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Will of John Otridge 1850 

This is the Last Will and Testamnet of me John Otridge of Newington Place Newington in the  County of Surrey Esquire 

I give and bequeath to my son in law HENRY MOGFORD and my grandson JOHN MOGFORD  son of the said Henry Mogford the legacy of nineteen guineas each and to RICHARD NEWMAN  of Upper Wellington Street Covent Garden Gentleman the legacy of fifty pounds and I give five 

pounds apiece to each of my legatees and annuitants and five pounds apiece to each of my  children and grandchildren for mourning and two pounds to each of my servants for mourning  and I direct my executors to purchase a Government Life Annuity in the name and upon the life  and for the benefit of each of my servants ANNE PEARSON and MARY ANN SOMERVILLE 

respectively and I direct that until such purchase shall be made the said Annuities shall be paid  out of my general personal estate as from the time of my death 

I give and bequeath the following annuities to the persons hereinafter mentioned for their 

respective lives (that is to say) and annuity of two hundred pounds to my son JOHN OTRIDGE 

an annuity of one hundred pounds to my daughter MARGARET MOGFORD and annuity of fifty  pounds to HENRY MOGFORD the husband of my said daughter an Annuity of one hundred and 

fifty pounds to my daughter CHARLOTTE an annuity of thirty pounds to my daughter JANE  PRINGLE widow an Annuity of thirty five pounds to my sister ELIZABETH OTRIDGE and annuity  of fifty pounds to my grandson JOHN MOGFORD and annuity of twenty pounds to my 

grandchildren AMELIA LEROY  WILLIAM MOGFORD  EDWARD MOGFORD and LOUISA  MOGFORD and annuity of forty pounds to my late wife's niece MARY EMILY TOMKINS and an  annuity of two hundred pounds to my Ward MARY TAYLOR who resides with me the said  Annuities to my said daughters Margaret and Charlotte and to my said granddaughters Amelia 

Leroy and Louisa Mogford and the said Annuities to the said Mary Emily Tomkins and Mary  Taylor to b for their respective separate use and independently of their present or any future  husbands and I direct the said annuities to be paid half yearly the first half yearly payment to 

become due at the end of six calendar months from my decease and I declare my Will to be that  in case the amount of my property applicable to the payment of the said Annuities shall not be of  a sufficient amount to pay the same in full the same shall abate rateably and in an equal  proportion I give and devise to the said Henry Mogford John Mogford and RICHARD PLOWMAN 

their heirs and assigns all and every my freehold ?? and ?? messuages and tenements and  hereditaments and all other real estate whatsoever and wheresoever which I have power to  dispose of or appoint by this my Will with their appurtenances (save and except for the estates 

which are vested in me in trust or by way of mortgage) upon the trusts and for the intents and  pruposes hereinafter expressed and ??? of or ??? the same and i give and bequeath all and  every my leasehold estates lands and tenements and all my goods chattels ??? and securities 

for money and other personal estate and effects of or to which I shall be possessed ir ??? at the  time of my decease except what I otherwise dispose of by this my Will  unto the said Henry  Mogford John Mogford and Richard Plowman their heirs executors administrators or assigns  upon the trusts hereinafter expressed and declared of or ???? the same ?? I do hereby declare 

my Will to be that my said ??? and personal estates are to ??? be devised and bequeathed  upon trust that they the said Henry Mogford John Mogford and Richard Plowman their heirs  executors administrators or assigns so and shall with all ??? speed after my decease call in and 

convert into money my said personal estate or ?? part thereof... 

Continues with detailed provisions for: 

Disposal of assets 

Type of Annuities to be purchased  Passing on of bequeathal to any future children of his daughters  HM  JM & RP are executors 

...In witness whereof of the said John Otridge the Testator have to this my last Will and  Testament set my hand this twelfth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight  hundred and fifty - witnessed by Henry Burton  I Donovan  clerks to ??? Richard Plowman 

Upper Wellington St  Covent Garden 

Updated on 16 Mar 2006