Last Will & Testament & Probate of Richard Knaggs 23rd June 1891

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THIS IS THE

Last Will and Testament

of me Richard Knaggs Grocer & General Dealer

of Skelton Green

in the County of York			in the year of our Lord one thousand

Eight Hundred and ninety one

I hereby rvoke any Wills by me at any time heretofore made. I appoint

Thomas Knaggs & George Walker of Guisboro

To be my Excutors and I direct that all my just debts and Funeral and Testamentry expenses shall be paid as soonas possible after my death

I herby give and bequeath UNTO my wife Elizabeth everything that I may passion at my death and I therby exonerate every trustee under this will for losses occurring without his own wilful default and authorise him –elain? and allow to his co trustees or co trustee all expenses incidental to the trusteeship under this Will
					
					Signed Richard Knaggs

Signed published and declared by the said Trustees as and for his Last Will and Testament in presence of us, who at his request in his presence and presence of others have herunto subscribed our name as witnesses

Signed 				Dated 23 day of June 1891
Stephen Jenkinson
Robert Knaggs

Written along spine of the document is the following

This is the Will refered to in the announced affordavit of Robert Knaggs sworn this twenty seventh day of May 1893 before me
Charles Wood?	 commissioner & Co

Signed Thomas Knaggs	
Executor

Probate of Richard Knaggs 1893

Proved at York the fourteenth day of June 1893 by the oath of Thomas Knaggs the brother one of the executors to whom administration was granted George Walker the other having denounced
The Testator was late of Skelton Green in Cleveland in the County of York Grocer and General Dealer and died on the seventeeth day of May 1893 at Skelton Green aforesaid
Gross value of personal estate £672- 5-0
---acted? By W C Trevor Solic of Guisborough
Resworn June 1 1894 £572-5-0