Document Request: 1917 Will of Ethel Marguerite Harvey
Document Description: 1917 Will of Ethel Marguerite Harvey who died in 1955
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Document Transcription:In the High Court of Justice
The district probate registry at Oxford
Be it known that Ethel Margaret Harvey of Byeways
Newtown Common, near Newbury Berkshire widow
Who died on the fifth day of December 1955
At the District Hospital Newbury aforesaid
Made and duly executed her last Will and Testament
That Isabel Dorothy Bishop sister of deceased the surviving executor named in the said will has renounced Probate thereof
And be it further known that at the date hereunder written Letters of Administration with the Will (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of all the Estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal representative of the said deceased were granted by the High Court of Justice at the district probate registry thereof at OXFORD to Lloyds bank Limited of 71 Lombard Street in the City of London
And it is hereby certify that an Affidavit for Inland Revenue has been delivered where in it is shown that the gross value of the CID estate in Great Britain (exclusive of what the said deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee and not beneficially) amounts to £ 4881 : 1 : 1
And that the net value of the estate amounts to £ 4792 : 6 : 1
And it is further certified that it appears by a receipt signed by an Inland Revenue Officer on the said Affidavit that £ 89 : 0 : 6 on account of Estate Duty and Interest on such duty has been paid.
Dated the 20th day of February 1956
Extracted by Charles Lucas and Marshall Solicitors Newbury
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This is the last Will and testament of me Ethel Margaret Harvey the wife of Francis John William Harvey Captain in His Majesty’s Regiment of Royal Marine Light Infantry. I APPOINT my said husband and my sister Isabel Dorothy Bishop the wife of John Walton Bishop (hearinafter called my Trustees) to be the Executors and Trustees of this my Will.
1: I GIVE all my plate linen China Glass books pictures prints furniture and other household effects (hereinafter called my said chattels) unto my son John Malcolm Harvey absolutely and I GIVE and BEQUEATH to my said husband the sum of Five hundred pounds.
2: I give devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate not here by otherwise disposed of unto my trustees upon trust that my Trustees shall sell call in and convert into money the same or such part thereof as shall not consist of money and shall invest the money obtained by such calling in and conversion and my ready money with power from time to time to vary such investments and shall stand possessed of the said monies and the investments for the time being representing the same hearing after called the Trust Fund upon trust for my said son John ^Malcolm^ absolutely.
3: I EMPOWER my Trustees at their discretion to expand such portions of the income arising out of the Trust Fund as they shall from time to time think fit in contributing towards the cost of educating my said son John ^Malcolm^ until he shall leave school or college and also to raise any part or parts not exceeding together one moiety of the vested or presumptive share of my said son John ^Malcolm^ under my will and apply the same for his advancement or benefits as my Trustees shall think fit.
4: I DECLARE that my Trustees may postpone the sale and conversion of any part of my property for so long as they shall think fit and I direct that the rents profits and income to accrue after my death from such part or parts of my estate as shall for the time being remain unsold and unconverted shall after payment there out of all incidental expenses and outgoings and howsoever invested be paid and applied to the person or persons and in the manner to whom and in which the income will be proceeds of such sale and conversion would for the time being be payable or applicable under my will if such sale and conversion had been actually made
5: I EMPOWER my Trustees at their discretion to permit my said husband to have the use and enjoyment of my said chattels or any of them for such time and upon such conditions (as to repairing and replacing injury or loss thereof) or otherwise as they together shall think fit
6: I DIRECT that my Trustees shall as soon as convenient after my death caused an inventory to be made in duplicate of my said chattels a copy of such inventory signed by both my Trustees to be retained by each of my Trustees respectively and I declare that my Trustees shall not be obliged to see to the preservation of my said chattels or any of them not be answerable for any loss or injury there of which may happen
7: PROVIDED ALWAYS that if my said son John Malcolm shall survive me and die before attaining the age of 21 years leaving issue him surviving such issue shall take the property share and interest to which my said son John Malcolm is entitled and if more than one in equal shares
8: PROVIDED ALSO that if my said son John Malcolm shall survive me and shall die before he attains the age of 21 years and without leaving issue living at his death I DIRECT my Trustees to HOLD the said Trust fund and the income thereof and any account accumulations of income that may have occurred in Trust to pay the income thereof to my said husband during his life or until he shall marry again and I declare and Gladys Mary the wife of Edmund Crocker in equal shares PROVIDED ALWAYS that if any of my said sister shall die in my lifetime leaving a child or children living at my death who being a son or sons attain the age of 21 years or being a daughter or daughters attain that age or married then and in every such case the last mentioned child or children shall take and if more than one equally between them the shirt which his/her or the mother would have taken in the said residuary estate if such mother had survived me and I
DECLARE the receipt in writing of the person or persons mentioned in the last foregoing declaration who shall have attained the age of 21 years or married under that age shall be a good discharge to my Trustees for the share or shares vested or presumptive of him or her or those signing such receipt.- As Witness my hand this 22nd day of January 1917.
Signed by the said Ethel Margaret Harvey
as and for her last will and testament in the
presence of us both being present at the same
time who in her presence and in the presence
of each other have hereunto subscribed our
names as witnesses:-
Ethel Moore. Nurse
12 Molesworth Terrace, Stoke Devonport
Louise Pierce Parlourmaid, 12 Molesworth Terrace, Stoke Devonport
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