Will: Bagwell, Benjamin 1838

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File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning 
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BAGWELL, BENJAMIN 1838

Source: National Archives London
Written: December 1, 1831
Recorded: April 13, 1833

The last Will and Testament of Benjamin Bagwell late of the 
Town of Clonmell County of Tipperary Ireland I hereby revoke 
all former Wills heretofore made by me and declare this to 
be my last Will and Testament being in sound mind and 
judgment And whereas I am possessed of the following sums of 
money goods and property of various kinds which I leave and 
bequeath in the following manner that is to say the late 
Major Bigor Armstrong Stonby of Greyfort in the County of 
Tipperary jointly with his son Robert Stoney owes me the 
Balance of a Bond of four hundred pounds Sterlg which 
Balance at present Amounts to about three hundred and sixty 
pounds Sterg together with interest due thereon I leave and 
bequeath the said balance of said Bond and Interest due be 
it more or less to my Wife Anne Bagwell (late Anne Carew of 
Clonmell whom I married in the year 1826 privately and 
unknown to any person save and except the Clergyman who 
performed the Ceremony and one witness) And Whereas the late 
Thos Prendergast late of the Tipperary Militia owed me at 
the time of his decease the Balance of a Bond and Interest 
thereon amounting to one hundred and fifty pounds or 
thereabouts I leave 7 bequeath the said Balance & Interest 
due by the late Major Thos Prendergast be it more or less to 
my said Wife Anne And whereas I am possessed of twenty 
shares in the Provincial Bank of Ireland I leave and 
bequeath the said twenty shares to my said Wife Anne And 
whereas I am possessed of some Plate Plates Articles Glass 
China etc. etc. now lying in the Bank of Clonmel and at 
Marlfield I leave and bequeath the same to my said Wife Anne 
and I likewise direct that my said Wife Anne pays all my 
just debts and funeral expences which I desire may be 
conducted with as little expence as possible and that the 
Debts due me by Bond or otherwise be collected without the 
least delay and that all the sums mentioned as above be put 
together and placed in Government Security for the support 
of my said Wife and our two children Mary Anne and Margaret 
Catherine I hereby appoint my said Wife Anne my sole 
Executrix and Administratrix to this my last Will and 
Testament to which I affix my name and seal this 1st Day of 
December in the year of our Lord 1831 thirty one Benjamin 
Bagwell
I desire that at the decease of any of the three persons to 
whom I leave my Property as above Viz my Wife and two 
Children that the property be divided between the remaining 
two and that if either or both my Daughters should marry 
with the consent of their Mother and not otherwise she or 
they get their portion of one third of the Property Given 
under my hand this 1st day of Dec 1831 one
(Appearance by Stephen Pepper of Clonmell Gentleman and 
Patrick Ryan of Clonmell Shopkeeper as to manner and 
character of writing of deceased 7 March 1833)
Proved at London with a Codicil 13 April 1833
PCC Prob11/1814