Will: Isaac Wain (1817-1906)

Isaac Wain (1817-1906) is my 3rd great grandfather. he was born in about May 1817 in Quarnford, Staffordshire and died age 88 on 9 Feb 1906 in Alstonefield, Staffordshire. This is his will.

The transcription reads:

This is the last Will and Testament of me Isaac Wain of New Stone in the Township of Heathylee in the Parish of Alstonefield in the County of Stafford Farmer. I give and bequeath unto my son Michael Wain my Freehold property known by the name of “Moor Side” in the township of Hollinsclough Parish of Alstonefield County of Stafford his heirs and assigns for ever subject nevertheless to the payment of five pounds each to my son Isaac Wain and my daughter Eliza the wife of Solomon Mellor within twelve calendar months after my decease. The residue of my Estate whatsoever it may consist and wheresoever situate I give and bequeath unto my son Isaac Wain and my daughter Eliza Mellor the wife of Solomon Mellor share and share alike as tenants in common. Subject nevertheless to the payment of all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses. It is my desire that my worthy Landlord Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe Bart allow my daughter Eliza to become tenant of the farm which I now occupy at New Stone. I appoint my friend Harold Hand of Ball Bank, Longnor, Buxton and my son Isaac Wain of Upper Haddon, Meerbrook, Leek trustees and executors of this my will and the survivor of them or the Executors of each survivor and I direct that my Executors shall be paid for their time and trouble under this my Will and revoke all former Wills by me made. In Witness my hand this twenty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety five.

Signed and declared by the testator Isaac Wain as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other all present together have hereunto set our names as Witness.

Eliza Brunt, Hazzlebarrow, Upper Hulme, Leek

Frederick William Tunnicliff, Ball Bank, Longnor, Buxton 

On the twenty seventh day of March 1906 Probate of this Will was granted at Lichfield to Isaac Wain the son the surviving Executor.

Notes

The will confirms the names of Isaac's children, Michael (William Micah), Isaac and Eliza and also gives the name of Eliza's husband as Solomon Mellor.

Harold Hand, the other Executor died on 4 November 1902.

Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1900, but apart from this position he played no part in public life. He was seen as something of an altruistic monocrat, mixing great thoughtfulness and generosity towards his tenants and employees at his two seats - Calke Abbey in Derbyshire and Warslow-Longnor in Staffordshire - with a disarming degree of aloofness and arbitrary behaviour towards his own family.