Hello and thanks for the follow up questions.
Hopefully the below provides sufficient information.
Samuel Smith details
Born - 2/5/1796 at Framingham Pigot, Norfolk. (as were all the siblings mentioned in will – most siblings older)
Died - 6/12/1856, at 23 Manchester Tce, Islington – Aged 60, Gentleman. (had been a milkman/dairyman in various other documents including wifes will.
Will (executors wife Mary Smith plus William Scale and Thomas Jarvis – friends). Written 20/12/1855,. Proved 11/2/1857.
I have. pdf of the will, but it is three pages long and challenging to read.
Estate appears to consist of freeholds and leaseholds and ready monies. ? residence at Manchester Tce, plus 2 leaseholds (27 Osnaburgh St, Regents park and 12 Seymour Place, Euston Square) . Values are not noted in the will
Main beneficiary is wife Mary Smith.
Daughter Frances Cooper, wife of John Cooper (son in law) is only child mentioned - wording is “my daughter Frances Cooper. This phrase is repeated several times as Frances and John Cooper are referenced.
Will also provides that the children of 6 brothers (one of whom is deceased) and 1 sister are provided for, but no note of amount or percentage of whole that I can decipher.
Seems to refer to trusts (maybe pre-existing) and the rules that will apply to them in future.
(note- I have suspected that there may have been other children who predeceased their father, but have not located any reference, and the detail relating to nieces and nephews suggests that if they did exist they were without surviving issue at the time of the will)
Frances was the only child in the 1841 census
Marriage witness at Francis’s wedding Caroline appears to be the daughter of Samuel's brother John (I have no more on her as yet)
