This is the last Will and Testament of me Benjamin Crispin Major General retired
in Her Majestys Indian Army now residing at West Lulworth in the County of Dorset
I give devise and bequeath all my real and personal property of every description
and wheresoever situate unto Edward Howe Burke of Marble Hill in the County of Galway
Esquire, Charles Granby Burke of Miltown in the County of Dublin Esquire, Joseph
Weld Esquire, Son of Joseph Weld late of Lulworth Castle in the County of Dorset
Esquire deceased and Reginald Weld Esquire Son of Edward Joseph Weld now of Lulworth
Castle aforesaid Esquire their heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively
Upon trust to pay the interest dividends and annual income of the whole of my said
property by equal half yearly Payments regularly to my Sister Mary Ann Crispin for
and during the term of her natural life and from and after her decease to pay unto
my two Sisters Jane Crispin and Sarah Crispin and to each of them the sum of Sixty
Pounds Per Annum for their lives respectively And I will and desire that my said
Sister Mary Ann do live separately and apart from my other two Sisters Jane and Sarah
and not in the same house together If however they live together then I direct that
the said annuities so given to each of them my said Sisters Jane and Sarah respectively
shall not take effect but shall be utterly revoked And out of the said dividends
and interest so paid to my Sister Mary Ann for life I direct that she shall during
her life and after her decease that my Trustees or the Survivor of them his executors
and administrators do pay to my Son the Reverend Neil Campbell Crispin an annuity
of Fifty Pounds per annum And also to my Son William Benjamin Crispin an Annuity
of Forty Pounds Per Annum according to the Will and Pleasure of my Trustees that
is to say during his good behaviour And after the deaths of each of the said Annuitants
then I direct that as each of them shall depart this life his or her annuity shall
revert to and fall into the residue of my Property which residue subject to the trusts
and directions aforesaid I give devise and bequeath the same absolutely to my Grandchildren
the Children of Lieutenant Colonel James Henry Burke of the Indian Army by my daughter
Marion Elizabeth Burke I desire my said my Trustees or the Survivor of them his executors
or administrators to convey transfer and assign the same to them accordingly. I give
to my Brother Henry Crispin a Captain in the Royal Navy a legacy of Thirty pounds
Sterling Also I give and bequeath to my Son the Reverend Neil Campbell Crispin my
Gold Watch and which is to be held by him and his heirs as an heirloom And I give
bequeath acquit and release unto my Son George Crispin the debt owing to me by him
I appoint the said Edward Howe Burke Charles Granby Burke Joseph Weld and Reginald
Weld Esquire to be Executors of this my Will and hereby revoking all others by me
at anytime heretofore made I declare this only to be and contain my last Will and
Testament In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this twentieth day
of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty five _
Benjamin Crispin
(Attestation Clause)
James Tuck of Wareham Dorset Attorneys Clerk _ Edwd Randall of West Lulworth Dorset
This is a Codicil to my last Will and Testament dated the 20th day of January 1864
I now desire that whatever sum of money may be available either personal or real
of my estate after the decease of my three Sisters shall be in the management of
my Executors for the use of my Grandchildren share and share alike if possible the
Children of my daughter Mrs J H Burke but I desire now that they shall not come into
possession of the Money or any Part of it until they each of them have attained the
age of (21) twenty one years On each attaining the age of 21 the Remnant of Share
is to be paid up as may be deemed desirable by the Executors for the benefit of my
estate and the Children as they arrive at the age of 21 years. The three Delhi Scarfs
and one Cashmere Shawl I leave to my Granddaughter Agnes or surviving Daughter Mrs
J H Burke B Crispin
George Richards James Miller
Affidavit of due execution sworn by George Richards of West Lulworth Innkeeper sworn
at Wareham 2 August 1864 before Freeland Filliter
Proved 11August 1864
Effects under £1100
Will kindly transcribed by Ros Dunning
