Will of Mary Ann Flowers, widow, 1900 (proved 1909)

Oxford Probate Registry

This is the last Will and Testament of me Mary Ann Flowers of Winslow in the County of Bucks Widow I revoke all former Wills and appoint my Son William Flowers and Daughters Lucy Flowers and Florence Flowers to be Executors of this my Will I give all my household furniture and effects to such of my Daughters as are living and unmarried at my decease I give to my Daughter Florence the sum of One hundred and twenty pounds at present invested upon a Mortgage of Property at Grandborough I give to my said Son Wiliam the sum of Fifty pounds which I have loaned to him and to my Son Thomas a legacy of Fifty pounds I give to my Executors all the residue of my real and personal estate Upon trust to sell call in and convert the same into money and thereout to pay my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the legacies given by this my Will or any Codicil thereto and after the payment of my said debts funeral and testamentary expenses and legacies to divide the residue equally amongst all my Daughters And I direct that if any of my Daughters shall die in my lifetime leaving a child or children such child or children shall take (and if more than one equally between them) the share which his her or their parent would have taken if she had survived me. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Thirty first day of August One thousand nine hundred.
Mary Ann Flowers [signature]

Signed by the said Mary Ann Flowers the Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at her request and in her presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Herbert Bullock [signature] Solicitor, Winslow
Hugh Ray [signature] His Clerk.

I Mary Ann Flowers wish my Son William Flowers to have the same as his Sisters in the Bank shares only nothing more
Mary Ann Flowers [signature]
Station Road, Winslow. July   1st 1905

Mary Ann Flowers [signature]
Sep(tembe)r 28th 1908
Witness                B.S. Hutt Winslow Sept 28th 1908
E.M.E. Hutt Winslow Sept 28th 1908

Affidavit of due execution of Codicil filed
Thomas M. Davenport
District Registrar

On the Sixth day of July 1909. Probate of this Will (with one Codicil) was granted at Oxford to William Flowers the Son Lucy Flowers and Florence Flowers Spinsters, the Daughters the  Executors

It is hereby certified that the foregoing is a correct copy
Dated this Fifteenth day of July 1909.

BE IT KNOWN that Mary Ann Flowers of Winslow in the County of Buckingham Widow 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 7th day of April 1909 at Winslow aforesaid.

AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN  that at the date hereunder written the last will and Testament with a Codicil thereto 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 William Flowers of Sutton Courtney, Abingdon, in the County of Berks, Farmer, the Son of the Deceased and Lucy Flowers and Florence Flowers, both of Winslow aforesaid, Spinsters, the Daughters of the Deceased, the  Executors named in the said Will.

Dated the 6th day of July 1909.          
Gross value of Estate                      £568 - 15 - 7
Net Value of Personal Estate       £554 -  2 - 7
Extracted by Small & Barker, Solicitors, Winslow.

Notes

Marian Flowers, widow, aged 69, b. Hardwick, and her daughter Florence, 28, b. Beachampton lived at 1 Belle Vue Terrace, Station Road, by 1891. Florence had been a pupil at Brook Hall School. They were there in 1901 with another daughter Marian Ellen aged 32, hospital nurse. Florence aged 50 and Marian Ellen aged 42 were both there in 1911, with two lodgers. Their sister Lucy was apparently living there when she died in 1917. Florence with one lodger was still there in 1921. Her name was given as Eliza Florence when her own will was proved in 1921.

Mary Ann, also nee Flowers, was the widow of Thomas Flowers of Hall Farm, Beachampton. She may have been the daughter of Edward Cooper Flowers of Shipton Farm. Thomas Flowers married Marianne Flowers in Woburn reg. district in 1849. The Flowers family was also closely connected to the Neals of The Bell.