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FANNY ROSE WILL AND PROBATE
In British law, when someone
dies having left a will, probate is required to release the deceased's
property. This is Fanny Rose's will:
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This is
the last Will and Testament of me Fanny Rose of 10
Cobourg Street in the City of Leeds Widow. whereby after
payment of all my just debts funeral and testamentary
expenses I give and bequeath all my real and personal
estate whatsoever and wheresoever unto and to the use
of Joseph Samuels of 7 Lower Templar Street in the said
City Grocer whom I hereby appoint Executor and Trustee
of this my Will and guardian of my infant children upon
trust to sell get in and convert into money all my said
estate which shall not consist of money and invest the
proceeds in any investments authorized by law for trust
funds with power to vary such investments at his
discretion and to divide and distribute the income and
corpus thereof in the following manner among all my
children who attain the age of 21 years or marry under
that age. as to one half thereof equally between my two
youngest daughters Rebecca and Cissie and as to the
other half equally between my other children with power
for my Trustee at his own discretion to raise the whole
or any part of the presumptive share of an infant child
to apply the same for his or her advancement a benefit.
and I empower my Trustee to postpone the conversion of
any part of my property for so long as he shall think
fit and the income of any property remaining unconverted
shall from the time of my death be paid and applied in
the same manner as the income of the proceeds thereof
would have been payable and applicable for the time
being if the same had been converted. I revoke all
former Wills at any time heretofore made by me and
declare this to be my last Will and Testament. In
witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this second
day of June 1904. |
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Signed by the said Fanny
Rose the Testatrix as and for her last Will and
Testament in the presence of us present at the same
time who in her request in her presence and in the
presence of each other have hereunto set our names as
witnesses the same being so signed by her making her
mark hereto she being unable to read or write the
contents thereof having been first distinctly and
audibly read out to her when she appeared and expressed
herself to thoroughly understand the same. |
The mark
Fanny X Rose
of |
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Frederick Blackston
Solicitor Leeds
James
Power his Clerk |
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On the
6th day of July 1918 Probate of this Will was granted at
Wakefield to Joseph Samuels the sole Executor. |
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And this is her Grant of
Probate, allowing her estate to be distributed:
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BE IT KNOWN
that Fanny Rose of 10 Cobourg Street in the City of Leeds
widow who at the time of her death had a fixed place
of abode at 10 Cobourg Street aforesaid within the
District of The West Riding of the County of York died on
the seventeenth day of January 1918 at
10 Cobourg Street aforesaid.
AND BE IT
FURTHER KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last will
and Testament of the said deceased was proved and registered in
the District Probate Registry of His Majesty’s High Court of
Justice at Wakefield and that administration of all the
estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal
representative of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid
Court to Joseph Samuels of 5 Darley Street Leeds aforesaid
Cloth Merchant the brother of the said deceased and the sole
Executor named in the said Will.
Dated the
6th day of July 1918.
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Gross value
of Estate |
£456 4s 6d |
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Net value of Personal Estate |
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Extracted by |
Frederick
Blackston, Solicitor, Leeds |
See photos of Abraham and Fanny Rose and their
children
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Source: Her Majesty's Court Service |
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