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From an email, 17 January 2021.
I happened to chance upon your
page when (during my ancestry research) I thought I would try to
find a picture of the "Three Daws" Pub in Woolwich mentioned in one
of the Wills I have researched relating to my family tree. I wasn't
sure if the following extract from the Will of Murdock Broomer
Johnson written in 1837 (and proved in 1839 after his death) would
be of any interest to you as it mentions the Three Daws being his
freehold property, leased at the time to, I think, Charles Calvert?
which he intends to leave to his wife Ann Johnson, upon trust. I
have pasted below the relevant short extract from my transcript of
the Will.
Regards,
Christine Barry.
This is the last Will and Testament of me Murdock Broomer Johnson
of Cheshunt in the County of Hants, Gentleman.
Whereas previously to my intermarriage with my present wife Ann
Johnson late Ann Tayler [nee Alsept] I made a Settlement for her use
and benefit whereby inter alia I conveyed to trustees therein
mentioned my freehold estate at Church Gate, Chesham for the benefit
of my said wife for her life as therein particularly mentioned.
Now I hereby confirm the same in every respect and I hereby in
addition thereto give and bequeath to my said dear wife Ann Johnson
all the ready money that may be in my house at the time of my
decease And also my farming utensils horses …... live and dead
farming stock household effects and house fixtures plate linen and
china books prints and pictures wearing apparel trinkets wine and
other liquors and everything also of a like nature and kind that
shall be in and about my dwellinghouse and premises at Cheshunt
aforesaid at the time of my decease and that may not be included in
that Settlement to and for her own use and benefit.
And as to the Rest Residue and Remainder of my Estate and effects
whatsoever and wheresoever and of whatsoever nature or kind and
whether real or personal and whether in possession reversion or
remainder I give devise and bequeath the same unto my friends
William Parkson Taylor of St Bartholomew in the City of London,
Stockbroker William Richard Alsept of Gloucester Terrace Hoxton,
Gentleman and Stephen Walford of Aldermanbury in the said City,
Gentleman and the survivors and survivor of them his heirs executors
administrators and assigns UPON the several trusts and to for and
upon the several [uses?] intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned
expressed and declared concerning the same that is to say.
As to for and concerning all that my freehold estate and premises
situate at Woolwich in the County of Kent containing a Public House
known by the name of the Three Daws together with the two messuages
or tenements adjoining, all which estate and premises are now let by
me on lease to [Charles Calvert?] Esquire UPON TRUST from time to
time to receive the rents [issues?] and profits thereof and to pay
the same after deducting all outgoings and expenses and whether of
[collection?] or otherwise unto my dear wife Ann Johnson and her
assigns during the term of her natural life to and for her own
absolute use and benefit And I direct that her receipt alone shall
be at all times whether ……. or not a good and perfect discharge for
the same.
And from and immediately after the decease of my said wife UPON
TRUST to receive the rents [issues?] and profits as well of the said
hereinbefore mentioned property at Church Gate, Chesham aforesaid as
also of the said lastly mentioned premises at Woolwich and to pay
the same after deducting all [necessary?] outgoings and expenses as
aforesaid Unto my nephew Thomas Burgon of Brunswick Square in the
County of Middlesex, Merchant for and during the term of his natural
life and from and immediately after the decease of the said Thomas
Burgon to pay the same unto his wife Catherine Margaret Burgon for
and during the term of her natural life And I direct that her
receipt alone shall in like manner as the receipt of my said wife be
a good discharge for all monies expressed to be received by her …
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