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Will of Bendigo Walker, retired fruiterer, 1913
Oxford Probate Registry
This is the last Will and Testament of me Bendigo Walker of Winslow in the county of Buckingham Retired Fruiterer and Greengrocer Subject to the payment of my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts with which all duties shall be paid primarily out of my personal estate I devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate unto my daughters Sarah Jane Walker and Susan Walker in equal shares as tenants in common absolutely and I appoint my said daughters Sarah Jane Walker and Susan Walker joint Executrixes of this my Will and revoke all former Wills heretofore made by me In witness whereof I the said Bendigo Walker the testator have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of April One thousand nine hundred and thirteen
B. Walker [signature]
Signed and declared by the above named Bendigo Walker the testator as his last will in the presence of us both present at the same time in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses William N. Midgley [signature] Leonard Musgrave [signature] Clerks to Mr. W.G.W. Willis, Solicitor Winslow
On the twenty second day of September 1913. Probate of this Will was granted at Oxford to Sarah Jane Walker and Susan Walker the Executrixes.
BE IT KNOWN that Bendigo Walker of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, died on the 25th day of June 1913 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 Principal 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 Sarah Jane Walker of Winslow aforesaid spinster and Susan Walker of 167 Hoxton Street Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex spinster daughters of the deceased, the Executrixes named in the said Will
Dated the 22nd day of September 1913
Gross value of Estate £31 - 19 – 11
Net value £9 - 17 - 4
Notes
Bendigo was born in 1843, the son of John Walker, carrier, and his wife Sarah, nee Holt. He was the brother of John Walker (d.1912) who had another greengrocer's shop. He had the biblical name Abednego when his birth was registered. His name was given as Bednego in the 1871 Census and Bendigo after that. The champion boxer William Abednego Thomson (1811-80) was known as Bendigo.
Bendigo Walker married Ruth Green (born in Winslow) in 1866 in Wandsworth registration district. She died earlier in 1913. They had several sons as well as the daughters mentioned in the will, including Josiah (b.1870), and another daughter Nettie or Netta (b.1876). The shop was at 20 High Street, which in 1910 belonged to Bendigo's daughter Susan, manageress of a bakery in London. It was carried on by his daughter Sarah, then his granddaughter Netta.