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Will of Gilbert Sincock dated 8 April 1892
 

(Document 1)
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me Gilbert Sincock of Bodmin in the County of Cornwall Retired Tailor I give and bequeath the following legacies namely to Maria Woods the wife of Richard Woods (and with whom I now reside) £10 To my niece Lizzie Kendall £20 To my nephew James Kendall £20 To my nephew William Sincock of Helland £40 and the money due to me from John Rowe (Mason) and John Rowe (Labourer) To my niece Fanny Marks £10 and to my nephew Henry Sincock £10 ALL the rest residue and remainder of my real and personal property I give equally unto and amongst the children of my friend Robert Phillipps Edyvean and I appoint the said Robert Phillippps Edyvean Executor of this my will In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and made my mark this 8th day of April 1892
The mark of Gilbert Sincock
Signed by the said Gilbert Sincock as his last will in our presence and by us in his presence the same having been first read over and explained to him and her perfectly understood the same
John Pethybridge Solicitor Bodmin
Richard Thomas Woods

(Document 2)
THE DISTRICT REGISTRY AT BODMIN
IN HER MAJESTIES HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
BE IT KNOWN, that at the date hereunder written, the last will and testament (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of Gilbert Sincock late of Bodmin in the County of Cornwall Retired Tailor deceased, who died on the 10th day of April 1892 at Bodmin aforesaid, within the District of the County of Cornwall was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of Her Majesties High Court of Justice. At Bodmin and the administration of the personal estate of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to Robert Phillipps Edyvean the sole Executor named in the will he having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same And it is hereby certified that an affidavit in verification of the Account of the said estate has been delivered duly stamped wherein it shown that the gross value of the estate amounts to £427 7 8 and no more
Dated the 17th day of May 1892 W H L Shadwell District Registrar
Extracted by J Pethybridge Solicitor Bodmin
This Affidavit bears a stamp of 9/-

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Transcribed from a document in the Malcolm McCarthy Collection