Hello I posted previously with regards to the best way to obtain a copy of the Will and Probate of Russell Whitbread Lavender who died in Canterbury in 1844. I ordered the copy documents from the Centre for Kentish Studies on 10 June and it arrived yesterday - all 22 pages plus the Probate! I won't bore you with the details save that the Executors where David Browning Major a Surgeon of Canterbury and a James Delmar a Wine Merchant also of Canterbury. I would be intrigued to establish what the family connection, if any, may be of these parties to Russell Lavender. I have checked the obvious e.g. sons in law, but there doesn't appear either married a Lavender. Would any lister happen to know where I could establish what, if any, death duties or 'Inheritance Tax' might have applied back in the 1840s? Andy Claxton

There would have been death duties paid on any personal estate but not on real estate. Also they didn't apply to bequests to the spouse. Records are at TNA and the indexes are online at Findmypast.co.uk Maureen Rawson Kentgenealogy@yahoo.ca Web Site on genealogy sources for Kent, England: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Claxton" <familysearch@f2s.com> To: <KENT-ENG@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 4:17 AM Subject: [KENT-ENG] Obtaining copy of a pre 1858 Will and Probate > Hello > > I posted previously with regards to the best way to obtain a copy of the > Will and Probate of Russell Whitbread Lavender who died in Canterbury in > 1844. > > I ordered the copy documents from the Centre for Kentish Studies on 10 June > and it arrived yesterday - all 22 pages plus the Probate! > > I won't bore you with the details save that the Executors where David > Browning Major a Surgeon of Canterbury and a James Delmar a Wine Merchant > also of Canterbury. > > I would be intrigued to establish what the family connection, if any, may be > of these parties to Russell Lavender. I have checked the obvious e.g. sons > in law, but there doesn't appear either married a Lavender. > > Would any lister happen to know where I could establish what, if any, death > duties or 'Inheritance Tax' might have applied back in the 1840s? > > Andy Claxton > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.560 / Virus Database: 270.12.36/2126 - Release Date: 5/21/2009 6:22 AM > >