Will of Arthur Grace, blacksmith, 1929 (proved 1932)

Oxford Probate Registry

I ARTHUR GRACE of Horn Street Winslow in the County of Buckingham Blacksmith hereby revoke all former Wills and Testamentary dispositions made by me and declare this to be my last Will and Testament I give devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever situate unto my son Stanley George Grace for his own use and benefit absolutely And I appoint the said Stanley George Grace to be the sole Executor of this my Will IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Second day of August one thousand nine hundred and twenty nine
[left margin: executor]

ARTHUR GRACE  [signature]        -

Signed and acknowledged by the said Arthur Grace the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us both being present at the same who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
Walter R. J. Law, Solicitor, Buckingham.
Richard Caton, Clerk to Mr. Walter R. J. Law.
(2 folios)
On the 1st day of January 1932
Probate of this Will was granted at Oxford.

[PROBATE]

BE IT KNOWN that ARTHUR GRACE of Horn Street Winslow in the County of Buckingham died there on the 4th day of October 1931
AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of the said deceased was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of His 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 STANLEY GEORGE GRACE of Horn Street aforesaid Blacksmith Son of Deceased the sole Executor named in the said Will.

Dated the 1st day of January 1932

Gross value of Estate          …        £319. 5. 0
Net value of Personal Estate         £ NIL

Extracted by Walter R.J.Law, Solicitor, Buckingham

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Notes

Arthur Grace (son of George) inherited the Forge from his uncle John Grace (d.1909), and became the third generation of the family to run it, later succeeded by his son Stanley. In 1901 Arthur was running the Crooked Billet before moving back to the Forge. He married Jane Ann Putnam, originally from Towcester. Apart from their son Stanley (b.1895) they had a daughter Violet Hope Grace (b.1897). She married Clifford Moorse in 1928 (Aylesbury Registration District) and was living at the Forge in 1939. She died in 1946 at Aylesbury.