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Surnames: CATLOW, SIMPSON, WHITWORTH
Classification: Will
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Will:
In His Majesty's High Court of Justice.
The Principal Probate Registry at Llandudno
BE IT KNOWN that Fanny Catlow of 13 Nicholl Street Burnley in the County of Lancaster
widow formerly of 9 Peace Street Burnley aforesaid
Died on the 5th day of August 1942 at 13 Nicholl Street aforesaid
AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament
(a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of the said deceased was proved and registered in the
Principal Probate Registry of His Majesty's High Court of Justice and that
Administration of all the Estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal
representative of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Courts to
John William Simpson of 66 Gannow Lane Burnley aforesaid Cotton Weaver nephew of deceased
and Fanny Whitworth of 1 Clough Street Burnley aforesaid wife of Alfred Witworth niece of
deceased the Executors named in the said will.
Gross value £670 - 6 - 1
net value £643 - 3 - 7
7th day of September 1942.
I, FANNY CATLOW of 9 Peace Street Burnley in the County of Lancaster Widow hereby revoke
all wills and codicils at any time heretofore made by me and declare this to be my last
will.
1. I APPOINT my nephew John William Simpson and my niece Fanny Whitworth (hereinafter
called "my Trustees" to be the executors and trustees of this my will.
2. I GIVE to my nephew the said John William Simpson the sum of Seventy pounds free of
duty.
3. I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all my property whatsoever and wheresoever not otherwise disposed
of (including; any entailed interest over which I have a statutory power of testamentary
disposition) to my trustees UPON TRUST for sale and conversion (with full power to
postpone) and I direct that my Trustees shall stand possessed of the proceeds thereof
(after payment thereout or out of my ready moneys of my debts funeral and testamentary
expenses)
IN TRUST for such of my nephews namely the said John William Simpson and Harry Simpson and
my nieces Ada Ormerod the said Fanny Whitworth and Ethel Duerden as shall be living at my
death and the issue then living and attaining the age of twenty one years or in the case
of females marrying of such of my said nephews and nieces
Hereinbefore named as shall be then dead in equal shares per stirpes.
4. MY personal representative or my trustees may at any time exercise the power of
appropriation conferred upon a personal representative by section 41 of the Administration
of Estates Act 1925 and may so exercise the same by appropriating any part or parts of my
real or personal estate to one of themselves or to any other person without employing a
duly qualified valuer and without the consent of any person whose consent would or might
but for the present provise be or have been made requisite by that section.
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of September One
thousand and thirty nine.
Fanny Catlow
Signed by the said Fanny Catlow in our joint presence and by us together in her presence.
Louisa Audley
5 Peace St. Burnley
the wife of Edum? Audley.
? Clerk with ?? Solicitors Burnley.