| Description | Probate (20 Sept. 1842) of the will (dated 4 Aug. 1835) of James Bourne of Tansley Hill, parish of Dudley, Worcs., gentleman; £50 and gold watch to nephew, James Samuel Bourne; £50 and silver watch to nephew, Joseph Green Bourne the younger; £50 each to godsons, Charles Cartwright Brettell (wife's nephew) and George Wright Hawkes (son of Abiathar Hawkes of Leamington); encyclopaedia to brother-in-law, Cornelius Cartwright, Esq.; silver tankard formerly belonging to HRH The Duke of York to wife, Mary Anne Bourne, for life, thence to his brother, Herbert Dudley Bourne; all real and personal estate to wife for life, thence to his brothers and sisters, Joseph Green Bourne, Herbert Dudley Bourne, Mary Green Bourne and Elizabeth Bourne as tenants in common; executors, Herbert Dudley Bourne, Revd William Henry Cartwright of Bromly, parish of Kingswinford, Staffs., Clerk and testator's wife.
Codicil (22 Sept. 1835); £50 legacies to nephews and godsons replaced by £10 leagacies; interest under father's will to wife for lief, thence to his brothers and sisters as tenants in common; books and effects around the office, to brother Joseph Green Bourne; arrangement concerning land purchased from Twamley; pew in St Thomas's Church whcih belongs to him by an arrangement with his brothers, to wife for life, then to brothers and sisters as tenants in common.
Codicil (8 Oct. 1835); devises to wife and her heirs the land purchased of John Twamley, for which she and her family have paid..
Codicil (8 Oct. 1835) |
| Grant and assignment (24 Feb. 1851) by Mary Green Bourne and Elizabeth Bourne, both formerly of Dudley, then of Woodfield, parish of Claverley, Salop, now of Greenwich, Kent, spinsters, to Joseph Green Bourne of Dudley, gentleman, of shares in the real and personal estate passing under the will of James Bourne the younger; recites deed between them dated 23 Sept. 1842 and omissions from it with respect to the original contract between them.. |