Will of George Ingram, gentleman, 1914

Oxford Probate Registry

This is the last Will and Testament of me George Ingram of Winslow in the County of Buckingham Gentleman hereby revoke all other Wills or testamentary dispositions made by me and declare this to be my last Willa and Testament.  I appoint my dear Wife Jane Woolhouse Ingram to be the sole Executrix of this my Will. I give and devise my messuage or tenement in the Station Road Winslow formerly in the occupation of Mrs Neal and now in the occupation of Mr Moxhay to my Brother Harry Ingram and my Sister Elizabeth Ingram as joint tenants in fee simple I give the following pecuniary legacies to my Nephew Henry George Maidment the sum of Twenty five pounds to my Niece Clara Woolhouse Saunders sum of Twenty pounds and to my Nephew Charles George Woolhouse Saunders sum of Twenty pounds I give devise and bequeath all the rest and remainder of my real and personal estate after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses to my dear Wife the said Jane Woolhouse Ingram absolutely. In witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand this Third day of February One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.
George Ingram [signature]

Signed and acknowledged by the said George Ingram the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of both of us together we being present at the same time and we at his request in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
William J. Whitehorn [signature] Solicitor, Winslow
P.D. Will [signature] Workhouse Master, Winslow

On the Twenty third day of May 1914. Probate of this Will was granted at Oxford to Jane Woolhouse Ingram, Widow, the Relict, the sole Executrix.

It is hereby certified that the above is a correct copy
Dated this Thirtieth day of April 1914.

BE IT KNOWN that George Ingram of Winslow in the County of Buckingham Gentleman 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, died on the 28th day of February 1914 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 Jane Woolhouse Ingram of Winslow aforesaid, the Widow, the Relict of the Deceased, the sole Executrix named in the said Will.

Dated the 23rd day of April 1914.                                               

Gross value of Estate                      £2349 - 14 – 4
Net value of Personal Estate        £394 - 1 – 4
Resworn              £2360 - 4 – 9
Extracted by Whitehorns, Solicitors, Winslow

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Notes

George Ingram was aged 72 when he died. He ran the family's butcher's business at 12 High Street until handing it over to his brother in the 1880s. He married Jane Woolhouse Saunders at Winslow in 1868. He seems to have been living at the house which is now 162 High Street in 1891, and then to have let it out. He moved to Alwyn Lawn, Hartwell, which he left in 1897 when the Bucks Herald (13 Nov) reported that he had a serious illness. In 1901 he was living at 8 Buckingham Road, which he had renamed Alwyn House, and described himself as retired butcher. In 1911 he he had returned to 162 High Street (by then called The Cottage), which his widow sold in 1915.

The house in Station Road is now no.3 (then known as 2 Station Road Villas). He must have bought it in 1911 when it was put up for sale by the executors of Mrs Cuthbe.

There was an an obituary in the Buckingham Advertiser (7 March 1914):

The oldest son of the late Mr. Wm. Ingram, he succeeded his uncle, Mr. Thos. Turnham, in business in the High Street; but after very few years retired, leaving Winslow and residing at Alwyn Lawn, near Aylesbury, for a while, and eventually coming back to his native town, where for some time he filled the office of Churchwarden. Among other things he was extremely fond of music, and was a very devoted member of the Church Choir, but for some years past his health had not been good.