Reference
R6/29/3/24
Title
Copy will and codicil of Joseph Norris of Brogborough.
Date free text
4 Sep 1866, proved 12 Feb 1867
Production date
From: 1866 To: 1867
Scope and Content
Copy will and codicil of Joseph Norris of Brogborough, farmer:
- devising his real estate at Berry End, Eversholt, purchased from devisees under the will of Samuel Lewis and his inn and land in Ridgmont and Husborne Crawley purchased from John Norris to William Frederick Green of Woburn, gentleman and Harriet Morris, his late wife’s niece as trustees for sale;
- bequeathing his personal estate to William Frederick Green and Harriet Morris as trustees to convert it to Money;
- bequeathing £500 to his nephew William Norris;
- bequeathing £500 to his reputed son William Dolton or William Norris Dolton;
- bequeathing £200 each to his nieces Mary Line and Ann Shortland;
- bequeathing £100 to his late wife’s niece Annie Bird;
- rescinding the debt owed to him by George Marshall;
- applying the residue to paying off the mortgages on his real estate with any surplus bequeathed to Harriet Morris for her own use;
- bequeathing his real estate in Husborne Crawley purchased from Frederick Wright and William Howard to Harriet Morris for her own use;
- appointing William Frederick Green and Harriet Morris as executor and executrix;
- witnessed by John Green and his clerk Charles Herbert.
Codicil of 4 September 1866:
- appointing James Sibthorpe Morris of Shenley [Buckinghamshire], Harriet Morris’ brother, as an additional executor and trustee;
- witnessed by William Wiseman of Woburn, solicitor and Charles Hill, clerk to John Green
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