Totnes Widow’s Bequests: £500 for “Care of Parents and Aunt”:
Cottage Hospital: Mrs. Mary Maye of Mount Elwell, Totnes, who died on September 14th, aged 86 years, widow of Thomas May, left estate of the gross value of £9,244, with net personality £7,656.
Probate has been granted to John Maye, of South Brent, land agent; Thomas Maye, of Bank House, Lloyds Bank Ltd., Kingsbridge, bank manager; and Robert Maye Pinsent, of 10, Seaton-avenue, Mutley, Plymouth, accountant.
She left £50 to Dorothea Alberta Horsham, in recognition of faithful service; £10 to Bertha Fanny Winchester, caretaker of Totnes Cemetery; £100 to Totnes Cottage Hospital; £500 to Alice Radford, for the kind care of my parents and aunt”; £50 to each executor; £400 to Charles Pinsent; £1,000 to Robert Maye Pinsent; £100 each to John Maye, Thomas Maye, sen., Mary Edith Maye, Elizabeth Margaret Maye, Lilian Hartland, Mary Buchan Cecil, Olive Tollit, Thomas Michael Hartland, Mary Jane Littlewood, and George Heath, £400 to Mildred Pinsent; £50 each to Joy and Eileen Pike; and, subject to some specific bequests, the residue of the property as to one part each to John Maye, Thomas Maye, Mary Edith Maye, Elizabeth Margaret Maye, and Robert Maye Pinsent, and one part upon trust for the children of Jeffery Bowden Maye.
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Referenced
GRO0125 Devonport: Charles Pinsent: 1883 – 1937
GRO1081 Devonport: Mildred Pinsent: 1881 – 1968
GRO0750 Devonport: Robert Maye Pinsent: 1881 – 1944