Hello all Thank you for this information. I can see it would give the son control once he was of age and there was quite a lot of rental property involved and that his wife might remarry and loose control if she was executrix She was still living and did so for another 20 years but she was left an annuity of 18 pounds from rent of property which he says "in Lieu & full satisfaction of her Thirds or Dower which she may have or claim out of all or any of my lands" The will was quite short and to the point and made just 4 days before the testator died at age 46. I think I was surprised that his brother Coney Tunnard who was the sheriff of Lincolnshire was not made executor since as trustee he was virtually acting in that capacity for 16 years. regards Chris Bartlett

Hi Chris Being a trustee would possibly have encouraged the uncle to act in loco parentis to his nephew. As the boy grew, he could have been brought more and more into the running of the estate and so educated by his uncle. If he were made an executor, he may have had a more remote influence upon the boy. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "OEL Admin" <OLD-ENGLISH-admin@rootsweb.com> To: <old-english@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 8:18 AM Subject: [OEL] Fw: Executor who is a minor in 1719 will > Hello all > > Thank you for this information. I can see it would give the son control > once > he was of age and there was quite a lot of rental property involved and > that > his wife might remarry and loose control if she was executrix > > She was still living and did so for another 20 years but she was left > an > annuity of 18 pounds from rent of property which he says "in Lieu & > full > satisfaction of her Thirds or Dower which she may have or claim out of > all > or any of my lands" > > The will was quite short and to the point and made just 4 days before > the > testator died at age 46. I think I was surprised that his brother > Coney > Tunnard who was the sheriff of Lincolnshire was not made executor since > as trustee he was virtually acting in that capacity for 16 years. > > regards > Chris Bartlett > > > > > > > ==================================== > WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OLD-ENGLISH-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 Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: - Release Date: <unknown> > >