Description: | DHF/4/83/1: Will (19 Sept. 1884) of William Timmins of Albert House, Kates Hill, Dudley, Worcestershire, fender and fire iron manufacturer; executors and trustees, Sarah Ann Timmins (wife), during her widowhood, Edward Hughes of Wordsley, Worcestershire, glass cutter (brother-in-law) and Thomas Smart of Cromwell Street, Kates Hill, brass founder and chandelier manufacturer; wife to be guardian of children, and on her remarriage other trustees to be such; wife to occupy Albert House during widowhood and have use of all household effects; capital in business to remain there; all other estate upon trust for sale; business to be carried on by trustees until youngest child is 21, with power to add or withdraw capital; income from business and other estate to wife for widowhood, she maintaining children; after death or remarriage of wife and all children having reached 21, upon trust to sell business and household effects etc. and hold the proceeds in trust for his children as tenants in common; sons to have option of buying business; application of income to infant children; power to advance up to half their portions etc. |