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Will of James Alexander Reid In re JAMES ALEXANDER REID. DECEASED. I James Alexander Reid, residing at Bermuda Villa, Grattam Place, Fraserburgh in order to settle my affairs after my death do hereby nominate and appoint Baillie Alexander Gordon, Bayview Road, Aberdeen, George Martin Gray, M.A. LL.B. Solicitor Peterhead at present serving as a Captain in the Gordon Highlanders and Jean Taylor my housekeeper residing with me and the survivors and survivor of them to be my Trustees for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and also to be my Executors or Executor: And I assign and dispose to them as such Trustees and Executors my whole means and estate heritable and moveable real and personal of what nature soever. (Sgd) David Littlejohn(?) and wherever situated whether at home or abroad which may belong to me at the time of my death including without prejudice to said generality all means and estate of which I have or may have power of disposal or appointment but declaring that these presents are granted in trust for the purpose following visit.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF these presents are (under the declaration that the word "and" occurring on the seventh line of page first hereof was delete before description) subscribed by me at Fraserburgh on the Sixth day of January Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen before these witnesses the said Alexander John Forbes Wedderburn and William Thorburn, Cashier, with John Dickson Fisheurer Fraserburgh and residing at eighteen Dennyduff Street there. This is a Codicil of me James Alexander Reid of Bermuda Villa Brattan Place Fraserburgh which will is dated the Sixth day of January Nineteen Hundred and sixteen CORRECT. (Listed in the Margin next to this will the following)
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Note: The wills in those will books are NOT actual wills. They are hand-written copies of a, "last will and testament," written by the court clerk, after the death of the testator, when the executor presented them to the court for probate. The court clerk didn't list the signatures at the bottom, he (or she) just put them in the book in whatever order they were in, on the original document, no spacing most of the time, no punctuation. The originals were kept by the executor. We who have typed these wills, have made every effort to include all the errors that were on the microfilm, in order to avoid destroying the integrity of the originals, where ever they may be. |
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