Bigamy/Trigamy Alive or Dead?????

[olliecat]

Here goes then. Note: I have included first letter capitals for names but for the most part I have ignored the other capitals and have transcribed in lowercase. You can always put them back yourself.

Will of Thomas Pelling: Page 1

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THIS IS THE LAST WILL
and testament of me Thomas Pelling of the parish of Saint
George Southwark in the County of Surrey Scavenger I give
and bequeath unto my dear wife Jane Pelling all the plate linen
china glass household goods and furniture of all kinds which
I may be possessed of at the time of my death to and for her own
absolute use and benefit I give and bequeath unto Thomas Mary
James Sarah Elizabeth and Ann sons and daughters of my Bro[the]r
John Pelling of F(r?)indsbury in the county of Kent the sum of two
hundred pounds a piece to and for their own absolute use and
benefit I give and bequeath the sum of two hundred pounds unto
Josiah Slee of Horsleydown in the borough of Southwark
ironmonger and the said Thomas Pelling son of my brother
John Pelling my executors hereinafter named upon trust that
they the said Josiah Slee and Thomas Pelling or the survivor of
them his executors or administrators do and shall layout
and invest the said sum of two hundred pounds in their names
in the purchase of Government stocks or funds and from time to
time receive the interest or dividends thereof and layout and
invest such dividends in the purchase of other Government
stocks or funds until Thomas Pelling Slee the son of the said
Josiah Slee shall attain his age of twenty one years and upon
trust when and as soon as the said Thomas Pelling Slee shall
attain his said age of twenty one years to transfer and assign
such stocks and funds whereon or wherein the said sum of two hundred
pounds and the accumulations thereof shall be invested unto
him the said Thomas Pelling Slee to and for his own absolute use
and benefit and in case the said Thomas Pelling Slee shall
die under the age of twenty one years then upon trust to transfer
and assign such stocks and funds unto the said Josiah Slee and
executors administrators or assigns to and for his and their own
use and benefit and as to my leasehold estates and all the
rest and residue of my personal estate and effects whatsoever
after payment of the aforesaid legacies I give and bequeath
the same unto the said Josiah Slee and Thomas Pelling their
heirs executors administrators and assigns upon the truste
following (that is to say) upon trust that they my said trustees and
the survivor of them his executors or adm[inistrat]ors do and shall
sell and dispose of collect in and receive all such part of my
residuary estate as aforesaid as shall be proper to be
disposed of and collected gotten in and received except my
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Page 2 in a moment.

[olliecat]

Will of Thomas Pelling: Page 2

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leasehold estates and layout the monies to arise thereby
in their own names in the public funds or upon real or
Government securities of Great Britain at interest and do and
shall from time to time receive and take the interest and
dividends of such stocks funds or securities and also the rents
issues and profits of my said leasehold estates where and as the
time? shall arise and accrue due and by and out of such rents
issues and profits pay the expenses of keeping such leasehold
estates or such parts thereof as tenants thereof shall not
repair in good substantial and tenantable repair and in
keeping the same insured from damages against fire and paying
the ground rents thereof and upon trust to pay the residue
of such interest dividends rents issues and profits after making
such payments thereout as aforesaid to my said wife Jane
Pelling for and during the term of her natural life for her
own sole and only proper use and benefit and I do direct
that the said interest dividends rents issues and profits shall
not be subject to any assignment or other disposition of my
said wife Jane Pelling in any manner whatsoever as or by way
of anticipation and that the said interest dividends rents
issues and profits or any part thereof shall not be subject
or liable to the power contract debts or engagements of any husband
or husbands with whom she my said wife may intermarry
and the receipt and receipts of her my said wife Jane
Pelling alone signed with her proper hand shall notwithstanding
any coverture that she may be under be a good and sufficient
discharge and a good and sufficient discharges to my said
trustees for such interest dividends rents issues or profits or
for such thereof as in and by such receipt and receipts shall
be acknowledged or expressed to be received and from and after
the decease of my said wife Jane Pelling upon trust to assign
transfer and assign and make over one moiety or half part of
my said leasehold the stocks funds and securities whereon or
wherein the residue of my personal estate shall be invested
as aforesaid and also one moiety or half part of my said
leasehold estates unto such person or persons and for such
estate and estates unto such person or persons interest and
interests therein and in such manner as my said wife Jane
Pelling shall by her last will and testament in writing
or any writing purporting to be her last will and testament
or by any codicil or codicils thereto respectively to be by her
signed sealed published and declared in the presence of and to be
attested by two? or more credible witnesses give direct limit
or appoint the same subject nevertheless to the payment of one
moiety of the ground rents received for such leasehold estates
and in default of such gift direction limitation or appointment
and in case any such shall be made then subject thereto and
when and as the estates thereby created? shall respectively and
and determine and of so much thereof of which no such gift
direction limitation or appointment shall be made thereupon
trust to assign and transfer the same into and amongst all and
every the children of my said brother John Pelling in such and
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[olliecat]

Will of Thomas Pelling: Page 3

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the same shares and proportions as I have herein after given
and bequeathed the other moiety or half part of such stocks
funds and securities and leasehold estates and upon this
further trust that my said trustees and the survivor of them
and the executors and administrators of such survivor do and
shall after the decease of my said wife Jane Pelling stand
possessed of the other moiety or half part of such stocks
funds and securities and leasehold estates interest for the
said Thomas Mary James Sarah Elizabeth and Ann sons and
daughters of my said brother John Pelling equally to be
divided between or amongst them as tenants in common and not
as joint tenants and their several and respective executors
administrators and assigns provided always and my will is
that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said trustees
and the survivor of them and the executors and adm[inistrat]ors of such
survivors from time to time to during the continuance of the trusts
aforesaid to let and set and also to grant and execute any
lease of leases of my said hereinbefore bequeathed leasehold
estates and premises or any of them or any part of them
thereof unto any person or persons whomsoever for any
term or number of years not exceeding twenty one years in
possession and not in reversion and without taking any fine
premium or forfeit for the making or granting thereof and
I do hereby authorize and empower my trustees and trustee
for the time being to alter transpose and change any stocks
funds or securities which shall be vested in them upon the
trusts of this my will for and to other stocks funds or
securities of the like mature when and so often as shall be
necessary fit or proper and my will further is and I do
declare that ^my ?^ the said Josiah Slee and Thomas Pelling or
either of them or any future trustee or trustees of the trust
premises shall happen to die or be desirous discharged
from or refuse or become incapable to act in the trust
of this my will before the said trusts shall be fully
performed then and in such case and so often as the same
shall happen or shall and may be lawful for the survivor
or other of the said trustees or the executors or adm[inistrat]ors of
the last surviving trustee by and with the consent and
approbation of my said wife during her life and after her
decease by and with their own authority to nominate
and appoint any other person or persons to be a trustee or
trustees in the place or stead of such trustee or trustees
so dying or becoming desirous to be discharged from or
refusing declining or becoming incapable to act in the trusts
aforesaid and when and as often as any such new trustee
or trustees shall be nominated as aforesaid all the said
trust stocks funds securities and premises shall be
thereupon with all convenient speed conveyed assigned and
transferred in such manner and so as that the same may be
legally vested in such surviving or continuing and new
trustees or trustee or in such new trustee wholly (as the case
shall be) upon the trusts and for the interests and purposes
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page 4 and 5 in the next hour or two

[kazza]

Wowwww!!!! Superman or what! How on earth did you managed to transcribe that so fast? I have looked and relooked at both Thomas' and Jane's wills making out a few words here and there jotting them down on word documents, ending up with headaches and only managing to get a few words. I am amazed, totally amazed. How on earth can you read it without needing paracetamol?

[olliecat]

Wowwww!!!! Superman or what! How on earth did you managed to transcribe that so fast?

I thought Peter was Superman, in which case I'll have to content myself with being ???. Edit: just realised that Peter is Batman, which means I can be Superman after all.

How on earth can you read it without needing paracetamol?

It just takes practice that's all and it's a bit like riding a bike - incomprehensible if you've never ridden before - then it all clicks into place. It also takes patience and lots of TEA - as some wills just seem to go on and on forever, without saying anything much.

Will post the last part of the will in a few minutes. Need another cuppa first.

[olliecat]

Will of Thomas Pelling: Page 4

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and subject to the powers hereinbefore expressed and declared
containing the same and every such new trustee shall and may
act therein and shall leave the same powers and authorities
to all interests and purposes as if he or they had been
originally named and appointed in and by this my will and
I do hereby further declare that my trustees and executors
herein named and appointed or either of them or any other
trustee to be nominated as aforesaid his heirs executors
or administrators shall not be charged or chargeable with
or for any more of the trust estate stocks funds securities and
premises than what shall actually come to the hands of and
be received by them respectively notwithstanding either of them
shall join or concur in any receipt or receipts for
conformity only but each of them shall be answerable or
accountable for his own acts receipts and defaults only and
that the said trustees and executors or either of them their
or either of their heirs executors or administrators shall not
be answerable or accountable for the insufficiency defect or
failure of any funds or securities wherein or whereon any of the
said trust effects shall be invested as aforesaid nor for any
other involuntary loss or damages which shall or may
happen or arise to the said trust fund and also that it
shall and may be lawful to and for the trustees and ex[ecut]ors
of this my will in the first place by and out of the said
trust estate to deduct retain and reimburse themselves and
himself and to allow to his and their co trustee and co
executor all loss costs charges damages and expenses which
they any or either of them shall bear pay suffer sustain
expend or be put unto for or by reason or reasons or on
account of the performance management or execution of the
trusts hereby in them reposed or any other thing in any
wise relating thereto and hereby revoking all former wills
by me made and declare this only to be my last will and testament
In witness whereof I the said Thomas Pelling the testator
have to this my will contained in five sheets of paper
set my hand and seal (that is to say) my seal to the
bottom ribbon whereby all the said sheets are fixed together at
the top my hand to the bottom of the first four sheets and
my hand and seal to this fifth and last sheet thereof this
eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eight ~ Thos Pelling LS
Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator
Thomas Pelling as and for his last will and testament in
the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in
the presence of each other have herein to subscribed our
names as witnesses ~ John Ad^s Young ~ Thos Hughes ~
37 Essex Street Strand

THIS WILL was proved at London on the ninth
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Will of Thomas Pelling: Page 5

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day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and nine before the worshipful John Danbury Doctor
of Laws and Surrogate of the Right Honourable Sir John
Nicholl Knight also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or
Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully
constituted by the oaths of Josiah Slee and Thomas Pelling
the nephews of the deceased the executors named in the said
will to whom administration was granted of all and Singular
the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased they
having been first been sworn duly to administer
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[olliecat]

Just reading back throught the will, my interpretation of the bequests is as follows...

1. Plate linen china glass household goods and furniture of all kinds to wife Jane Pelling
   
   
2. £200 each to Thomas, Mary, James, Sarah, Elizabeth and Ann, the sons and daughters of his brother John Pelling
   
   
3. £200 to Thomas Pelling Slee, to be invested and managed by Josiah Slee and Thomas Pelling (the two executors) on his behalf of until he reaches the age of twenty one. Or to Josiah Slee if Thomas Pelling Slee dies before attaining the age of twenty one.
   
   
4. The two executors to manage the leasehold estates and all the rest and residue of the personal estate and effects - part of the monies arising to be invested in stock etc. - part to be used to repair and insure the leasehold estates - the residue of the interest dividends rents issues and profits to be paid to Jane Pelling for the term of her natural life.
   
   
5. Upon the decease of Jane Pelling, one moiety (one half part) of the stocks funds and securities plus one moiety of the leasehold estates to go to whoever Jane Pelling bequeaths it to in her own will, (or to the children of John Pelling if she makes no directives.)
   The other half of the stocks, funds securities and leashold estates to go to the children of John Pelling to be equally divided amongst them as tenants in common.

So when Thomas Pelling's wife Jane died, the children of his brother John (including nephew Thomas Pelling) were due to receive one moiety (half part) of the stocks, funds securities and leasehold estates as specified in the will of Thomas Pelling.

To reiterate, after Jane Pelling died (after July 1833 when her will was proved), nephew Thomas Pelling would have received a proportional share of the half part of the stocks, funds securities and leasehold estates.
As Coromandel, Mutley and Sue figured out a while back, this could be the leasehold property referred to in the Gazette article of 1835.

Note: I haven't read Jane's will, to see what she has to say about the other half part of the estate and to check that this makes sense. I might do that tomorrow.

[Mutley]

Well done that Puddy Tat.
An amazing feat you have achieved. I can only sit back and admire.

I am still trying to sort the relationships.
I have William Rowcliffe and Elizabeth Wellbourne, the parents of Marie Elizabeth Rowcliffe (married Josias Slee).
Marie Elizabeth was the niece of Jane Wellbourne who married Thomas Pelling (whose will we have just read).
Richard Wellbourne and his son Richard were brother and nephew of Jane Pelling (nee Wellbourne).
Thomas Pelling was the son of Josias Slee and Marie Elizabeth Rowcliffe and nephew of Jane Pelling.

Josiah Slee and Thomas Pelling were the nephews of the deceased Thomas Pelling whose will was written in 1808.

I know I will figure this out, Amanha!

[olliecat]

I am still trying to sort the relationships.
I have William Rowcliffe and Elizabeth Wellbourne, the parents of Marie Elizabeth Rowcliffe (married Josias Slee).
Marie Elizabeth was the niece of Jane Wellbourne who married Thomas Pelling (whose will we have just read).
Richard Wellbourne and his son Richard were brother and nephew of Jane Pelling (nee Wellbourne).
Thomas Pelling was the son of Josias Slee and Marie Elizabeth Rowcliffe and nephew of Jane Pelling.

I think I've had too much TEA cause I keep reading this back but my brain refuses to acknowledge all the different names. Eek! Brain cell OVERLOAD.

I know I will figure this out, Amanha!

I'm confident you will work it out Mutley. I hope so because I'm am now feeling officially useless and am off for some shut-eye. See you on the morrow.

[Mutley]

I think I've had too much TEA cause I keep reading this back but my brain refuses to acknowledge all the different names. Eek! Brain cell OVERLOAD.
I'm confident you will work it out Mutley. I hope so because I'm am now feeling officially useless and am off for some shut-eye. See you on the morrow.

I don't think, after your work tonight you could ever be classed as "officially useless", I gave up with the teapot and hit the bottle, so my brain also refuses to acknowledge all the different names.

Tomorrow is another day.