Proved 1834. [Gouldswain, Goldswin]
To daughters Eliza Wheeler and Matilda Gray [probate records reveal these are his illegitimate daughters, both unmarried] £19 10 shillings each.
Rest of money, investments in the Assured Navy bank stock, all furniture and personal effects in his house at Lane End to wife Mary. Also the piece of garden ground he has at Lane End by the Marlow Road. [Probate records say this was small and had little value].
John Joy and James Wheeler to be executors.
Signed by a mark. One witness only John Goldswain. Also made mark only.
Probate hearing considered the validity of the will given fact only one witness had signed it but accepted John Joy's testimony that he had also witnessed the writing and signing of the will. It seems deceased thought he himself could act as a witness to his own will and that his mark was sufficient with one other's mark. He had needed prompting to remember to appoint executors or sign the will so was either very ill or ignorant of the basics of will preparation. The hearing also reveals his wife was supposed to inherit his wearing apparel valued at about £5.
Probate hearing said that the witness John Goldswain was the nephew of Thomas and also of Lane End.
John Joy was a yeoman of G...field, Oxfordshire.
Transcribed and summarized by Charlotte Day from a PCC will at the National Archives, Kew.
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