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Will and Probate - Cyril Onslow Peter-Hoblyn
1896-7

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS That I CYRIL ONSLOW PETER-HOBLYN of Colquite Bodmin in the County of Cornwall Esquire do hereby revoke all Wills and Testamentary Dispositions by me at any time heretofore made and declare this to be my last Will and Testament I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH All my Real and Personal Estate wherever situate including the Estates of Colquite and Porthcothan and all my Real Property situate at Alternun, Tremeer in the Parish of Lanivet and Roselands in the Parish of Bodmin And all other my Real and Personal Property elsewhere situate And also all my Horses Carriages Wines Liquors Plate Furniture Stocks and Shares Money in the Bank and all other my Real and Personal Estate UNTO AND TO THE USE OF my two brothers Henry Godolphin Peter -Hoblyn and Ernest Pomeroy Peter – Hoblyn in equal shares as tenants in Common well knowing that the said Henry Godolphin Peter-Hoblyn and Ernest Pomeroy Peter-Hoblyn will discharge the Trust reposed in them by remembering my Mother Emily Glencross and my Sister Ellen Maude Peter-Hoblyn And I hereby appoint my brother in law Henry Graeme Lloyd of Itchall Manor Crowndale Hants retired Officer in Her Majesties Army and the said Henry Godolphin Peter-Hoblyn and Ernest Pomeroy Peter-Hoblyn Executors of this my WILL IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of January in the year of Our Lord 1896
C O Peter-Hoblyn
Signed by the said Cyril Onslow Peter- Hoblyn as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us being present at the same time who in the presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
P Gilbert Wallis Solicitor Bodmin
John Badgery his Clerk
This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me Cyril Onslow Peter-Hoblyn of Colquite in the County of Cornwall Esquire which bears the date 9th day of January 1896. I give an Annuity of £200 to my Mother Emily Glencross for life And also the sum of £100 to be paid to each of my sisters Ellen Maude Peter-Hoblyn, Caroline Emily Lloyd and Catherine Sarah Cruddas on my death And in all other respects I confirm my said Will
Dated July 9th 1896
CO Peter-Hoblyn
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of July 1986 signed by the said CO Peter-Hoblyn in the presence of us both being present at the same time who in the presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
Arthur G Salmon
P Gilbert Wallis Solicitor Bodmin


(Attached to above)

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 with a Codicil thereto (a copy whereof is hereunto attached) Cyril Onslow Peter-Hoblyn of Colquite in the Parish of Saint Mabyn in the County of Cornwall Esquire deceased, who died on the 21st day of November 1896 at Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales and, who at the time of his death had a fixed place of abode at Colquite aforesaid, within the District of the County of Cornwall was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice, at Bodmin and that Administration of the Personal estate of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to Henry John (in the will written Henry) Graeme Lloyd and Henry Godolphin Peter-Hoblyn and Ernest Pomeroy Peter-Hoblyn Esquires the brothers of the said deceased, the Executors named in the said will they having been first sworn well and faithfully to Administer the same.
And it is hereby certified that an Affidavit for Inland Revenue has been delivered wherein it is shown the gross value of the Personal Estate of the said deceased within the United Kingdom (exclusive of what the said deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee and not beneficially) amounts to £24700 2 2 and it appears by a receipt signed by an Inland Revenue Officer on the said Affidavit that £2128 6 7 for state duty and interest thereon has been paid, the duty being charged at the rate of 4½ %
Dated 13th Day of April 1897
WH Shadwell District Registrar
 

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Contributed by Malcolm McCarthy, (Malc in Sunny Padstow), who has the original document.