AND also all the household goods and furniture, books, plate, glass, linen, china, and pictures of which I shall die possessed to and for her own use and benefit

AND I do hereby declare my Will and mind to be that the said Lydia STANTON, George Knight STANTON Charles WARNE and William MANFIELD and the survivors and survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively of such survivor do and shall stand and be possessed of and interested in such part of the said monies personal estate and effects as shall consist of ready money and of and in all the monies to arise from the sale or sales hereinbefore by me directed to be made of my real and leasehold estates or to arise or be produced from that part of my personal estate which I have directed to be converted into money and of and in the government securities and funds of or to which I shall be possessed or entitled at the time of my decease and of and in the rents issues profits interest dividends and annual produce thereof until the same shall be respectively disposed of or converted into money or otherwise howsoever

UPON TRUST that they the said Lydia STANTON, George Knight STANTON, Charles WARNE and William MANFIELD and the survivors and survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall by with and out of the same in the first place pay satisfy and discharge all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences and also any legacy or legacies which I shall give by any Codicil to this my will

AND Do and shall lay out and invest the remainder of the same monies in their his or her names or name in the Parliamentary Stocks or Public Funds of Great Britain or at interest on Government or real securities in England or Wales

AND Do and shall from time to time with the consent of my said wife as long as she shall continue my widow and unmarried testified by some writing signed by her with her hand and after her decease or in case she shall marry again after my decease then from and after her said marriage at the discretion of my said trustees or trustee for the time being after and vary the said stocks funds and securities as to them or him shall deem as reasonable

AND Do and shall pay the dividends interest and produce of the said last mentioned trust monies and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall and may from time to time be laid out and invested to or permit the same to be received by my said wife and her assigns for her and their own proper use and benefit during her life and such time and as long as she shall continue my widow and unmarried

AND My Will is and I do hereby direct and declare that from and immediately after the second marriage of my said wife that they my said trustees or trustee for the time being do and shall stand and be possessed of the monies accruing from the sale of my said freehold leasehold and real estates and by collecting getting in and receiving my said personal estate in manner hereinbefore directed and which shall remain after answering and satisfying the trusts hereinbefore declared of and concerning the same and the stocks funds and securities upon which the same shall be invested and the dividends interest and annual produce thereof UPON TRUST for my children and their issue in such shares and proportions and to be paid to them at such times and in all manner subject to such and the same powers provisions and declarations as are hereinafter by me willed and declared of and concerning the same trust monies and premises in case my said wife should die without exercising the power of appointment hereinafter by me given her over the same trust monies in favour of my said children

AND My Will further, and I do hereby declare, that from and immediately (//) after the decease of my said wife (she dying my widow and unmarried) that they my said trustees or trustee and the survivors and survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall stand and be possessed of the monies arising from the sale of my said freehold leasehold and real estates and by collecting getting in and receiving my said personal estate in manner hereinbefore directed and to which shall remain after answering and satisfactory the trusts hereinbefore declared of and concerning the same and the stocks funds and securities uopn which the same shall be invested and the dividends interest and annual produce thereof upon and for the trusts intents and purposes hereinafter declared of and concerning the same - That is to Say - UPON TRUST to pay divide the same unto amongst and between all and every or such one or more of my children or the issue of any who may be dead in such shares and proportions and payable to them my said children or their issue when and as the youngest of them my said children shall attain his or her age of twenty one years and more and subject to such conditions regulations and restrictions and with such remainders over (the same being for the benefit of some or one of my said children or their or his or her issue as she my said wife by any deed or deeds or writing or writings with or without power of revocation to be by her signed sealed and delivered in the presence of and attested by two or more reliable witnesses or by her last will and testament in writing or any codicil or codicils thereto to be respectively by her executed in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses shall direct or appoint and in default of any such direction or appointment or in case of any such being made and the same shall not take effect or shall not be a direction or appointment of the whole of the said trust funds and premises THEN as to so much thereof of or concerning which no such direction or appointment shall be made or take effect upon trust to pay assign and transfer the same trust monies funds and securities and the dividends interest and proceeds thereof unto between and amongst all and every such of my said children who shall be living at the time of my decease or the second marriage of my said wife and the issue of such of them as shall have departed this life having issue then living when and as the youngest of my said children shall attain his or her age of twenty one years to be divided between them my said children and their issue respectively in such manner that they may take their respective shares as tenants in common if there shall be more than one and the issue of any of my said children to take such part or share as their parent would have taken if living and so as and that no person or persons may or shall take as or uneer? the description of issue until his her or their parent or respective parents shall have departed this life and in case there shall be but one such child or the issue of only one child living at the time aforesaid then to such one or only child or his or her issue PROVIDED always and I do hereby declare my will to be that until the youngest of my said children shall attain his or her age of twenty one years it shall and may be lawful for the said trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will to pay and apply for and towards the maintenance benefit and education of every child of mine and in case of the decease of any such child then to the issue of such deceased child the interest dividends and annual produce of the part or share of the trust monies and premises and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be vested (//) to which such child or issue shall be then entitled in expectancy by virtue of this my Will and to advance any part not exceeding one half of the part or share of the said trust monies and premises and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be vested to which such child or issue shall for the time being be entilteled in expectancy as aforesaid for or towards his or her preferment or advancement in the world

AND I do hereby declare my Will to be that the receipts or receipt of the said trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will shall be sufficient discharges to the person or persons paying in any monies to arise under the trusts or otherwise of this my Will for so such money as in such receipts or receipt shall be acknowledged to be actually received and that such person or persons so paying in and taking such receipts or receipt as aforesaid shall not be accountable for the missapplication or be obliged to see to the application of the money therein mentioned and acknowledged to be received

AND I do hereby further declare that if the said trustees in and by this my Will nominated and appointed or any of them their or any of their heirs executors administrators or assigns or any future trustee or trustees to be appointed in the stead or place of them or any of them hereinafter mentioned or their or any of their heirs executors administrators or assigns shall happen to die or be desirous of being discharged of and from or refuse or decline or become incapable to act in the trusts hereby in them respectively reposed as aforesaid before the said trusts shall be fully executed performed or discharged THEN and in such case and so often as the same shall happen it shall and my be lawful to and for my said wife Lydia STANTON during her life or so long as she shall continue my widow by any writing under her hand and seal to be attested by two or more witnesses

AND after her death or second marriage whichever shall first happen Then for the surviving or continuing trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will by any writing or writings under their or his hands and seals or hand and seal to be attested by a like number of witnesses from time to time to nominate substitute and appoint any other person or persons to be a trustee or trustees in the stead of the trustee or trustees so dying or desiring to be discharged or refusing declining or becoming incapable to act and that when and so often as any new trustee or trustees shall be nominated and appointed as aforesaid ALL the trust estates and premises which shall then be vested in the trustee or trustees so dying or desiring to be discharged or refusing declining or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid either do each or jointly with each other trustee or trustees shall be thereupon with all conveinient spped conveyed assigned and transferred in such manner so that the same shall and may be legally and effectually vested in the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees of the same trust estates monies and premises respectively and such or other trustee or trustees or if there shall be no continuing trustee or trustees of the same estates monies and premises THEN in such new trustees to the same use and upon the same trusts as are hereinbefore declared of and concerning the same trust estates monies and premises respectively the trustee or trustees whereof shall so die or be desirious of being discharged or refusing declining or become incapable to act as aforesaid or such of them as shall or may be then subsisting or capable of taking effect

AND I do hereby further declare that every such new trustee or trustees shall and may in all things act and assist in the managemnt carrying (//) on and execution of the trusts to which he or they shall be appointed in conjunction with the other then surviving or continuing trustee or trustees of the same trust estates monies and premises respectively if there shall be any such continuing trustee or trustees if not then by himself or themselves as fully and effectually and with all the same power and powers authority and authorities of concent application discretion giving and signing receipts and effectual indemnifications and discharges to purchasers or others and all other power and powers authority and authorities whatsoever to all intents effects constructions and purposes whatsoever as if he or they had been originally in and by this my will nominated a trustee or trustees respectively shall be appointed trustee or trustees and as the trustee or trustees in this my will namedhis or their executors or administrators in or to whose place such new trustee or trustees shall respectively come or succeed or is enabled to do or could or might have done under or by virtue of this my Will if then living and continuing to act in the trusts hereby reposed in tem him or her anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary thereof in anywise nothwithstanding

AND I do hereby also declare that the several trustees hereby by me nominated and appointed and other the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will and each and every of them and the heirs executors administrators and assignees of them each and every of them shall be charged and chareable only for such monies as they shall respectively actually receive by virtue of the trusts in them reposed by this my Will notwithstanding his their her or any of their giving or signing or joining in giving or signing any receipt or receipts for the sake of conformity and any one or more of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the other or others of them or for the acts receipts neglects or defaults respectively of the other or others of them but each and every of them only for his her or their own acts receipts neglects or defaults respectively AND that they or any of them shall not be answerable or accountable for any banker broker or other person with whom and in whose hands any part of the said trust monies shall or may be deposited or lodged for safe custom or otherwise in the execution of the trusts hereinbefore mentioned AND that they or any of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the insuficiency or deficiency of any security or securities stocks or funds in or upon which the said trust monies or any part thereof shall be placed out and invested nor for any other misfortune loss or damage which may happen in the execution of the aforesaid trusts or in relation thereto except the same shall happen by or through theor own willful default respectively AND ALSO that they the said trustees or trustee for the time beingof this my Will do and shall by out of the monies which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the trusts aforesaid retain to and reimburse himself herself and themselves respectively and also do allow to his her and their Co-trustee and Co-trustees all costs charges damages and expenses which they or any of them shall or may suffer sustain expend disburse be at or be put unto in or about the execution of the trusts of this my WILL

AND I do hereby appoint my wife Lydia STANTON sole guardian of the persons of such of my children as are now minors during their minorities AND I do hereby nominate and appoint my said wife Lydia STANTON And my said son George Knight STANTON and the said Charles WARNE and William MANSFIELD joint executix and Executors of this my Last Will and Testament

This is a Codicil to the last Will and testament of me William STANTON of Fordington in the County of Dorset bearing date the twenty ninth day of February One thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Three

Whereas I have in and by my said Will devised and bequeathed the residue of my real and personal estate to certain trustees therein named UPON TRUST to convert the same respectively into money and out of such money in the first place upon trust to pay my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and any legacy or legacies which I might give by any Codicil or Codicils to my said Will and to invest the residue thereof upon certain other trusts in my said Will mentioned and subject thereto I have by my said Will given to my wife Lydia STANTON a power of appointing the said trust monies after payment as aforesaid unto and between my children in manner in my said Will mentioned and in case my said wife should die without exercising the said power of appointment I have directed my said trustees to assign and trsnsfer the said trust monies after the decease or second marriage of my said wife unto and between my said children and the issue of such of them as (//) shall have departed this life leaving issue then living in manner in my said Will mentioned NOW I DO hereby Give bequeath unto each one of my three daughters Lydia Augusta, Emma and Mary the sum of two hundred pounds sterling as a legacy to be paid to them respectively immediately upon the decease or second marriage of my said wife and in addition to any share or interest which they may respectively take in under my said will whether by appointment or otherwise under the trusts therein contained

In All other respects I confirm my said Will, In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the eleventh day of March one thousand weight hundred and forty six

William STANTON

Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator William Stanton as and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses

Ann KENNEDY (Servant to W. Stanton) James HUNT Clerk to Messers Manfield & Andrews Solicitors Dorchester

PROVED at London with a Codicil 17th August 1849 before Judge by the oaths of Lydia STANTON Widow the relict and George Knight STANTON the son Charles WARNE and William MANSFIELD the Executors to whom administration was granted having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer

Genealogical Notes:-

1. William STANTON (c.1772-1848)

William Stanton was the only son of Henry STANTON (1743-1813) by his wife Mary (1747-1825) of Lyme Regis where his father was already a Clothier of some substance and had been in a successful partnership with John BOON since 1801. In 1803 fire swept through much of Lyme, including Mill Green destroying the Old Fulling Mill and Factory. Fortunately they were insured with the Sun Fire Insurance Office and Henry Stanton received £920 compensation which enabled the rebuilding of the Mill together with 22 new houses at Mill Green for workers. Henry Stanton died at the age of 70 and was buried at Lyme Regis on 4th Dec 1813. His Will [PROB 11/1564] was proved on 2nd Jan 1815 and left his estate, after settlement of his just debts, funeral expenses and a number of important bequests, to his son William STANTON and two of his married daughters, namely Ann ENGLAND and Catherine GLYDE. John Boon died in 1819 by which time William Stanton was already trading as 'Stanton, England and Glyde of Lyme Regis', a Partnership with William England, the husband of his sister Ann, and William Glyde the husband of his sister Catherine. This Partnership continued until William Stanton and his family left Lyme Regis to set up their own business at Fordington in 1826. The formal announcement that the partnership was dissolved appears in the Globe newspaper dated 11th Jan 1827. His brothers-in-law then continued to trade under a new partnership as the firm 'England and Glyde of Lyme Regis'.

William had also married prior to his fathers death (by licence on 5th December 1807 at St Mary Magdelene Church in the parish of Loders Dorset) to Lydia KNIGHT (1789-1856) who had been baptised at Long Bredy in Dorset on the 15th September 1789 the daughter of George KNIGHT (1746-1807) by his wife Lydia SLADE (1761-1847). Children:-

1.1. William STANTON Junior (1809-1832) born at Lyme Regis 1st Oct 1809 and baptised at Coombe St Independent Church Lyme Regis 22nd Oct 1809. He was buried at St Georges Church Fordington on 16th Nov 1832 residence given as Lowdes [Loud's] Mill.

1.2. George Knight STANTON (1812-1877) Baptised at Coombe St Independent Church Lyme Regis 23rd Oct 1812. Moved to Fordington with parents and appears in the June 1841 Census aged 25 to 29 abode Louds Factory Fordington. He regularly appears in the Jury Lists for Fordington between 1838-1865. In July 1843 he was involved in litegation over a 'Breach of Promise' against Ellen TOROLD who had become the wife of Rev Mr PATON. In 1851 still unmarried resident at St Pauls Covent Garden occupation woollen manufacturer born Lyme Regis. He married at St Clements church in Westminster at the age of 52 on 23rd Oct 1864 to Sarah Selina LILL (1841-1923) aged 23 the daughter of William LILL a Miller by trade in Fordington. They lived at Kingswood in Gloucestershire and had 3 children :-

1.2. 1. George William STANTON (1865-1931) born at Kingswood Gloucestershire who became a corespondent.
1.2. 2. Henry Llewellen STANTON (1867-1933) who became a mining engineer also baptised at Kingswood
1.2. 3. William STANTON (1869- aft 1901?) who became an Insurance Clerk aged 31 in 1901 living with his widowed mother. He married Frances Annie Murray and were living in West Riding Yorkshire in 1911.

George Knight STANTON died on 16th June 1877 at Kingswood in Gloucestershire leaving an estate of £450 to his widow. His widow Sarah Selina Stanton lived to be 80 dying in 1923.

1. 3. Henry STANTON (1815- aft 1843? ) he was baptised at St Michael the Archangel Church in Lyme Regis on 24th March 1815. Moved to Fordington with parents and appears in the 1840 and 1841 Electoral Registers and the June 1841 Census aged 25 to 29 abode Louds Factory Fordington. Also with his elder brother George Knight Stanton in the Jury Lists for Fordington during 1838-1843.

1.4. Lydia Augusta STANTON (1818-1906) She was baptised was baptised at St Michael the Archangel Church in Lyme Regis on 14th June 1818 and married at St Georges Church in Fordington on 11th April 1860 to a Commercial Traveller Walter Legg SMITH (1819-1892) a native of Winchester in Hampshire and the son of Robert SMITH a Miller by trade. They had no children and and lived for many years in London, Walter recorded as a commission agent in 1871 and living on their own means in 1891. Walter died in Islington London in 1892. Lydia now a widow was living in the Victoria Home for invalid ladies in Headingly in Yorkshire in 1901. She died at the age of 88 in 1906.

1.5. Thomas Knight STANTON (1822- aft 1851) he was baptised at St Michael the Archangel Church in Lyme Regis on 17th April 1822. On the 1st June 1842 he entered into Articles of Clerkship for 5 years with a Solicitor William Charles Lacy of 28 New Bridge Street, Blackfriars. On 16th April 1845 an indenture states he was resworn to complete his Clerkship with Joseph Edmund POOL. On the 9th June 1847 Thomas Knight STANTON of Dorchester was enrolled as an Attorney. He was living at Eldon Chambers in St Clements Danes in London in March 1851 still unmarried working as an Attorney.

1.6. Emma STANTON (1825- ) She was baptised at St Michael the Archangel Church in Lyme Regis on 19th Sep 1825. She married at St Georges Church Fordington on 17th April 1850 to a Dublin merchant called Robert William LANG, with her mother and elder brother George Knight acting as witnesses. Their marriage was reported in the Limerick Reporter on 23rd April which said the Robert William Lang was of Upper Temple Street in Dublin.

1.7. Mary STANTON (1833- aft 1854) was baptised after their move at St Georges Church in Fordington on 27th June 1833 abode given as Lowdes Mill. Not with family in 1841 Census (when aged 8?) but left a bequest in Codicil to his will dated 11th March 1846 (when aged 13) and moved after her fathers death in 1848 with her mother to live in Melcombe Regis. She married William ANDERTON a Clerk the son of a merchant Robert Anderton from Belfast at Melcombe Regis on 6th Nov 1854 when her brother George Knight Stanton acted as one of the witnesses.