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(i) Caroline Elizabeth Pryor, 67 Cassland Road, South Hackney, Middlesex, spinster
(ii) Catherine Marsh, Stansted Mount Fitchet, Essex, spinster
James Barringer, Hackney Wick, Middlesex, mechant
Thomas Smith Hicks, Stanstead Mount Fitchet, Essex, corn miller
Samuel Pryor late of Wood Grange Place, Forest Gate, Essex, umbrella manufacturer, made his will dated 16 Dec 1865:
To wife Eleanor
- household furniture, plate, linen
To servant Elizabeth Jackson Smithbone
- £10
To each of 4 sisters
- £50 each
To brother Alfred
- 15s per week for life
- £10
Also to wife
- share in freehold property in High Street, Wapping, which he became possessed of under will of late father in law, Samuel Marsh
To exors
- rest of property in trust for sale. Proceeds to be invested in the funds or in Railway stock. Interest to be paid to wife for life. Then property to be equally divided between nephews and nieces - Elizabeth, Samuel, Robert, Alfred, Mary Ann [later the wife of James Newman], (i) and Ellen Annie Pryor, the children of his brother, Alfred, and Frances Evelyn, Godfrey Charles Gustaldi, Lucy Florence [later the wife of Edward William Titchener], Julia Beane and Gustavus Henry Hemmell, the children of his sister Emma.
Wife and James March appointed exors. Bequeathed £30 each for their trouble. Notes of hand from brother, Alfred, and nephew Henry, to be concelled.
Codicil - 22 Oct 1865
Bequest to nephew, Samuel Pryor, concelled, and £25 each bequeathed to sister Ellen Marsh and aunt Sarah Parker.
Samuel Pryor, testator, died on 31 Dec 1865. Will proved on 15 Jan 1866 (PPR). Estate valued at £8080.5s.1d (including some worthless, and so unsaleable) shares
(i) releases (ii) from all claims
Signature of (i)
Endorsed witness: Richard Smith, 26 Lincolns Inn Fields, solicitor