Thomas Lucas: Slatter, Son and More, solicitors, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Probate dated 12 August 1870 of the will (19 Dec 1862) and codicils (17 Feb 1866 and 19 Nov 1866) of Thomas Lucas, Stratford-upon-Avon, gent., bequeathing premises on Maidenhead Road in his occupation, with personal estate and residuary real estate, to trustees John Cawley, Brailes, surgeon (cousin), Clarke Edward Tomalin, Islington, Middx., banker (brother-in-law of testator), and Richard Martin Bird, Stratford-upon-Avon, wine merchant In trust for benefit of wife for life and then (if value exceed £1200) to divide as follows - 1/5 between children of late brother John Gilbert Lucas of Otsego, North America. - 2/5 to brother-in-law Clarke Edward Tomalin. - 2/5 as follows: - 1/7 to John Cawley. - 1/7 to Richard Martin Bird. - 1/7 to Mary Cawley, sister of John and cousin of testator. - 1/7 to Catherine Cawley, daughter of testator's cousin William of Hortaton, Oxon. - 3/7 equally among Thomas Wall, Mary Baylis, Martha Leigh, Eliza[beth] Aldridge, Alfred Wall and James Lucas Wall - children of testator's late partner, William Wall, deceased. Different provisions if estate value more than £250 but less than £1200. Codicil (1) Pecuniary bequests, payable before division of estate, to cousins William Potts, Banbury, printer and stationer, Martha Potts, Daventry, spinster and Mary Potts, spinster; servants, Margaret Days and William Parsons, labourer, if still in his employ. Codicil (2) Pecuniary bequest to cousin Hugh Williams, London, chemist. 1870-1871 Papers, with case for Opinion of Counsel, as to division of estate, several legatees named in Will including testator's wife, having predeceased him. Final settlement of estate by release from legatees to Trustees, 25 September 1871.