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Ive checked for Wills of probate in 1870,
the wording exactly reads ''Letters of Administration of the personal estate and effects of George Staffurth Clarke late of 37 Worship-street Finsbury in the county of Middlesex, hair dresser deceased who died 14 April 1865 at 37 worship-street aforesaid were granted at the Principple registry to Jane Birch (Wife of William Birch, Yoeman) (formerly Clarke, Widow) of 2 Third-court Tower-street Summer-lane Birmingham in the County of Warwick the relict of the said Deceased she having been first sworn.''

The wording si abit much, for me it would be guessing work as to what it all means, but it sonds liek he left teh house toher, even tho she remarried, It appears to have taken 5 years after he died to settle the Will, she moved to birmingham in 1870?

Letters of Administration means he died intestate, that is he didn't leave a Will but he must have had sufficient assets to require administration of his estate. Jane was his wife at the time of his death so she was eligible to apply for administration.

It's probably not worth applying for a copy of the Letters of Administration as it is unlikely to contain any more information than what you quoted from the Probate Calendar. It won't tell you what assets he had or how they were distributed, but since Jane was his widow she probably got the lot. It doesn't say he left a house to her - did he own a house?

I clicked the link and saw exactly the same thing as you Flemming.

Is that all the images or just the blank ones with 'photo' written on them?

Just the ones with 'photo' written on them. I could open the pages with burials showing and read the details.

Very strange. I've never seen that before where you could look at some pages and not others.

"First concerns a relative whose entry show an incorrect middle name. My correction with a explanation was sent but no response."

The memorial manager may no longer be active on findagrave or perhaps they have changed their email address. If you had used the edit system there would have been a response - the manager would have to accept or decline the edit. If they did nothing, the edit would have been automatically accepted after 21 days.

Quote from: jonw65 on Thursday 21 July 22 22:20 BST (UK)

As his estate was a reasonably valuable one, perhaps you could look in the Death Duty Registers?
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/death-duties-1796-1903/

Thanks for that.

I do have the Probate for him, which is on Ancestry.  He left everything to his wife Elizabeth Ann.

"late of Canonbury Park North in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, who died 18th October 1881 at Orton in the County of Westmorland was proved by Elizabeth Ann Clayton sole Executrix.  Personal Estate:  £7,634 14s 1d."

The entry in the Probate Calendar which you found on Ancestry doesn't tell you who the beneficiaries were, you have to buy the Will to find that information.  The Probate Calendar only gives the names of the executors appointed to administer and distribute the estate, who may or may not also be beneficiaries.

In this case the executor is his wife and she probably was the main beneficiary, but I felt compelled to clear up this common misconception that the people named in the Probate Calendar  were the beneficiaries. Sometimes you will see a solicitor or even a bank named as the executor, and they certainly didn't inherit anything although they would have had their professional fees paid out of the estate.