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Dates involved in Probate records - can anyone help?

Dates involved in Probate records - can anyone help?

Posted: 28 Dec 2014 9:57PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 29 Dec 2014 2:36PM GMT
I have a g.g. aunt who died in 1849 however the probate date (presumably of her will) was 1876. Her effects were less than £100 which went to her widowed mother my g.g.g.grandmother. She was a cotton spinner and died of tuberculosis and I can't think of a scenario whereby it would take 27 years to action a will involving no property and effects worth less than £100. Does anyone have any suggestions or perhaps a research source that may be of use please.

Re: Dates involved in Probate records - can anyone help?

Posted: 28 Dec 2014 10:24PM GMT
Classification: Query
It might have involved a lease which had to be transferred or maybe something matured. You don't seem to have got a copy of the probate or the will and I would do that.

You can buy it on line for £10 -

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#calendar

Re: BINCH - Dates involved in Probate records - can anyone help?

Posted: 2 Jan 2015 11:24PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Megan, thank you for your suggestion - I do have the probate record which is how I learnt the details of the amount and date of probate. I have an idea that I have already requested a copy of the will (of which there is no record) but I tried again just in case I've confused myself. The suggestion of a lease is interesting although an unmarried woman in her 20's couldn't never have, or sign a lease on her own in the 1840's, although the probate date of 1876 (27 years after her death) is about the time that her mother moved into an almshouse. Cheers Darrell

Re: BINCH - Dates involved in Probate records - can anyone help?

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:14AM GMT
Classification: Query
It is possible that following the death the family thought there was no need to prove the will (possibly because the estate was of modest value and there was agreement in the family on how to handle the estate) but decades later some legal issue came up (such as sale of a property) which compelled them to prove the will.

I've seen a number of cases in the UK where land and property has been informally inherited over a number of generations and it has only been when a sale has had to be made that up to a century's worth of undocumented and informal transfers have had to be regularised.
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