Reference
P70/2/26
Title
Will of Rev.George Harold Strange of Shefford, MA.Theology, University College, Durham:
- Rev.John George Williams, Vicar of Henlow; Charles E.Derbyshire of Sandy Rectory; and his cousin Horace Cecil Beere as trustees and executors;
- 5 to each of his executors providing they proved the will;
- trustees to burn all personal letters, photographs and papers;
- trustees to hand over all papers regarding Shefford church in his keeping to the next incumbent;
- trustees to allow clergy of the Rural Deanery to have any of his private theological books they wished;
- to be buried in a separate grave, as near his mother as possible, in the cemetery at Shaftesbury [Dorset]; funeral service to be at Shefford and coffin taken to Shaftesbury, lying in the church of St.Rumbold Cann, Shaftesbury to await burial; burial arrangements at Shefford to be carried out at Mr.Trigg and at Shaftesbury by George Johnson & Son;
- 10, a ring and a watch to his sister Florence Arendel Strange;
- 10, a ring and a watch to his sister Annie Maud Strange;
- otherwise unwanted plate, furniture, ornamaents etc. to his two sisters;
- to Shefford PCC for church use all his vestments and his private communion set, portable altar and any furniture in his oratory;
- 10 to Shefford PCC owing for repairs and improvements to the church in 1933;
- his three hoods, cerfificates of degrees and orders and any other personal ornament not disposed of elsewhere to his father;
- trustees to retain 100 to erect a stained glass window of The Transfiguration in his memory at Shefford church at the east of the south Nave;
- trustees to hold 75 to erect a stained glass window of The Entry into Jerusalem in memory of his father, after his father's death, in Shefford church at right hand side of testator's stall in the choir; work to be carried out by H.Warren Wilson; also The Institution of Holy Communion to be inscribed in memory of his parents;
- reciting that he had bought four cottages and land adjoining the church to prevent acquisition for "some noisy or noxious use" and to built a parsonage upon and devising to Shefford PCC a strip of land 9ft wide next to western fence and wall of the church extending to full depth of churchyard but reserving a right of way over it to rear in case the land be used for a parsonage;
- the four cottages and remainder of the land to be sold by his trustees subject to conditions preventing nuisance to the church; Commissioners of Queen Anne's Bounty to be offered first refusal based on valuation as a site for a new vicarage;
- residue of his estate to his trustees for conversion to money for payment of debts etc. after which to set up a Residuary Trust Fund to pay income to Florence Arendel Strange, and, after her death to Annie Maud Strange and, after her death to stand possessed of the fund in trust for Shefford PCC to be put towards the cost of a new sanctuary, remainder to be invested by PCC as a Fabric Fund
- A.L.M.Shepherd of Shefford Vicarage, widow;
- Arthur H.Thake, clerk to Wade & Jackson of Hitchin [Hertfordshire], solicitors
Note that G.H.Strange died on 13 Oct 1934 and proof of his will in PPR on 19 Dec1934 by all executors
Date free text
20 Sep 1934
Production date
From: 1933 To: 1934
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