| Description | DSCAM/3/215/1: Probate (31 Mar. 1831) of the will (dated 5 Nov. 1827) of Samuel Hodgetts of Worley Wigorn, Worcs., farmer; 3 messuages etc. at Smethwick to wife, Sarah Hodgetts (which had been the property of her father, Walter Brinton), for life, and also part of household effects; then upon trust for sale, the proceeds to be divided equally between his 9 children (John, Samuel, Henry and Joseph Hodgetts, Mary, wife of Thomas Lester, Ann, wife of Robert Keirnes, Sarah Hodgetts, Lydia Hodgetts and Hannah Hodgetts); all other real and personal estate upon trust for wife during widowhood, and for the maintenance and education of children, and upon trust for sale thereafter, but with general trust for sale in her lifetime, and in the last event also in trust to invest £700 and pay the income of that to wife during widowhood; all finally to be divided equally between surviving children (and their personal representatives) equally as specified; £300 owed to testator to be deducted from the share of son John, and power given to trustees to hold back all of John's share, invest the monies and pay the income to John for life, then dividing the capital between John's children; executors, Thomas Lester of Dudley, Worcs., pork butcher (son-in-law) and Walter Brinton of Birmingham, Warwickshire, provision merchant. |
| DSCAM/3/215/2-5: Memorandum by Hannah Hodgetts of Dudley, spinster as to the joint promissory note to Edward Dixon the elder and Edward Dixon the younger of Dudley, bankers, for £300, and the deposit of deeds to property in Wolverhampton Street, Dudley with them as security, 15 Oct. 1806; joint promissory note of Samuel Wilmot Hodgetts and Hannah Hodgetts, 15 Oct. 1806; receipt of Eleanor Bennitt for legacy from Hannah's executors, 25 Aug. 1823; card for Miss Hannah Hodgetts' five shares in the Dudley Flour and Bread Company, 29 Aug. 1798. |