Will of Joshua Reynolds Pugh (1776-1852)

Date: 16 Aug 1848
Location: Islington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Surname/tag: Pugh

Contents 1 Introduction 2 People List 3 Property List 4 Will Transcript 5 Proving Transcript 6 Sources

Introduction

This is a transcription of the Last Will and Testament of Joshua Reynolds Pugh of Duncan Terrace, Islington, Middlesex, Gentleman, who died on 14 May 1852.^[1]

Spelling, punctuation, line breaks, gaps, and big bold text are as per the register copy. Abbreviations are expanded and additions noted in [square brackets]. Paragraph breaks (where added) and bold text for names are my own for ease of reading.

Individuals in the people list are linked to their profile if the profile exists, or are coloured red if not.

People List

People in the will, in the order that they are mentioned:

1. Joshua Reynolds Pugh, testator
2. Margaret Pugh, wife, executrix
3. Julia Porter, daughter
4. Daniel Greenaway Porter, husband of daughter Julia Porter
5. Joshua Reynolds Pugh, the younger, son, executor
6. Thomas Pugh, son, executor
7. Maria Louisa Pugh, daughter
8. Charlotte Ann Pugh, daughter
9. Margaret Pugh, the younger, daughter
10. J. S. Burton, solicitor, 10 Salisbury Street, Strand, witness
11. Joseph Randall, clerk to Messrs. Hodgson & Burton, 10 Salisbury Street, Strand, witness
12. Frederic Thomas Pratt, Doctor or Laws, Surrogate

Property List

Properties in the will, in the order that they are mentioned:
None

Will Transcript

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This is the last Will and Testament
of me Joshua Reynolds Pugh of Duncan Terrace Islington in the County of
Middlesex Gentleman I will and direct that all my just debts and funeral and testament-
ary expences shall be paid as soon as conveniently may be after my decease by my
Executrix and Executors hereinafter named out of my personal estate I give and
bequeath unto my wife Margaret Pugh for her own absolute use and benefit all my
plate linen china glass wines liquors jewels books pictures and household goods and
furniture^x as are now in the possession of my daughter Julia Porter and her husband
Daniel Greenaway Porter I give devise and bequeath all and every mu freehold and
leasehold messuages lands tenements ground rents and hereditaments
whatsoever and wheresoever and all my goods chattels money and securities for
money And other real and personal estate and effects whatsoever (except
such personal effects as are hereinbefore by me specifically bequeathed) unto my said
wife and my sons Joshua Reynolds Pugh the younger and Thomas Pugh their
heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively according to the
several natures and qualities of the said estates and effects Upon trust by with and
out of my said ground rents and the rents issues and annual produce of my said
other real and personal estate to pay yearly and every year during the life of
my said wife one annuity or yearly sum of One hundred pounds free from taxes
and clear of all other deductions whatsoever into the proper hands of my said wife
for her own sole and separate use or unto such person or persons for such purposes

[margin note]

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including such of my household goods and furniture

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and in such manner as she by any writing under her hand shall from time to time do and
when the said annuity shall have become due and payable but not by way of anticipation
charge or assignment appoint to receive the same and so that the same annuity may
not be subject to the debts control disposition or engagements of any person with whom
she may happen to intermarry the said annuity to be paid by four equal quarterly payments
in every year the first quarterly payment thereof to begin and be made at the end of three
calendar months next after my decease And upon further trust in case of the death of
my said Wife upon any other day than one of the said quarterly days of payment
to pay to the executors or administrators of my said Wife a proportional part of the
said annuity of One hundred pounds for the time which shall have elapsed from the
last quarterly day or payment preceding her decease up to an inclusive of the day of
the decease of my said Wife and I will and direct that the receipts of my said Wife or
of her appointee or appointees as aforesaid and her his or their receipts only shall be
sufficient discharges to the person or persons paying the said annuity for so much
thereof as in such receipts shall be acknowledged or expressed to be receipts And subject
to the payment of the said annuity I will and direct that my said Wife and Sons the said
Margaret Pugh Joshua Reynolds Pugh the younger and Thomas Pugh
and the survivors and survivor of them his or her heirs executors and administrators
and their or his or her assigns shall stand and be possessed of and interested in all
and every my said real and personal estate and effects as devised and bequeathed
upon trust as aforesaid Upon further trust to pay and divide during the life of
my said Wife so much of my said ground rents and of the rents issues and annual
produce of my said other real and personal estate as shall remain after payment
to my said Wife of the said annuity of one hundred pounds unto and (except as
hereinafter mentioned) in equal shares between and amongst my six children
the said Joshua Reynolds Pugh the younger Thomas Pugh and Julia Porter and
Maria Louisa Pugh Charlotte Ann Pugh and Margaret Pugh the younger or
such of them as shall be living but the shares of my said daughters to be paid as
hereinafter directed Provided always and I hereby will and declare that as I gave
to my daughter the said Julia Porter in money or money's worth the sum of three
hundred pounds upon or after her marriage her share of and in the said
remaining ground rents rents issues and general produce shall be less by twelve
pounds yearly than the shares of her brothers and sisters and that such sum
of twelve pounds shall accordingly be yearly and every year deducted by the
trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will from the said share of the said
Julia Porter of and in the said remaining ground rents rents issues and produce
and be paid equally between and amongst my said other children the said Joshua
Reynolds Pugh the younger Thomas Pugh Maria Louisa Pugh Charlotte
Ann Pugh and Margaret Pugh the younger or the survivors of them Provided
also and I hereby further will and declare that the shares of said daughters
Julia Porter Maria Louisa Pugh Charlotte Ann Pugh and Margaret Pugh the
younger of and in the said remaining ground rents rents issues and produce
under the trusts aforesaid shall be for the sole and separate use and benefit of
my said daughters respectively apart from and exclusive of their respective
husbands and so as not to be in any way subject to the debts engagements control
or disposition of such husbands and the said shares shall accordingly be paid by
the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will unto such person or
persons for such purposes and such manner as my said daughters respectively
shall from time to time notwithstanding any coverture they respectively may be
under by any writing or writings signed by them respectively as and when the
said shares shall have become due and payable and not so as to mortgage
charge dispose of of affect the same by or in the way of anticipation direct or
direction or appointment shall extend the the said shares shall be paid into the
proper hands of my said daughters respectively and the receipts of my said
daughters respectively or their respective appointees as aforesaid notwith-
standing any coverture they respectively may be under and no other receipts

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shall be sufficient discharges for the said respective shares of my said daughters of
and in the said remaining ground rents rents issues and produce and I will and
direct that as soon as conveniently may be after the decease of my said Wife the
trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will shall sell and absolutely dispose of
and call in and convert into money all and every my said real and personal estate
and effects so given devised and bequeathed upon trust as aforesaid or so much thereof
respectively as shall be then existing and not consist of money and that my said
trustees or trustee shall sell and dispose of the property so directed to be sold either together
or in parcels and either by public auction or private contract as to them or him
shall seem expedient for the best price or prices in money that can be reasonably had or
obtained for the same and shall only convey or assign the same to the purchaser or purchasers
thereof or as he she or they respectively may direct or appoint and shall stand and be
possessed of and interested in the monies which shall arise or be procured from or by the sale
or sales of the premises so hereinbefore directed to be sold after payment thereout of all
costs and expences attendant upon and incident to such sale or sales and of all other
monies to arise or be procured from or by the disposition calling in and conversion into
money as aforesaid of the rest of the said trust premises not consisting of money and of
such part of my said estate as shall consist of money at the death of my said Wife
and of the rents issues and produce of my said real and personal estate until the sale
and conversion thereof into money (subject to the payment to the executors or
administrators of my said wife of such proportional part as hereinbefore mentioned of
the said annuity of one hundred pounds Upon trust by with and out of the said
monies rents issues and produce to pay to my said children Joshua Reynolds Pugh
the younger Thomas Pugh Maria Louisa Pugh Charlotte Ann Pugh and Margaret
Pugh the younger or such of them as shall survive my said Wife the sum of three
hundred pounds each such sum of three hundred pounds to be considered a vested
interest in case such surviving child immediately upon the death of my said Wife
and to be capable of transmission accordingly to the personal representatives of such
child But if any one or more of my said five children shall have died in the lifetime
of my said wife then the sum or sums of three hundred pounds which under the trust
last aforesaid would have been payable to my said deceased child or children if he
she or they had survived my said Wife shall be paid to his her or their said issues
respectively so living as aforesaid at the death of my said Wife each issue if more
than one in any case to take the said sum of three hundred pounds which would
have been payable as aforesaid to their said deceased parent if living amongst them
in equal shares as tenants in common and I further will and direct that my said
trustees or trustee for the time being shall after payment of the said sums of three
hundred pounds to such of my said last mentioned five children as shall survive my
said Wife and to the issue as aforesaid of such of them (if any) as shall have died in
the lifetime of my said Wife leaving such issue as aforesaid surviving my said Wife
stand and be possessed of and interested in the residue of the said monies rents issues
and produce Upon trust to pay and divide the same unto and equally between and
amongst all my said children the said Joshua Reynolds Pugh the younger Thomas
Pugh Maria Louisa Pugh Julia Porter Charlotte Ann Pugh and Margaret Pugh
the younger or such of them as shall survive my said Wife the share of each such
surviving child in the said residue to be considered a vested interest in him or
her immediately upon the death of my said Wife and to be capable of transmission
accordingly to the personal representatives of such surviving child But if any one
or more of my said six children shall have died in the lifetime of my said Wife
then the share of shares of the said residue under the trust last aforesaid would
have been payable to my said deceased child or children if he she or they had survived
my said Wife shall be paid to his her or their issue respectively so living as
aforesaid at the death of my said wife such issue if more than one in any case to
take their said deceased parents share of the said residue amongst them in equal
shares as tenants in common Provided always and I hereby will and declare

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that it shall be lawful for and I hereby empower my said trustees or trustee for the time
being at any time during the life of my said wife is such trustees or trustee shall think fit
so to do to sell and dispose of and convert into money the whole or any part or parts of
my said real and personal estate and effects so devised and bequeathed upon trust as
aforesaid And I will and declare that my said trustees or trustee shall stand and be
possessed of an interested in the monies which shall arise from or be produced by
any such sale or sales or conversion so made in the lifetime of my said Wife
Upon trust after payment of all costs and expences attendant upon or incident to such
last mentioned sale or sales or conversion to lay out and invest the same monies in
the names or name of my said trustees or trustee in some or one of the Parliamentary
stocks of public funds of Great Britain or at interest on Government or real securities
in Great Britain or Ireland or upon guaranteed stock of any Railway in Great Britain
and from time to time to alter vary and transfer the said stocks funds and securities
for or into other stocks funds or securities of the like nature when and as often as
they he or she shall think fit and my said trustees or trustee shall stand and be
possessed of an interested in all the said trust monies stocks funds and securities and
the interest dividends and annual produce thereof upon and for such and the same
trusts intents and purposes in all respects as are hereinbefore contained and declared
of and concerning my said real and personal estate and effects so devised and
bequeathed upon trust as aforesaid and the rents issues and annual produce thereof
provided always and I hereby further will and declare that the sums of three
hundred pounds hereinbefore directed to be paid to my daughters Maria Louisa
Pugh Charlotte Ann Pugh and Margaret Pugh the younger and also the shares of
my same daughters and of my daughter Julia Porter of and in the said residuary
trust monies stocks funds securities and premises shall be for the sole and separate
use and benefit of my said daughters respectively or such of them as shall live to
become entitled thereto apart from and exclusive of their respective husbands and so
as not to be in any way subject to the debts control disposition or engagements of such
husbands and that the receipts of my said daughters respectively or such of them as
shall live to become entitled as aforesaid notwithstanding and coverture they
may respectively be under shall be sufficient discharges for the said sums of three
hundred pounds and residuary shares And I also will and declare that the
bequest hereinbefore made to and the annuity hereinbefore directed to be paid
to my said Wife shall be accepted and taken by her in her and full satisfaction
of all dower and thirds of Common Law or by custom or otherwise and that she
shall not be entitled to any such dower or thirds in or out of any lands or
hereditaments whatsoever of or to which I have been or now am or shall at
any time here after be seized possessed or entitled And I hereby nominate constitute and
appoint my said Wife Margaret Pugh and my said sons Joshua Reynolds Pugh the
younger and Thomas Pugh Executrix and Executors of this my Will Provided
always and I hereby further will and declare that the receipt or receipts in writing of the
trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will for any sum or sums of money pay-
able to them him or her under or by virtue of or in or about the execution of any of the
trusts or powers hereinbefore contained shall be a sufficient and effectual discharge or
sufficient and effectual discharges for the same sum or sums of money or so much
thereof respectively as in such receipt or receipts shall be expressed or acknowledged
to be received and that the person or persons to whom the same receipt or receipts
shall be given his her or their heirs executors administrators or assigns shall not
be afterwards answerable or accountable for any loss misapplication or nonapplication
or be in anywise obliged or concerned to see to the application of the money therein
acknowledged to have been received and I further Will and declare that if my said
Wife and my said sons Joshua Reynolds Pugh and Thomas Pugh or any of them
or any future trustee or trustees to be appointed of this my Will under this present power
or proviso shall die or go to reside permanently beyond the seas or be desirous of
being discharged from or shall refuse or decline to act or become incapable of acting
in the execution of the trusts hereof at any time or times before the said trusts shall be
fully executed performed or discharged then and when and so often as the same shall

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happen it shall be lawful to and for my said trustees herein named or the
survivors or survivor of them living at me decease whether they he or she shall accept
the trusts hereof or shall renounce the same of for the trustees or trustee for the time being
as the case may be of this my Will or the executors or administrators of the last
surviving or continuing trustee thereof by and deed or deeds instrument or instruments
in writing to be sealed and delivered by them him or her in the presence of and attested
by two or more credible witnesses from time to time to nominate substitute and appoint any
other person or persons to be a trustee or trustees of this my Will in the stead or place of
the trustee or trustees so dying or going to reside permanently beyond the seas or desiring
to be discharged or refusing or declining to act or becoming incapable of acting as afore-
said and that when and so often as any new trustee or trustees shall be nominated
and appointed as aforesaid all the trust monies stocks funds securities estates and premises
which shall then be vested in the said trustee or trustees so dying or going to reside
permanently beyond the seas or desiring to be discharged or refusing or declining to act
or becoming incapable of acting as aforesaid either solely or jointly with any other
trustee or trustees shall thereupon with all convenient speed be assigned transferred
and conveyed in such sort and manner and so that the same shall and may be
legally and effectually vested in the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees of the
same trust monies stocks funds securities estates and premises respectively and such
was trustee or trustees or if there shall be no surviving or continuing trustee or trustees
then and in such new trustee or trustees only Upon the same trusts as are hereinbefore
declared of and concerning the same trust monies stocks funds securities and premises
respectively or such of the same trusts as shall or may be then subsisting and capable
of taking effect and that all and every such new trustee or trustees shall and may in
all things act and assist in the management carrying on and execution of the said
trusts to which he or they shall be so appointed as aforesaid as fully and effectually
and with all and every the same power and powers authority and authorities to all
interests effects constructions and purposes whatsoever as if he or they had been
originally in and by this my Will nominated trustee or trustees for the purposes
hereof and as the trustee or trustees in these presents named his or their heirs
executors or administrators or other the trustee or trustees in or to whose place
such new trustee or trustees shall respectively come and succeed could or might
have done if continuing to act in the trusts of this my Will any thing herein
before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and hereby
further will and declare that the said several trustees herein named or to be
nominated and appointed by virtue of the proviso last hereinbefore contained
and each and every of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns
of them and each one every of them shall be charged and chargeable with such
monies only as he she or they shall respectively receive by virtue of the trusts
hereinbefore contained notwithstanding his her or their or any of their giving
or signing or joining in giving or signing any receipt or receipts or doing any other
act or acts for the sake of conformity and any one or more of them shall nor be answer-
able or accountable to the other or others of them of for the acts receipts neglects
or defaulys of the other or others of them but each and every of them only for his
her or their own acts receipts neglects and defaults respectively and that they or
any one or more of them shall not be answerable or accountable for any Banker
Broker or other person with whom or in whose hands any part of the said trust
monies shall or may be deposited or lodged for safe custody or otherwise in the
execution of the trusts hereinbefore contained nor for the insufficiency of
deficiency of any security or securities stocks or funds in or upon which the
said trust monies or any part thereof shall be placed out or invested nor for any
other misfortune loss or damage which may happen to the said trust monies
stocks funds securities estates and premises in the execution of the aforesaid
trusts or in relation thereto except and so far only as the same shall happen
or though his her or their own wilful act neglect or default respectively and
also that it shall and may be lawful to and for them the said trustees herein
named and such future trustees or trustee to be appointed as aforesaid and every or

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any of them their and every or any of their heirs executors administrators or assigns by
and out of the monies which shall come to his her or their hands by virtue of the
trusts aforesaid to retain and reimburse himself herself or themselves respectively and
also to allow to his her or their Co-trustee or Co-trustees all sums of money costs charges
damages and expences and fees to Counsel for advice which he she or they or any
of them shall or may suffer sustain expend disburse be at or be put unto in or
about the execution of the aforesaid trusts or any of them or in relation thereto
or any of them In witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament
subscribed my name the sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty eight ─── J. R. Pugh ─── Signed by the
Testator in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence
of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto ─── J. S.
Burton Sol^r 10 Salisbury Street Strand ─── Jos^h Randall Clerk to Mess^rs
Hodgson & Burton 10 Salisbury Street Strand

Proving Transcript

Proved at London the 16th July 1852 before the Worshipful Frederic Thomas
Pratt Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths of Margaret Pugh Widow the Relict
and Joshua Reynolds Pugh and Thomas Pugh the sons the Executors to whom
adm[inistrati]on was granted having been first sworn duly to administer.

Sources

1. ↑ Last Will and Testament
   Reference: PROB 11/2156/237
   Description: Will of Joshua Reynolds Pugh, Gentleman of Islington , Middlesex
   Date: 16 July 1852
   Held by: The National Archives, Kew
   The National Archives (accessed 30 August 2023)