Timeline for Proving Jane Middleton of Somerset only Next of Kin in 1872 to Thomas Chichester who died 1838 in Guyana?
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| Dec 9, 2014 at 8:26 | vote | accept | PolyGeo♦ | ||
| Nov 22, 2014 at 9:57 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | In the 1871 Census Jane is a 72yo Almswoman living with her 33 yo Deaf and Dumb (from fever) unmarried daughter Jane so I am now thinking her older sister Priscilla, whose husband was still alive and provided Priscilla £300 probate in 1873, may have given her sister the go ahead to proceed without her. | |
| Nov 22, 2014 at 9:50 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | William Chichester (the uncle) was definitely executor to both of Thomas' brothers (Jared and Giles) so I think was probably named as executor to Thomas' too - but maybe that will never surfaced. I believe William was very quick to liquidate Jared's assets in 1837 so maybe he did the same to Thomas' in 1838. I have a 9 page yet to be transcribed Will of William the uncle that I think I should now put some more effort into transcribing to see if it makes any mentions of Thomas', Jared's and/or Giles' estates. | |
| Nov 22, 2014 at 9:45 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | I suspect it may have been that she needed the money. My 3rd great grand aunt filed a Bill of Complaint against the executors of her uncle William Chichester (who died in 1854) in 1861 related to the proceeds of her brother Jared's estate (he died in 1837). It was an estate 2-3 times the size of this one and it looks like those proceedings would have been expensive to undertake and had not resulted in any money being released. Her husband William Middleton died in Q1 1870 and so I suspect Thomas' money seemed like lower hanging fruit. | |
| Nov 22, 2014 at 1:03 | history | answered | user3310902 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |