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Probate look-up, please

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Adeline

Adeline Report 14 Jul 2012 13:41

Hi,

I'm hoping someone would be kind enough to look up probate details for Gwendolen Eva Robinson who died in 1923.

Thank you,
Adeline

Jonesey

Jonesey Report 14 Jul 2012 13:43

Name: Gwendoline Eva Robinson (Widow of Percy Woodrow Robinson)
Of: La Casita, Polsham Park, Paignton, Devon
Probate Date: 9 Jan 1924
Death Date: 30 Dec 1923
Death Place: Sussex, England
Registry: Chichester
Estate: £30/4/0d
Probate to : Percival Gurrey (Schoolmaster) and Harold Gurrey (Accountant)

Researching:
Don't put off until tomorrow doing what you can do today. If you like doing it today you can do it again tomorrow. Be kind to your children for it is they who will decide which care home you end up in.

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Adeline

Adeline Report 14 Jul 2012 13:48

Thanks very much, Jonesey. That's very helpful information.

Adeline

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 14 Jul 2012 13:49

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
about Gwendoline Eva Robinson Name: Gwendoline Eva Robinson
Probate Date: 9 Jan 1924
Death Date: 30 Dec 1923
Death Place: Sussex, England
Registry: Chichester

Of 46 Mons Ave., Bognor, Sussex (wife of Percy Woodrow Robinson). Died at La Casita Polsham Park Paignton, Devonshire. Probate to Percival Gurrey, schoolmaster and Harry Gurrey, accountant. Effects 30 pounds, 4 shillings.

Edit: I have to correct Jonesey. It says WIFE of Percy not widow

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

Adeline

Adeline Report 14 Jul 2012 14:04

Thanks Margee. Since reading "Widow of...", I have been busily looking for a death for Percy between 1911 and 1923 and have been unable to find anything! I had thought he died in 1960 (right age, right place) so this is probably still the case.

Adeline

Jonesey

Jonesey Report 14 Jul 2012 22:12

Adeline,

Please accept my apologies for stating widow rather than wife.

I can only assume that my brain slipped a gear thinking that she was a widow because probate was granted not to her husband but to two other males with a different surname. Either that or perhaps I should have gone to Specsavers. ;-)

Researching:
Don't put off until tomorrow doing what you can do today. If you like doing it today you can do it again tomorrow. Be kind to your children for it is they who will decide which care home you end up in.

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 14 Jul 2012 23:12

Oh never mind, Jonesey, it just proves that you're a human being and capable of making mistakes just like the rest of us mere mortals.

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)