Goldsmith's Wills

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CHARLES JOHNSON HILL

London


WILLS AND BEQUESTS

The will (dated August 11 1893) of Mr Charles Johnson Hill of 510, Oxford-street, jewel merchant and silversmith, and of 66, Holland Park, Kensington, who died on August 6, was proved on October 21 by Mrs Anne Hill, the widow, Miss Annie Cassandra Hill, the daughter, John Hill, and Walter Morison, the executors, the value of the personal estate amounting to £516,369.

Source: The Yorkshire Herald - 9th November 1895

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FRANK ALFRED COCKS

Glamorgan


Mr Frank Alfred Cocks, of Cornerways, Ogmore by Sea, Glamorgan, retired jeweller, who died last September, left £37,586 gross (£36,771 net). Probate has been granted to his son, Denis Pells-Cocks, of Cornerways.

Source: British Jeweller and Watch Buyer - March 1979

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JOSEPH GAMBLE

Sheffield


LATEST WILLS

ALDERMAN JOSEPH GAMBLE, of Southbourne, Clarkhouse Road, Sheffield, merchant and manufacturer, of Messrs. Moss and Gamble Bros., steel manufacturers, Sheffield, chairman of Davy Bros. Ltd., director of Ibbotson Bros. & Co., Ltd., chairman of John Round and Son, Ltd., and the Pelham Rolling Mills Company, Ltd. £89, 574.

Source: Page's Weekly - 16th March 1906

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WILLIAM CHARLES MANSELL

London


Mr. William Charles Mansell, of 66, Lynton Avenue, Ealing, W., and 24, Connaught Street, W.2, jeweller and silversmith, who died on April 30 last, intestate, aged 71 years, left £2,970 gross, with net personalty £1,335. Letters of administration have been granted to his widow Mrs. Emily Mansell, of 66, Lynton Avenue, Ealing, and Mrs. Marjorie R. Williamson, of 20, Islip Gardens, Northolt, Middlesex.

Source: The Jeweller& Watchmaker - 1st November 1945

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H.W. OLIVER

Birmingham


Under his will the late Mr. H. W. Oliver, a jeweller and pawnbroker, who died worth 67,361l., directs that a sum of 10,000l. shall be divided equally among the following fifteen institutions in Birmingham: — The General, Queen's, Women's, Children's, Eye, Skin and Lock, Orthopaedic, Homoeopathic, Ear and Throat, and the Dental Hospitals, the General Dispensary, the Institution for the Blind, the Deaf and Dumb Institution, the Magdalen Home, and the Asylum for Idiots. As certain life interests fall in, these institutions will share equally a further sum of 16,000l.

Source: The Chemist and Druggist - 11th August 1900

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