| Description | DSCAM/3/180/1: Probate (4 Nov. 1840) of the will (dated 26 Jan. 1839) of Benjamin Haden of Toll End, parish of Tipton, Staffs., ropemaker; household effects to wife, Rhoda, and daughter, Maria, share and share alike; £400 to daughter, Ann Maria; £300 to daughter Mary, wife of George Ruchbury Hickman; £300 to be divided between the six children of his son, Joseph Haden; £100 to executors to be applied at their discretion to the children of his son, Benjamin Haden; 14/- a week to wife for life, charged on premises at Spon Lane, West Bromwich; stock in trade and business credits and debts to so, John Haden; all other estate to sons, Edward and John, as tenants in common; executors, Joseph, Edward and John (sons).
Codicil (dated 4 June 1839); revises terms of £400 bequeathed to Ann Maria, now the wife of Jonah Davies of Tipton, engineer, now upon trust for her to receive the income for life, thence to her issue as specified, with remainder to her next of kin; £350 to the 7 children of Joseph in lieu of £300 to the 6. |