Will of George Dunkley, insurance agent, 1867 (proved 1893)

Oxford Probate Registry

BE IT KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of George Dunkley late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Insurance Agent, deceased, who died on the 11th  day of October 1893 at Winslow aforesaid, and who at the time of his 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 at the District  Probate Registry of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice at Oxford and that the Administration of the personal estate of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to  Elizabeth Dunkley of Winslow aforesaid, Widow, the Relict of the Deceased, the sole Executrix named in the said Will she having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same.
Dated the 19th day of December 1893
Gross value of Personal Estate £968.9.7
Net value      “        “             “      £870.6.4
Extracted by Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow

This is the last Will and Testament of me George Dunkley of Winslow in the County of Bucks Journeyman Grocer and Ironmonger I devise and bequeath all the real and personal estate to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease unto my Wife Elizabeth Dunkley absolutely but as to estates vested in me upon trust or by way of mortgage subject to the equities affecting the same respectively And I appoint my said Wife Elizabeth Dunkley sole Executrix of this my Will hereby revoking all other Testamentary writings In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this first day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty seven.  
George Dunkley [signature]

Signed by the said George Dunkley the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses
Thos. Price Willis [signature] Attorney, Winslow, Bucks
Geo. Willis [signature] his Clerk

Proved at Oxford, the Nineteenth day of December 1893, by the Oath of Elizabeth Dunkley, Widow, the Relict, the sole Executrix, to whom Administration was granted.
The Testator George Dunkley was late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Insurance Agent,  and died on the Eleventh day of October 1893, at Winslow aforesaid.
Gross value of Personal Estate £968.9.7
Net value      “        “             “   £870.6.4

Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow
it is hereby Certified that the foregoing is a correct Copy.
Dated this Twentieth eight day of December 1893

Notes

George Dunkley died on 11 Oct 1893 aged 68. He was originally from Blisworth, and is first recorded in Winslow in the 1851 Census as an agricultural labourer. His wife Elizabeth (nee Goode), also from Blisworth, was a milliner and dressmaker. At the time he made his will he was working as assistant to Joshua Lewin French. He was also agent for Royal Fire Insurance by 1864. In the 1881 Census he and his wife had gone to Fenny Stratford where he was a grocer and insurance agent, and four of their children were still in Winslow living in Church Street. George and Elizabeth were back in Winslow by 1887. As well as insurance he did some farming, and the 1891 Census also lists him as "beer [?]dealer". Elizabeth died in 1894 aged 70 (see her will). The property put up for sale by George Wigley on 18 June 1895 consisted of:

The main beneficiary of Elizabeth's will was her daughter Fanny Eliza Hannah Dunkley (b.1856), listed in the 1891 Census as a milliner and dressmaker. In 1895 she married James Cook, a farmer at Bletchley. The death of Alfred Lloyd Dunkley was registered at Newport Pagnell in 1900. Benjamin the other son mentioned was a saddler at Fenny Stratford.

Will of Elizabeth Dunkley, widow, 1893 (proved 1895)

Oxford Probate Registry

BE IT KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Dunkley late of Winslow, in the County of Buckingham, Widow, who died on the 26th  day of November 1894, 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 High Court of Justice at Oxford, and that Administration of the personal estate of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to Fanny Eliza Hannah Dunkley of Winslow aforesaid, Spinster, the Daughter of the Deceased, and James East of the same place, Gentleman, the Executors named in the said Will, they having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same.
Dated the 26th day of July 1895.  
Gross value of Personal Estate £635 – 16 – 6
Net        “     “       “              “    £585 – 6 - 3
Extracted by Willis & Willis, Solicitors, Winslow.

[p.2] This is the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth Dunkley of Winslow in the County of Bucks Widow. I appoint my daughter Fanny Eliza Hannah Dunkley and my said friend James East of Winslow aforesaid Gentleman (hereinafter called my said trustees) to be the Executors and Trustees of this my Will I give all my plate linen china glass books pictures prints wines liquors furniture and other household effects unto my said daughter Fanny Eliza Hannah Dunkley absolutely I devise unto my said daughter Fanny Eliza Hannah Dunkley all my real estate situate and being at Milton otherwise Middleton Malsor in the County of Northampton absolutely I devise and bequeath all my residuary real and personal estate not hereby otherwise disposed of unto my said Trustees Upon trust that my said Trustees shall sell call in and convert into money the same or such part thereof as shall not consist of money and shall with and out of the moneys produced by such sale calling in and conversion and with and out of my ready money pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and shall retain the sum of Seven hundred and fifty pounds upon trust for investment as hereinafter contained with power for my said trustees from time to time at their discretion to vary such investments And upon further trust to pay one half of the net residue of the same moneys unto my said daughter Fanny Eliza Hannah Dunkley absolutely and to pay the remaining half of the said moneys unto and equally between the children of my son Benjamin Samuel Leonard Dunkley as and when they shall severally and respectively attain the age of twenty one years I direct that my said trustees shall invest the sum seven hundred and fifty pounds hereinbefore mentioned in or upon any real securities in England or in any Stocks funds or Securities authorised by law for trust funds or in the purchase of inscribed stock of any British Colony and shall stand possessed of the said sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds and the investments for the time being representing the same In trust to pay out of [p.3] the income arising therefrom the sum of Ten shillings weekly and every week unto my son Alfred Lloyd Dunkley during his life And upon further trusts to accumulate any surplus of the said income in trust at the decease of the said Alfred Lloyd Dunkley to pay thereout the costs of his interment and upon his decease I direct my said Trustees to pay one half share of the sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds or the investments representing the same and any accumulated income thereon unto my said daughter Fanny Eliza Hannah Dunkley absolutely and to repay the remaining one half [the bequest to the children of her son Benjamin Dunkley on reaching the age of twenty one is repeated]I declare that in the event of the decease of the said Fanny Eliza Hannah Dunkley or of either of the children of Benjamin Samuel Leonard Dunkley leaving issue such issue shall take (and if more than one equally between them) the share to which his her or their parent would have been entitled if living Lastly I revoke all other Wills  In Witness whereof I the said Elizabeth Dunkley the testatrix have hereunto set my hand  this Thirtieth day of October one thousand eight hundred and ninety three
Elizabeth Dunkley [signature]

Signed and acknowledged by the above named Elizabeth Dunkley the testatrix as her Will in the presence of us present at the same time who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
Thos Price Willis [signature] Solicitor. Winslow
William N. Midgley [signature] his Clerk

On the Twenty sixth day of July 1895, Probate of this Will with one Codicil was granted at Oxford, to Fanny Eliza Hannah Dunkley, Spinster, and James East, the Executors
It is hereby certified that the foregoing is a correct Copy. Dated this First day of August 1895.

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