Document Request: WILL of Isabel Dorothy Edye
Document Description: Will of Isabel Dorothy Bishop, widow, of The Walk, Carmarthen Road, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire
Transcription URL: https://richardson.surnametree.com/library/vdocs/D_307#307
Document Transcription:In the High Court of Justice
The district probate registry at OXFORD
BE IT KNOWN that Isabel Dorothy Bishop otherwise Isobel Dorothy Bishop of “The Walk”, Carmarthen Road Llandeilo Carmarthenshire widow
Died there on the 26th day of July 1963
And be it further known that at the date here underwritten the last Will and testament
(a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of the said deceased was approved and registered in the district probate registry of the High Court of Justice at Oxford
And that administration of all the estate by which law devolves to and vests in the personal representative of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid court to John Malcolm Harvey of Flat 23, Saint Margarets, London Road, Guildford, Surrey Colonel in H M Army (retired) nephew of deceased the sole executor named in the Said Will.
And it is hereby certified that an Inland Revenue affidavit has been delivered wherein it is shown that the gross value of the 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 £5723:2:5
And that the net value of the estate amounts to £5563:11:7
And it is further certified that it appears by a receipt signed by an Inland Revenue officer on the said affidavit that £56:0:0 on account of estate duty and interest on such duty has been paid
Dated the 9th day of January 1964
Signed [A Crawshaw] District Registrar
Extracted by Dewi I. Price, Solicitor, Llandeilo
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This is the last Will and testament of Isabel Dorothy Bishop widow of the walk Carmarthen Road Llandeilo in the county of Carmarthen
[1] I hereby revoke all former wills and testamentary dispositions heretofore made by me.
[2] I appoint my nephew Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Harvey of Flat 23 Saint Margarets London road Guildford Surrey to be the executor and Trustee hereof.
[3] I make the following requests
[I] Unto my sister Gladys Mary Crocker c/o Lloyds Bank Limited Devonport, I bequeath the sum of £1000, the small wireless set in my bedroom, and all my furs.
[ii] To my housekeeper Mrs K Hawkins (if still employed by me at the time of my death) I bequeath the sum of £20, my camel hair coat, and my Burberry Macintosh
[4] After the payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses I devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my state and my nephew the said John Locke and Harvey absolutely.
As witness my hand this 11th day of September 1962
Signed by the said Isabel Dorothy Bishop as her last will and testament in the presence of us both being present at the same time who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have here unto subscribed our names as witnesses
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