Reference
X948/1/1/B27
Title
Copy will of Archibald Brown of 37 Cutenhoe Road, Luton, fruiterer and greengrocer.
Date free text
7 January 1959
Production date
From: 1959 To: 1959
Scope and Content
Executors and trustees: David Jonathan Peck of Luton, solicitor; Alec James Allison of Cardiff Road, Luton, accountant
Gives:
- personal effects to daughter Dorothy Myrtle Currant
- £500 to son-in-law Edward Currant
- £350 to each of his grandchildren (except Robert Brown)
- £250 to his grandson Robert Brown
- £100 to his grandson John Edward Currant "for his kindness to me" in addition to any other legacy
- £100 to each of his executors
- £250 to Nathional Childrens Home and Orphanage at Harpenden
- £100 to Citadel No.1 Salvation Army, Luton
- £100 to Citadel No.2 Salvation Army, Luton
Directs:
- trustees to offer to sell properties at 2 and 4 Princess Street to his sons Harold Edwin Brown and Alfred Lionel Brown for £3000
- trustees to offer to sell 12 Princess Street to his niece Maureen Brown for £600 (with provision for a mortgage)
Devises and bequeaths:
- all property in trust to be sold at trustees discretion
- residue of estate to be held in trust for his children as tenants in common in equal shares
- should any of his children (except Archibald Brown) die in his lifetime their share to be divided between their children
Having already transferred money or property several of his children directs that his children shall bring into hotchpot on division of his residuary estate amounts as follows:
- son Harold Edwin Brown £1400
- son Herbert Cecil Brown £1000
- daughter Dorothy Myrtle Currant £2500
- son Alfred Lionel Brown £500
Witnesses:
- A Victor Williams, solicitor, Luton
- Catherine E Hadley, clerk to Gates & Williams, solicitors, Luton
Died 23 February 1959. Proved in DPR Oxford 18 March 1959
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