Document Request: WILL of Gladys Mary Edye
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Document Transcription:In the High Court of Justice
The district probate registry at Winchester
BE IT KNOWN THAT Gladys Mary Crocker of Dormy House 11 Central Drive Bournemouth Hampshire
Died on the 4th day of January 1970
At the Royal Victoria Hospital Bournemouth
Domiciled in England
AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of the said deceased was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of the High Court of Justice at
Winchester
And 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 Lloyds Bank Ltd of Executor and Trustee Department (account 112783) Equity and Law House 12 -14 Dean Park Crescent Bournemouth BH1 1HS and John Malcolm Harvey of Carmenville 5 Shipwreck Promenade Xemxida St Paul’s Bay Malta Colonel H.M. Army nephew of deceased named in the said Will
And it is here by certify that an inland revenue affidavit has been delivered where in it is shown that the gross value of the said estate in Great Britain
(xclusive of what the said deceased may have possessed or of all entitled to as a trustee and not then officially) amounts to £ 6051 . 3 . 0
And that the net value of the estate amounts to £ 5941.1.0
Dated the 23rd day of March 1970
Distric Registrar (stamped)
Extracted by Howe and Harvey Solicitors Bourmouth Hants
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This is the last Will and testament of me Gladys Mary Crocker of Dormy House 11 Central Drive in the County Borough of Bournemouth formally the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Herbert Crocker
1. I hereby revoke all former wills and testamentary disposition is made by me and declare this to be my last will
2. I appoint Lloyds bank Limited (hereinafter separately called the Bank) and my nephew Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Harvey of c/o Lloyds bank Limited Cox and Kings branch London (the bank and my said nephew being hereinafter together called “my trustees”) to be executors and trustees of this my will and I declare that the bank’s terms and conditions for acting as executor and trustee including the scale of remuneration last published before the date of my death shall apply with power to charge remuneration in accordance with any later published terms of the bank for the time being in force AND I DECLARE that all monies securities title deeds and documents relative to the trust hero shall be in the exclusive custody of the bank (any other executor or trustee having proper facilities for inspection) and that in all registrations the bank’s name shall be placed first I APPROVE of Messrs. Howe and Harvey of Fernbank House 24 Christchurch Road Landsdowne Bournemouth aforesaid being employed as solicitors in connection with my estate with power for the bank to consult any other solicitors if it thinks fit
3. I DESIRE to be cremated and that my ashes be deposited as and where my trustees shall think fit and that the funeral arrangements shall be entrusted to Messrs. JJ Allen Ltd Bournemouth
4.I give free of all duties the following legacies
1. To Mrs Kathleen Hawkins of hand post Swallowfield Reading the sum of £100 and the following articles of furniture namely one Winged back armchair one carved oak folding table and my small mahogany chest of drawers
2 To Dr Robert Gordon Nicholson of 22 Charminster Road Bournemouth the sum of £100
3. To Mrs Eva Boothby the Manageress of Dormy House 11 Central Drive Bournemouth the sum of £50
5. I DEVISE all my real estate and I bequeath the residue of my personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not hereby otherwise specifically disposed off to my trustees upon trust to sell call in and convert the same into money and after paying thereout my just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses to stand possessed of the clear net proceeds of such sale calling in and conversion in trust absolutely for the Royal Marine Light Infantry Benevolent Fund (to be applied for the general purposes of such fund) in memory of my late brother-in-law Major Francis Harvey VC who died in HMS Lion at the Battle of Jutland and I declare that the receipt of the treasurer or other proper officer of such fund shall be a full and sufficient discharge to my trustees.
In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand this first day of August 1969
Signed by the said Gladys Mary Crocker as and for her last will in the joint presence of herself and asked who at her request and in such joint presents have here unto set our names as witnesses
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