Thomas B Esplin baker

• Birth*: Thomas B Esplin baker was born circa 1842 at Forfar, Forfarshire, Scotland, ; from 1881 census [July 2008].
• (Groom) Marriage*: He married Isabella Barrie factory warper on 10 June 1869 at Market Place, Forfar, Forfarshire, Scotland, ; 1869 marriages in the district of Forfar in the county of Forfar; 1869 on the tenth day of June at Market Place Forfar after banns according to the forms of the Established Church of Scotland; Thomas Esplin baker journeyman bachelor, 26, West High Street Forfar, Thomas Esplin shoemaker master (dec) May Esplin ms Lakin (dec); Isabella Barrie factory worker (warper) spinster, 28, Market Place Forfar, James Barries factory worker Ann Barrie ms Doig; Peter Weir MA minister of St James Forfar, Alexander Petty, Jemima Burns witnesses.¹

• (Witness) Inventory: Thomas B Esplin baker was a beneficiary of the inventory of John Adamson grocer & spirit merchant; inventory held; extensive property, promisary notes, shares, loans (debtors) and business assets totalling £2771/11/6; executors James Moffat manufacturer in Forfar, Isabella Moffat or Adamson widow West High Street Forfar, John Moffat commission agent in Manchester, Thomas Esplin West High Street Forfar; trust disposition & settlement granted by deceased 14th October 1896, registered at the Sheriff Courst of Forfar 7th April 1896. Executors swear to pay Estate Duty to the Inland Revenue. Executors (and their survivors and acceptors, the major number being a quorum) are instructed to 1) pay all my just and lawful debts and sickbed and ..., 2) if my wife survive me deliver to her in liferent for her alimontary liferent the whole household furniture, books, plate, bed and table linen and whole other houehold effects to belong to me at my death and pay her during all days and years of her life the free income of the residue of my means and estate hereby conveyed with power to my trustees to advance her such sum or sums out of the capital of my said means and estate, from time to time, as they may consider necessary for her more comforatble maintenance and support 3) on the death of me and my wife, or as soon as therafter convenient, realise and convert into cash the residue and remainder of my means and estate hereby conveyed adn divide and pay over the free proceed threof equally to and among my lawfull children; and in the event of any of my children dying before the period of division leaving lawfull issue, such issue shall be entiteled equally among them, to the share to which ther parent would have been entitled if in life; and in the event of any of my said children dying before the said period of division without leaving lawfull issue, the share of such decease so far as unpaid shall fall to and be divided equally among the survisors and survivors of my said children jointly with the lawful issue of any of then who may have deceased leaving children such issue suceeding equally among them to the share to which teir parent would have been entitled if in life, and I provide that it shall be lawfuk to and in the power and option of my trustees if they shall se think fir to advance and pay before the arrival of the period of division foresaid to and for behoof of my childre many of then any part not exceeding one half of the estimated share to be payable to him ot her for establishing a son in business or fitting out a daughter on marriage or otherwise for the behoof of my children and upon such balance in trust at the rate of three percentum per annumshall be payable to my Trustees during the life of my wife, and I provide and declare that all sums advanced or which may be advanced by me in loan to my said children or any of them, or to any husband of my daughters for which vouchers may be held by me at my death or which may be ebited to them in my books or in my memorandum or writing left by me and all sums which may be chargeable and charged against my estate in repect of any obligations which I have come under or may come under for any of my said children or any husband of any of my daughters shall be debts due to my estate and deducted from the provisions hereby made in favour of my said children or any of them succeeding to them respectively such debts of any husband of my daughters being deducted from the share of their respective wives or of those succeeding to them respectively but no interest which may be due up to the date of my decease upon any such advance chall be charged against my said children or their for...d and after my death interest thereon shall be charged at the rate of three percentum per annum, etc etc. Investments and properties can be managed by the trustees for as long as they think proper and they can employ and renumerate a factor or law agent if felt necessary. Solicitor William Gordon JP. Using the retail price index for 2006 (latest date available) the estate equates to £216,903.16 in today's terms. [July 2008]²

Census & Directory Entries

Head of Household

3 April 1881

He was listed as head of household along with spouse Isabella Barrie factory warper in the 1881 census at 25 West High Street, Forfar, Forfarshire, Scotland, . Thomas Esplin, head, mar, 38, baker employing 2 boys, Forfar; Isabella Esplin, wife, mar, 40, Forfar; also in the household were Eliza Esplin, Annie Barrie Esplin, John Esplin and Frank B Esplin.