Will of Catherine Carling, spinster, 1886 (proved 1898)

Oxford Probate Registry 

DEATH ON OR AFTER 1st JANUARY, 1898
BE IT KNOWN  that on the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament with a Codicil thereto of Catherine Carling late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Spinster, deceased, who died on the 15th day of August 1898 at Winslow aforesaid, and who at the time of her death had a fixed place of abode at Winslow aforesaid, within the District of the Counties of Oxford, Berks and Buckingham, was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of Her Majesty’s Court High Court of Justice, and that Administration of the estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal representative of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to William Thomas George  of Winslow aforesaid, Stationer, the Nephew of the Deceased, the Executor named in the Will and John Buckingham of Winslow aforesaid, Farmer, the Executor named in the Codicil, they having been first sworn duly to administer the same according to law.
Dated this 17th day of September 1898.

Gross value of estate £227 – 4 – 0
Extracted by Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow.

The Will of Catherine Carling of Winslow in the County of Buckingham Spinster I appoint my Nephew William Thomas George of Winslow aforesaid and my Friend Dennis Norman of Ampthill in the County of Bedford Saddler the Executors of this my Will. I give devise and bequeath unto my Nephew William Thomas George All my Real and Personal Estate of every description that I may die seized possessed of,  or entitled to subject to his paying thereout my just debts funeral and testamentary Expenses and the following Legacies namely To the said Dennis Norman the sum of Five Pounds To my Niece Harriett Carling George the sum of Sixty Pounds To my Niece Elizabeth Victoria George the sum of Twenty Pounds To my Niece Louisa George the sum of Twenty Pounds In case of the death of either of my said Nieces in my lifetime leaving a child or children who shall survive me and attain his her or their majority or majorities the Legacies given to my said Nieces shall \not/ lapse but shall go to her or their \child or/ children in equal shares [initials J.F. entered in the margin alongside the line containing insertions] if more than one to become vested in them respectively on attaining twenty one years of age in case of the death as aforesaid of either of my said Nieces without leaving a Child or Children or on failure of such child or children as aforesaid the Legacy or Legacies given to such Niece or Nieces shall go to my said Nephew William Thomas George In Witness whereof I have hereunder set my hand this Twentieth day of October one thousand eight hundred and eighty six

Catherine Carling [signature]

Signed by the said Catherine Carling \the Testatrix/ as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us both present at the same time who at her request in her presence and that of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses.
Richard John Coxill [signature]
Arthur George Odell [signature]

I Catherine Carling of Winslow in the County of Buckingham Spinster Declare this to be a Codicil to my Will dated twentieth day of October one thousand eight hundred and eighty six I revoke the appointment of Dennis Norman to be an Executor of my said Will as also the Legacy of Five Pounds given and bequeathed to him by my said Will I hereby appoint John Buckingham of Winslow aforesaid Farmer to be an Executor of my said Will in the place of the said Dennis Norman And I declare that my said Will shall accordingly be read and construed as if the name of the said John Buckingham, had been inserted therein throughout instead of  the name of the said Dennis Norman And I hereby further declare, that my Nephew William Thomas George shall be allowed six calendar months from the time of my decease before paying the other Legacies mentioned in my said Will And in all other respects I conform my said Will In Witness whereof I have hereunder set my hand this twenty seventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighty seven
Catherine Carling [signature]
Signed by the said Catherine Carling as a Codicil to her said Will in the presence of us, present at the same time, who in her presence, and the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
R.M. White [signature] Clerk to Mr Tanqueray, Solr, Ampthill, Beds
H. Swaffield [signature] Clerk to Mr Swaffield, Auctioneer, Ampthill  (7 folios)

On the Seventeenth day of September 1898, Probate of this Will with one Codicil was granted at Oxford to William Thomas George the Nephew, and John Buckingham, the Executors.
It is hereby certified the foregoing is a correct Copy. Dated this Twenty second day of September 1898.

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Notes

Catherine Carling was originally from Woburn and came to Winslow because of her sister Louisa, wife of William George (d.1886), grocer and stationer at 34 High Street. She was living (or at least staying) with the Georges in the 1861 Census. Her age was registered as 82 when she died in 1898, but the age she gave in the Censuses was rather different: in 1871 she was aged 40 and living with her brother John in Ampthill, and in 1881 she was still there and aged 52. John died in 1885. Catherine bought 36 High Street and land at the rear from George Ingram in 1886.

John Buckingham the executor named in the codicil married the niece Harriet Carling George.