A LOCAL WILL: Probate has been granted of the will with a codicil, dated 15th December, 1886, of Mr. William Millwood Hobday, late of Monkspath Priory, Moseley who died on the 18th September last, and the value of whose personal estate has been declared at £15,563 17s 11d by the executors – his wife, Mrs. Lucy Hobday, Mr. Miller Brown, of Rutland Gate London, and Mr. Richard Alfred Pinsent, solicitor, of Birmingham. The testator bequeaths £100 to his groom, William Hobill, £500 and all his household effects and one carriage and horses to his said wife, and the income, during her widowhood, of a sum of £20,000 of which he directs the investment, but in the event of her re-marriage, such annuity is to be reduced to the income from £4,000, part of the above-named investment; and, subject thereto, the testator devises and bequeaths the residue of his estate, in-trust, for all his children, in equal shares; and he authorises his said wife, if she thinks fit, to continue his business of a jewel-case maker, under the style of Hobday and Heath, in Hylton Street, Birmingham, and to retain the profits thereof for her own use and benefit.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948