You are absolutely correct, Malcolm. I have a copy of the will of my great-grandmother, a somewhat mysterious person. She was buried with my g. g. father in a common grave that I once visited decades ago. Her husband, a railway guard at Southampton, earned 28s a week. They lived in a small working-class home, she with boarders after he died in 1890.
OK, that's were I left it in my 2011 genealogy manuscript.
Suddenly, A friend doing his own genealogy came upon a news article listing my grandfather, her son, selling a beerhouse license six months after she died. That guy lived in just a similar situation in Southsea. They all went steerage to Canada in 1912 . It doesn't add up. Where did the L1075 come from in April? He inherited all of it. Your suggestion means that about L800 might be the license to own the Inverness Arms. She worked as a nurse [meaning before 1917, a caretaker], and all I can imagine is that one of those dying old people left her the license that she passed on. What I'd love to see are city or business records of the transaction. Any suggestions?
