Document Request: 1905 Will of Jane Clephane Neville
Document Description: 1905 Will of Jane Clephane Neville, granddaughter of William Richardson of Calcutta
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Document Transcription:Will 0f Jane Clephane Neville
Be it known that Jane Clephane Neville of Court Hall, Kenton in the County of Devon spinster who at the time of her death had a fixed place of abode at Kenton within the district of the county of Devon died on the 29th day of April 1905 at Court Hall aforesaid
AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and testament with a Codicil thereto of the said deceased was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of His Majesty’s High Court of Justice at Exeter and that administration of all the estates which by law devolves to and vests in the personal representative of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid court to Isabel Emily Hanmer Edye of 9 Penlee Gardens, Stoke Devonport in the county of Devon widow, niece of the deceased, the Executrix Named in the said Will. Power being reserved of making the title grant to Frank Harvey Captain RNLI son in law of the said Isabel Emily Hanmer Edye, the Executor named in the said Codicil this is the 16th day of June 1905.
Gross value of the estate - £5448.19.3
Net value of personal estate - £3143.13.1
Extracted by Woollcombe and Sons Solicitors Plymouth
This is the last Will and testament of me Jane Clephane Neville now residing at Number 7 Donegal Terrace in the parish of Stoke Damerel in the county of Devon spinster - I appoint my friend Adolphus George Edye of the same place a Captain in the Royal Navy my nephew Albert James Walton Neville son of my deceased brother William Poore Neville my niece Isabel Emily Hanmer Edye the wife of Malcolm de Saumarez Edye now residing at Maiden Combe near Tynemouth in the same county a lieutenant in the Royal Navy trustees and executors of this my Will and in case of my said niece refusing or being unable to act in the trusts hereof then I nominate and appoint her husband the said Malcolm de Saumarez Edye to be a trustee and executor hear of in the state of his said wife by the term my trustees used in this well I intend to include them the survivors and survivor of them any future trustees or trustee here off and the executors administrators of any last surviving trustee I direct that without regard to the place where my disease occurs I be interred in the vault belonging to me in the Plymouth Devonport and Stonehouse cemetery and that in other respects my funeral be conducted in accordance with any memorandum of wishes which I may leave in reference the two or otherwise at the discretion of my trustees but I wish all my servants who shall have been in my service for not less than a year to have suitable morning and one months wages and that £20 in addition to such wages be given to Hannah Snowden if living with me at the time of my decease or if not so living then £15 in either case free of legacy duty and £5 also free of duty to Mary Ann Wilcox my former faithful servant but not now living with me I bequeath to my said nephew Albert James Walton a staff commander in the Royal Navy the sum of £900 absolutely. I bequeath to my said niece Isabel my pearl necklace of two strings and a pair of seed pearl drop earrings also my walnut Davenport. I bequeath to my said trustees the sum of £1500 upon trust to invest the same upon such securities as they shall think fit and to pay over the income thereof to or otherwise permit the same to be received by my said niece Isabel for her life for her sole and separate use free from virtual control and so that her receipts hello Shelby village shall be valid discharges for all payments made to her hereunder and upon further trust after her decease to stand possessed of the said sum and of the investments and income thereof for the time being for all the children or any of the child of my said niece born in my lifetime or within 21 years after my decease who being sons or a son shall attain 21 or being daughters or a daughter shall attain that age or Marie and if more than one equally. I also request to my said trustees a further sum of £950 upon similar trusts in all respects in favour of my niece and goddaughter Ramona Janet the wife of Mr Lewis Bishop of Llandilo solicitor for her life and of her children as our lastly hereinbefore contained in favour of my said niece Isabel and her children.
Agrees to the said Isabel and Ramona Janet's mission for the separate use respectively all my jewels, jewellry, trinkets and personal ornaments not before bequeathed and including my watches and their appendages but I request my said nieces to dispose of such parts thereof in reference to which I shall leave any paper or memorandum of my wishes in accordance there with but I do not impose any actual or constructive trusts on my said Mrs in this respect being well assured that they will faithfully execute my wishes I request the said Adolphus George Edye to accept a legacy of £20 as of acknowledgement for the trouble he will have in the execution of the trusts of this my Will if he undertakes the same trusts and as to all the residue of my Estate effects and property not hereinbefore specifically disposed of including therein money payable under any policy of insurance on my life money in the savings bank or elsewhere. Household furniture and all other property and effects over which I have any disposing hour I give and bequeath the same to my said nephew Albert James Walton Neville absolutely requesting him in like manner as hereinbefore expressed in reference to the request lastly hereinbefore made to my said nieces to dispose of such parts of my residuary estate (in reference to which I shall leave any paper or memorandum of my wishes) in accordance there with but without in this case either imposing any trust whatever on my said nephew. I also rely on the fulfilment by him of the request I hear by make that he will in the month of April annually either personally or through some effective agency expend a sum not exceeding £5 in painting and keeping in order the tomb and it's appurtenances belonging to me and being number six in the 15th row of section D in the aforesaid cemetery and I revoke all former Wills and testamentary disposition is in witness whereof I have here to set my hand this 12th day of March 1884.
Signed by the said Jane Clephane Neville the testatrix as her last Will in the joint presents of us who jointly in her presence here to subscribe our names as witnesses:
Wm J Woolcombe
Edmund Pridham
Solicitors, Plymouth
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This is a second Codicil to the Will of me Jane Clephane Neville now residing at Court Hall, Kenton, Devon, spinster the said Will be in dated the 12th day of March 1884 and the first coat is still there to being dated the fourth day of April in the same year - whereas since the date of my Will and Codicil Adolphus George Edye and my nephew Albert James Walton Neville have died. Now I appoint Frank Harvey a captain in the Royal Marine light infantry who is the son-in-law of my niece Isabel Emily Hanmer Edye to be an executor and trustee of my Will in place of the said Adolphus George Edye and my said nephew and jointly with the same Isabel Emily Hanmer Edye now a widow who is named as executor and trustee by my Will. Further I entirely revoke the first Codicil to my Will and I give and bequeath to such of them Guy Neville and Cicely Neville children of my said deceased nephew as shall survive me the legacies and benefits given by my side Will to their said late father namely the legacy of £900 and all the residue of my estate effects and property not otherwise disposed of by my Will or this Codicil (including as in my Will is particularly mentioned) subject to the same requests as to any memorandum of wishes and the keeping in order of my two as are expressed in my Will and I direct that if only one of them survive me the whole of the said legacy and residue show devolve upon him or her and that if both survive me they said Guy Neville shall be entitled to £500 and an equal half part of the set residue and they said Cicely Neville shall be entitled to £400 and the other half of the said residue and I declare that my trustees and executors shall have full power to pay to the mother of the said Guy Neville and Cicely Neville the legacy and share of either of them who shall at my death be under 21 and that her receipt shall be in all other respects […] from my said Will shall be complete this job in witness whereof I have here unto set my hand this first day of July 1904
Signed by the said Jane Clephane Neville as a second Codicil together to her Will in the joint presence of us who jointly at her request and in her presence here to subscribe our names as witnesses the same having first been read over to her in our joint presence and she appearing fully to understand the same.
W J L Richardson Solicitor, Clerk to Messrs. Woollcombe & Sons Solicitors Plymouth
Bertha M Mules, Court Hall Kenton Spinster
On the sixteenth day of June, 1905 Probate Office Will with a Codicil was granted at Exeter to Isabel Emily Hanmer Edye widow the niece, one of the Executors.
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