Will of Rosa Ann Roads, widow, 1922 (proved 1926)

Oxford Probate Registry

This is the last Will and Testament of me Rosa Ann Roads of High Street Winslow in the County of Bucks Widow I appoint my daughter Emily Roads and Sydney Roads of Swanbourne Winslow in the said County of Buckingham Farmer (hereinafter called “my Trustees”) to be the Executors and Trustees of this my Will I give and bequeath all my property whatsoever and wheresoever whether real or personal to my Trustees Upon Trust to sell call in and convert the same into money and after payment of my debts funeral and testamentary expenses to divide the net proceeds of such sale and conversion equally between all my children who shall be living at my decease Provided always that if any child of mine shall have died in my lifetime leaving a child or children who shall survive me and attain the age of Twenty one years such 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 if such parent would have survived me I revoke all former Wills In Testimony whereas I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of October One thousand nine hundred and twenty two.
Rosa Ann Roads [signature]

Signed and declared by the said Rosa Ann Roads the Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
J.H. Coates [signature] Solicitor Aylesbury
G.J. Parrott [signature] Articled Clerk to F.H. Coates Solicitor Aylesbury

On the Eighteenth day of June 1926. Probate of this Will was granted at Oxford to Emily Roads \Spinster/ the Daughter and Sydney Roads the  Executors save and except settled land vested in the Deceased by the Will of Harry Roads deceased proved in the Oxford District Registry on the 24th day of March 1922.

It is hereby certified that the above is a correct copy
Dated this Twenty second day of June 1926.

BE IT KNOWN that Rosa Ann Roads of High Street Winslow in the County of Buckingham Widow died on the 24th day of April 1926 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 Emily Roads of 77 High Street Winslow aforesaid the Daughter of the Deceased and Sydney Roads of Swanbourne  Winslow aforesaid Farmer, the  Executors named in the said Will, save and except settled land vested in the Deceased settled by the Will of Harry Roads proved by the said Rosa Ann Roads the sole Executrix in the Oxford District Registry on the 24th day of March 1922, of which said Will the said Rosa Ann Roads by Deed dated  the 18th day of October 1922 appointed the said Sydney Roads to be a Trustee jointly with her.

[In a different hand] Further Grant 2nd Sept. 1926
[In original hand] Dated the 18th day of July 1926.                                        
Gross value of Estate                      £1226 - 19 – 1
Net Value of Personal Estate       £1202 -  6 – 7
Extracted by Parrott & Coates, Solicitors, Aylesbury.

Notes

Rosa Ann Roads was aged 70 when she died in 1926. She was born at North Crawley, nee Adkins. In 1921 she, her husband Harry (aged 64, born at Ledburn) and daughter Emily aged 28 were living at Manor Farm, Dunton.  Two other daughters, Dorothy aged 26 and Daisy aged 24, both “lady nurses”, were listed as visitors. Her children were born at Southwick, Northants. She must have moved to Winslow after Harry died later in 1921. They don't seem to have had any close connection to other Roads families in Winslow.

Emily was still living at 77 High Street in 1928, and the tenant in 1934 is listed as “D. Roads”, probably Dorothy. Emily married (as his second wife) Walter Smith in 1928 and later lived at 34 Station Road.

Harry Roads’ will was proved at Oxford on 24 March 1922. Probate was granted to Rosa and his effects were worth £6,378. Her grant of probate must refer to provisions in his will.