Hello all I wonder if someone could help with this will. Elizabeth Coulson died in Northampton late in the 19th century and left a small fortune. Her husband was a shoe manufacturer and was Mayor of Northampton in 1882/3. I have copied below an excerpt from a Warwickshire newspaper. My great grandfather, William Bird, of New Bilton Rugby was one of the beneficiaries of this will; 'He (the clerk) omitted to obtain her (Mrs Coulson's) signature and on returning later in the day with the will properly made out he found that the lady had died five minutes before his arrival. Thus the greater part of the fortune goes to the labourer (William Bird) already referred to, and the wife of the Northampton butcher. My question is, would the document that decreed that William Bird and 'the wife of the Northampton butcher' still exist? Would the 'improperly made out' will still exist? I am hoping to find out who the 'wife of the Northampton butcher' was. I hope she made better use of her money as my great granddad wasted his, it would appear, as he was buried in a pauper's grave in Leicester n 1928. Regards Janet Northampton