Seeing the request for a Richard MEREDITH of Shrewsbury reminded me that some time ago I made a copy of a Will for a Martha MEREDITH of Shrewsbury who is not apparently related to my own MEREDITH family research. (Pershore, Worcs. and Frodesley). As it mentions quite a few names perhaps it will be of help to someone. Ann .............. Will of Martha MEREDITH of Shrewsbury. Will made 1846. Codicil 1847. Proved 1867. This is the last Will and Testament of Martha MEREDITH Of Shrewsbury, in the County of Salop ....... All my messuage or dwellinghouse situate on St John's Hill in Shrewsbury aforesaid In which I now reside together with the land on which the same is erected and stands and the rights ... and appurtenances thereunto belonging Unto and to the use of my friend Edmund Francis Saint AUBYN who now resides with me and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life without impairment of . and then after his decease then I give and devise the same messuage or dwellinghouse and land with the rights to .... and appurtenances thereunto belonging to my relative Mary Catherine HUMPHREYS daughter of Edward HUMPHREYS the elder of Walcot ? in the County of Salop her heirs and assigns for ever I give and bequeath all and singular my personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresover and of what nature or kind which I shall be possessed of at the time of my decease unto my friends the said Edward HUMPHREYS the elder and his son Edward HUMPHREYS the younger and Thomas TISDALE of Shrewsbury Auctioneer their Executors Administrators or Assigns Upon Trust and for the interest and purposes and under subject to the provisos declarations and. hereinafter expressed and a ...Upon Trust that the said Edward HUMPHREYS the elder, Edward HUMPHREYS the younger and Thomas TISDALE or the survivors or survivor or their Executors shall with all .. speed after my decease collect get in and receive such part of my said personal estate and effects as shall consist of money or securities for money and do and shall sell absolutely dispose of and convert unto money all such part of my said personal Estate as shall not consist of money or...... To pay all my funeral and Testamentary expenses then Upon Trust to pay the following legacies that is to say To the said Edward HUMPHREYS the elder the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds To the said Edward HUMPHREYS the younger the sum of one hundred pounds To the Arthur Lloyd HUMPHREYS of The Wood in the County of Montgomery, Farmer, the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds To Edward HUMPHREY and Arthur HUMPHREYS sons of the said Arthur Lloyd HUMPHREYS the sum of one hundred pounds apiece To Abraham GITTINS of Borne Barns? the sum of one hundred pounds To Mary Catherine HUMPHREYS the sum of one hundred pounds To Elizabeth DAVIES the wife of John DAVIES of Shrewsbury, Mercer the sum of two hundred pounds To her husband the said John DAVIES, Mercer, the sum of nineteen pounds nineteen shillings To Ann GITTINS of Pontesbury in the County of Salop spinster, the sister of the said Abraham GITTINS the sum of fifty pounds To Mary Jones OWEN the daughter of the late Mr Evan OWEN of Shrewsbury, Maltster, the sum of fifty pounds To Jane TEECE the daughter of my friend Mrs MORGAN by her late husband .. TEECE of Allfield and Sarah VAUGHAN daughter of William VAUGHAN the sum of fifty pounds apiece To John Mytton SCRIMSHER of Paulton ? in the County of Salop the sum of fifty pounds To Margaret THOMAS of Newtown in the County of Montgomery, Shopkeeper, the sum of one hundred pounds To her son Samuel THOMAS of Newtown aforesaid, Druggist, one hundred pounds To her daughter Ann THOMAS the sum of fifty pounds To Phillippa ROBINSON the daughter of John George DAVIES of Shrewsbury, Confectioner, the sum of fifty pounds To Catherine the wife of John? WALINSLEY of Heatherbed Lane, near Sunburned ? in the said County of Salop the sum of .. pounds To Mary Ann PITT the wife of Mr PITT of Posnall ? and niece of the late Miss ELLIS of Hoyroft the sum of fifty pounds To Robert WARING of Shrewsbury, Doctor of Physics To ? Kirc . of .. Esquire To the Reverend John YARDLEY of Shrewsbury aforesaid, Cleric, the sum of ten pounds apiece to each and every of them to buy mourning rings To the said Edward HUMPHREYS the elder, Edward HUMPHREYS the younger, Thomas TISDALE, William Henry PARRY of Shrewsbury aforesaid Esquire, John SHEPHERD of the same place, Surgeon, for all the trouble they will have in executing this my Will the sum of nineteen pounds and nineteen shillings apiece All which several legacies or sums of money I hereby accordingly bequeath to the said several persons hereinbefore named........ Signed 24th day of January 1846 Codicil Dated 7 October 1847 Whereas I have given and devised an Estate for life to my friend Edmund Francis SAINT AUBYN in my messuage or dwelling house... I do hereby declare that it is my will and intention that the said devise is made to him upon condition that he continues to reside in the said messuage or premises and that in the case the said Edmund Francis SAINT AUBYN should quit and leave the personal occupation of the same at any one time for the period of six calendar months or shall let the same to a tenant for occupation then I declare and direct that the devise so made to him ...... shall be utterly void and the ...... To my relative Catherine HUMPHREYS her heirs ..... Codicil Whereas I have in my last Will and Testament given amongst other legacies to Abraham GITTINS the sum of one hundred pounds and to John DAVIES late of Shrewsbury the sum of nineteen pounds nineteen Now I do revoke and make void these two legacies and I also bequeathed in my said Will unto Elizabeth DAVIES the wife of John DAVIES the sum of two hundred pounds I do hereby revoke such mentioned legacy to the extent of ... And bequeath to her the said Elizabeth DAVIES the sum of one hundred pounds only........ Proved at London 25 August 1867