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Will of Susanna Hamley dated 9 June 1870
 

In Her Majesties Court of Probate
This is the last will and testament of me Susanna Hamley of Bodmin in the County of Cornwall Spinster I give and bequeath all my real estate with the rights privilages and appurtenances thereunto belonging situate in Bodmin aforesaid and Saint Mabyn in the said County unto my sister Betty Pomeroy Hamley for and during the term of her natural life and from and immediately after her decease then I give devise and bequeath all that my moiety of and in that freehold dwelling house hereditaments and premises situate in Fore Street in Bodmin aforesaid unto my nephew William George Hamley (a Colonel in the Royal Engineers) and Edward Bruce Hamley (a Colonel in the Royal Artillery) as tenants in common absolutely And also after the decease of my sister Sally Pomeroy Hamley I give devise and bequeath all my freehold property in the parish of Saint Mabyn in the said County unto William Dymond Hamley and Walter Raleigh Gilbert Hamley the sons of my said nephew William George Hamley as tenants in common absolutely ALL the rest residue and remainder of my real and personal estate I give devise and bequeath unto my said sister Sally Pomeroy Hamley should she be living at the time of my decease absolutely and in case my said sister Sally Pomeroy Hamley should die in my lifetime (pencil note in margin saying she did so) then I give devise and bequeath all the said rest residue and remainder of my said real and personal estate as aforesaid unto my nephew the said Edward Bruce Hamley absolutely and I hereby appoint him the said Edward Bruce Hamley sole Executor of this my last will In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of June 1870

S Hamley

Signed by the said Susanna Hamley as and for her last will in the presence of us who in her presence subscribe our names as witnesses

F E Coom
Jnos Pethybridge



Proved at Bodmin the 29th day of June 1871 by the oath of Edward Bruce Hamley the nephew the sole Executor to whom administration was granted
The Testatrix Susanna Hamley was late of Bodmin in the County of Cornwall Spinster and died on the 19th day of June 1871 at Bodmin aforesaid
Under £2000
Executed by P J Wallis Solicitor Bodmin

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Transcribed from a document in the Malcolm McCarthy Collection