| Description | DSCAM/3/152/1-2: Probate (14 June 1841) of the will (dated 15 June 1840) of Joseph Fletcher the elder of Tipton, Staffs., boatloader; leasehold dwellinghouse he occupies in Hurst Lane, Tipton, to wife, Sarah Fletcher, for life, plus a cellar and back kitchen; then, without cellar and kitchen, to 11 of his children (Thomas, Isaac, Joseph, John, Samuel, Stephen, Richard, Mary, wife of Richard Nickless, Hannah, wife of William Nickless, Honor, wife of William Henley and Sarah, wife of William Jenks) as tenants in common; newly erected dwellinghouse occupied by son Daniel, to Daniel, subject to Sarah's use of cellar and kitchen and the payment of £55 to the testator's personal estate; all personal estate to children except Daniel as tenants in common; executors, Isaac (son), Sarah (wife) and Thomas Price of Tipton, coalminer. Will annotated with dates of deaths, length of terms of years etc. |