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Re: Thomas STEEL - Stonehouse
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 08 April 10 22:29 BST (UK) »
What  do you make of this?  I haven't found John's death but I see this for 1821...  Is court for Insolvent Debtors akin to Probate Court?

Insolvent Debtors - 1821
Articles from the London Gazette
Provided by Lindsey Withers
INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT OFFICE,
No. 9, Essex-Street, Strand.
PETITIONS OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS, to be heard

London Gazette - Issue 17748 published on the 22 September 1821
John Steel, formerly of Stonehouse, afterwards
of Plymouth, and late of the City of Exeter, all in
the County of Devon, Boot and Shoe-Maker.
Wymer, Whaites, Miller, Kearfott, Hamilton, Chinn, Dahl, Bobe, Brown, Muller

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Re: Thomas STEEL - Stonehouse
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 08 April 10 23:03 BST (UK) »
That sounds spot on, a good find.
Maybe he isn't dead in 1841, maybe living seperately to wife and son.

Speaking off the top of my head Probate and Insolvent debtors are not the same.
Insolvent debtors would be owing money to people due to a business failure and Probate is the legal process of administering the estate of a deceased person by resolving all claims and distributing the deceased person's property under the valid will.
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