Catalogue description Probate of will of Augustus Coryton, Pentillie Castle, esq.   Household servants not to...

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Probate of will of Augustus Coryton, Pentillie Castle, esq.

 

Household servants not to be put into mourning but each to have £5 free of duty.

 

Nephew, s. of bro. Geo. Edwd. Coryton, Wm. Coryton appointed sole executor and trustee.

 

To bro. Geo. Edwd. Coryton and to sister Charlotte Coryton £100 each to purchase something in remembrance of testator.

 

To Benjamin Snell £100 to purchass something 'as a small remembrance of my great regard for him'.

 

To nephew Fred. Coryton, s. of bro. Geo. Edwd. Coryton £1000.

 

Freehold estate of inheritance to use of nephew Wm. Coryton for life and hrs. male with redr. to nephew Fred. Coryton and hrs. male according to appmt. by will of nephew Wm. Coryton.

 

No ornamental timber to be felled at mansion house of Pentillie or in the park or approaches.

 

Tenants for life could provide for surviving wife to the amount of £1500.

 

Leasehold premises also to nephew Wm. Coryton on same trusts.

 

Household goods, plate, linen, china, glass, books, prints, statues as heirlooms to nephew Wm. Coryton.

 

Witd. Edwd. Philp. Callington, gent; Albert C. L. Glubb, Liskeard, solcr.

 

Codicil. Marriage arranged between nephew Wm. Coryton and Miss Evelyn Anne Parker, dtr. of Admiral Geo. Parker, Delamore, Devon. Testator agreed to charge estate with £12000 for jointure. Power to give rent charge to tenant for life's wife up to £1500 in will revoked if this marriage took place.

 

To nephew Fred. Coryton various bonds (listed).

 

Witd. Alfred W. Mullen, accountant, 8 Palmerston Street, Stoke, Devonport. Albert C. L. Glubb, Liskeard, solcr.

 

Codicil: Power jointure in will (for tenant for life) reduced from £1500 to £750. 1 February 1887 (witd. as first codicil).

 

Codicil: Bonds bequeathed to nephew Fred. as substitute for bonds paid off. Legacy to nephew Fred. of £1000 revoked (bonds of first and this codicil a substitute) 22 Aug. 1888.

 

Witd. Jas. Edwards, Pentillie Castle, butler, A. C. L. Glubb, Liskeard, solicitor.

 

Codicil various bonds substituted for previous ones left to nephew Fred. Coryton. 28 August 1889.

 

Witd. B. Snell, Wayton, Landulph, Land Agent; A. C. L. Glubb.

 

Codicil: legacies excepted from any family debts.

 

19 July 1891.

 

Witd. J. L. Stenkhouse, Vicar of Berkeley, Glos; A. C. L. Glubb.

 

Proved (District Probate Registry Bodmin). 17 December 1891.

Date: 15 July 1885
Held by: Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office), not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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