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Will & Inventory - Janet Blair

Will
Blair

I Mrs Janet Blair Widow of the deceased Joseph Bain Esquire of Morriston for settling the succession to my subjects and estate after my decease and for certain other good causes and considerations me hereto moving do hereby give grant dispose assign convey and make over from me to and in favour of Mrs Agnes Blair widow of the deceased James Gillespie of Parkhall may only sister and her heirs and assignees whomsoever all and sundry Lands Tenements and other heritage debts sums of money household furniture goods and gear and other moveable effects and in general the whole subjects and estate heritable and moveable of whatever descriptions presently belonging and owing or which may be belonging and owing to me at the time of my decease together with the whole rents interest profit and providence of the said subjects and also the write evidence titles and other documents thereof with all action ? and ? which here followed or may be competent to follow thereon turning and transferring the whole premises from me to and in favour of the said Agnes Blair and her foresaids whom I hereby surrogate and substitute in my full right and place of the same But declaring always that these presents are grantest and shall be accepted by my said sister and her foresaids under the burden of the payment of all my just and lawful debts sickbed and funeral charges and also under the burden of the payment to Joseph Bain and Janet Blair Bain children of John Bain now of Morriston equally betwinst them and their heirs or assignees of the sum of five hundred pounds sterling and which shall be payable to them at the decease of my said sister and for securing payment of the said sum my said sister and her foresaids shall be obliged within six months after my decease to invest and secure the same on good and sufficient heritable security and the writings thereof shall be conceived in favour of my said sister in liferent for her liferent use allenarly during her life and the said Joseph Bain and Janet Blair Bain equally betwinst them in fee and also declaring that these presents are granted under the burden of my said sister and her foresaids delivering over after her decease to the said John Bain and his heirs or assignes my whole household furniture and plenishing which may belong to me at my decease including Silver Plate and Bed and Table Linen or other effects thereto pertaining, it being hereby declared that my said sister shall only have the liferent right and use of the same during her life and shall be obliged to furnish the said John Bain or his foresaids with a regular authenticated Inventory of the said furniture and plenishing after my decease and also declaring that these presents are granted under the burde? Of my said sister making payment of such the ? and Bequests as I may think proper hereafter to make by any separate writing or codicil executed by me and I hereby nominate and appoint the said Agnes Blair to be my sole executor and Intromitter with my moveable estate after my decease with full power to give up inventories thereof and confirm the same and in general to do every other thing in the premises belonging to the office of executing and I hereby receive to myself liferent use and disposal of the subjects hereby conveyed with full power and liverty at anytime in my life and even on deathbed to qualify revoke or alter these presents at please But dispensing with the delivery hereof and declaring these presents so far as unaltered to be valid and effectual this found lying by me or in the custody of any other person undelivered at my decease any law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding and I consent to the registration hereof in the Books of Council and Session or others competent for preservation and thereto constitute the said John William Gordon Procurators In Witness

Whereof these presents written upon this once the two foreceding pages of stamped paper by William Graham Writer in Glasgow are subscribed by me the said Janet Blair or Bain at Hamilton the second day of April Eighteen Hundred and forty six years before these witnesses the said William Graham and John Brock Grocer in Hamilton (signed, Janet Bain Janet Blair John Brock Witness Wm Graham Witness - Recorded in the Sheriff Court Books of Lanarkshire at Glasgow 11th February 1847.

Inventory
Blair or Bain

At Glasgow on the 5th April 1847 Compeared ? Graham Writer Glasgow and gave in the inventory to be recorded whereof the tenor following:-

Inventory of the Personal Estate of Mrs Janet Blair or Bain residing at Ballgreen near Hamilton widow of the deceased Joseph Bain Esquire of Morriston who died at Ballgreen on the 2nd day of Feb 1847 with interest on Principal sums at that date

This is the inventory of Personal Estate referred to in the subjoined affidavit made by me of this date Glasgow 5 April 1847 (signed John Bain George Skene)

At Glasgow the 5th day of April 1847 years

In presence of George Skene Esquire Advocate Commissary Depute of Lanarkshire Appeared John Bain Esquire of Morriston who being solemnly sworn and examined depones that the deceased Mrs Janet Blair or Bain residing at Ballgreen near Hamilton widow of the deceased Joseph Bain Esquire of Morriston died at Ballgreen on the 2nd day of February 1847 and Deponent has entered upon the management of the deceaseds personal estate as Executor Dative qua official legatee and also qua curator and administrator in law for Joseph Bain and Janet Blair Bain his children in minority, the other Legatees of the said deceased in virtue of Deed of Settlement exectured by her of date the 2nd of April 1842 and recorded in the Sheriff Court Books of Lanarkshire at Glasgow the 11th day of February 1847, and as such the Deponent has been ? by Decree of the Commissary of Lanark upon the 17th day of March 1847 That the Deponent does not know of any settlement or writing relative to the disposal of the deceases personal estate or effects or any part there of other than the deed of settlement above mentioned and Extract of which is now exhibited and signed by the Deponent and the said Commisssary as relative hereto. That the foregoing Inventory which is signed by the Deponent and the said Commissary as relative hereto is a full and complete Inventory of the Personal Estate and effects of the said deceased Mrs Jaent Blair or Bain wheresoever situated and belonging or due to her beneficially at the time of her death in so far as the same had come to the Deponents knowledge and that the value of the said estate situated in Scotland is of the value of 1000 and under the value of 1500 Sterling. All which is truth as the Deponent shall answer to God (signed) John Bain George Skene Commissary Depute

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