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Summary:
Testator:
Robert Hargreaves (1),
warehouseman, of
Lancaster, Lancashire
Sons:
Christopher John (2) and
Thomas Rowland
Hargreaves (3)
Executors: his
two sons
Legatees: wife
and children (unnamed)
of testator’s deceased
son James (4)
Signed: 21
October 1879
Witnesses: Wm
Tilly, Solicitor,
Lancaster; John P.
Baines, clerk to Johnson
and Tilly, Solicitors,
Lancaster
Proved: at
Lancaster 30 March 1882
Died: 21
March 1882
Estate:
£149.5.3
Notes:
1. Testator was
baptized in
Bolton-le-Sands,
Lancashire on 23 June
1810; he married Mary,
daughter of John Scales
of Rusland in Colton,
Lancashire, who
presumably died before
her husband
2. Christopher John
Hargreaves (1838-1920)
married twice and had by
his second wife, Alice
Lee, an only child Una
Lee Hargreaves
(1900-1990); he lived in
Davyhulme, Stretford,
Lancashire
3. Thomas Rowland
Hargreaves (1840-1904)
was a solicitor’s clerk;
he married Annie but
apparently had no
children; he was living
in London at the census
of 1881 and but died in
Lancaster
4. James Hargreaves (b
1841) was an apprentice
joiner living with his
parents in Lancaster in
the 1861 census; I have
not discovered the name
of wife or children, nor
when he died
Source:
Lancashire Record Office
Text:
This is the last will
and testament of me,
Robert Hargreaves of
Lancaster in the county
of Lancaster,
warehouseman
I
appoint my two sons
Christopher John and
Thomas Rowland executors
of this my will
I
give and bequeath all my
personal estate
whatsoever and
wheresoever of which I
shall be possessed at
the time of my decease
unto my said executors
upon trust after payment
of my debts, funeral and
testamentary expenses
from time to time or at
any time to apply the
residue for the benefit
of the widow and
children of my deceased
son James or any or such
of them as they, my said
executors, shall in
their uncontrolled and
absolute discretion
consider to be most for
their advantage
I
revoke all former wills,
in witness whereof I
have hereunto set my
hand this twenty first
day of October one
thousand eight hundred
and seventy nine
Signed by the said
testator as and for his
last will and testament
In
the presence of us
present at the same time
who at his request and
in his presence and in
the presence of each
other have hereunto
subscribed our names as
witnesses // Wm Tilly,
Solicitor, Lancaster;
John P. Baines, clerk to
Johnson and Tilly,
Solicitors, Lancaster
//
Proved at Lancaster the
thirtieth day of March
1882 by the oaths of
Christopher John
Hargreaves and Thomas
Rowland Hargreaves, sons
of the deceased, the
executors named in the
will, to whom
administrators [end]
The testator Robert
Hargreaves was late of
Lancaster in the county
of Lancaster,
warehouseman, and died
on the twenty first day
of March 1882 at
Lancaster aforesaid
Gross and net amount
£149.5.3
Johnson & Lilly
Lancaster
On
the thirtieth day of
March 1882 the will of
Robert Hargreaves, late
of Lancaster in the
county of Lancaster,
warehouseman, deceased,
who died on the 21st
day of March 1882 at
Lancaster aforesaid, was
proved in her Majesty’s
High Court of Justice in
the District Registry
attached to the Probate
Division thereof at
Lancaster by the oaths
of Christopher John
Hargreaves of Poplar
Villa, Urmston, near
Manchester in the said
county, solicitor’s
managing clerk, and
Thomas Rowland
Hargreaves of No1
Victoria Street,
Westminster in the
County Of Middlesex,
gentleman, sons of the
said deceased, the
executors named (in the
said will), they having
been first sworn duly to
administer.
Personal Estate: Gross
and net amount £149.5.3
Extracted by Messrs.
Johnson and Tilly of
Lancaster, Solicitors
Seal of the Family
Division of the High
Court of Justice |
