Hollingworth One Name Study Hollingsworths in Barbados Wills To the Honorable John Spencer President of His Majesty`s Court and Council...................... of this Island Chancellor Ordinary & Vice Chancellor of the same The Double petition of the .................................................................. That Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH late of this Island departed this life on or about the Ninth day of March seised (?) and possessed of considerable real and personal estate in this Island having before his death made and wrote a certain instrument in writing all in his own proper handwriting and executed by him purporting to be his last Will and Testament whereby he appoints your petitioner sole executor that the said Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH was at the time of making and Executing the aforesaid instruction in writing or last Will and Testament in his perfect senses and of sound mind memory & understanding That inasmuch as the aforesaid instrument of writing or last Will and Testament of the said Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH was not published and executed by him in the presence of witnesses your petitioner therefore humbly prays he may have liberty to prove the said instrument of writing or last Will and Testament of the said Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH by the testimony of two reliable witnesses to be produced to your house for that purpose to the and that the same may be allowed of by your house and recorded in the Secretary`s Office of this Island as the last Will and testament of the said Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH to take effect to all legal purposes and that letters testamentary to be granted to your petitioner and your petitioner shall ever pray Wm GRASETT Barbados By his Honor the President I do hereby order the merits of the foregoing petition to be heard before me at my next sitting in ordinary council will be on Monday the twentieth day of March instant at the Town Hall by 12 o`clock and that all persons concerned have due notice and do then attend Given at Pilgrim this 16th day of March 1815. Barbados I the under written with due consideration of the uncertainty of life and of various ways and means by which man may be deprived of it and being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make and declare this to be my last Will and Testament Imprimis I will and direct that my just debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon after my death as possible and that the latter may be to the least amount that decency may render necessary To effect the above purposes and others hereafter to be named I will and direct that my estates Hister (?) pond and sallow be kept together until the month of August eighteen hundred and sixteen the crops ariving therefrom to be applied to liquidating the debts I may die owing and at that period I desire the said estates to be sold together with the Hay cocs (?) and stock of every description and every thing or substance unto that belonging by my friend The honorable Wm GRASETT out of the moneys arising from the sale of the said estates I desire the ...... of debts that may be owing from me to be paid and the residuum of money arising therefrom that is which may remain after payment of my debts or that may arise from the sale of my personal property which is to be disposed of immediately after my death I give and bequeath to my friend the aforesaid William GRASETT n .... for the following purposes to pay ... pounds per annum to a woman called Mary HUMBOLDTT beginning with the first day of August after my death for and during her natural life Having promised my brother William HOLLINGSWORTH so to do in recognition of her having faithfully attended him during the long and painful illness which preceded his death To pay my Brother Arthur Rollock HOLLINGSWORTH the sum of three hundred pounds per annum for and during his natural life but should my said brother prove at any time to my Executor or Executors hereafter named that he is worth the sum of five thousand pounds in his own right I then will and direct that the said annuity shall cease and the capital sum of five thousand pounds be paid him at the expiration but not sooner of four years after my death In the event however of his dying without proving as aforesaid that he is worth in his own right the sum of five thousand pounds I desire that his children may be allowed the said three hundred pounds and in proportion of the capital sums share and share alike the annuity to be decreased to the younger in proportion as the capital is paid to those who arrive at the age of twenty one years as aforesaid To pay to my sister Mrs Elizth Battalay (?) HARRIES (?) the sum of three thousand pounds at the expiration of four years from my death or soever it is convenient to my executors, interest to be allowed on the sum from one year after my death To pay to Mrs Elizabeth MANDOCFIELD (?) the sum of forty pounds per annum and at her death to divide amongst her surviving children the sum of five hundred pounds share and share alike To pay to my Aunt Mrs Sarah HOUDY (?) the sum of forty pounds p annum To pay to my friend Mrs Eliza ELLIOTT the sum of forty pounds p annum for and during her natural life To allow to my illegitimate child Margaret Ann the daughter of a woman called Maria from the day after her arrival in England or A...... where I desire her sent the sum of three hundred sterling p annum for her Board and maintenance and education until she arrives to the age of twenty one years and at that period she should be married and her husband can settle in a proper manner the sum of four hundred sterling p annum on her for life I then desire that the principal sum of five thousand pounds sterling be paid him on such settlement being made and that the same shall be done at any period of her life when she may be lawfully married but in the event of her never being married I then desire the sum of three hundred pounds sterling p annum shall continue to be paid her for and during her natural life or the same to be done without her husband being unable to settle as aforesaid even should she by married and also to expend the sum of three hundred pounds on sending her to England or A....... which ever my executors may think proper To pay to the Church Warden of the Parish in which I may die or to any parish for the purpose now to be named the sum of nine hundred pounds for the purpose of freeing a woman called Mary now belonging to me and her two children Maria and Mary and to pay to the said two children after they become free the sum of eighteen pounds p annum until they arrive to the age of twenty one years each Then to give them each the sum of three hundred pounds the annuity afterwards to cease or six hundred pounds to the survivor should either die To a Girl called Elizabeth the daughter of a woman (WALTER at Collotons) I give the sum of thirty pounds p annum for and during her natural life and besides the said annuity I give her the sum of two hundred pounds when she may arrive at the age of twenty one years  To pay to the woman called Maria the mother of my child Margaret Ann already mentioned the sum of two hundred pounds p annum by quarterly payments from the time of my death until her present youngest child called Kitty arrives to the years of 21 I then desire that each of the children of the said Maria Agnes & Kitty be paid one thousand pounds and that the Mother afterwards be allowed the sum of One hundred pounds per annum for and during her natural life I also give the said Maria a woman called Sarah with all the children she may have living at the time of my death and those afterwards born to the said Maria for and during her natural life and at her death the said woman Sarah and her issue and increase to be divided betwixt the children Agnes and Kitty already mentioned in equal proportions the value to be ascertained by appraisement one paying to the other any difference of the lots if either of the above children should die the other to be entitled to rights of survivorship I also give to the said Maria the Mother of the children as aforesaid her Mother a woman called Dinah and her Maria`s brothers Thomas William and James for and during her natural life and at her death to be to the children Agnes and Kitty as aforesaid with respect to the woman Sarah and her children To pay to a child called Sarah the daughter of a woman called Kitty LEACH now deceased the sum of twenty pounds p annum for and during her natural life to pay also to a woman called Eliza? HARRIS the housekeeper at Collotons the sum of fifteen pounds p annum for and during her natural life.  My Man Sam in Town I direct to be freed by the English mode and ten pounds p annum be allowed when it has been my intention in making this will that the whole of my estate which I have made personal by desiring my estates to be sold and any sum due to me to be considered in the same light to be in trust to my friend The Honble Wm GRASETT for the purposes afterwards named in the bequests that follows have sometimes be.... to pay to such and such or one and at others that I give it the words I give were not proper to be used after having given the whole interest to my friend Wm GRASETT I then have to request the words to pay or any that will legally answer the purpose may be substituted and that my designs maybe carried into effect agreeably to what will appear to have been my intention and last of all tho` not because he is least in my estimation as will appear hereafter I give and bequeath to my friend Philip CADDELL the sum of five hundred pounds sterling and from the first money that may become disposable at the expiration of two years from my death I give my friend John Bothewal PINDER the like sum all the rest Residue and Remainder of my estate real and personal of .... quality and kind whatsoever all that may remain after the payment of legacies and annuities of the sum to be in trust to my friend Wm GRASETT or howsoever else the same may arise and become a part of the residuum of my estate I give and bequeath to my friend Wm GRASETT and his heirs for ever I nominate and appoint him Executor to this my last Will and Testament as well as trustee as aforesaid but in case of the death of my said friend Wm GRASETT so that he may not be entitled to perform the duties which will hereby be required of him I then nominate and appoint my friend Philip CADDELL Executor and Trustee for all the purposes for which I have nominated and appointed my said friend Wm GRASETT excepting as for the residuum of my estate which I should then will to be divided share and share alike betwixt the heirs of my said friend Wm GRASETT my friend Philip CADDELL and my brother Arthur Rollock HOLLINGSWORTH or their heirs it is hereby however to be understood that if my said brother or any other person should claim any legacy heretofore left by me to any person on account of any disability on their part to take the same that my said brother or any other person so claiming shall lose and be debarred any legacy or bequest heretofore given them and that the same shall become a part of the residuum of my estate to be applied to every other purpose mentioned but not so as for him or them to have one shilling of the same This Will being in my own handwriting it is only further necessary for me to declare that I affix my name to the same on the nineteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and fifteen Thos. HOLLINGSWORTH Barbados By His Honor the President At a Court of Ordinary held before me this day Thomas LAW and Robert HARRIS Esquires Personally Appeared and made oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that they are well acquainted with the handwriting of Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH the Testator named in the foregoing paper writing and hath frequently seen him write and that the whole of the said paper writing from the beginning to the and thereof is written throughout in the proper handwriting of the said Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH and the name Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH subscribed at the foot of the same is of the usual subscription of him the said Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH I do therefore hereby allow and approve of the said paper writing as and for the last Will and Testament of the said Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH and order that the same be recorded in the Secretary`s Office of this Island and take effect to all legal purposes Given at the Town hall this 20th day of March 1815 John SPOONER (A true Copy)  Barbados  26 May 1843    Ja: WALKER Colonial Secretary By His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir Charles Edward GREY Knight one of Her Majesty`s most Honorable Privy Council Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Hanovarian ...... Order Governor and Commander in E.... in and over the Islands of Barbados Saint .... Ecuador Tobago and Saint Lucia and their respective Dependencies Charles Edward GREY Governor These are to Certify all whom it doth or may concern That James WALKER Esquire who hath certified that the annexed paper writing is a true copy of the Will of Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH together with the proceedings of the Court of Ordinary held for establishing the same is Colonial Secretary and sole Notary Public of the Island abovesaid and that to all acts so done by him in his Capacities aforesaid full faith and credit are due and ought to be given In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and caused Her Majesty`s Great Seal appointed to the said Island of Barbados to be hereunto affixed Given at the Government House this __ day of May 1843 and in the sixth year of Her Majesty`s Reign By His Excellency`s Command Ja WALKER Colonial Secretary On the 13th June 1845 Admon (with the will annexed) of the Goods chattels and credits of Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH late of the Island of Barbados deceased was granted to William GRASETT the son and one of the Executors of the will of William GRASETT deceased whilst living the Executor of the will of the said deceased having been first sworn duly to administer.