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PROBATE TRANSCRIPTON – WILL & OATH

Ref No / AP/S/4665/1
Title / SPETTIGUE, Mary of Launceston, spinster
Date of probate* / 10 Apr 1832
Description / Bequests:
-  to brother Rev Edmund Spettigue, £100
-  to Mrs Spettigue, widow of testator’s late brother Stephen Spettigue, £5
-  to the 6 children of testator’s late brother Stephen, £30 to be equally shared between them
-  to Tamsine Spettigue widow of testator’s late brother Joseph £20
-  to the 4 children of late brother Joseph, £30 to be equally shared between them
All legacies to be paid within 6 months of testator’s death
-  to sister Ann Spettigue, her executors, administrators and assigns ‘all the rest residue and remainder of my Goods and Chattels Monies and Securities for Money personal and testamentary Estate and Effects of what name nature or sort soever after payment of my debts funeral Expences and the Expences of proving this my Will and the aforesaid Legacies’
Executor: sister Ann Spettigue
Signature of testator
Witnesses:
Signatures of Wm [William] Spry Pearse and Thos [Thomas] Pearse
Date of will: 29 Jan 1829
Date proved: 10 Apr 1832
Endorsed:
Note on will below signatures:
‘Miss Spettigue’s will’
‘To be sent to Mr Spettigue at eleven today. Call at 3 o’clock’
3/58
Effects under £800
Died 20 Oct 1831
No 81 P57
Stamp £15
Ref No / AP/S/4665/2
Title / SPETTIGUE, Mary of Launceston, spinster
Date of probate* / 10 Apr 1832
Description / Date of Document: 4 Apr 1832, executed 9 Apr 1832
Ann Spettigue sister and sole executor of Mary Spettigue swears that she will
-  truly perform the contents of her sister’s will, first paying the debts of the deceased and then the legacies contained in the will
-  exhibit or cause to be exhibited at the Archdeaconry Court of Cornwall a true and perfect inventory of the goods, chattels and credits of the deceased
Signature of John Wallis Registrar
Witness:
Signature of John Rowe, Pe [perpetual] Curate of Launceston
Endorsed:
Printed ‘Instructions for executing the within commission’

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