| Description | Copy will of Thomas Pearson of South Wingfield, gent, to his daughters Eliza Pearson, Hannah Glazebrook Pearson, Emma Pearson and Jane Elizabeth Pearson, £3000 each in addition to portions settled upon them. To his son Henry Pearson for life, all his real estate at Houghton Fields, par South Wingfield, (tenants John Hopkinson, John Pearson, Matthew Hopkinson and Susannah Hopkinson) and upon the determination of the estate during the life of Henry, to his friends Peter Arkwright of Wirksworth, esq, John White of Alton, gent, John Allsop, the younger of Lea Bridge, lead merchant, and Thomas Hall of Middleton, farmer, in trust to preserve contingent uses, and after the death of Henry, to the eldest son of Henry in tail male, and for default of issue of Henry, to his eldest son John Pearson, entailed as above. The remainder of his real estate to his eldest son, John Pearson for life and then to John’s eldest son in tail male etc, to John also, all his household goods, furniture, plate, wine, liquor, china, linen, stock of cattle and implements of husbandry, stacks of corn, hay and other farming stock, with proviso that if John die under 21, the same is to go to Henry and if he dies under 21 or without issue, the same is to be divided among the daughters and with further proviso that his wife Anne Pearson may reside in and enjoy the income from such of his messuages and lands as shall be in his own occupation at the time of his death, until John is 21. The remainder of his ready money to John and Henry in equal shares and the residue of his personal estate to be divided between his daughters. To his old servant Lydia Hall, £50 20 May Codicil. Whereas his daughters claim to be entitled as co-heiresses at law of their brother, Thomas Pearson, deceased, to a messuage, Half Croft, the Parch, Gate Close and Pentrich Leys (20 acres), and to two third parts of the New Close (6 acres), at South Wingfield, the bequest of £3,000 each is revoked and replaced with a bequest of £1,000 each with proviso that if the daughters shall convey the said premises to Henry Pearson, then the bequest of £3,000 is to stand 26 Aug 1830 Codicil - to his wife for life or so long as she remains unmarried, an annuity for £1,000 11 Sep 1830 Codicil - a parcel of land at South Wingfield, lately purchased from John Hunt, to his eldest son John Pearson in fee simple, to his son Henry, several closes at Morewood Moor with house and outbuildings, lately purchased from John Hopkinson, with a third-part of the house and closes known as Sudbury Closes, lately purchased from William Haslam, and all his turnpike and railway shares and securities 29 Mar 1833 |