| Description | DSCAM/3/186/1: Probate (10 Apr. 1824) of the will (dated 15 Jan. 1816) of Nathaniel Hadley of Oldbury, parish of Hales Owen, Salop, nail factor.
Messuage in Canal Street, Oldbury, to wife for life, thence to brother, Thomas Hadley for life and the latter's wife, Ann, for life, thence to Thomas Hadley, son of Thomas; rest of estate to wife for life, with power to use capital if she is unmarried; otherwise, then £100 to nephew, Nathaniel Hadley of Smethwick, farmer; £50 to Samuel Hadley (brother) or to Martha his wife, £40 each to sisters, Phoebe, Mary, Hannah and Sarah, all if living at wife's death, otherwise to nephews, Nathaniel and Thomas; £100 etc. to children of wife's brothers George, Benjamin and James Hill in manner specified; household effects to be sold after death of wife, with £10 to the Sunday Schools belonging to Mr Hudson's Independent Meeting at West Bromwich, £5 to the Methodist Sunday Schools at Oldbury and £5 to that of the Church of England at Rowley Regis; balance to children of wife's 3 brothers.
Executors: Thomas Siviter of Rowley Regis, maltster, and Jane Hadley.
Codicil (dated 20 June 1816); sum of £100 in hands of John McMillan of Rowley, Staffs, provided wife remains unmarried etc. to be divided between: the children of wife's brother, George Hill; the children of wife's brother, Benjamin Hill; the children of wife's brother, James Hill. |