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The Will of ELIZABETH SWIFT (Smith) of Kingston Upon Hull

is the last Will and Testiment of Me,  ELIZABETH SMITH
    of the city and county of Kingston upon Hull, Widow.

1.   I Hereby Revoke all former Wills made by me and declare this to be my last Will and Testiment.

2.   I Appoint my brother in-law John Edward Smith and my friend Henry John Pickett of Southport, Primitive Methodist Minister, Executors of this my WILL, and give to each of them the sum of fifty pounds free of duty in consideration of their acting as such Executors.

3.   I Give all my clothing jewelry and similar personal effects to my daughter Ada Elizabeth Mackrell for her own absolute use and benifit.

4.   I Give all the rest residue and remainder of my real and personal estate whatesoever and wheresoever unto my executors Upon Trust to sell call in and convert the same into money and with and out of the proceeds of such sale calling in and conversion and with and out of my ready money to pay my funeral and testimentry expences and debts and to divide the residue unto and equally between my three children Thomas Swift,   Ada Elizabeth Mackrell and Arthur Charles Swift.

And I Delare that if my son Thomas shall died in my life time the residue shall be devided equally between my daughter and son Arthur Charles and if either of them the said Ada elizabeth Mackrell and Arthur charles Swift shall died in my lifetime leaving a child or children who shall survive me such last mentioned child or children shall take and if more than one equally between them the share which his, her, or their parents would have taken under this my WILL as such parent had survived me.

5.   I Delare that any executor or trustee of this my WILL being a solicitor or other person engaged in any profession or business shall be entitled to charge and be paid all usual professional and proper charges for business transacted, time expended, and acts done by him or any partner of his in connection with the trusts hereof including any acts which an executor or trustee not being in any profession or business could have done personally.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereto set my hand this twenty first day of March One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty One.

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Signed by the said  Elizabeth Smith   the Testatrix as and for her last WILL and Testiment in the presence of us both present at the same time, who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses ~~~

Thos Priestman, ~ Solr. Hull
Norman Everatt, ~ His clerk.

On the 30th day of July 1925 Probate of this WILL was granted to ~~~
John Edward Smith and Henry John Pickett, The Executors.

CHARLES N. JACKSON, ~ Solicitor Hull.
0. R. LEIGHTON, ~ His Clerk

BE IT KNOWN that;
Elizabeth Smith of Dorchester House, Beverley Road,
in the City of Kingston upon Hull, Widow,
Died there on the 4th Day of May 1925

AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN;
that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testiment of the said deceased was proved and registered in the Principle 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 representatives of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to ~~~
John Edward Smith of 55 Alexander Road in the said city, Estate Agent. And
Henry John Pickett of Hartley College in the City of Manchester, Primitive Methodist Minister,
The Executors named in the said WILL.

Dated 30th day of July 1925
Gross value of Estate £9,352 6s 8d
Net value of Personal Estate £ 8,606 16s 3d

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