« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 21 July 15 20:36 BST (UK) »
The other thing that puzzles me, I would expect a beneficiary to be related to the deceased. So Charles Herbert Broomhead would be a brother, Uncle, Nephew or son.
The only birth I can find puts him in the brother bracket and that is in Oldham not Aberdeen!
confusion reigns 
Have you actually got the will? The probate was granted to Lillie (his widow) Charles Herbert Broomhead and Jonathon Arthur Haworth. That doesn't mean that they were all beneficiaries, just that they were the executors of the will. For example, the people granted probate for my uncle's will were his solicitors, they were not beneficiaries.
I can't find the will. I was linking surnames. And the fact that Charles H was born in Oldham, James resided (at least some of the time) in Haslingden, not too far apart. It seems that Charles H was born circa 1885, James' marriage in 1896 and their first born in 1897 in Haslingden!
BARLOW, BEARD, BRIDGWOOD. BROOMHEAD. BROTHERDALE, CLARKE, CRESSWELL. DIAMOND, DRAIN, GRAHAM, HALL, HEUCHAN, HOGDANE, HULL, JACKSON, KIRKPATRICK, LITTLE, McLELLAN, McTURK, MORRIS, NEEDS, OWEN, PARSONS, PRICE, PUGH, RATHBONE, ROBINSON, SCRUTON, SHAW, STAFFORD, TAYLOR, WATSON, WEIR, WILLIAMSON
