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London and Middlesex / Re: Looking for Annie Stuart Prickett
« on: Friday 12 February 21 15:18 GMT (UK)  »
Did you go any further with the research here.

I have an interest in Anne GOODERSON, wife of Giles PRICKETT.

She was the daughter of James GOODERSON and Rebecca LADSON in Beeston next Mileham in Norfolk. James was born in Beeston next Mileham, son of Thomas GOODERSON and Phoebe SWINGEL, and was a schoolmaster there, up to about 1823. He then turns up in the 1851 census as a solicitors clerk in South Weald in Essex.

Other children seem to have spread and are found anywhere but Beeston.

Rebecca LADSON is currently a mystery, as I have not found a baptisms, death/burial, or indeed a marriage.

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US Completed Requests / Re: Hawaii - Baron Cobham
« on: Tuesday 05 May 15 15:46 BST (UK)  »
The proceedings under the bankruptcy act (between 1936 and 1953) were in the name of "LEITH, The Right Honorable Robert Disney, Baron Cobham"
His 1933 divorce was under the name ALEXANDER.
I could not find a will in England and Wales, and suspect that there would be no reason for one, given that he was insolvent, his trustee in bankruptcy had all his assets in England and Wales which were insufficient to cover his debts, and that therefore the only assets he could exclude from this was sufficient to cover reasonable funeral and testamentary expenses, which presumably did not take place in England and Wales. Any wills made prior to his final marriage would have become invalid at that point, and he was already bankrupt by then.
Was he abroad because he was avoiding his creditors or were there other reasons for his travelling.
Keith

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US Completed Requests / Re: Hawaii - Baron Cobham
« on: Friday 01 May 15 14:20 BST (UK)  »
I note that Robert Disney Leith was declared bankrupt in the UK in 1936 and the accountants were still trying to sort out his financial affairs after his death, eventually paying less that 2/- in the pound.

The accountants were Rupert Frederick William Fincham and Arthur Douglas Fincham, respectively grandfather and father of Peter Fincham, currently director of television at ITV.

According to Case Text, in 1948 the accountants were trying to obtain access to a trust fund left by Evelyn Sinclair Turnure to her husband.

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