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From: "Sue Baillie" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Reading Wills
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:33:45 +0100
References: <N1splEArGKv8EwTE@varneys.demon.co.uk>


Eve

Thanks for this - you are a remarkable lady and we are lucky to have you on
these lists!

Kind regards
Sue Baillie

----- Original Message -----
From: Eve McLaughlin <>
To: Sue Baillie <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Reading Wills


> In message <000a01c1de5d$6e386900$>, Sue Baillie
> <> writes
> >Just a note to say a BIG thank you to all who have kindly given me advice
on the
> >subject. I hope I have already replied personally, but if I have
forgotten you
> >- THANKS A LOT!
> >
> >One more question (sorry to be so green) but:
> >
> >At the end of the Will it shows that it was 'proved' at London, and has a
date
> >of 20th August 1857.
> >My question is: Is this the date that the Will was WRITTEN or is it the
date
> >some time AFTER DEATH, when the Executors had carried out their duties?
> The date of probate. This tended to be very rapidly after the death.
> However, if there was any delay, this could be a very long one. The
> 'normal' family with adult children needed to settle things from the
> estate rapidly, whereas if a widow was left with very young children,
> things could wait till the oldest child was 21 and was entitled to the
> legacy.
>
> --
> Eve McLaughlin
>
> Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
> Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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