Transcript of the Last Will and Testament of John George Hann
THIS IS THE LAST WILL of me JOHN GEORGE HANN of Honiton in the County of Devon Retired Brewer
I revoke all former wills
I appoint my sons Sidney George and Lewis Henry and Richard John Stickland of Honiton aforesaid Bank Manager (hereinafter called my trustees) to be the EXECUTORS and trustees of this my will
I bequeath my American organ to my daughter Edith Mary
I bequeath my mahogany wardrobe in the bed room over the dining room in the Brewery House at Honiton to my daughter Kate
I bequeath my mahogany side table at Honiton and the wine bin belonging thereto now at Exmouth the sideboard and the two water colour drawings by S Cuddon now in the dining room at the Brewery House at Honiton also the iron fire proof safe in the Brewery Office at Honiton to my son Lewis Henry
I bequeath the following books viz The Historians History of the World Hutchinsons History of the Nations and Balls Story of the Heavens also the Wall maps in my office at Honiton to my son Sidney George
I bequeath to my son Frederick my fire proof safe in the Brewery Office in Honiton
I bequeath to my former housekeeper Miss Mullins now Mrs Legg (A) at present residing at Weymouth my musical box
I bequeath the following pecuniary legacies viz
To my son Frederick five hundred pounds
To my son Sidney George five thousand pounds
To my son Lewis Henry two thousand five hundred pounds
To each of my daughters Kate and Edith Mary one hundred pounds
To the said Richard John Stickland if he shall prove my will and act in the trusts thereof ten pounds free of duty and
To the said Mrs Legg fifty pounds free of duty
I devise to my son Frederick my dwellinghouse and premises at Colyton Devon in the occupation of Mr McKay Forbes and the will [wall?] at the rear thereof erected by me separating them from the garden of the adjoining premises known as Coly House
I declare that my daughters Kate and Edith Mary shall have the option of purchasing jointly my dwellinghouse and premises at Colyton aforesaid now in the occupation of Andrew Zealley (B) together with the front and back gardens thereto belonging at the price of five hundred pounds such option to be declared in writing by my said daughters within one calendar month of my death and I direct my trustees on payment of the purchase money for the same to secure the said dwellinghouse premises and gardens to my said daughters free from any principal moneys and interest charges thereon which I declare shall be paid out of my residuary real and personal estate
I direct my trustees out of my residuary real and personal estate to pay to Lloyds Bank Limited Colyton Branch the sum of six hundred pounds for which sum I some years since signed a guarantee on behalf of my said son Frederick and I exonerate my said son Frederick from the payment of such sum so paid for him out of my residuary real and personal estate as aforesaid
I devise and bequeath all the residue of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever unto and to the use of my trustees their heirs executors and administrators respectively Upon trust to sell and convert the same into money and out of the proceeds of such sale and conversion to pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and the said legacies and the duty on any legacies bequeathed free of duty and the said sum of six hundred pounds due under my guarantee to Lloyds Bank Limited Colyton Branch and to hold the remainder af such proceeds in trust for my children Sidney George Frederick Lewis Henry Kate and Edith Mary in equal shares
I declare that if the proceeds of sale of my residuary real and personal estate shall be insufficient for the payment threout of my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and the said legacies and the duty thereon and the said sum of six hundred pounds the defieciency shall be borne by my sons Lewis Henry and Sidney George in equal shares and shall be deducted from the amounts of the legacies bequeathed to them under my will
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of July one thousand nine humdred and twenty five.....
JOHN GEORGE HANN
Signed by the said John George Hann the testator as and for his last will in the presence of us both present at the same time who at his request in his sight and presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as attesting witness
H HOSKINS
M SALTER
Clerks to Messrs Every and Phillips soliciors Honiton
(A) Mrs Legg was Matilda Mullins who had married Albert W Legg in Weymouth in the Oct-Dec quarter of 1924. Born in Ilminster, Somerset in 1868, she appears in various places on censuses so was probably John George's housekeeper at some time between the 1911 census and her marriage
(B) in 1911 the only Zealleys in Colyton were those that had operated Cole's Mill for many years. Andrew, who was related to this family, was at the time miller at Court Mill, Wadeford, near Chard