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Will of Elizabeth Goodger, spinster, 1881 (proved 1894)
Oxford Probate Registry
This is the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth Goodgerof Winslow in the County of Bucks Spinster I appoint Thomas Price Willis of Winslow aforesaid Gentleman and William Thomas Matthews of Winslow aforesaid Builder Executors and Trustees of my Will I bequeath my wearing apparel unto my sister Eliza Egleton absolutely I bequeath my household goods and furniture unto and equally between my said sister Eliza Egleton and such of my brothers as shall be living at the time of my decease I devise all the real estate to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease (except estates vested in me as Trustee or Mortgagee) and I bequeath the residue of the personal estate to which I shall be then entitled unto and to the use of the said Thomas Price Willis and William Thomas Matthews their heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively Upon trust to sell my said real estate and so much of my said residuary personal estate as shall be of a saleable nature together or in parcels by public auction or private contract and to convert and get in the rest of my residuary personal estate and out of the net moneys to arise from such real estate and residuary personal estate after payment thereout of my just debts my funeral and testamentary expenses and the expenses incident to the execution of the preceding trust to pay the legacy or sum of Nineteen pounds nineteen shillings to Frederick Roads of the Kings Head Public House in Winslow and to pay share and divide the residue of the net said moneys between my said sister and such of my brother still living at the time of my decease I devise all the real estate which shall at my decease be vested in me as trustee or mortgagee to the said Thomas Price Willis and William Thomas Matthews their heirs and assigns subject to the trusts and equities affecting the same respectively Lastly I revoke all other Wills In Witness whereof I the said Elizabeth Goodger the Testatrix have hereunto set my hand the twenty second day of January in the year One thousand eight hundred and eighty one
Elizabeth Goodger [signature]
Signed by the said Elizabeth Goodger the Testatrix in the joint presence of us who at her request in her presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
Arthur S. Midgley [signature] Clerk to Messrs Willis and Willis Sol(icitor)s, Winslow
Henry Sharp [signature] Surgeons Assistant, Winslow, Bucks
On the Twentieth second day of June 1894, Probate of this Will was granted to Thomas Price Willis and William Thomas Matthews the Executors
It is hereby certified that the foregoing is a correct Copy
Dated this Twenty eighth day of June 1894
BE IT KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Goodger late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Spinster, deceased, who died on the 10th day of February 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 to Thomas Price Willis, Gentleman, and William Thomas Matthews, Builder, both of Winslow aforesaid, the Executors named in the said Will, they having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same
Dated the 22nd day of June 1894
Gross value of personal Estate £37 – 1 - 6
Extracted by Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow
Notes
Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas Goodger (d.1868); see his will for more about the family. The unnamed brothers were George, Charles and Eli. Elizabeth was aged 73 when she died, and her surname was registered as Goodyer. The 1891 Census lists her as "Shoemaker (her business)", with her brother Charles, shoemaker and widower, living with her. Their address is given as Buckingham Road, probably the house which is now 122 High Street.