Another John Fisher will - not related to me. Just sharing from the Fayette County Register of Wills. Extracted from the Lancaster Registry of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice. This is the last will and Testament of one John Fisher, a citizen of the United States of America now residing at Barrow in Furness in the county of Lancaster in England, but intending shortly to pay a visit to my former home in Clark County in the State of Missouri. I am a retired Steamboat man and am the son of William Fisher formerly of Barrow in the Parish of Dalton in the said county of Lancaster Yeoman deceased who by his will dated the sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and sixty one gave and devised two cottages in James' Terrace at Barrow aforesaid with their respective appurtenances numbered respectively 1 and 2 unto his trustees and their heirs and assigns subject to his wife taking the rents during her life upon trust to let the same and pay the rents unto me (herein described as his son John) during my life and after my decease up such trusts and in such manner as I should by Deed or by Will or Codicil appoint and the said cottages are now known as numbers 23 and 24 Strand Barrow in Furness aforesaid. I appoint my nephew William Bolton the son of my deceased sister Mary and my friend Roger Taylor of Barrow in Furness aforesaid Relieving officer and my Solicitor Frank Taylor of the same place to be the executor and trustees of this my will to act in England and I appoint my friends Captain Henry Brackencock of McKeesport Monongahela River Pennsylvania and Matthew Oliver Jones of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Surgeon executors and trustees of this my will to act in the United States of America and I give to each of them the said William Bolton and Roger Taylor a legacy of ten pounds and to each of them Henry Brackencock and Matthew Oliver Jones a legacy of ten pounds as a trifling acknowledgement for the trouble they may have in the execution of the trusts of this my will. I give a legacy of two hundred and fifty pounds to each of my nieces Mary Agnes Fisher and Jane Fisher two of the children of my deceased brother Richard. I give a legacy of one hundred pounds each to my nephew Robert Battersby Fisher and my niece Margaret Robertson two of the children of my deceased Brother William James. I give to my cousin Margaret Fisher of 13 Sandon Street Liverpool spinster an annuity of twenty pounds a year during her life to be paid to her by equal quarterly payments the first payment to be made at the expiration of three calendar months after my decease. If I should die in America, I direct my executors to expend from twenty pounds to thirty pounds in erecting a headstone on my grave there and a like sum on a similar stone to be erected in the Cemetery at Barrow in Furness aforesaid in the neighborhood of the grave of my deceased nephew William Fisher and if I should die in England the like sum is to be expended on a headstone on my grave. In exercise of the power given to me by the Will of my said father, I appoint the said cottages in the Strand at Barrow in Furness aforesaid and I give all the residue of my property as to such parts thereof as are in England unto the said William Bolton Roger Taylor and Frank Taylor and as to such parts thereof as are in America unto the said Henry Brackencock and Matthew Oliver Jones upon trust to sell and convert the same into money and after payment of my debts and funeral and testamentary expenses and the said legacies and providing for the said annuity upon trust that the said trustees in America shall remit the proceeds in their hands to the said Trustees in England and that the latter shall divide all the residue amongst my nephews and nieces Mary Elizabeth Turner and John Henry Fisher two of the children of my late brother William James Fisher deceased and the said William Bolton, James Bolton, Mary Bolton, Eliza Bolton and Margaret McKean the children of my late sister Mary in equal shares except as to the share of the said Mary Elizabeth Turner of which I direct that one moiety shall be given to her and the other moiety [?] shall be held in trust for her daughter Emma Elizabeth Tuner and until she attains the age of twenty one years the income thereof shall be paid to her mother or otherwise applied for her maintenance. In case any of my said nephews nieces shall die in my life time leaving a child or children him her or them surviving such child or children shall take in equal shares the legacy or share to which is her or their parents would have been entitled if living ay my decease. And I hereby declare that the said Frank Taylor shall be entitled to my charge and shall be paid out of the trust premises for all business done by him in relation to this will and the trusts thereof in like manner as he would have been entitled to charge the executors and trustees for the same if not being himself an executor and trustee he had been employed by them to such business as their solicitor. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand to this my will contained in this and the preceding sheet of paper this 18th day of June One thousand eight hundred and ninety. John Fisher Testator died 27, June, 1894. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). 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