Wilks William Featherstonehaugh b. Abt 1818 Chiswick, London, Middlesex, England d. 08 May 1880 239 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England: Featherstone One Name Study


Wilks William Featherstonehaugh

Male Abt 1818 - 1880  (~ 62 years)


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  • Name Wilks William Featherstonehaugh 
    Born Abt 1818  Chiswick, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 29 Aug 1821  St Giles in the Fields, High Street, Camden, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Occupation 06 Jun 1841  [2
    a clerk 
    1841 Census 30 Jun 1841  Gainsford Street, St John, Southwark, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • Role: Witness
    Residence 30 Jun 1841  Gainsford Street, St John, Southwark, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Occupation 1844  [4
    a gentleman 
    Residence 1844  White Street, Southwark, London, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Residence 1851  45 Thomas Street, St John Horslydown, Southwark, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Occupation 1856  Park Place, Walworth, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Soap Boiler 
    Residence 1861  239 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Occupation 07 Apr 1861  [7
    a brewer 
    Occupation 02 Apr 1871 
    a brewer and maltster 
    Residence 07 Apr 1871  239 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Occupation 1880  [9
    a brewer master 
    Conv Between 12 Jan 1880 and 07 Nov 1890  The Magpie and Stump, Manor of Chesterton, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    • Cambridgeshire County Council archives
      CreatorName Manor of Chesterton
      Level Item
      Title Copy of court roll: surrenders
      Date 12 January 1880-7 November 1890
      Description By various persons of various tenements. Also includes: i) copy of conveyance by executors of Wilks William Featherstonhaugh late of Cambridge, brewer, of copyhold tenement to John Brown of Chesterton, publican (1880); ii) conveyance by executors of Wilks William Featherstonhaugh late of Cambridge, brewer, of copyhold tenement The Magpie and Stump, to William Henry Apthorpe of Cambridge, brewer (1880); iii) conveyance by trustees of James Nutter of Grantchester, miller, of copyhold tenements in Back Street, Chesterton, to Stephen Mansfield of Trumpington, gentleman. (44 items).
      ReferenceNo 399/M32
      Repository CRO Cambridge
    Will 30 Apr 1880  Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Died 08 May 1880  239 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13
    Death Jun 1880  3b.301, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [14
    Name Wilks W Featherstonhaugh  [14
    Reference Number 9277 
    Reference Number P5263 
    Will 12 Jul 1880  Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [15
    Notes 
    • 1851 census HO107/1559/341/1
      45 Thomas Street, St John, Horslydown, Southwark, Surrey
      Wilks Wm Featherstonhaugh head M 44
      Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh wife M 33
      William Featherstonhaugh son U 5
      Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh dau U 4
      John Featherstonhaugh son U 1
      (occupation and where born columns are left blank)
      this property is next door to The George public House, 43 Shad Thames

      1861 census RG9/1023/9/11
      239 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
      Walks W Fetherstonhough head M 43 brewer employing 6 men Middlesex, Chiswick
      Ann E Fetherstonhough wife M 43 brewers wife Hampshire, Portsmouth
      William Fetherstonhough son 15 scholar Surrey, Southwark
      Maria Warnes serv U 26 house servant Norfolk, Hempnell

      1871 census RG10/1585/11/15
      239 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
      Wilks W Featherstonhaugh head M 53 brewer and maltster employing 8 men Middlesex, Chiswick
      Ann E Featherstonhaugh wife M 53 Hampshire, Portsmouth
      Ann E Featherstonhaugh dau U 24 Surrey, Southwark
      John Featherstonhaugh son U 21 brewers assistant Surrey, Southwark
      Emma Langley serv U 21 general servant domestic Cambridge, Chesterton

      Will
      Wilks William Featherstonhaugh 1880 Cambs
      I Wilks William Featherstonhaugh of the borough of Cambridge Brewer hereby revoke all wills codicils and other testamentary dispositions herebefore made by me and declare this to be my last will I appoint my son William Featherstonhaugh and my friend Frederick Bailey of the Borough of Cambridge Brewer to be Trustees and Executors of this my will and bequeath to each of them who shall accept the office of trustee and executor the sum of fifty pounds as an acknowledgment for the trouble they will have in acting under this my will I appoint Susannah King Genn now residing at No 29 Newmarket Road Cambridge to be Guardian of the child known as Henry Ponsonby Talbot now at school with the Misses Dobson 7 Saint Andrews Hill Cambridge until he attains the age of twenty five years I bequeath to my wife Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh the use during her life of my silver tea and coffee service and also my silver spoons and forks marked F and after her death I bequeath the same to my daughter Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh absolutely I bequeath to my said son William Featherstonhaugh all my plate on which the Antelope crest is engraved I bequeath to my sister Jane Cassandra Wilks Dinnsdale the sum of five hundred pounds I devise all my freehold estate whatsoever and wheresoever and all the leasehold estates to which I shall be entitled at my decease unto and to the use of the said William Featherstonhaugh and Frederick Bailey their heirs Executors administrators and assigns respectively according to the nature and tenure thereof respectively upon trust that the said William Featherstonhaugh and Frederick Bailey or the survivor of them or their heirs executors or administrators respectively of such survivor shall with all convenient speed after my decease sell the same either together or in parcels and either by public auction or private contract and may buy in and rescind any contract for sale and resell without being responsible for any loss occasioned thereby and execute and do all such assurances and acts effectuating any such sale as they or he shall think fit I will that my copyhold estates shall so far as the tenure thereof will permit be disposed of according to the trusts hereinbefore contained concerning my freehold and leasehold estates and for the greater convenience such any will I devise the same copyhold estates to such uses as my said trustees or trustee shall by any deed or deeds to be executed within twenty one years from my decease appoint and in default of appointment To the use of the said William Featherstonhaugh his heirs and assignees To be held upon and subject to the trusts aforesaid I bequeath all my personal estate [except chattels real included in the general devise hereinbefore contained of real estate and except what I otherwise bequeath by this my will] unto the said William Featherstonhaugh and Frederick Bailey their executors and administrators Upon trust that the said William Featherstonhaugh and Frederick Bailey or the survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor shall call in sell and convert into money such parts of my said personal estate as shall not consist of money I direct and declare that my said trustees or trustee shall not sell my freehold and leasehold estate called the Battersea Park Brewery or the messuages and buildings belonging thereto or enjoyed therewith or the stock in trade plant fixtures book debts and other effects employed therein or connected therewith to any person other than my said son William Featherstonhaugh until my trustee or trustees [other than my said son William Featherstonhaugh ] shallby writing his or their hand or hands have offered the same with the money which may be at my death be standing to my credit at the Westminster Branch of the London and County Bank but subject to all the debts and liabilities belonging to or connected with the said brewery to my said son William Featherstonhaugh at the sum of five thousand pounds nor until my said son shall have refused neglected or omitted to notify in writing under his hand to my other trustee or trustees his acceptance of the offer within one calender month after making thereof but no purchaser under this my will shall be obliged to enquire whether this direction has been complied with I declare that my said trustees or trustee shall have a discretionary power to postpone for such a period as to them or him shall seem expedient the conversion or getting in of any part of my residuary personal estate which shall at my decease consist of shares in public companies or stocks funds or securities of any description whatsoever but the yearly proceeds thereof shall be deemed annual income for the purposes of the trusts of this my will I direct that my said trustees or trustee shall out of the monies to arise from the sale and conversion into money of my real and personal estate and of the money of which I shall be possessed at my death pay any funeral and testamentary expenses and such debts as are not otherwise provided for and the legacies other than specific bequeathed by this my will and invest the sum of five thousand pounds in their or his names or name in any of the public stocks or funds or Government securities of the United Kingdom or upon freehold copyhold leasehold or chattel real securities in England or Wales but in no other investment with power from time to time to vary the said stocks funds or securities at their or his discretion for others of a like nature And shall pay the income of the said sum of five thousand pounds and the investments thereof to my said wife during her life And after her death shall stand possessed of the said sum of five thousand pounds and the investments and income thereof In trust to pay and divide the same unto and equally between my said son William Featherstonhaugh And my said daughter Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh as tenants in common And subject to the trusts and powers aforesaid I direct that my said trustees or trustee shall stand possessed of the residue of the monies to arise from the sale of all my real and leasehold estates and the calling in and conversion into money of my personal estate and of the money of which I shall be possessed at my death after reserving and investing the said sum of five thousand pounds Upon trust to pay and divide the same as follows namely to my said son William Featherstonhaugh seven twentieth parts thereof To my said daughter Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh seven twentieth parts thereof to the said Susannah King Genn four twentieth parts thereof And to the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot the remaining two twentieth parts thereof but in case of the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot shall die under the age of twenty five years then I direct my said trustees or trustee to pay the said last mentioned two twentieth parts thereof to the said Susannah King Genn Provided always and I hereby direct my trustees or trustee to invest the share of my residuary estate bequeathed to the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot in any modes of investment herein before authorized for the investment of trust monies until the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot attains the age of twenty five years and to pay such income to the said Susannah King Genn until the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot attains the age of twenty five years to be applied by the said Susannah King Genn for the maintenance education advancement and benefit of the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot without my said trustees or trustee being in anyway answerable for the application thereof And I hereby declare that the receipt of the trustees or trustee for the time being acting in the execution of any of the trusts hereof for the purchase monies of property sold or for any monies funds or securities paid or transferred to them or him in pursuance hereof or any of the trusts hereof shall effectually discharge the purchaser or purchasers or other the person or persons paying or transferring he same therefrom and from being concerned to see to the application thereof And I hereby declare that the power of appointing a new trustee or new trustees of this my will shall be exerciseable by the surviving or continuing trustees or trustee for the time being or the acting executors or executor administrators or administrator of the last surviving or continuing trustee or by the last retiring trustees or trustee and upon any such appointment the number of trustees may be augmented or reduced In witness whereof I the said Wilks William Featherstonhaugh have to this my will contained in four sheets of paper set my hand this thirtieth day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighty
      Signed by the said Wilks William Featherstonhaugh as his last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses
      J Eaden solr Cambridge James Spearing solr clerk to Mr Eaden

      Wilks William Featherstonhaugh

      This is a codicil to the last will and testament of me Wilks William Featherstonhaugh of the Borough of Cambridge Brewer which will bears date the thirtieth day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighty I direct my Trustees to pay and apply the rents profits and income of my real and personal estate until the same shall be sold and converted into money in manner following namely To pay my wife Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh the sum of One hundred and fifty pounds per annum To my daughter Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh One hundred pounds per annum To Susannah King Genn One hundred and forty pounds per annum To the said Susannah King Genn for the benefit of Henry Ponsonby Talbot seventy pounds per annum such several sums to be payable quarterly and to commence from my decease And the surplus of the said rents profits and income shall form part of my residuary personal estate And in all other respects I confirm my said will In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this forth day of May One thousand eight hundred and eighty
      Signed by the said Wilks William Featherstonhaugh as and for a Codicil to his last will and testament in the presence of us 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
      J Eaden solr Cambridge James Spearing Clerk to Mr Eaden
      Wilks W Featherstonhaugh

      Proved at Peterborough with one codicil the 12th day of July 1880 by the oaths of William Featherstonhaugh the son and Frederick Bailey the executors named in the will to whom administration was granted
      The testator Wilks William Featherstonhaugh was late of the Borough and County of Cambridge Brewer and died on the 8th day of May 1880 at Cambridge aforesaid Under £16000
      Eadens & Knowles Solr Cambridge

      THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 15, 1881.
      WILKS WILLIAM Featherstonhaugh, Deceased. Pursuant to the Act of Parliament 22nd and 23rd Victoria, cap. 35, intituled " An Act to further amend the Law of Property, and to relieve Trustees." NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and claimants against the estate of Wilks William Featherstonhaugh; late, of the borough of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridge, Brewer, deceased (who died on the 8th day of May, 1880, and whose will, with one codicil thereto, was proved on the 12th day of July, 1880, in the District Registry at Peterborough of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice by William Featherstonhaugh, of the Battersea Park Brewery, South Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, Brewer, and Frederick Bailey, of the borough of Cambridge, Brewer, the executors therein named), are hereby required to send particulars of their debts or claims, in writing, to us, the undersigned, the Solicitors of the said executors, at our offices, on or before the 8th day of May next, after which day the said executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the said testator among the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the debts, claims, or demands of which they shall then have bad notice; and the said executors will not be liable for the assets, or any part thereof, so distributed to any person of whose debt, claim,
      or demand they shall not then have had notice.—Dated this 10th day of February, 1881. EADENS and KNOWLES, 15, Sidney-street, Cambridge, Solicitors for the said Executors.

      death registration index Wilks W Featherstonhaugh Jun 1880 Cambridge CAM 3b.301 age 62

      death certificate
      1880 death in the sub district of St Andrew the Less in the County of Cambridgeshire
      8 May 1880 239 Newmarket Road Wilks William Featherstonhaugh male age 62 brewer master cause of death Phhins Pulmonalis of one years duration
      informant Annie Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh daughter present at death 239 Newmarket Road, Cambridge 10 May 1880

      being researched by Diane Wilson de.wilson@sympatico.ca 30 August 2008
    Person ID I9277  Featherstone Main
    Last Modified 10 Oct 2022 

    Father William Featherstonhaugh,   b. 29 Nov 1784, Chiswick, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between 1851 and 1861  (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Cassandra Jane Mitchell,   b. Abt 1792, Soho, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1873, 1a.117, Kensington, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 81 years) 
    Married 30 Jul 1816  Parish Church, Chiswick, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [16
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    Family ID F3535  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Ann Elizabeth Sime,   b. Abt 1817,   d. Mar 1887, 3b.328, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Married 01 May 1844  Parish Church of St George the Martyr, Southwark, London, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [17, 18
    Married Jun 1844  4.448, St George Southwark, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [19
    Children 
     1. William Featherstonehaugh,   b. 1845, Southwark, London, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep 1902, 1d.291, Wandsworth, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years)
     2. Ann Elizabeth Featherstonehaugh,   b. 1847, Southwark, London, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Dec 1904, 3b.287, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years)
     3. John Featherstonehaugh,   b. 1850, Southwark, London, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1872, 3b.332, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 22 years)
    Last Modified 18 Nov 2022 
    Family ID F3876  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    News 15 Feb 1881  Princilple Registry, High Holborn, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [20
    • THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 15, 1881.
      WILKS WILLIAM Featherstonhaugh, Deceased. Pursuant to the Act of Parliament 22nd and 23rd Victoria, cap. 35, intituled " An Act to further amend the Law of Property, and to relieve Trustees." NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and claimants against the estate of Wilks William Featherstonhaugh; late, of the borough of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridge, Brewer, deceased (who died on the 8th day of May, 1880, and whose will, with one codicil thereto, was proved on the 12th day of July, 1880, in the District Registry at Peterborough of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice by William Featherstonhaugh, of the Battersea Park Brewery, South Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, Brewer, and Frederick Bailey, of the borough of Cambridge, Brewer, the executors therein named), are hereby required to send particulars of their debts or claims, in writing, to us, the undersigned, the Solicitors of the said executors, at our offices, on or before the 8th day of May next, after which day the said executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the said testator among the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the debts, claims, or demands of which they shall then have bad notice; and the said executors will not be liable for the assets, or any part thereof, so distributed to any person of whose debt, claim,
      or demand they shall not then have had notice.—Dated this 10th day of February, 1881. EADENS and KNOWLES, 15, Sidney-street, Cambridge, Solicitors for the said Executors.
    Last Modified 18 Nov 2022 
    Family ID F3967  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S389] baptism register St Giles in the Fields Middlesex, (2010), baptisms solemnized in the parish of St Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex
      29 August 1821 Wilks William son of William and Cassandra Jane Featherstonhaugh of Turnham Green, Chiswick a carpenter.

    2. [S1841] 1841 Census England & Wales, (2008).

    3. [S1841] 1841 Census England & Wales, (2008), 1841 Census HO107/1087/3/15/23
      Gainsford Street, St John, Southwark, Surrey
      Jane Fetherstonhaugh F 40 n
      Wilks Fetherstonhaugh M 20 clerk n
      Samuel Fetherstonhaugh M 20 clerk n
      Joseph M Fetherstonhaugh M 15 clerk n
      Jane Fetherstonhaugh F 10 n
      Mary Sarraman F 20 F.S. n.

    4. [S10] marriage certificate.

    5. [S1851] 1851 Census England & Wales, UK Gov., (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com OperationsInc, 2005.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851.Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): PublicRecord Office (PRO), 1851. Data imaged from the National A;), 1851 census HO107/1559/341/1
      45 Thomas Street, St John, Horslydown, Southwark, Surrey
      Wilks Wm Featherstonhaugh head M 44
      Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh wife M 33
      William Featherstonhaugh son U 5
      Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh dau U 4
      John Featherstonhaugh son U 1
      (occupation and where born columns are left blank)
      this property is next door to The George public House, 43 Shad Thames.

    6. [S122] Post Office Directory, 856 Post Office London Directory
      Park Place, Walworth, Surrey
      Wilks William Featherstonhaugh soap boiler.

    7. [S1861] 1861 Census England & Wales, UK Gov., (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2005;), 1861 census RG9/1023/9/11
      239 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
      Walks W Fetherstonhough head M 43 brewer employing 6 men Middlesex, Chiswick
      Ann E Fetherstonhough wife M 43 brewers wife Hampshire, Portsmouth
      William Fetherstonhough son 15 scholar Surrey, Southwark
      Maria Warnes serv U 26 house servant Norfolk, Hempnell.

    8. [S1871] 1871 Census England & Wales, (2009), 1871 census RG10/1585/11/15
      239 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
      Wilks W Featherstonhaugh head M 53 brewer and maltster employing 8 men Middlesex, Chiswick
      Ann E Featherstonhaugh wife M 53 Hampshire, Portsmouth
      Ann E Featherstonhaugh dau U 24 Surrey, Southwark
      John Featherstonhaugh son U 21 brewers assistant Surrey, Southwark
      Emma Langley serv U 21 general servant domestic Cambridge, Chesterton.

    9. [S54] death certificate, (-2010).

    10. [S451] Copyhold Manor of Chesterton, Manor of Chesterton, (12 January 1880-7 November 1890), Cambridgeshire County Council archives
      CreatorName Manor of Chesterton
      Level Item
      Title Copy of court roll: surrenders
      Date 12 January 1880-7 November 1890
      Description By various persons of various tenements. Also includes: i) copy of conveyance by executors of Wilks William Featherstonhaugh late of Cambridge, brewer, of copyhold tenement to John Brown of Chesterton, publican (1880); ii) conveyance by executors of Wilks William Featherstonhaugh late of Cambridge, brewer, of copyhold tenement The Magpie and Stump, to William Henry Apthorpe of Cambridge, brewer (1880); iii) conveyance by trustees of James Nutter of Grantchester, miller, of copyhold tenements in Back Street, Chesterton, to Stephen Mansfield of Trumpington, gentleman. (44 items).
      ReferenceNo 399/M32
      Repository CRO Cambridge.

    11. [S12] Will, Will
      Wilks William Featherstonhaugh 1880 Cambs
      I Wilks William Featherstonhaugh of the borough of Cambridge Brewer hereby revoke all wills codicils and other testamentary dispositions herebefore made by me and declare this to be my last will I appoint my son William Featherstonhaugh and my friend Frederick Bailey of the Borough of Cambridge Brewer to be Trustees and Executors of this my will and bequeath to each of them who shall accept the office of trustee and executor the sum of fifty pounds as an acknowledgment for the trouble they will have in acting under this my will I appoint Susannah King Genn now residing at No 29 Newmarket Road Cambridge to be Guardian of the child known as Henry Ponsonby Talbot now at school with the Misses Dobson 7 Saint Andrews Hill Cambridge until he attains the age of twenty five years I bequeath to my wife Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh the use during her life of my silver tea and coffee service and also my silver spoons and forks marked F and after her death I bequeath the same to my daughter Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh absolutely I bequeath to my said son William Featherstonhaugh all my plate on which the Antelope crest is engraved I bequeath to my sister Jane Cassandra Wilks Dinnsdale the sum of five hundred pounds I devise all my freehold estate whatsoever and wheresoever and all the leasehold estates to which I shall be entitled at my decease unto and to the use of the said William Featherstonhaugh and Frederick Bailey their heirs Executors administrators and assigns respectively according to the nature and tenure thereof respectively upon trust that the said William Featherstonhaugh and Frederick Bailey or the survivor of them or their heirs executors or administrators respectively of such survivor shall with all convenient speed after my decease sell the same either together or in parcels and either by public auction or private contract and may buy in and rescind any contract for sale and resell without being responsible for any loss occasioned thereby and execute and do all such assurances and acts effectuating any such sale as they or he shall think fit I will that my copyhold estates shall so far as the tenure thereof will permit be disposed of according to the trusts hereinbefore contained concerning my freehold and leasehold estates and for the greater convenience such any will I devise the same copyhold estates to such uses as my said trustees or trustee shall by any deed or deeds to be executed within twenty one years from my decease appoint and in default of appointment To the use of the said William Featherstonhaugh his heirs and assignees To be held upon and subject to the trusts aforesaid I bequeath all my personal estate [except chattels real included in the general devise hereinbefore contained of real estate and except what I otherwise bequeath by this my will] unto the said William Featherstonhaugh and Frederick Bailey their executors and administrators Upon trust that the said William Featherstonhaugh and Frederick Bailey or the survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor shall call in sell and convert into money such parts of my said personal estate as shall not consist of money I direct and declare that my said trustees or trustee shall not sell my freehold and leasehold estate called the Battersea Park Brewery or the messuages and buildings belonging thereto or enjoyed therewith or the stock in trade plant fixtures book debts and other effects employed therein or connected therewith to any person other than my said son William Featherstonhaugh until my trustee or trustees [other than my said son William Featherstonhaugh ] shallby writing his or their hand or hands have offered the same with the money which may be at my death be standing to my credit at the Westminster Branch of the London and County Bank but subject to all the debts and liabilities belonging to or connected with the said brewery to my said son William Featherstonhaugh at the sum of five thousand pounds nor until my said son shall have refused neglected or omitted to notify in writing under his hand to my other trustee or trustees his acceptance of the offer within one calendar month after making thereof but no purchaser under this my will shall be obliged to enquire whether this direction has been complied with I declare that my said trustees or trustee shall have a discretionary power to postpone for such a period as to them or him shall seem expedient the conversion or getting in of any part of my residuary personal estate which shall at my decease consist of shares in public companies or stocks funds or securities of any description whatsoever but the yearly proceeds thereof shall be deemed annual income for the purposes of the trusts of this my will I direct that my said trustees or trustee shall out of the monies to arise from the sale and conversion into money of my real and personal estate and of the money of which I shall be possessed at my death pay any funeral and testamentary expenses and such debts as are not otherwise provided for and the legacies other than specific bequeathed by this my will and invest the sum of five thousand pounds in their or his names or name in any of the public stocks or funds or Government securities of the United Kingdom or upon freehold copyhold leasehold or chattel real securities in England or Wales but in no other investment with power from time to time to vary the said stocks funds or securities at their or his discretion for others of a like nature And shall pay the income of the said sum of five thousand pounds and the investments thereof to my said wife during her life And after her death shall stand possessed of the said sum of five thousand pounds and the investments and income thereof In trust to pay and divide the same unto and equally between my said son William Featherstonhaugh And my said daughter Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh as tenants in common And subject to the trusts and powers aforesaid I direct that my said trustees or trustee shall stand possessed of the residue of the monies to arise from the sale of all my real and leasehold estates and the calling in and conversion into money of my personal estate and of the money of which I shall be possessed at my death after reserving and investing the said sum of five thousand pounds Upon trust to pay and divide the same as follows namely to my said son William Featherstonhaugh seven twentieth parts thereof To my said daughter Ann Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh seven twentieth parts thereof to the said Susannah King Genn four twentieth parts thereof And to the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot the remaining two twentieth parts thereof but in case of the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot shall die under the age of twenty five years then I direct my said trustees or trustee to pay the said last mentioned two twentieth parts thereof to the said Susannah King Genn Provided always and I hereby direct my trustees or trustee to invest the share of my residuary estate bequeathed to the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot in any modes of investment herein before authorized for the investment of trust monies until the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot attains the age of twenty five years and to pay such income to the said Susannah King Genn until the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot attains the age of twenty five years to be applied by the said Susannah King Genn for the maintenance education advancement and benefit of the said Henry Ponsonby Talbot without my said trustees or trustee being in anyway answerable for the application thereof And I hereby declare that the receipt of the trustees or trustee for the time being acting in the execution of any of the trusts hereof for the purchase monies of property sold or for any monies funds or securities paid or transferred to them or him in pursuance hereof or any of the trusts hereof shall effectually discharge the purchaser or purchasers or other the person or persons paying or transferring he same therefrom and from being concerned to see to the application thereof And I hereby declare that the power of appointing a new trustee or new trustees of this my will shall be exerciseable by the surviving or continuing trustees or trustee for the time being or the acting executors or executor administrators or administrator of the last surviving or continuing trustee or by the last retiring trustees or trustee and upon any such appointment the number of trustees may be augmented or reduced In witness whereof I the said Wilks William Featherstonhaugh have to this my will contained in four sheets of paper set my hand this thirtieth day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighty
      Signed by the said Wilks William Featherstonhaugh as his last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses
      J Eaden solr Cambridge James Spearing solr clerk to Mr Eaden

      Wilks William Featherstonhaugh.

    12. [S3] death registration index, (1837-2010).

    13. [S54] death certificate, (-2010), death certificate
      1880 death in the sub district of St Andrew the Less in the County of Cambridgeshire
      8 May 1880 239 Newmarket Road Wilks William Featherstonhaugh male age 62 brewer master cause of death Phhins Pulmonalis of one years duration
      informant Annie Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh daughter present at death 239 Newmarket Road, Cambridge 10 May 1880.

    14. [S3] death registration index, (1837-2010), Collected Feb 2002.

    15. [S103] Administration, Proved at Peterborough with one codicil the 12th day of July 1880 by the oaths of William Featherstonhaugh the son and Frederick Bailey the executors named in the will to whom administration was granted
      The testator Wilks William Featherstonhaugh was late of the Borough and County of Cambridge Brewer and died on the 8th day of May 1880 at Cambridge aforesaid Under £16000
      Eadens & Knowles Solr Cambridge.

    16. [S382] Marriage Register Parish of Chiswick, (see citation, Period, -2011), 30 July 1816 Chiswick Parish Church Marriage Register
      William Featherstonhaugh a bachelor and Cassandra Jane Mitchell a spinster by Licence
      by the curate Charles McCarthy, both signed in the presence of Wm Ashfield and Richrd Coby.

    17. [S2] Index Marriage registration England & Wales, (1837-1965), marriage registration index Jun 1844 St George Southwark SRY 4 448
      Wilks William Featherstonhaugh and Ann Elizabeth Sime.

    18. [S10] marriage certificate, 1844 marriage solemnized at the Church in the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark in the County of Surrey
      May 1st Wilks William Featherstonhaugh age 27 bachelor gent of White Street father William Featherstonhaugh merchant
      Ann Elizabeth Sime age 27 spinster of White Street father John Sime mariner
      Married in the Parish Church according to the rites and ceremonies of the established church by banns by me Henry A Neill curate
      both signed, witnesses William Stead and Frances Bell|.

    19. [S2] Index Marriage registration England & Wales, (1837-1965).

    20. [S233] London Gazette, Various, (London Gazette), THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 15, 1881.
      WILKS WILLIAM Featherstonhaugh, Deceased. Pursuant to the Act of Parliament 22nd and 23rd Victoria, cap. 35, intituled " An Act to further amend the Law of Property, and to relieve Trustees." NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and claimants against the estate of Wilks William Featherstonhaugh; late, of the borough of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridge, Brewer, deceased (who died on the 8th day of May, 1880, and whose will, with one codicil thereto, was proved on the 12th day of July, 1880, in the District Registry at Peterborough of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice by William Featherstonhaugh, of the Battersea Park Brewery, South Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, Brewer, and Frederick Bailey, of the borough of Cambridge, Brewer, the executors therein named), are hereby required to send particulars of their debts or claims, in writing, to us, the undersigned, the Solicitors of the said executors, at our offices, on or before the 8th day of May next, after which day the said executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the said testator among the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the debts, claims, or demands of which they shall then have bad notice; and the said executors will not be liable for the assets, or any part thereof, so distributed to any person of whose debt, claim,
      or demand they shall not then have had notice.—Dated this 10th day of February, 1881. EADENS and KNOWLES, 15, Sidney-street, Cambridge, Solicitors for the said Executors.