Catalogue description Copy will of Susan Muzio, 33 Highbury Grove, widow.   Executors: Cousin Leonard Coleman,...

This record is held by Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Details of DR 724/5/4
Reference: DR 724/5/4
Description:

Copy will of Susan Muzio, 33 Highbury Grove, widow.

 

Executors: Cousin Leonard Coleman, Brixton, Surrey esq. and C.H. Rice, Cheam, Surrey.

 

£1000 to each of 4 step-children: Charles Wilton Muzio, New York; Edward Muzio, Augustus Muzio and Cassandra Sarah Muzio.

 

£400 to Leonard Coleman.

 

£300 to cousin Caroline Emily Farlow, wife of Charles.

 

£300 each to children of late Rev. Edward Rice, viz: Elizabeth Rice, senior, Stratford-upon-Avon and John Rice, Ealing, esq.

 

£200 to Rev. C.H. Rice.

 

£100 to Rev. Robert Rice, warden of St. Columba's College, Dublin.

 

£100 each to sisters of above: Mary Davenport, Alice Bulkley, Christiana Aston, Susan Rice, daughters of David Rice, Stratford-upon-Avon, surgeon, deceased.

 

£50 each to Edward Rice, M.D., Bernard Rice, M.D., Emily Rice, Mary Rice and Elizabeth Rice, children of Bernard Rice, late of Stratford-upon-Avon, surgeon, deceased, by Emily his wife.

 

£500 to Matilda Louisa Muzio, widow of stepson James Muzio.

 

£100 to Sarah Agnes Ludlow, Stratford-upon-Avon, widow.

 

£50 to Caroline Agnes Blanckenhagen, spinster.

 

£100 to Mary Sidebotham, Leatherhead.

 

Charitable legacies to Cancer Hospital, Brompton; Great Northern Central Hospital; London Fever Hospital; British Home for Incurables.

 

Residue of estate to Augustus Muzio.

 

Requests burial beside husband in Highgate Cemetery.

 

Enclosure:

 

Note from Susan Muzio re death of Leonard Coleman.

 

- Alters bequests and requests codicil accordingly, viz:

 

Cassandra Sarah Muzio, additional £200

 

Edward Muzio, additional £100

 

Susan Rice, additional £100

 

Vincent Rice, Auckland, New Zealand, £100,

 

Mrs. Maria B [?Bulkley], £50.

Date: 2 Nov 1889
Held by: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

Have you found an error with this catalogue description?

Help with your research