| Reference Number | DSCAM/5/4/1-9 |
| Title | Material relating to Thomas Dudley's affairs |
| Description | DSCAM/5/4/1: Copy will (dated 26 May 1936) of Thomas Dudley of 'The Hawthorns', Sedgley Road West, Tipton, Staffordshire, ironfounder; executors are Thomas Edward Dudley and Harold Arthur Roger Dudley (sons) and May Dudley (wife); annuity of £300 to wife during widowhood and free tenancy of house and use of car and household furniture and effects; income on 4000 Davenports 'CB' Ltd shares to daughter, Vera May Rhodes, for life, thence capital to her children; 1000 Ordinary shares in Thomas Dudley Ltd to Ethel Muriel Dudley (daughter) if single, and to be appointed a director, plus the income from £4000, which capital sum shall pass to her children, if any, on her death; if Ethel be married at the time of the testator's death she is to receive the income on £5000 in lieu of the above provisions, with the capital on that passing to her children; the income from all other estate, and from anything falling into the residuary estate, to two sons in equal shares for life, thence capital to grandchildren, failing which equally to be divided between the Dudley Guest Hospital and the Birmingham General Hospital; etc. |
| DSCAM/5/4/2: Draft receipt (16 Sept. 1941) of Thomas Dudley for £100 received from Staffordshire County Council as purchase money for a strip of land at Wombourn required for road widening. |
| DSCAM/5/4/3: Agreement drafted by Thomas Dudley in 1943 as a form of deed of family arrangement passing investments to children, making appointments within his business, establishing trust funds etc. |
| DSCAM/5/4/4: Statement of account as at Oct. 1945 of the beneficiaries with the executors of Thomas Dudley (d 17 June 1927) and Eliza Dudley (d 10 June 1945), both of 44 Bromford Road, Oldbury. |
| DSCAM/5/4/5-9: Statements of account of Thomas Dudley Ltd, Dauntless Works, Dudley for the years ending 31 July 1942, 31 July 1943 and 31 July 1944; statement of cash account between Thomas Dudley and the Company 1942-43; draft cancellation of Dudley's personal guarantee to Barclays Bank Ltd, Great Bridge in respect of the Company. |
| Date | 1936-1945 |
| Format | Typescript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 9 items |
| Level | Item |