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Title: Bizarre Requests on wills
Post by: stonechat on Monday 19 February 07 14:38 GMT (UK)
Has anyone had any unusual requests on wills?

I have seen one where the testator wanted someone to be paid to watch his grave and see it filled in!

Any others like this?

Bob
Title: Re: Bizarre Requests on wills
Post by: madammagician on Monday 19 February 07 14:52 GMT (UK)
There is a well known fella from my neck of the woods name of Henry Trigg who put in his will that he did not under any circumstances wanted to be buried! supposedly he had had an encounter in the local church yard with a grave robber.So when Henry dies he is put in the rafters of his barn!And there he stays until someone refurbishes the barn and finds his coffin!The irony is that when the bones where looked at they were of a dog so poor henry had been snatched after all!
Title: Re: Bizarre Requests on wills
Post by: KathMc on Thursday 22 February 07 18:11 GMT (UK)
I am not sure how unusual this is, but I had never seen it: my gg grandmother's (Sarah) stepmother had in her will that Sarah, the daughter of her husband by his first marraige, was not now or ever to get anything. I thought that a tad wicked. Although there are reasons for this happening, Sarah was also sent at the age of about 14 to live with an aunt and uncle 400 miles away, so I have dubbed the lovely 2nd wife the wicked stepmonster.

Kath
Title: Re: Bizarre Requests on wills
Post by: coralc on Sunday 25 February 07 10:50 GMT (UK)
One of my Weatherup ancestors left instructions in his will for the sharing out of his manure pit amongst family members, and also for the sharing of his PERSONAL manure pit !! Wondering about that !
   Regards, Coral
Title: Re: Bizarre Requests on wills
Post by: madammagician on Monday 26 February 07 14:16 GMT (UK)
coralc, ;D just what you want to inherit! a MANURE PIT!
Title: Re: Bizarre Requests on wills
Post by: KathMc on Monday 26 February 07 19:17 GMT (UK)
And a personal one to boot.  :o :o :o :o :-X

Kath
Title: Re: Bizarre Requests on wills
Post by: Welsh Jules on Monday 26 February 07 21:01 GMT (UK)
I have an ancestor who left someone "her second best stays" no idea who had the best ones maybe she wore them herself  :)
Title: Re: Bizarre Requests on wills
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 26 February 07 23:02 GMT (UK)
And I've got John Grace, leaving someone his muck cart with 2payre of lugg wheles...(handy if you've got a manure pit to shift) :D
Also...it looks like someone had a favourite daughter, because John Coker leaves
'my daughter Frances my worst cow and one paire of the worst sheets...
my daughter Sara my best cow and the best paire of sheets...'
Title: Re: Bizarre Requests on wills
Post by: Galium on Tuesday 27 February 07 18:39 GMT (UK)
I have a will written by a chap who asks that if his brother's wife (he was unmarried himself) should happen to die before him, then his wish is to be buried as close to her as possible.   I sometimes wonder what the  brother and sister-in-law thought of that.

He didn't get his wish though, because she died 20 years later, and was buried in another county.