Will of Thomas Ridgway, grocer, 1888

Oxford Probate Registry

This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Ridgway of Winslow in the County of Bucks Grocer I devise all the real estate if any and I bequeath the personal estate to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease to my Wife Maria absolutely  I appoint my said Wife Maria sole Executrixof this my Will and revoke all other Wills In Witness whereof I the said Thomas Ridgway the Testator have hereunto set my hand this Tenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighty eight.

Thomas Ridgway [signature]

Signed and acknowledged by the said Thomas Ridgway the Testator in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses.               

Thos Price Willis [signature], Sol(icito)r, Winslow
T.F. Vaisey [signature] Surgeon, of Winslow, Bucks

Proved at Oxford, the Thirteenth day of June 1888, by the Oath of Maria Ridgway, Widow, the Relict, sole Executrix, the Son, the sole Executrix, to whom Administration was granted.
The Testator Thomas Ridgway was late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Grocer, and died on the Thirteenth day of April 1888 at Winslow aforesaid.
Personal Estate Gross £380 : 17 : 4
Net Value     “         “     £122 :  6 : 1

Willis & Willis, Solicitors, Winslow.

It is hereby certified the above is a correct Copy.
Dated this Twenty first day of June 1888

ON the Thirteenth day of June 1888, the Will of Thomas Ridgway late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Grocer, deceased, who died on the Thirteenth day of April 1888 at Winslow aforesaid, was proved in Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice in  the District Registry attached to Probate Division thereof at Oxford by the Oath of Maria Ridgway of Winslow aforesaid, the Widow, the Relict of the deceased, the sole Executrix named (in the said Will) she having been first sworn duly to administer.
It is hereby certified the above is a correct Copy. Dated this Twenty first day of June 1888

Personal Estate Gross £380 : 17 : 4                            Resworn April 1902 £441 : 14 : 10
Net Value     “         “     £122 :  6 : 1

Extracted by Willis & Willis, Solicitors, Winslow

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Notes

Thomas Ridgway was a grocer at 29 High Street: see the inventory taken after his death. He took over the business previously run by Edward & Annie Fenn in the late 1870s.

Thomas was born at Hillesden in 1853. He married Maria Wood at Winslow in 1876; she was born at North Marston. Maria ran the shop after Thomas' death and she is listed with 4 children in the 1891 Census. The shop was advertised to let in 1892. They had moved to Upper Blackgrove Farm, Waddesdon by 1901.