ELIZA GOODERSON OF MAIDEN NEWTON, DORSET – 1898

I Eliza Gooderson of Maiden Newton in the County of Dorset declare this to be my last Will and Testament I give devise and bequeath all my real and personal property subject to payment of all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses to my surviving sons and daughters for their own absolute use and benefit in the following manner that is to say the whole of my household goods and furniture and effects to be equally divided between my two daughters Caroline and Mary Anne Gooderson the sum of one hundred pounds also to each of my said daughters and the residue to be equally divided share and share alike among all my sons and daughters who shall survive me And I hereby appoint my son John Gooderson of 28 Stanshawe Road Reading Engineer and my said daughter Mary Ann Gooderson Executor and Executrix of this my Will In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twentyfirst day of February one thousand eight hundred and eighty seven

X The mark of Eliza Gooderson

Signed by the said Eliza Gooderson the Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto set our names as Witnesses

John Brown Maiden Newton Schoolmaster

George Henry Brown Maiden Newton Bank Clerk

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Wlwin A Santh

Dist Rgr

On the 16th day of April 1898 Probate of this Will was granted at Blandford to John Gooderson and Mary Ann Gooderson, spinster the Executors

[Transcribed by Roy C. Rayment]

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