Will of Elizabeth Holt, widow, 1920 (proved 1921)

Oxford Probate Registry

This is the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth Holt formerly of Grendon Underwood in the county of Buckingham now of Winslow of the said County of Buckingham Widow. I appoint Charles Walton Asbury of 69 Whitbread Road Brockley in the County of Kent Coal Merchant my Son John Joseph Holt and my Daughter Bessie the Wife of Frank Chapman of Shabbington in the County of Oxford Farmer Executors and Executrix of this my Will and Trustees for the purposes hereafter expressed and I give to the said Charles Walton Asbury (provided that he shall act as an Executor and Trustee of this my Will) the legacy of Ten pounds free of legacy duty. Whereas some time since I gave to my said Son the furniture plate horse dogcart and other articles now in his possession and formerly belonging to me and I have now handed over to him the live and dead farming stocks, implements of Husbandry and other things now in his possession and formerly belonging to me in consideration of his Promissory Note for One thousand six hundred pounds being the value thereof as ascertained by valuation on his taking over the Thornborough Grange Farm Now I give to my said Son the said Sum of One thousand six hundred pounds so secured as aforesaid and direct my Executors to cancel and hand over to him the said Promissory Note I give to my said Daughter the Legacy of One thousand three hundred pounds and also my Gold Watch and Chain and all my crested Silver and Plate I devise all my real estate (if any) and I bequeath all my personal estate not hereby otherwise disposed of to my Trustees upon trust that my Trustees shall sell call in and convert into money and shall with and out of the moneys produced by such sale calling in and conversion and with and out of my ready money pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and the legacies hereinbefore bequeathed and shall stand possessed of the residue In trust for my said Son and Daughter in equal shares Provided always that if either my said Son or Daughter shall die in my lifetime leaving a child or children who shall survive me and being a Son or Sons shall attain the age of Twenty one or  being a Daughter or Daughters shall attain that age or marry under that age then and in every such case the last mentioned child or children shall take (and if more than one equally between them) the share which his her or their parent would have taken of and in the legacy sum of money or share of residue if such parent had survived me Provided also if my said Son shall die in my lifetime without leaving a child or children who shall survive me I direct my Trustees to pay to his Widow the sum of One thousand pounds (part of the said sum of One thousand six hundred pounds) and that subject thereto my Trustees shall stand possessed of the said sum of money and share of the residue bequeathed to my said Son In trust for my said Daughter or in case of her death in my lifetime for her child or children under the proviso last hereinbefore contained And I declare that my Trustees may raise any part of parts of the vested or presumptive share of any child of my said Son under this my Will and apply the same for his or her maintenance advancement or benefit as my Trustees shall think fit  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Fifth day of December One thousand nine hundred and thirteen
Elizabeth Holt
[signature]

Signed by the said Elizabeth Holt and declared by her to be her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who being all present at the same time have at her request in her presence and the presence of each other subscribed our names as witnesses thereto
Thomas R. Hearn [signature]       Sol(icito)r Buckingham
Perridge Salmon Jun(io)r [signature] his Clerk     

On the Twenty fifth day of January 1921. Probate of this Will was granted at Oxford to Charles Walton Asbury, John Joseph Holt the Son and Bessie Chapman (Wife of Frank Chapman) the Daughter, the Executors.

It is hereby certified that the foregoing is a correct copy
Dated this First day of February 1921.

BE IT KNOWN that Elizabeth Holt of Winslow in the County of Buckingham Widow formerly of Grendon Underwood in the same County 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 24th day of September 1920 at the Nursing Home Thame in the County of Oxford.

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 Charles Walton Asbury of 69 Whitbread Road in the County of Kent Coal Merchant my Son John Joseph Holt of Thornborough Grange in the County of Buckingham Farmer, the Son and Bessie (Wife of Frank Chapman Farmer) of Shabbington in the County of Oxford the Daughter the Executors named in the said Will.

Dated the 25th day of January 1921   
Gross value of Estate                      £3071- 2 – 3
Net value of Estate                          £2978 – 9 – 9
Extracted by Hearn & Hearn, Solicitors, Buckingham.

Notes

Elizabeth Holt was aged 72 when she died. She was already a widow in 1891 when she was housekeeper to her father Richard Holt at Bottom Farm, Grendon Underwood. In 1911 she was living at Manor Farm, Grendon Underwood and called herself farmer; her then unmarried son John was living with her. She doesn't appear in the 1918 electoral roll, so she must have retired to Winslow after that and it's not known where she lived, presumably in a rented house.