This is the last Will of me Charles Simpson Walker of Saint Margaret's Bromyard Road in the City of Worcester, Gentleman. I appoint my four daughters Mary Walker, Lilian Elizabeth Walker, Lucy Marian Walker and Charlotte Simpson Walker (herein after called my Trustees) to be the Trustees and Executors of this my Will. I give all my real Estate (if any) and all my personal Estate to my Trustees Upon trust to sell call in collect and convert the same into money and after payment thereout of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses to hold the net proceeds of such sale calling in collection and conversion Upon trust for all such of them my said four daughters Mary Walker, Lilian Elizabeth Walker, Lucy Marian Walker and Charlotte Simpson Walker as shall be living at my death and such child or children of any such daughter then deceased as being male shall attain the age of twenty one years or being female shall attain that age or marry in equal shares absolutely but so that the child or the children collectively of any deceased daughter of mine shall take only the same which such deceased Daughter would have taken if she had survived me I declare that it shall be lawful for my trustees to raise part or parts not exceeding into the whole one-half of the expectant or presumptive share of any minor taking under this my Will and to apply the same for or towards his or her advancement preferment or benefit as my trustees shall think fit and I declare that all moneys for the time being held by my trustees under the trusts of this my Will may be reclaimed in their present investments or may be invested in or upon any of the public stocks or funds of Government securities of the United Kingdom or upon freehold copyhold leasehold or chattel rent securities in England or Wales or in or upon the shares stocks debentures, mortgage or securities of any Company or Corporation or body whether commercial municipal county local or otherwise carrying on business or constituted for any purpose in Great Britain or any Colony or dependency of the United Kingdom (but not in any other mode of investment) and may from time to time vary such investments for others of any kind hereby authorised and I hereby revoke all former or other wills by me heretofore at any time made. In witness whereof I have set my hand to this my will this sixth day of October, One thousand Nine hundred and Two - C.S. Walker - Signed by the said Charles Simpson Walker as said for his last will in the presence of us both being present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other, have herein subscribed our names as witnesses W.B. Hulme, Solicitor, Samuel J. Pollard, his Clerk.
This is a Codicil to the last Will of me Charles Simpson Walker of Saint Margaret's Bromyard Road in the City of Worcester, Gentleman, which Will bears date the sixth day of October One thousand nine hundred and two. Whereas by my said Will I have appointed my four Daughters, Mary Walker, Lilian Elizabeth Walker, Lucy Marian Walker and Charlotte Simpson Walker to be the Trustees and Executors of my said Will, Now I do hereby revoke the appointment of the said Lilian Elizabeth Walker and Lucy Marian Walker as such Trustees and Executors and I do this bearing in mind that in all probability they will not be resident in Worcester at the time of my death and that their being called upon to act as such trustees and Executors would entail upon them duties which they would find it difficult to fulfil and in all other respects I confirm my said Will. In witness whereof I have set my hand to this a first Codicil to my said Will this eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and three - C.S. Walker - Signed by the said Charles Simpson Walker as and for a first Codicil to his last Will in the presence of us both being present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names in witness, the erasure of the word Lucy in the third line above written having been previously named - W.B. Hulme, Sol. Worcester S.J. Pollard, his clerk.
This is a second Codicil to the last Will of me- Charles Simpson Walker of Saint Margaret's Bromyard Road in the City of Worcester, Gentleman which Will bears date the eighteenth day of September, one thousand Nine hundred and three. I give all my furniture, plate, plated articles, linen, china, paintings, engravings and other household effects jewellery and ornaments of the person (except such of them as I shall in my lifetime have given to any of my said daughters) to my daughters, Mary Walker and Charlotte Simpson Walker in equal shares absolutely. I give to each of my Daughters Lilian Elizabeth Walker and Lucy Marian Walker the sum of fifty pounds to be in lieu or place of the furniture and other effects herein before bequeathed to my said daughters Mary Walker and Charlotte Simpson Walker and in all other respects I confirm my said Will. InWitness whereof I have set my hand to this a second Codicil to my said Will this twelfth day of February One thousand nine hundred and seven - C.S. Walker - Signed by the said testator Charles Simpson Walker as said for a second Codicil to his said Will in the presence of us both being present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses - W.B. Hulme, Sol, Worcester. Samuel J. Pollard, his clerk/Affidavit filed as to mis-recital of date of Will in second codicil./On the twelfth day of November, 1908 Probate of this Will (with Two Codicils) was given at Worcester to Mary Walker and Charlotte Simpson Walker, the Executrixes.
To Charles Walker's death certificate
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