Reference
X948/1/1/C48
Title
Copy will of Minnie Cooper of Bidwell, widow.
Date free text
24 June 1937
Production date
From: 1937 To: 1956
Scope and Content
Appoints George Fensome of Bidwell, farmer and Richard Gadsden of 3a Old Bedford Road, Luton, straw hat manufacturer, as executors and trustees.
Desires to be buried in same grave in Houghton Regis churchyard as her late husband William Erskine Cooper.
Directs trustees to erect and pay for out of estate a gravestone with suitable inscriptions.
Gives:
- £5 each to her trustees
- sideboard and 4 chairs in her living room to Thomas Wilfrid Gadsden, son of her brother Thomas Gadsden
Residue of estate to be divided into four parts to be distributed as follows:
- one part to brother Thomas Gadsden, or if has died then his son Thomas Wilfrid Gadsden
- one part to brother Albert Gadsden, or if he has died his son James Wilfrid Gadsden
- one part to Thomas Wilfrid Gadsden
- one part to James Wilfrid Gadsden
Witnesses: A Victor Williams, solicitor, Luton; Elsie G Gadsden, 3a Old Bedford Road, Luton, spinster.
Codicil dated 9 February 1952
- both executors named in will have died
- appoints Albert Victor Williams and David Jonathan Peck, solicitors of Luton, as executors and trustees
Witnesses: Eileen M Taylor, clerk to Gates & Williams, solicitors, Luton; Marian Maitland, 121 Warwick Road, London SW.
Died 7 March 1956. Address at date of death 11a Dunstable Road, Luton. Proved in DPR Oxford on 4 April 1956.
Level of description
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