Category
Personal information
Surname
KNIGHT
Forenames
Joseph
Place of Residence
Badsey
Probate Type
Will
Occupation or Status
Market Gardener
Date Made
2 Jan 1904 (codicil 8 Feb 1911)
Witnesses
Emma Wilson, Badsey, widow; George A Meades of Evesham, Solicitor’s Clerk
Date Died
17 Jul 1915
Buried in parish
Badsey
Probate details
Date Proved
1 Oct 1915
Place proved
Worcester
Probate to
Jesse Dowdeswell Knight (market gardener), Charles Arthur Binyon (market gardener)
Effects
£815 1s
Details of Will
I Joseph Knight of Badsey, Market Gardener, give:
- To my wife Hannah Knight all my household furniture and effects for her separate use
- All my real and personal estate not hereby otherwise bequeathed to my said trustees upon trust to receive the income and profits arising therefrom and pay the same to my wife for and during the term of her natural life but in the event of the income of my said real and personal estate being insufficient for the purposes of my said wife during her life, I empower my trustees to sell or convert into money my house and land situate in Badsey Field Road and now in the occupation of Mr Alfred Sparrow and pay the proceeds thereof to my wife as she may require and after the death of my wife I bequeath all my real and personal estate (including the above-mentioned house and land in the occupation of Mr Alfred Sparrow if no sale or conversion of the same has taken place during the lifetime of my said wife) to my son Jesse Knight for his absolute use and benefit.
Executors and Trustees: my son Jesse Knight and Albert Henry Sharp of Bengeworth, Evesham, Rate Collector
Made: 2nd January 1904
Signed: Joseph Knight
Codicil – Whereas the said Albert Henry Sharp has now gone to reside in New Zealand, I appoint Charles Arthur Binyon of Badsey, Market Gardener, in his place, 8th February 1911
Signed: Joseph Knight
Witnesses: Emma Wilson, Badsey, widow; George A Meades of Evesham, Solicitor’s Clerk