Administration of Selina Walker, spinster, 1896

Principal Probate Registry

BE IT KNOWN  that Selina Walker of High Street, Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Spinster, deceased, who died on the 22nd day of December 1895, at High Street, Winslow aforesaid, and who at the time of her death had a fixed place of abode at High Street, Winslow aforesaid within the District of the Counties of Oxford, Berks and Buckingham,  made and duly executed her last Will and Testament and did not therein name any Executor
AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN, that at the date hereunder written, Letters of Administration with the Will annexed of the personal estate of Selina Walker were granted by Her Majesty’s Court of Justice at the District Registry attached to the Probate Division thereof at Oxford, to Ann Morris (Wife of John Morris, Carrier) of Swanbourne in the County of Buckingham, one of the Residuary Legatees named in the said Will, she having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same
Dated the 14th day of March 1896
Gross value of personal Estate,          £65 - 6 - 3

Extracted by Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow
[Additional note in left side margin] Sureties James East of Winslow in the County of Buckingham Gentleman and William Norris Midgley of the same place [remainder indecipherable]

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Notes

Selina Walker died in 1895 aged 62. She was born at Swanbourne and first appears in Winslow in the 1861 Census with her mother Ruth. Selina is listed as plaiter (i.e. maker of straw plait for hats) and Ruth as plait dealer. They are both listed as plait dealers in 1871. In 1881 Ruth was a lacemaker and Selina a straw plaiter. They lived in the High Street in one of the houses north of the Golden Lion, probably no.118. In 1891, presumably after her mother died, Selina had moved in with her neighbour Charlotte Spooner.

In the 1888 exhibition of local antiquities, Selina contributed a water colour of a cottage in Swanbourne.