| Description | DSCAM/3/484/1: Probate (5 May 1801) of the will (dated 14 Apr. 1796) of Solomon Woodall of Great Bridge, parish of Tipton, Staffs., yeoman.
£40 to Richard, Robert, Benjamin and Ann Fullwood, the children of Richard Fullwood of Brindsfield Hall, Staffs., farmer, deceased; £10 to nephew, Solomon Jackson, son of late sister Mary; £5 to nephew, Joseph Dudley, and his sisters, children of late sister Hannah; £5 to nephew, Joseph Underhill; £10 to John Diggory, Samuel Diggory and -, wife of Thomas Woodhouse of Dudley, oatmealman; £650 to the Revd Thomas Shaw Hellier of Wolverhampton, Staffs., Clerk, Edward Fisher, James Fisher, James Bourne and others (named), upon trust for establishing a school at or near Great Bridge for educating poor boys from the parishes of Dudley, Tipton, Westbromwich and Wednesbury; details of the conduct of the school, the selection of the boys, appointment of officials and trustees etc.; residue of personal estate upon trust to pay income to sisters, Maria Underhill and Sobieski Noble, for life, as tenants in common, with benefit of survivorship, then upon trust to pay £5 to each child then living of his late sister, Silvia Stone, and the balance equally between the children of sisters, Mary Jackson, Maria Underhill and Sobieski Noble (except Solomon Jackson and Joseph Underhill), then living.
Executors: Edward Fisher of Tipton, hingemaker, James Fisher of Horseley Heath, parish of Tipton, hingemaker, and James Bourne of Dudley, gentleman.
Codicil (29 Oct. 1798) adding two extra trustees to the school foundation. |