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The Will of John Nichols, dated 16 February 1895
Probate.
The District Registry at Bodmin.
(Written in left-hand column) Extracted by C. H. W.
Shackell, Solicitor, St. Austell.
In Her Majesty’s 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 John Nichols, of
Trevillic in the parish of Michaelstow in the County of Cornwall, Yeoman
deceased, who died on the 20th day of August 1895, at Trevillic aforesaid, and
who at the time of his death had a fixed place of abode at Trevillic 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 Pricilla Nichols Widow the Relict of the said deceased
and John Richard Collins, 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 fir Inland Revenue has been
delivered, wherein it is shown that the gross value of the personal estate of
the said deceased within the United Kingdom (exclusive of what the said decease
may have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee and not beneficially)
amounts to £380:5:7 and that it appears by a receipt signed by an Inland Revenue
Officer on the said Affidavit that £16:9:5 for estate duty and interest thereon
has been paid, the duty being charged at the rate of £2 per cent.
Dated the eighth day of February 1896.
Signed N.J. Pinch
Deputy District Registrar
Annexed to.
This is the last Will and Testament of me John Nichols of
Trevillic in the parish of Michaelstow in the County of Cornwall, Yeoman. I Give
to my Wife Priscilla Nichols all my Plate and Plated articles Books Pictures
Prints Beds Bedding Glass China Earthenware and all the Household Furniture
Goods and Chattels in my Dwelling house at the time of my decease. I
declare that the Mortgage on certain Fields in the parish of Saint
Teath in the County of Cornwall called Underhays and being about eighteen and
half acres and the property of my Wife’s Brother Harry Hocken for the sum of
Four hundred and fifty pounds belongs to my Wife although the Mortgage Deed
expresses that I am the Mortgagee And I declare that the said sum of Four
hundred and fifty pounds was advanced by my Wife out of monies belonging to her
as her separate property. I authorise and empower my Wife at her discretion to
convert my Residuary Real and Personal Estate into money and invest the proceeds
in such Stocks Funds and Securities as she in her discretion shall think best,
or to allow the same to remain in the same state as at my decease. I Give to my
Wife after paying the Cost of Repairs and Insurance of my said Estate the annual
income and profit thereof during her life and I hereby empower her to take and
receive for her own use any part or parts or the whole of my said Residuary Real
and Personal Estate as and when she may require the same and Subject to such
power so given to my Wife to take and receive my said property for her own use.
I Give what shall remain after my wife’s death of my said
Residuary Real and Personal Estate equally away such of my Nephews and Nieces
being the Children of my Sister Mary Harris and of my deceased Sister Jane
Button as may be living at my decease. I appoint my said Wife
and John Richard Collins of Tregenna Michaelstow aforesaid Executors
of this my Will. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
this sixteenth day of February 1895.
John Nichols
Signed by the Testator as his last Will and Testament in the
presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have
hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses
Geo. Gould Ross. DCL Rector of Michaelstowe
Anna Gould Ross. Rectory of Michaelstowe
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