• Reference
    X547/14
  • Title
    Probate of the will of Mr John Barrand, Bedford, gentleman
  • Date free text
    7 Jun 1893; proved 10 Jan 1894
  • Production date
    From: 1893 To: 1894
  • Scope and Content
    wife Amelia Elizabeth, William Weston Goodrich, Bedford, dairyman and William John Robinson, Bedford, bookseller, to be executors and trustees ... to said William John Robinson - £20 for his trouble ... to wife all her jewels, wearing apparel, plate, pictures, etc ... charitable legacies: London Orphan Asylum - £50 Asylum for fatherless children, Reedham, Surrey - £50 Wesleyan Methodist Foreign Missionary Society - £20 Dr Barnardo's Home at Stepney - £20 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - £20 ... to cousin, Sarah Clark, wife of Henry Clark, West Smethwick, Birmingham, carpenter - £500. If dead, then to husband ... Church Hill Close, Foxton, Leicestershire, with cottage, garden etc, lately purchased of trustee of will of late John Wareing to Jane wife of Isaac Brown, baker. If dead then to husband. ... land in Ravensden, purchased of devisees of late Sir William Long, upon trust for sister Hannah Killen for life, then to William Weston Goodrich, and then to his wife Eliza Goodrich, and then on trust for sale. Money raised to be held in trust for children of William and Eliza, when 21 ... freehold close at Great Oxenden, Northamptonshire, occupied by Mr Coleman, and purchased from Mr Harrison, to nephew Thomas Smith, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, railway porter, for life and then to son William ... Marvels or Bensts Close, Foxton, with close adjoining, lately purchased from trustee of late John Wareing, to Edward Charles Goodrich, son of Eliazar Goodrich, Foxton ... 73, 75, 77 Hassett Street, Bedford in occupations Setchell, Beech and Silver, to Lily Rosina Greeman, daughter of wife's sister, Ellen ... close land in Bridge Street, Foxton, purchased of Mrs Chapman, to Sydney Coleman, Foxton. If dead then to William Goodrich ... all other real in trust for wife for life, and then for sale ... personal estate to be sold. Interest on proceeds to wife for life after death of wife all money (from sale of real and personal estate) to: E C Goodrich - £200 William Barrand Meadows, Islip, Northants - £100 Jane Brown - £250. If dead then to husband Thomas Smith - £250 residue in trust to be divided into 15 equal parts: 1/15 to each of: Mary Ann, Sarah Lydia and Elizabeth, children of cousin Sarah Mayes of Islip, William and Hannah children of uncle Leo Morley, Penn, Buckinghamshire, Charles and Kate Annie, children of late Ben Goodrich, Foxton, Mary and Ann, children of late William Goodrich of Foxton, Fanny, daughter of Sarah Gibbs of Foxton, Elizabeth and Sarah, children of late Hannah Crane of Foxton, Elizabeth Smith (wife of said Thomas Smith) 1/15 to be divided between Amelia Emily Bartlett, daughter of late John Bartlett of Great Berkhamstead, shoemaker, deceased and Lily Rosina Freeman remaining 1/15 between Feo Goodrich, son of late William and wife Barbara 7 June 1893 Proved (Northampton). Estate valued at £3,877 17 shillings 11 pence 10 January 1894
  • Level of description
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