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FelRh080 WillGDavies.doc 25.11.2002 THE WILL OF GRIFFITH DAVIES (1855 -- 1933 ) These are comments and questions on the last will of Griffith Davies of 22, Huntly Rd Liverpool which was kindly sent by Janet Elson..It was signed 30.3.1933 , probate was granted 28.08.1933 and valued at £78,347 ( about £3.5 to 4.0 million in today’s value). Para 1. revoking former wills 2. the executor William Williams ( Estate Agent & deacon ). Could he be the same person as took over the building partnership from Thomas Williams? 3. £ 3.000 and household effects to his 2nd wife (not named) apart from motor car and Welsh books 4. What happened to the Welsh books which went to Mary his daughter by his late wife? What happened to the motor car? I suppose his son was running it and inherited it 5 a) £ 200 each to Lily & Madeline King. They were the daughters of Alice (Griffith Davies’s step daughter) and her husband -? King ( who was blind according to Lora, Pengroes PDD) b). £500 to Margaret Jones - Griffith Davies’s niece ( Daughter of Ellen –nee Davies – Griffith Davies’s sister, & Evan Owen.) Margaret married Tecwyn Jones- she was a housekeeper or maid with Griffith Davies. She and her husband had a boarding house in Liverpool until she retired to Penmount, Minffordd during the war c) £300 to May Williams ( Aunty May Pengroes) daughter of Wm D Williams and Granddaughter of Anne, nee Davies, – Griffith Davies’s sister d ) £200 to his six nieces viz. Jane, Gwen, Ellen Anne (aka Ellena), Gaenor Owen –daughters of Ellen Owen-Griffith Davies’s sister from Bryn Derwen - and also Jane (nee Williams ) Prichard and Winifred (nee Williams) Coates of Croesor/Penrhyndeudraeth. The daughters of Griffith Davies’s sister Anne (nee Davies ) Williams of Croesor (see note below) e) £500 to John (Uncle Jack) Williams) son of Anne, above (see note) Note that Griffith Davies’s two brothers David (died 1877 without issue), William born 1844- likely to be dead and without issue and sister Jane died 1859sp were not mentioned, neither was Harry Owen a beneficiary as he had immigrated to America 6 £200 Edge Lane Chapel - the income to be spent on the poor of Liverpool 7 £16 per annum for three years towards the Ministry of the Chapel 8 Transfers his real & personal estate to be administered by the trustees 9 Sets up a “residual trust fund” of investment and to pay an income of £500 per annum to his wife- in equal monthly payments. To share the residue into 4 equal parts to be shared between a) his son WGW, his two daughters b) Mary (Minnie) Davies and c) Madeline (nee Davies) Francis and also d) Alice Mary King his step daughter i.e. the daughter of his 2nd wife 10 After the death of his wife, her share to go to the above 4 named in para 9. It goes on to details regarding further deaths and bequests to younger members of the family. 11 Similar to para 10 - other possibilities in the event of death 12 This para and other paras.13 to 18 deals with the powers of the trustees and the management of his assets Notes. Lora ( Pengroes) well remembers
the two Aunties, Jane Prichard and Winifred Coates. There was a bakery on
rhiw Pengroes, Penrhyn run by ? Pritchard ( the husband of Jane). Jane and
her sister, Winnie worked there. They lived at Penrhyn House across the road
with Lora’s parents. Jane and her husband had no children. Winifred married
? Coates , who was a head gardener at Trefan, Llanystymdwy. They lived at
Rhyd y Benllech Criccieth but she moved later to Cartiau Terrace. There was
no issue. This house was inherited by Aunty May and she went to live there
at Criccieth. Both Aunts and their husband are buried at Minffordd. Aunty
May, Lora’s mother, lost her parents when she was a child and was brought up
by the Aunts. The roles being reversed as time went on. John (Jack) Williams
, their brother, worked on Merseyside with
Griffith Davies.
He and his wife, Katie( who hailed from near Dolgellau ) lived at
Cressington Avenue Rock ferry He played the organ at Rock Ferry Chapel?.
There were no issue. Where are they buried? (The details of this note may
not be very accurate) |
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