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John Capper - Probate and Estate

Letters of Administration/Probate:

Letters of Administration cover - larger

Text:

Dated 17th February 1897

Letters of Administration
of the Personal Estate and
Effects of the late John
Capper deceased

Content:

Letters of Administration - larger

Text:

Administration

The Principal Registry

 

In Her Majestys High Court of Justice.

 

BE IT KNOWN, that at

 

the date hereunder written, Letters of Administration of the personal estate of
John Capper of No. 22 Morden Road Maindee
Newport, in the County of Monmouth Army
Pensioner
deceased, who died on the 1st. day of January 1897.
at No. 22 Morden Road aforesaid a Widower and
intestate, were granted
by Her Majestys High Court of Justice at the Principal Probate Registry thereof
to William James Capper the natural and lawful
Son and one of the next of kin
of the said intestate, he having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer
the same.

Extracted by
W.P.Nicholas
Cross Keys
near Newport

Solr.

And it is hereby certified that an Affidavit for Inland Revenue has been delivered
wherein it is shown that the gross value of the personal Estate of the said deceased
within the United Kingdom (exclusive of what the said deceased may have been possessed
or entitled to as a Trustee and not beneficially) amounts to £ 288. 9. 2.
and that the said Affidavit bears a Stamp of £ 1. 10. 0????
Dated the 17th day of February 1897.

?????
Registrar

Final Esate:

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Text:

Dr.                                                                                                      Cr. 
Re John Capper deceased

Aministrative Statement of Account

1897

 

 

 

1897

 

 

 

Sept 6

To?

Amount of money on deposit in
the Metropolitan Bankof England
and Wales Newport with interest
thereon to date of death, i.e. 1 Jany. 1897 

263.11.9

Sept 6

By?

Tovey Bros. Funeral Expenses

9.9.6

 

Interest thereon from 1st January
to 6th Sept. 1897

6.111.6?
*

 

Dr. D.E. Thomas Professional Attendance

1.7.-

 

Estimate value of Furniture as per
Valuation submitted to Probate Court

10.-.-

 

Dr. Griffiths ..do.. ..do..

10.-.-

 

Amount of Army Pension received

11.1.2

 

N. Davies Removing Tombstone
+ putting inscription

3.12.11

 

Amount of Civil Pension received

11.3.3

 

Rent

9.5.-

 

 

 

 

 

Rates and Taxes

2.15.9

 

 

 

 

 

Newspaper Advertisements

-.11.-

 

 

 

 

 

Court Fee, Estate Duty and costs
of obtaining Letters of Administration

6.6.-

 

 

 

 

 

J.H.(?) Howell Goods supplied

-.10.-

 

 

 

 

 

Balance available for distribution

251.13.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

£295.3.8

 

 

1/6th estate £41.18.11
**

£295.3.8

I the undersigned Mary Jane Smith hereby declare that I have examined the above account
and agree xxxx xxxx xxxx unto the xxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx to have received the sum of Fortyone
Pounds eighteen shillings eleven pence ( £41.18.11) being one sixth share of the balance
of  £251.13.6 in full discharge of any xxx of the estate of John Capper deceased and I
hereby indemnify Mr. William James Capper the Aministrator, from all further claims
and xxxx on account of any share xxx  xxx under xx xxxxxx of my late Father

Dated the 12 day of October  1897

Address (?)

H.J.Scott
Schoolmistress
Palavaram

(Sgd (?) Mary Jane Smith

Notes:

a) The copy of the document is difficult to read, so there may be errors in the above text.

b) Mary Jane Smith was William James Cappers eldest sister, so the passage at the bottom of the page is rather formal. At the time the document was signed she was 45 and he was 24 years old.

I think it reads address rather than witness. (This is supported by a note of a conversation with my aunt Eileen Pratt in 1970.) Pallavaram is a town about 20 km to the south of the centre of  Channai (Madras)

c) At the time of John Cappers death six of his children were alive, (see also obituary), i.e. Mary Jane, Anne, John, Lilian, William and Elizabeth, so the remaining estate was divided by six (see **).

d) * the amount of interest is unclear. (It looks like 111 shillings, which must be wrong, as there were 20 shillings to the pound.) According to my calculation the left hand side does not add up to £295.3.8. Omitting the interest line it adds to £294. 15. 2.

e) According to my calculation the right hand side adds up to £295.10.8, i.e. 7 shillings more than stated.

f) The amounts of the two pensions received are surprisingly high, if the pensions stopped on his death on 1st January. The amount of Army Pension received (£11. 1. 2) is equivalent to ca. 118 days of his 1 shilling and 10 1/2 pence per diem pension.