In the Name of God Amen I John Wharton of Bidston in the Hundred of Wirrall and County of Chester Yeoman considering the uncertainty of this life do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in Manner and form following First and principally I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it, hoping through the merits of Christ Jesus to receive Remission of all my sins and to inherit everlasting Life; and my Body I commit to the Earth, to be decently buried at the Direction and Discretion of my Executor and Executrix hereinafter named and touching all such worldly Goods and Possessions with which it hath pleased God to bless me I leave as followsFirst I will that all my just Debts, lawful Demands funeral Expences and expences attending the Probate of this my Will be first paid and discharged out of my personal Estate Then I will that my loving Wife Ellen Wharton shall have, and I leave and bequeath to her Twenty Pounds lawful British Money yearly for her natural Life to be paid out of my leasehold Estate in Bidston aforesaid by Ten Pounds every Half Year and the House adjoining that I live in with the Garden at the Back of it and what Goods she pleases to furnish it with, also for her natural Life: and provided the sd Estate fall void by the Death of Lives before her Decease, Then I will that she shall have the two Houses and shop in Peter's Street Liverpool which I hold for three Lives and Twenty One Years, for the Remainder of her natural Life after such my said Estate in Bidston becomes void as aforesaid, and at her Decease I leave these Two Houses and Shop to be sold and the Money they take to be equally divided amongst my son Thomas Wharton, the children of my late daughter Elizabeth Buckley and my daughters Ellen Youds, Margaret Chatterton and Ann Wharton Share and Share alike ; and provided any one or more of them die without Issue his, her, or their Share or Shares to be equally divided to them and their Issues,And If John Daulby should expect any Thing I cut him off with one shilling And I leave and bequeath to my Niece Frances Sarratt Twenty Pounds to be paid at my decease And Last In I leave and bequeath my Estate in Bidston and Liverpool to be set at my Decease my Son Thomas Wharton having the Option of having it at Forty Pounds per Annum , and the neat yearly rent after my Wife's Annuity is deducted for her natural life to be equally divided amongst my son Thomas Wharton my daughter Mary Nicholls, the children of my late daughter Elizabeth Buckley, and my daughters Ellen Youds, Margaret Chatterton and Anne Wharton Share and Share alike to them and their Issue, only I will my son Thomas Wharton shall have four Guineas a Year more than the rest as a reward for his trouble in looking after the setling of it, and provided any one or more of them should die without Issue his, her or their Share or shares to be equally divided amongst the Survivors Share or shares alike And my meaning is that my late daughter Elizabeth Buckley's children above mentioned shall have one Share with my other Children as before limitted, through all my Effects and not every one a Share equal with my other Children And I hereby nominate and appoint my Sone Thomas Wharton and my Wife Ellen Wharton Executor and Executrix of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me made In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this Twenyfourth day of May in the Thirty Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain France and Ireland and so forth and in the Year of our Lord God One Thousand seven Hundred and Ninety six Geo Banks Richard Maddock John Pendleton Source:Chester Record Office
Submitter Rosalind Dunning
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