Document Request: 1933 Will of Mabel Gwendoline Cowland
Document Description: 1933 Will of Mabel Gwendoline Cowland
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Document Transcription:1938 WILL OF MABEL GWENDOLINE COWLAND
In His Majesty’s Court Court of Justice.
The Principal Probate Registry.
BE IT KNOWN THAT Mabel Gwendoline Cowland of Totton Hurst Burwash in the County of Sussex formerly of Old Tree House Launceston in the County of Cornwall Widow
Died on the 8th day of June 1938 at the Wellington Hotel, Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent
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 approved and registered in the principal probate registry of His Majesty’s High Court of Justice 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
Geoffrey Fleetwood Pyne of 6 Woodside Crapstone Yelverton in the County of Devon Civil Servant the sole executor named in the said Will.
And it is hereby certify that an affidavit for Inland Revenue has been delivered wearing it is shown that the gross value of the said 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 £1250-4-6
And that the net value of the personal estate amounts to £ 494-7-1
And it is further certified that it appears by a Receipt signed by an inland revenue officer on the said affidavit that £14-18-6 on account of estate duty and interest on such duty has been paid
Dated the 12th day of September 1938
Probate extracted by May May and Deacon 49 [illegible]
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Mabel Gwendoline Cowland at present residing at Totton Hurst Burwash in the county of Sussex formerly of Old Tree House Launceston in the county of Cornwall widow hereby revoke all testamentary dispositions heretofore made by me and declare this to be my last will
[1} I appoint my brother-in-law Geoffrey Fleetwood Pyne (formerly Geoffrey Fleetwood Cowland) of Hay Town Horrabridge in the County of Devon to be the sole executor of my will
[2] I bequeath the following specific legacies free of Duty:
To the said Geoffrey Fleetwood Pyne if he shall prove my will and act in the trusts hereof the following articles:
(a) My bureau which belonged to his great uncle Henry Cowland.
(b) My walnut Queen Anne bureau formerly at St John’s Launceston in the County of Cornwall
(c) My purple Wedgewood dessert service
(d) My Sheffield plated urn
To Reginald William John Durand Deacon my inlaid mahogany spinet
[3] I give and devise the freehold dwellinghouse known as Saint Johns situated at Launceston aforesaid together with the hot buildings and land belonging to or held with the same with the rights easements and appurtenances thereto belonging or reputed to be long or there with held or enjoyed and to which I am entitled in [peversion] expectant upon the death of the survivor of the present life tenants thereof named Laura Cowland and Sara Ann Cowland to my sister-in-law Ethel Cowland absolutely subject nevertheless to any mortgage charge or encumbrance their own and to the payment of all estate and other duties becoming payable in respect thereof on my death shall transfer to some charitable institution or organisation to be approved of by my executor address some of £100 a year upon such terms and conditions as will ensure so far as is legally possible in perpetuity the payment out of the income to arise from the investment of the said sum the annual expenses of or in connection with the maintenance and repair and general upkeep of my husband's grave at South [Petherwin in] Launceston and the monument thereon to the satisfaction of my Executor.
[4] I devise and bequeath all the real and personal estate not here by or in or by any codicil here to otherwise specifically disposed of by my will either as beneficially entitled thereto or under any general power including myself property known as Saint Johns on failure of the said Ethel Cowell and to comply with the condition hereinbefore mentioned [illegible] my executor upon trust that my executor shall sell the paid real estate including chattels [illlegible] and calling and sell and convert into money such part of my personal estate as does not consist of money with power to postpone such sale and conversion for such period as my executor without being liable to account may seek proper and so that any reversionary interest be not sold until it [illegible] into possession unless my executor sees special reason for sale
My executor shall out of the money to arise from the sale and conversion of myself real and personal estate and out of my ready money pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and shall stand possessed of the residue of the paid money upon trust for such of my sisters Ethel Margaret Harvey, Isabel Dorothy Bishop and Gladys Mary Crocker as shall be living at my death for that or her absolute use and benefit and if more than one in equal shares
In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand the 16th day of August 1933
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