Document Request: 1883 Will of Rafe Neville Leycester
Document Description: 1883 Will of Rafe Neville Leycester
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Document Transcription:1883 WILL OF RAFE NEVILLE LEYCESTER
BE IT KNOWN that Rafe Neville Leycester
Late of No 53 Warwick Road Kensington in the County of Middlesex ——
Deceased, who died on the 18th day of November 1883
At No 53 Warwick Road aforesaid a Bachelor
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Made and duly executed his last Will and Testament
And did therein name John Alexander Strong sole Executor who has renounced the probation and execution thereof. That there is no residuary Legatee named therein__
That Ethel Marguerite Edye spinster and Mabel Gwendoline Edye Spinster (minors) and Isabel Dorothy Edye Spinster, Hugh Leycester Edye and Gladys Mary Edye Spinster (infants) are the lawful and only Nephew and Nieces of the said deceased and as such Contingent Legatees named in the said Will. That Edmund Mortimer Leycester the natural and lawful father and next of kin of the said deceased has renounced the Letters of Administration (with the said Will annexed) of his personal estate. ____________
And be at further known, that at the date here under written, letters of administration with the will of the personal estate of the said deceased were granted by Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice at the Principal Registry of the Probate Division thereof to Malcolm de Saumarez Edye of [Maidensinke] Teignmouth in the county of Devon Esquire, the natural and lawful father and next of kin of the said minors and infants, and the curator or guardian duly elected by the said Minors, for the use and benefit of the said Minors and Infants and until one of them shall attain the age of 21 years he the said Malcolm de Saumarez Edye having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same.
Dated the 16th day of January 1884
Gross value of personal estate, £2005.11.6
Resworn Feb 1884 £1,781.11.6
My Will. My income at present is derived from the following sources 1st. pension £170 which of course dies with me _ 2nd £200 lent to my Father for which he pays me interest of 6%
3rd. I have £496 in the Otago & Southland Investment Co, 5 Adams Court Old Broad St. E.C. The present value of my shares are now however considerably about that sum in value from this I get 8% interest with an occasional bonus. 4th. I have £450 in New Zealand Stock yielding 41/2 p Cent this being a portion of my dear Mother’s money accruing to me on my Father’s 2nd marriage. 5. I share equally with my Sister mortgage money payable by my Father on the Cottages & Orchards at Widbrook (and also in value of Little Galvesleys) this (my share) amounts to about £15 per ann.
6. I have the 1/2 of £50 invested. The Official & General Building Society. At my death I wish the following arrangements to be carried out. 1st. The interest on the loan to my father to cease and at his death the money (£200) to be divided equally between Nephew or Nephews and Nieces but they are not to have it till they respectively come of age the interest in the meanwhile being allowed to accumulate. 2nd My shares in the Otago & Southland Inv. Co are likewise to be equally divided among my said Nephews & Nieces on their respectively coming of age they are similarly not to draw the interest till that period it being added to the capital or otherwise, it invested as may be deemed most fit. 3rd. The interest on the £450 New Zealand Stock I wish to be enjoyed by my Aunt Miss Jane Clephane Neville during her lifetime at her death the Capital being divided among my said Nephews and Nieces on their respectively coming of age as provided for in the last two paragraphs. 4 at my death my father shall cease to pay my share of the interest on the mortgage and his decease of my said Nephews and Nieces equally to share my interest in the said mortgage but as hereinbefore provided they are not to derive any advantage from it till they respectively come of age.
Before any of these provisos are carried out my funeral expenses to be defrayed out of my estate I wish £10 to be given to my dear old friend Miss Florence Augustus Beare for the purpose of buying a ring in memory of me I wish I wish £10 to be given to my dear friend Miss Bessie Robertson Ross for the same purpose and to my old friend Mr J A Strong Esquire for the same purpose. I have all my life being poor and unable to marry or have a home & family in order to help the tradespeople to get rich I have had to live like a “gentleman” with only the income of a mechanic in order to carry out the requirements of “Society” which is ready enough to find fault with the antiquity of your coat or the shabbiness of your boots but will not give you a penny to save you from starvation. It is my particular desire therefore that no avoidable expense shall be incurred for my funeral. I am to be put into the commonest possible coffin I conveyed in the cheapest way to the Parish Church of Cookham Maidenhead Berks. I wish my body to be interred in the same ground with that of my dear mother since his death I have no wish to live as in her I lost my all. All my books pictures &c I wish my sister to have or should she be dead my said Nephews and Nieces but but should at my death any of my friends wish to have a souvenir of me they may take what they like I have not many friends so it can easily be arranged. I appoint my old friend Mr J A Strong to be my executor as which he consented to be some years ago. Farewell my father, sister, Malcolm, Nephews, Nieces, Anna and all other relations and friends, God have mercy on my soul when he sees fit to take it away through Jesus Christ our Lord and may we all once more meet my dear mother in the land where the weary are at rest _ R. N. Leycester _ 30th October 1883_ had I had more money I should have liked to leave legacies to others of my relations and friends but it is not worth while dividing so little _ R N Leycester _ 2 Nov ’83 _ Witness, Thos. J Soper _ Witness, Fannie W. Chapman.
Affidavit of due execution filed
On the 16th of January 1884 Admon (with this will annexed of the effects of the testator was granted to Malcolm de Saumarez Edye Esquire the natural and lawful father and next of kin of Ethel Marguerite Edye spinster and Mabel Gwendoline Edye Spinster (minors) and Isabel Dorothy Edye Spinster Hugh Leycester Edye and Gladys Mary Edye Spinster (Infants) the contingent legatees named in the said Will.
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