Will-Benjamin Conway Conway.

[wrjones]

Can anyone help me decipher the writing of the Will of the Reverend Benjamin Conway Conway please.It is ten pages long in pdf format.The trouble is its over 1mb in size.

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[J.J.]

You didn't add the url to the pdf... If in Welsh you might want to slug it out first using a helper.   
http://translate.google.ca/?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hl=en&tab=wT#cy|en|

Have you seen all this available information on him...
http://193.132.104.74/nra/onlinelists/GB0208%20D-DM-298.pdf
http://books.google.ca/books?id=YdIKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0am4/

[wrjones]

Many thanks for the links you gave.They are entirely fascinating.

As far as the copy of the Will that I hold in pdf format,it is about 1mb in size,apparently too large on its own to put up here.Being techno-illiterate I'm unable to split it up.

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[LDW]

OK, techno-illiterate, try this:

1. Go to www.exp-systems.com/PDFreDirect/Downloads.htm?1

2. Click DOWNLOAD NOW under PDF reDirect v2

3. Click DOWNLOAD NOW again (at C-Net) - it's free of charge.

4. Choose SAVE FILE : the file downloads to your PC

5. Search your computer for a file named Install_PDFR_v252.exe

(sorry - without knowing your system I can't make this bit any simpler)

6. When you have found it, double click on it to start installing it

7. Follow instructions: you may be asked if you want to RUN the program - the answer is YES; you may be asked to confirm you agree to terms and conditions - again the answer is YES.

8. When installation is complete, open your 12-page pdf. Do whatever you usually do to print (CTRL + P?), and when the list of printers comes up you should find a new one called PDF REDIRECT V2. Choose that printer.

9. Choose to print only page 1. (On my system I get a box that says PRINT RANGE - ALL / PAGES from X to Y). Click GO or whatever to start printing.

10. Up comes a box with a pic of page one bottom right: click on that pic. A new pdf of one page only opens.

11. Go to FILE menu and choose SAVE AS. Save your new 1-page pdf somewhere convenient (I suggest Desktop).

12. Close everything down and post the single page at RootsChat.


NB: You can follow the same procedure to make pdfs of any document - a v handy facility.

[wrjones]

Many thanks LDW,you will find out whether I've done it correctly when the single pages appear here.

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[wrjones]

This is the fifth page for transcription as a kind Rootschatter has already done the first pages.



Regards
William Russell Jones.

[J.J.]

Hmmmm, suggest whomever takes up each torch claims it on here. Yes it is English and not all that bad a handwriting, but if a dozen people take on the same one it will be a waste as they could have worked on the next and so on...
( No this is not a claim )

[wrjones]

I got another five pages still to put up.

Regards
William Russell Jones

[veeblevort]

Hi wr,

I can't figure out of the end of the line which is three above the bottom line -
'not' doesn't make any sense to me.

hereditaments hereinbefore devised shall cease determine and become void as if
such Son of the said Maria Emma Elizabeth Griffith as last aforesaid was actual
ly dead without issue male of his Body and thenceforth the said hereditaments here
inbefore devised shall immediately thereupon or upon the decease of the said Maria
Emma Elizabeth Griffith which shall last happen to go over and be held by my said
Trustees and Trustee for the time being In Trust for such person and persons as by
virtue of the Trusts or Limitations hereinbefore declared would be entitled to the
same hereditaments in case such Son who or whose male issue shall so become
the heir male or heir male apparent  (as the case may be) of the said Maria Emma
Elizabeth Griffith for the time being and so entitled to the bulk of the estates of the
said Holland Griffith as aforesaid was then dead without issue male of his body
in such manner and so that the Trusts or Estates subsequent to the Trust or estate
hereinbefore declared or created in favor of such Son as last aforesaid and his
issue male may be accelerated and take effect in all respects and to and for all purpo-
ses as if such son were then actually dead without issue male as aforesaid Pro
vided always and I do hereby declare that if the said Maria Emma Elizabeth
Griffith shall not have more than one Son then and in such case my said
Trustees or Trustee for the time being shall on her decease be seized of and inter
ested in all and singular the estates and hereditaments the trusts whereof are here
inbefore declared as aforesaid Upon and for the Trusts hereinbefore declared subse
quently to the Trusts hereinbefore declared in favor of the second and other
younger Sons of the said Maria Emma Elizabeth Griffith as aforesaid and
their issue And I do hereby further declare the the Trustees or Trustee of this my
will shall from time to time during the respective minority of every person except
the said Maria Emma Elizabeth Griffith who under the Trusts or Limitations
hereinbefore declared shall for the time being be equitable Tenant in tail male
or for life in possession by purchase of the said hereditaments hereinbefore devised
receive the rents issues and profits of the same hereditaments and pay and apply
such part thereof not exceeding one hundred pounds per annum as they or he
shall judge necessary or proper in that behalf for the maintenance and education
of the person who shall so for the time being be entitled in possession and shall
be under the age of twenty one years as aforesaid And do and shall from time
to time during such minority unless the same shall extend beyond the period of
twenty one years to be computed from my decease and if so then during that pe-
riod only lay out and invest all the surplus which shall not be wanted for the
purpose aforesaid of the said rents issues and profits in the manner hereinafter di-
rected concerning my net residuary personal estate after payment of my debts and
funeral and testamentary expenses and Legacies Provided always and I do
hereby declare that at any time or times during the minority of the said
Maria Emma Elizabeth Griffith or of any other person or persons who under
the Trusts and provisions hereinbefore mentioned shall be equitably entitled to
any estate for life or in tail in possession by purchase of and in the hereditaments
hereinbefore devised it shall be lawful for the Trustees or Trustee for the time
being of this my will at their or his discretion and that at any time or times
after the determination of such minority it shall be lawful for the person for
the time being equitably entitled to the possession of the said hereditaments as Ten
ant for life in tail male by purchase to dig work and search for (either alone or
in concurrence with any other person or persons) any Mines Minerals Metals
or Coal in or under any part of the said hereditaments for the time being sub-
ject to the Trusts aforesaid (except under the Demesne of Lower Soughton afore-
said or the Lands adjoining) and to raise obtain carry away and dispose of all
or any of the Metals Coal or Minerals found or discovered therein and for
such purposes make sink and drive all such Pits and Shafts and other
Works and to build and construct all such Engines and Machinery and to ?
and maintain the same in such manner as shall be deemed necessary or expe-
dient and to use all or any other lawful ways or means for finding working
and raising such Mines Coals and Minerals and any other purposes