This is the last Will and Testament of me Samuel ACHURCH of Rushden in the County of Northampton Farmer & Miller Whereby I dispose of my Estates both Real and Personal as follows (that is to say) First I direct that all my Just Debts Funeral and Testamentary Expences shall be fully paid and satisfied by my Executors hereinafter Appointed and after satisfaction thereof I Give and Devise unto my Wife Louisa ACHURCH All my Copyhold Lands Messuages or Tenements and Wind Mill Situate lying and being in the Parish of Rushden aforesaid and now in the Occupation of my self Robert GODDWARD Edward RAY and John COOK To hold all the said Messuages or Tenements Wind Mill and all Rights Members Priviliges Advantig? and Appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining unto my said Wife Louisa and Assigns for and During all the Term of her natural Life or so long as she shall Continue my Widow Sole Unmarried but if my said Wife Louisa shall Marry again my Will is upon her being so Married all her Right and Claim to my said Real Estate shall Cease determine and End and from and after the Decease of my said Wife Louisa or her being Married again or which ever may first happen I Give and Devise all the said Lands Messuages or Tenements Wind Mill and all Appurtenances thereto belonging unto my Brother William ACHURCH of Rushden aforesaid Farmer and my Brother in Law William WARD of Old in the said County of Northampton Cordwainer and their Heirs Upon Trust to and for such Uses intents and purposes as are hereinafter mentioned and Declared (that is to say) that they the said William ACHURCH and William WARD and the Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor as soon as Conveniently may Be after the Decease of my said Wife Louisa or her being Married again or which ever may first happen do and shall Sell for the best price they can reasonably obtain and in the manner they may think fit The said Messuages Tenements Lands Wind Mill and premises And I do hereby Authorize and empower the said William ACHURCH and William WARD and the Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor to Surrender Convey and Assure the said Premises in Fee Simple to such Person or Persons who may Purchase the same their Heirs and Assigns for ever And the Monies arising from such Sale or Sales of my said Real Estates that they do and shall place the same to Monies arising from my Personal Estate All my Household Goods Brewing Vessels Dary Utensils Plate and Linen I Give and Bequeath the same unto my said Wife Louisa for her own Use and Benefit All the rest residue of my personal Estate Grain growing Crops of Grain catle Credits Chattels and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever of what sort Nature and kind soever the same may be or consist of at the time of my Decease I Give and Bequeath the same unto my said Wife Louisa for and During all the Term of Natural Life or so long as She Continues my Widow Sole Unmarried for her to expend what is the affect of the same for her own Personal Maintenance Clothing and Suport and the Maintenance Clothing and Education of all my Children During the time of their Minority And from and after the Decease of my said Wife Louisa or her being Married again or which ever may first happen Then all the Unexpended Part residue and remainder of my personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever I Give and Bequeath the same unto the said William ACHURCH and William WARD Upon Trust to and for such Uses and intents and Purposes as are hereinafter Mentioned and Declared (that is to say) that they the said William ACHURCH and William WARD and the Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor do and shall Sell and convert into money in what manner they may think fit all the said Residue and Remainder of my Effects And Upon Further Trust that they do and shall with the Monies arising from the Sale or Sales of my said Effects Together with the Monies arising from the Sale or Sales of my said Real Estate place the same to Grow on Government or other Good Security and pay the same unto my Children Samuel ACHURCH William ACHURCH John ACHURCH George ACHURCH Robert ACHURCH Ann ACHURCH Louisa ACHURCH Alfred ACHURCH and Amos ACHURCH and any other the child or Children that I may have hereafter by my said Wife Louisa to be Equally Divided Between them share and share alike except what is hereinafter excepted (that is to say) Whereas my said son Samuel ACHURCH has Left him the sum of Twenty five Pounds my said son William ACHURCH One hundred Pounds and my said son John ACHURCH Twenty five Pounds Left to them as Legacies in and by the Will of my Uncle Thomas SMITH late of Rushden Deceased therefore my Will is that the said sums of Money shall be Recovered and considered as part of their share or shares of my Effects Respectively And I do hereby Will and Direct my said Trustees that they do and shall Include the said sums of Monies my said three sons have Received or may Receive as aforesaid and only pay to them Respectively such sums of Money if any as shall make their shares Equale with the rest of the shares of all my other … Children and my Will is that my said Trustees do and shall pay the said shares if any to my three said sons Samuel William and John ACHURCH within twelve calender Months after the Decease of my said wife Lousia or her being Married again or which ever may first happen And if any or either of them should Die before his or their share or shares become payable as aforesaid my Will is such share or shares shall be paid to the Survivors or Survivor of them share and share alike Also that the said William ACHURCH and William WARD and the Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor do and shall pay to all my other Children aforesaid their said shares of my Effects after the Decease of my said wife Louisa or her being Married again or which ever may first happen and my youngest Child shall have attained his or her age of twenty one Years in the mean time all the Monies in the hands or under the Care of my of my said Trustees placed out to Grow as aforesaid my will is that they do and shall pay and apply the Interest thereof annually unto all my last mentioned Children towards their Maintenance Clothing and Education or for such uses they in their Discretion may think fit During all the time of their Minority Untill they Respectively attain their age of twenty One Years And if they or either of my said Children shall Die before their said share or shares shall become Payable as aforesaid Then my will is the share or shares of him her or them so Dying shall go to and Amongst the Survivor or Survivors of them share and share alike And Lastly I do hereby Nominate make and Appoint the said William ACHURCH and William WARD Executors and my said Wife Louisa Executrix of and to this my last Will and Testament subjecting them hereby the payment of all my just Debts Funerall and Testamentary expences as aforesaid And I do hereby Will and direct that my said Trustees whom I do hereby appoint as Guardians of all my Children and their Respective Estates That they may do and shall Reimburse and take to themselves and himself Respectively out of the said Trust Property all such Costs Charges and troble they or either of them are Obliged to be put unto by Reason of the Trust hereby in them Reposed and that they shall not be answerable the one for the other but each for his own Acts Receipts and Deeds nor for any Involuntry Loss that may happen to any of the said Trust Premises Unless such Loss happen through his or their willfull neglect or default nor for more Monies than shall Come to their hands respectively And I do declare this present writting that is Contained on two Sheets of Paper and none other to be and Contain my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have set my hand to the first Sheet and my hand and Seal to the second and last Sheet thereof the twentieth Day of September in the Year or Our Lord One thousand eight Hundred and Nineteen

                                                                          Samuel ACHURCH (red seal affixed beside signature)

Signed Sealed Published and Declared by
the said Samuel ACHURCH the Testator as and for his last
Will and Testament in the Presence of Us who at his request and
in the Presence of each other as Witnesses thereto have Subscribed our Names
all the words that are herein Interlined being first so done

John KNOWLES

Tressham CHAPMAN

William HALL

On the twenty seveneth day of May One thousand Eight hundred and forty William ACHURCH of Rushden in the County of Northampton Farmer and William WARD late of Old in the said county Cordwainer and now of Desborough in the same county Farmer the Executors named in the within Will were sworn well and faithfully to fulfil the same according to Law and that the goods chattels and credits of the within named deceased at the time of his death (which happened on the tenth day of June 1839) did not amount in value to the Sum of Two hundred pounds

                        Before me
                        Wasley VIVIAN Surrogate