I Thomas Featherstone of the parish of Hollingbourne Kent make this my last will and testament I have deposited in the Savings Bank at Maidstone sixty-eight pounds with interest and upon the same in my house at Hollingbourne I have twenty-two pounds and my household goods including? A silver watch I value at fifteen pounds Of this my property in money and household goods I dispose as follows I give and bequeath to my son John Thomas twenty pounds to my daughter Mary Ann fifteen pounds And to my daughter Sarah fifteen pounds to be drawn out of the Savings Bank together with the interest due thereon by them severally when they arrive at the age of twenty one I also leave my silver watch to my son John Thomas and I hope he will prove a kind son to his mother and a kind brother to his sisters The remainder of my money that is eighteen pounds in the Savings Bank and twenty two pounds in my house together £40 I give & bequeath ,after payment of my just debts and expenses of my funeral together with all my household goods to my wife Diana Featherstone to dispose of as she may occur best and further it is my will that if either of the parties herein named shall have died before receiving their portion that portion so divided in equal shares among the survivors
Signed in the presence of Carter Hall Charles Oliver
This 10th day of August 1858 Thomas Featherstone
In Her Majestys Court of Probate The Principal Registry
In the Goods of Thomas Featherstone deceased The 16th day of October 1858
I Charles Oliver of Hollingbourne in the county of Kent Gentleman make oath and say that I am one of the surviving? Witnesses to the last will and testament of Thomas Featherstone of Hollingbourne aforesaid deceased hereunto annexed? Bearing date the tenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight That the said Thomas Featherstone only? signed the same and declared it to be his last will and testament on the said tenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight in the presence of myself and the Reverend Carter Hall whose name appears as another of the attesting witnesses to the said will who now present at the same time and whom the said testator requested to witness and attest his execution thereof and that we thereupon in his presence and in the presence of each other subscribed our names as witnesses thereto and that before the execution thereof by the said Thomas Featherstone the word “two” was interlined between the fifth and sixth lines thereof and the word “of” was erased between the word dispose “and as” in the fourth line of the said will which said will is now to the best of my memory and belief in the same state and condition as when executed by the said testator Charles Oliver Sworn at Maidstone in the county of Kent this sixteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight Before me Henry Hughes A Commissioner to Administer Oaths in the above Court
On the 10th day of Novr 1858 Admon with the will annexed of the personal estate and effects of Thomas Featherstone late of Hollingbourne in the county of Kent who died on the 14th day of august 1858 at Hollingbourne aforesaid was granted to Diana Featherstone widow the relict she having been first sworn the executor or residuary legatee being named in the said will