Will of Emma Holt, 1920

Oxford Probate Registry

This is the last Will and Testament of me Emma Holt Wife of William Stevens Holt of The Cottage High Street Winslow of the said County of Bucks made this twenty first day of June in the year or our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty I hereby revoke all Wills made by me at any time heretofore. I appoint my Husband  William Stevens Holt  and my Daughter Lilian Rebecca Holt Executors and I direct all my debts and funeral expenses shall be paid as soon as conveniently may be after my decease. I give and bequeath unto my Husband  William Stevens Holt should he survive me in trust for his lifetime the land and houses in High Street Winslow and subject only to this all my estate real and personal is to pass to my Daughter Lilian Rebecca Holt including the land and houses in High Street Winslow  for her sole use and benefit and should the said Lilian Rebecca Holt die before me and leave a child or children then the estate shall pass to them subject to the trust already mentioned the children if more than one to be treated equally and the principal monies to be kept intact till each child respectively reaches the age of twenty one years but the interest to [be] used year by year for the child or childrens benefit .

Emma Holt [signature]

Signed by the said Testator Emma Holt in the presence of us present at the same time who at her request in her presence and the presence of each other subscribed our names as witnesses thereto
Geo. Lay [signature]        3 Walton Grove, Aylesbury, Secretary & Accountant
Sarah Mary Holt [signature] Spinster, Winslow   

On the Fourteenth day of December 1920. Probate of this Will was granted at Oxford to Lilian Rebecca Holt the Daughter, one of the Executors.

It is hereby certified that the above is a correct copy

Dated this Twenty first day of December 1920.

BE IT KNOWN that Emma Holt Wife of William Stevens Holt of The Cottage High Street Winslow in the County of Buckingham 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, died on the 31st day of October 1920 at Winslow aforesaid.

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 Lilian Rebecca Holt of High Street Winslow aforesaid, Spinster, the Daughter, one of the Executors.
named in the said Will. Power being reserved of making the like Grant to he said William Stevens Holt, the Husband of the deceased the other Executor named in the said Will.

Dated the 14th day of December 1920                                     

Gross value of Estate                                                                      £570 - 10 – 0
Net \debts exceeded/ value of Personal Estate                 
Extracted by Walter R.J. Law, Solicitor, Buckingham.

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Notes

Emma Holt was aged 71 when she died. She and her husband were retired farmers. Emma was born at Grendon Underwood and her maiden name was Simms. They were married at Camberwell in 1881. They were living at College Farm, Castlethorpe in 1901 with a son Berthold (d.1916), daughter Lilian who had been born at Quainton, and William's sister Sarah Holt. They lived at 162 High Street (now Northfield House) which they bought in 1915 after the death of the previous owner George Ingram. It was sold again when W.S. Holt died in 1923 (see a summary of his will). 164 High Street would have been included in the sales. By 1923 Lilian was married to Frank Edward Simms.