• Reference
    OR2350/16
  • Title
    Will (unproved) of Richard Orlebar, of Hinwick, Esq Appoints wife Frederica, sole executor but if she dies or remarries. Son Richard Rouse Boughton Orlebar of Hinwick, Esq and Harry Weller Richards of 26 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Solicitor, to be executors in her place.
  • Date free text
    18 March 1909
  • Production date
    From: 1909 To: 1909
  • Scope and Content
    All personal estate etc to wife for her life. Reversion of all furniture, pictures, plate, books, china etc. that formerly belonged to Richard Longuet Orlebar and may still be on premises of Slade House, Podington having been given to Rouse as free gift and then lent back. Devise to Trustees Rouse and Richards all real estate and after death of Frederica all his personal estate and effects. Power of sale in trust for Rouse reversion to elder son. Trustees not to let Slade House without permission of Rouse or his heir. Witnesses Florence Ellen Patchett, Hinwick, Cook and Zilpah Rebecca Andrews, Hinwick, Parlourmaid. Note by Frederica: Will ... obsolete. "But it has not been destroyed, because of the clause stating that all our personal property was given to Rouse as long ago as 1906 and henceforth lent for our use."
  • Level of description
    item