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Will of Mary Sanders of Harrold, widow.

22 February 1907

From: 1907 To: 1907

Bequeathing to such of her daughters who may be unmarried at the time of her decease all furniture, plate, linen, china, wearing apparel, jewellery and all other household goods and effects, indoor and outdoor, including any live stock. Giving and devising all real and personal estate, including all household goods and effects as above if all her daughters should be married at the time of her decease, to her executors-- son William Arthur Sanders; son in law Charles Howes [sic] Croxford of 88 Whittington Road, Bowes Park, London, surveyor; brother Jethro John Wiggins of Odell, agent-- to sell and convert into money and the residue to distribute equally between her surviving children or, if deceased, a parent share to their issue. Executors not to sell her freehold shop, house and premises at Harrold, now in the occupation of her son aforesaid, together with all the cottages and buildings adjoining, without first giving him the option to purchase at the price of £900, such option to be exercised within three calendar months of her decease; nor to sell the messuage at Harrold called ‘The Maples’, in which she now resides, together with adjoining messuage and closes of land and all other the property she purchased some years since from the trustees of the will of Caleb Le Fevre, deceased, without first offering in writing to her unmarried daughter or daughters successively in order of birth for the sum of £1,500, their acceptance to be indicated in writing within 28 days of the offer being made; other purchasers to be given notice of these directions. Executors: William Arthur Sanders; Charles Howis Croxford; Jethro John Wiggins. Witnesses: [illeg.] Allen, of Olney, solicitor; James W. Painter, his clerk.

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Croxford, Charles Howis,
Sanders,
Sanders, Mary,
Sanders, William Arthur,
Wiggins, Jethro John

HARROLD, Harrold Maples, will