struggling reading a will

[curtiss]

Hello All

Not sure if anyone can help me but i got 2 wills of my 3xgreat grandfather and 4x grandmother but can not read them! does anyone know how i can make heads or tails of them.

Thanks in advance

Emily

[lizdb]

Can you post the troublesome bits, so we can have a look?

[curtiss]

Thank you i think i have attached a photo of it as i can't seem to attach the whole thing

Thank you again

Emily

[curtiss]

sorry i posted it all as the only bit i understand is his name and lanchester hehe

Thanks Again

Emily

[lizdb]

Heres a starter at it

This is the last will and testament ofme Joseph Thompson of Lanchester in the county of Durham cleric(?) I devise all that my  ...... ....... parcel of ground situate at ........ ......... near Lanchester aforesaid unto my son Joseph Thompson his heirs and assigns in trust to pay the rents and yearly proceeds thereof unto my dear wife wife Mary Thompson during her life and after her demise(?) in trust to my son John Thompson his heirs and assigns for ever. I bequeath unto my said son Joseph Thompson his executors and administrators all mypersonal estate and effects of what nature or kind whatsoever in trust after payment of all my just debts to pay the interest dividend and yearly proceeds thereof unto my said wife during her life and upon her demise(?) to divide my said personal estate equally amongst all my children share andshare alike ......


Do some more in a min!

[lizdb]

.....including himself the said Joseph Thompson and also the said John Thompson, tne children of my deceased daughter Maria having the share that she would have received if she had been living at the time of my decease. I give and bequeath unto my said son Joseph Thompson his heirs and assigns  allsuch estates as are vested in me by way of trust upon the trusts affecting the same and I reinstate and appoint my son the said Joseph Thompson sole executor of this my will witness tnereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty

Then he signs, witnessed by J Hutchinson (solicitor) and Elizabeth Crabtree.
Then it goes on to say Will was proved in 1842 (when he died)

[JenB]

 .....of Lanchester in the county of Durham Clerk.....

.....I devise all that my close or parcel of ground....

[JenB]

.....ground situate at Pea Bank? near Lanchester.....

I think it's decease, not demise 

[curtiss]

 

Wow that is amazing thank you so much i had no idea at all what it said.

Thank you so much

Emily