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Will and Inventory - John Bain Esq

Will
Follows Disposition and Settlement of John Bain of Morriston residing at Huntingdon Cottage Bridge of Allan

Considering that I have already provided for my children to the best of my ability and being now desirous and resolved to settle the remainder of my means and estate and affairs generally so as to prevent disputes after my death in regard to my succession Do hereby give grant assign dispose and convey to and in favour of Wilhelmina Turnbull or Bain my wife residing with me in the event of her surviving me and her heirs and assigness whomsoever All and sundry lands and heritages debts heritable and moveable and whole goods gear debts sums of money furniture and effects including Railway and other stocks and shares and generally the whole estate and effects heritable and moveable real and personal of every description now belonging or which shall pertain and belong to me at the time of my death with the whole writs titles vouchers and securitites thereof and all that has followed or may be competent to follow thereon with power to the said Wilhelmina Turnbull or Bain and her foresaids to call and pursue for uplift and discharge the debts goods and effects hereby conveyed and generally to do everything in relation to the premises which I might have done before granting hereof But always with and under the burden of my first and lawful debts funeral expenses and of such gifts or legacies as I may think proper to leave by any deed to be hereafter executed by me and I hereby nominate and appoint the said Wilhelmina Turnbull or Bain to be my sole Executrix and universal legatory excluding all others therefrom Proving always and declaring that in the event of my said Lands of Morriston and Rosebank being taken possession of and sold by the said Wilhelmina Turnbull or Bain or by the heritable creditors vested therein and producing a sum more than sufficient to pay the heritable debts secured there on interest and expenses of sale. I direct and appoint my said Disponce to pay and deliver to my son William Edward Bain the free balance or surplace of the price if any that may remain from the sale of said lands And I reserve my own liferent of the estate and effects before conveyed and power to me at any time of my life to alter or revoke there presents as I may think proper But declaring the same in so far as not altered or revoked by me shall be a valid and effectual deed wheresoever found at the time of my death and I dispense with the delivery hereof and revoke all deeds of a testamentary nature executed by me prior to the date hereof and I consent to the Registration hereof for presentation and execution

In witness whereof these presents written on this and the preceeding page by Joseph Adam Clerk to John Kerr Writer in Glasgow are subscribed by me at Glasgow the seventeenth day of August Eighteen hundred and sixty eight before these witnesses the said John Kerr and Joseph Adam.

Glasgow 7th March 1870 This is the Settlement referred to by me in my Deposition to the Inventory of the personal Estate of John Bain within designed.

(signed) Wilhelmina Bain
(signed) Archibald Galbraith J.P

Inventory of the Personal Estate of the late John Bain
At Stirling the ninth day of March Eighteen hundred and seventy years In presence of supra

Compeared Ebenezer Morrison writer in stirling for John Kerr writer in Glasgow and produced and gain in to whereof the tenor follows:

Inventory of the personal estate wheresoever situated of John Bain of Morriston who resided at Bridge of Allan & who died there on the twentieth day of December Eighteen hundred and sixty nine.

(signed) Wilhelmina Bain
(signed) Archibald Galbraith J R

At Glasgow the sevent day of March Eighteen hundred and seventy in presence of Archibald Galbraith one of her Majestys Justces of the Peace for the County of Lanark Appeared Wilhelmina Turnbull or Bain residing at Bridge of Allan, relict of the late John Bain of Morriston who resided at Brdge of Allan, who being solemnly sworn and examined depones that the said John Bain died at Bridge of Allan upon the twentieth day of December Eighteen hundred and sixty nin, and the deponent has entered upon the possession and management of the deceaseds personal estate as sole executive nominated by him in a Disposition and Settlement executed by him upon the seventeenth day of August Eighteen hundred and sixty eight, which is now echibited and signed by the Deponent and the said Justice of Peace of this date as relative here to : That the Deponent does not know of any testamentary settlement or writing relative to the disposal of the deceaseds personal estate or effects or any part thereof, other than the said disposition and settlement: That the foregoing inventory signed by the Deponent and the said Justice of Peace as relative hereto is a full and complete Inventory of the Personal Estate and Effects of the said deceased John Bain wheresoever situated and belonging or due to him beneficially at the time of his death in so far as the same has come to the Deponents knowledge that the Deponent does not know of any money or property belonging to the deceased liable to the duty imposed by the Acts 23 Vict.C15 and 23 and 23 Vict C 80: That the value at this date of said personal estate and effects situated in Scotland including the proceeds accrued thereon down to this date in Eight hundred pounds sterling and under one thousand pounds sterling: That confirmation of the said Personal Estate is required in favour of the Deponent. All which is truth as the Deponent shall answer to God

(signed) Wilhelmina Bain
(signed) Archibald Galbraith J P

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