Will of William Kernott

Transcribed Will of William Kernott of Rotherwick

The Road to Rotherwick

Will of William Kernott (also Kernett), dated 26 November 1817 and
proved in the PCC (Prerogative Court of Canterbury) 12 June 1828.

Note: The document was obtained by online access to the PROB 11 series of The National Archives. These records are "all registered copy wills, meaning they are copies of original probates written into volumes, by clerks at the church courts".

    Names mentioned as beneficiaries:

  • wife Charlotte Kernott;
  • brother-in-law John Whistler of Rotherwick and his wife Mary and their three sons
            William Whistler, John Whistler and Charles Whistler;
  • John Watts, a brickburner of Odiham; and
  • the children of Joseph Elliot of Hartley Wespall and his wife Hannah.

        Other names in the will:

  • William Toovey Hawley, Esquire, of Hartley Wespall.

    Family history is given by selected marriages recorded in the parish register of Heckfield, Hampshire (from Phillimores Hampshire marriage registers, Vol. 6):
    29 Apr 1793       John Whistler, of Rotherwick, & Mary Kernett
    27 Mar 1796 Joseph Elliott, of Hartley Wespall, & Hannah Moore
    23 Feb 1797 James Watts, of Wootton St Lawrence, & Martha Kernet
      8 Oct 1798 William Kernett, of Rotherwick, & Charlotte Moore

  •     Transcribed Will

    This is the last will and testament
    of me William Kernott of Rotherwick in the County of Southampton [Hampshire]
    yeoman I give and bequeath to my nephew William Whistler the
    eldest son of my brother in law John Whistler of Rotherwick
    aforesaid all my books To my nephew John Whistler brother of my
    said nephew William Whistler my silver watch and to
    my nephew Charles Whistler another brother of my said nephew
    William Whistler all my wearing apparel I give and bequeath
    unto my dear wife [Charlotte Kernott] her executors admors [administrators] and assigns all and
    singular my household goods and furniture and implements of
    household plate linen and china and all the eatables drinkables and
    such that shall be in and about my dwelling house at the time of my
    decease to and for her and their own proper use and benefit Also I
    give and bequeath unto my said wife and her assigns for and during
    the term of her natural life my copyholds messuage or tenement with
    the garden land and appurts [appurtenances] hereto belonging situate at Hartley
    Wespall in the said County which I hold for three lives
    under William Toovey Hawley Esquire and from and after her
    decease I give and bequeath the said copyhold premises unto my
    said nephew William Whistler his executors admors and assigns to
    and for his and their own proper use and benefit And as for and
    concerning my stock in husbandry monies and securities for money
    and the residue and remainder of my estate goods chattels and effects
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    whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever the
    same may be or consist I give and bequeath the same and every
    part thereof to my said wife and my friend John Watts of Odiham
    in the said county of Southampton Brickburner their
    executors admors and assigns nevertheless upon trust that they my said
    wife and the said John Watts or the survivor of them her or his exors [executors]
    admors or assigns do and shall as soon as conveniently may be after my
    decease collect and get in all such parts thereof as shall consist of money or securities for money and so shall absolutely sell and dispose of all such parts thereof as are in their nature
    saleable either by public auction or private contract or otherwise at
    their discretion at or for the best price or prices that can or may be
    reasonably had or obtained for the same respectively and the monies
    arising from such collection and sale do and shall after payment
    thereout of all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses as to
    the sum of six hundred pounds sterling do and shall place out and
    invest the same in some or and of the parliamentary stocks or funds of
    Great Britain or on real securities in England at interest and do and
    shall alter vary and transfer the same stocks funds or securities for
    others of the like nature when and as often as it shall seem
    expedient and do and shall pay the dividends and interest of the
    said stocks funds and securities unto the proper hands of her my said
    wife for the term of her natural life to and for her own proper use
    and benefit exclusive of any future husband she may have and so as
    the same may not be subject or liable to the power control debts or
    engagements of any future husband and her receipt or receipts alone
    notwithstanding any future coverture she may be under shall be
    sufficient discharge to the said John Watts or to the executors
    admors or assigns of the survivor of them my said wife and the said
    John Watts and from and after the decease of my said wife upon
    trust that the said John Watts or the executors or admors of the
    survivor of my said wife and the said John Watts do and shall pay
    assign or transfer the sum of four hundred pounds and the stocks
    funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be placed part
    of the said sum of six hundred pounds stocks funds and securities
    unto and equally between all and every the child and children of my
    said brother in law John Whistler by Mary his present wife
    as shall be living at the time of the decease of my said wife share and
    share alike and the issue of such of them as shall be then dead
    leaving lawful issue to take per stirpes and not per capita and as to
    the sum of two hundred pounds stocks funds and securities residue of
    the said sum of six hundred pounds stocks funds and securities do and
    shall pay assign and transfer unto and equally between all and every
    the child or children of Joseph Elliot of Hartley Wespall aforesaid
    and Hannah his wife as shall be living at the time of the decease of
    my said wife share and share alike to take per stirpes and not per
    capita the share or shares of such of the said children of the said
    William Whistler and Joseph Elliot or their issue respectively as
    shall be a son or sons to be paid to him or them on his or their
    attaining their respective ages of twenty one years and the share or
    shares of such of them or their issue respectively as shall be a
    daughter or daughters to be paid to her or them on her or their
    respectively attaining that age or respectively marrying which
    shall first happen unless such ages days or times shall happen in
    the lifetime of my said wife in which case the said payment
    assignment or transfer shall be postponed till after her decease
    And as for and concerning the residue of the money to arise from the
    said sale and collection hereinbefore directed upon trust that they my
    said wife and the said John Watts or the survivor of them her or
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    his executors admors or assigns do and shall divide and pay the
    same unto and equally between all and every the children of my said
    brother in law John Whistler by Mary his present wife as
    shall be living at the time of my decease share and share alike and to
    the issue of such of them as shall be then dead leaving lawful issue
    to take per stirpes and not per capita to be paid to them at such ages
    days or times as is hereinbefore directed provided always that if
    any such child or children of my said brother in law John
    Whistler and the said Joseph Elliot being a son or sons shall die
    before he or they shall attain his or their age or respective ages of
    twenty one years without leaving issue of his or their body or bodies
    lawfully begotten at his or their death or born in due time after or if
    any such child or children being a daughter or daughters shall
    depart this life before she or they shall attain her or their age or
    respective ages of twenty one years without having been married
    then all and every the share and shares hereby intended for such
    child or children respectively so dying shall from time to time go and
    accrue to the survivors and survivor or others or other of the brothers
    and sisters of such children if more than one share and share alike and
    the same shall be considered as a vested interest and be payable and
    transferable at such respective ages days or times and go in the
    same manner between and amongst such surviving and other
    brothers and sisters then in being as is hereinbefore expressed and
    declared touching or concerning his her or their original shares
    and in case of the death of any other or others of the said children
    being a son or sons under the age of twenty one years without
    leaving issue of his or their body or bodies living at his or their death
    or born in due time after or being a daughter or daughters before she
    or they shall attain such age without having been married with such
    consent as aforesaid then all and every such accruing or surviving
    share or shares then unreceived or unpaid of such child or children
    respectively shall from time to time again be subject and liable to
    such further right chance contingency or condition of accruer and
    survivorship to the survivor or survivors or others or other of the
    brothers and sisters of the said children as is hereinbefore expressed
    and declared concerning his her or their original or first accruing share
    or shares And lastly I nominate constitute and appoint my said wife
    and friend John Watts joint executrix and executor of this my will
    and my will is and I do hereby declare and direct that my said trustees
    and executrix and executor and each of them their and each of their
    executors admors and assigns shall be charged and chargeable only
    with or for so much money as they respectively shall actually receive
    and that one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the
    other of them or for the acts receipts neglects or defaults of the
    other of them but each of them only for her or his own acts receipts
    neglects or defaults nor shall they or either of them be answerable
    or accountable for any banker broker or other person with whom or in
    whose hands any of the said monies may be placed for safe
    custody or otherwise in the execution of any of the said trusts nor for
    the insufficiency or deficiency of any stocks funds or securities in or
    upon which any of such monies may be invested in pursuance of this
    my will nor for any other misfortune loss or damage which may
    happen in the execution of my will unless the same shall
    happen by or through their own wilful defaults respectively then
    and in that case each person shall singly and alone be answerable for
    the loss or damage which shall happen or arise by or through his
    own wilful default And also that they my said trustees and executrix
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    and executor and each of them their and each of their executors and
    admors shall and may out of the monies which shall come to their
    respective hands by virtue of this my will retain to and
    reimburse herself himself and themselves and allow to each other all
    costs charges expenses and fees to counsel attornies and others for
    advise attendances and assistance which they or either of them may
    respectively sustain expend or be put unto in or about the execution
    of this my will or in anywise relating and that such costs charges and
    expenses shall be borne and paid by and out of the estates monies and
    premises respectively for or an amount of which such costs charges
    and expenses shall or may be incurred In witness whereof the
    said testator William Kernott have to this my last will and testament
    contained in six sheets of paper set my hand and seal that is to say
    to the five preceding sheets hereof my hand and to this sixth and last
    sheet my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of November in the
    year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen . . .

    Proved at London 12 June 1828 before the judge by the oath
    of Charlotte Kernott widow the relict and John Watts the executors
    to whom admon [administration] was granted . . .


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