Hand-transcribed from Probate Office copy of will (they wouldn't let me photocopy it!). Punctuation and paragraphing have been added to make it easier to read, but probably less legally correct. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the last will and testament of me, Frederick Francis Freeman of Beach Farm Upton St. Leonards in the County of Gloucestershire, Builder. Subject to the payment of all my just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses, I give devise and bequeath unto my sister Harriett Theresa Eshelby, of Upton St Leonards in the county of Gloucestershire, the sum of two hundred pounds for her own sole and separate use and benefit absolutely. I also give devise and bequeath unto my sister Isabella Powell, now residing with me, the sum of two hundred pounds for her own sole and separate use and benefit absolutely. I also give devise and bequeath unto my brother Albert Edward Freeman of Chipping Sodbury in the county of Gloucestershire, and Richard Eleazor Freeman of Birmingham in the county of Warwick, each the sum of two hundred pounds absolutely. I further give devise and bequeath unto Florence Freeman of Leavesden Asylum Kings Langley the sum of fifty pounds for her own sole and separate use and benefit absolutely. I also give devise and bequeath unto Emma Murphy of Howard Street in the City of Gloucester, the niece of my late wife, one hundred pounds for her own sole and separate use and benefit absolutely. And I direct that the above legacies be paid as soon after my death as possible. And I further give devise and bequeath unto my sister Harriett Theresa Eshelby all my residuary estate whatsoever and wheresoever, and all my estate that may be vested in me upon any trust or by way of mortgage according to the trusts and subject to the equities affecting the same respectively. And I appoint James Bullock Carless of the Mount Whiteshill near Stroud in the county of Gloucestershire, and Harriett Theresa Eshelby of Upton St. Leonards in the county of Gloucestershire, Executor and Executrix respectively of this my will. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of August One thousand nine hundred. (Frederick Francis Freeman) Signed by Frederick Francis Freeman in our presence and at his request we have hereto set our names as witnesses. (George Eshelby) (James Bullock Carless) On the seventh day of July 1903, Probate of this will was granted at Gloucester to Harriett Theresa Eshelby, one of the executors. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Eshelby was the husband of Harriett Theresa. James Bullock Carless (1840- ) was a retired pawnbroker and a younger brother of Frederick's second wife.