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Will of Joseph Turney, labourer, 1899
Oxford Probate Registry
This is the last Will and Testament of me Joseph Turney of Winslow in the County of Bucks Laborer I appoint my friends James East of Winslow aforesaid Gentleman and William Norris Midgley of Winslow aforesaid Solicitors Clerk (hereinafter called ‘my trustees’) to be Executors and Trustees of this my Will I give the following Legacies namely To my daughter Ann Turney Five pounds to my daughter Eliza Royce wife of John Royce Five pounds, to my daughter Elizabeth Turney Five pounds, to my Son William Henry Turney Three pounds, to my Son Thomas Turney Two pounds, to my Son Robert Turney Two pounds, to my Son Joseph Turney Three pounds, to my Granddaughter Ellen Turney Three pounds and to my Grandson Lewis Turney Three pounds I give all my glass china pictures prints furniture and other household effects unto and equally between my daughters Ann Turney and Elizabeth Turney as nearly as may be or in case they shall be unable to agree then as shall be settled by my trustees whose decision shall be final I devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate not hereby otherwise disposed of unto my trustees Upon trust to call in or convert the same into money or such part thereof as shall not consist of ready money and out of the monies arising from such conversion and calling in and with and out of my ready money to pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and the Legacies bequeathed by this my Will And upon further trust to divide the balance of the monies then remaining between my daughters the said Ann Turney, Eliza Royce and Elizabeth Turney in equal shares and proportions absolutely Lastly I revoke all other Wills In Witness whereof I the said Joseph Turney the Testator hereunto set my hand the Eleventh day of May One thousand eight hundred and ninety nine
The mark of Joseph Turney
Signed by the above named Joseph Turney the Testator as his Will with his mark (the said Will having first been read over to the said Joseph Turney the Testator by the undersigned William Norris Midgley in our presence when the said Joseph Turney appeared thoroughly to understand the same and expressed to us his full knowledge of the contents thereof) in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in her presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
W. N. Midgley [signature] Winslow
S. W. Midgley [signature] Winslow (5 folios)
On the Eighteenth day of September1899 Probate of this Will was granted at Oxford to James East and William Norris Midgley, the Executors
It is hereby certified that the foregoing is a correct Copy
Dated this Twenty eighth day of September 1899
BE IT KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of Joseph Turney of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Laborer, deceased, who died on the 14th day of June 1899, 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 in the District Probate Registry of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice at Oxford and that Administration of all the estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal representative of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to James East Gentleman, and William Norris Midgley, Solicitors Clerk, both of Winslow aforesaid, the Executors named in the said Will.
Dated the 18th day of September 1899
Gross value of Estate £58 - 5 - 9
Net value of personal Estate £52 - 5 - 9
Extracted by Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow
Notes
Joseph Turney was aged 73 when he died. He was born at Soulbury and came to Winslow via Granborough. In 1871 he was living in Tinkers End with his wife Ann (also born at Soulbury) and five of the children named in the will, all born at Soulbury too. In 1881 only Elizabeth was still at home, along with her two children, listed as Louis aged 9 and Nellie aged 6.
Ann died in 1888 (see her administration). In 1891 William, Ann jr and Thomas were all living with Joseph as well as Elizabeth and Ellen. The house seems to have been in Short Lane (now demolished). Thomas was still there in 1901, by which time he was married with 4 children.