson for her own absolute use and benefit And I
8 confirm any gifts thereof or of any other kind which in my life-
9 time I shall make in favor of my said Daughter I give and bequeath
10 to Robert Barnwall of the Oriental Club Hanover Square in the
11 County of Middlesex a Lieutenant Colonel in the Service of the
12 said East India Company on the Bombay Establishment the sum
13 of nineteen guineas And as to the Rest Residue and Remainder
14 of my property real and personal of what nature or kind soever
15 I give devise and bequeath the same unto the said Robert
16 Barnwall my said Daughter Eliza Williamson and my friend
17 Henry Phillips of Sise Lane in the City of London Attorney and
18 the survivor of them and the executors administrators and
19 assigns of such survivor upon Trust to allow the same to remain
20 on the securities on which they shall be invested at the time of
21 my decease or to call in and convert the same and invest the same
22 on some or one of the British Government securities and out of
23 the dividends interest or annual proceeds thereof to continue and
24 pay the following annuities which I have been in the habit of
25 paying in my lifetime To my friend William Harvey late in the
26 Bombay Civil Service and his wife and the survivor of them an
27 annuity of ten pounds per annum payable half yearly the first
28 half yearly payment to be made at the end of three months
29 after my decease To Bajah Boyh a Native woman residing in
30 Bombay the sum of one hundred and twenty Bompay Rupees per
31 annum To Kinina or Anreena formerly in the service of the
32 late Theresa Bobo the sum of seventy two Bombay Rupees per
33 annum and to Margaret or Mercury also formerly a Servant in
34 the same service the sum of sixty Bombay rupees per annum
35 And I direct all the said last mentioned annuities to be paid by
36 monthly installments the first instalment to be paid at such period
37 after my decease as shall render the payment of the said annuities
38 granted as aforesaid a progressive continuance of them as paid in
39 my lifetime And subject to the said annuities I direct my said
40 trustees and the survivor of them and the executors administrators
41 ans assigns of such survivor to pay the bequest dividends over my
42 said residuary estate to the said Eliza Williamson her executors
43 administrators and assigns for her sole and separate use indepen
44 dently of and husband with whom she may intermarry I
45 appoint the said Robert Barnwall Eliza Williamson and Henry
46 Philipps Executors of this my will And I hereby acknowledge that
47 certain furniture and property now remaining in the names of
48 my said Daughter and self at Tilburys Ware Rooms High Street
49 Marlebone is the sole property of my said Daughter In witness
50 whereof I have hereunto set my subscribed my hand this thirty
51 first thirteenth day of ffebruary one thousand eight hundred and
52 forty four T Corsellis Signed and published by the said testator
53 as and for his last will and Testament in the presence of us who
54 in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other
55 have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses the words the
56 interest dividends and the words thirty first being first erased
57 Fredk H J Allen Clerks to K Phillips Solc 4 Sire Lane
58 Bucklersbury
59 Proved at London the 9th April 1845 before the worshipful
60 ffrederik Thomas Pratt Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oath
61 of Henry Philipps one of the Executors to whom Admon was granted
62 having been first sworn duly to administer power reserved of
63 making the like grant to Robert Barnwall Esqr and Eliza
64 Williamson Spinster the other Executors when they shall apply
65 the same
A summary of names and relationships mentioned in the will of Joseph Ham
Names Relationship Line
Eliza Williamson Daughter 7, 16, 48
Robert Barnwall 10, 16
Henry Phillips 17
William Harvey Friend 25
Bajah Boyh 29
Konina Servant 31
Margaret Servant 33
Executors
Eliza Williamson
Robert Barnwall
Henry Phillips
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