West Lulworth

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Wills & Probate

Wills before 1858

(click on the testator’s name, where underlined, to open the transcription of the will)


The will of John BARNES gentleman made 28 March 1829

The will of William Collins BARNES made 11 April 1872

The will of John BONNEY schoolmaster proved 24 September 1835

The will of Henry BROWNE gentleman proved 17 July 1707

The will of John COCKRAM made 18 May 1735

The will of Benjamin CRISPIN made 20 January 1865

The will of Eleanor FOOKES widow made 18 October 1833

The will of Peter HARVELL mariner made 18 August 1823

The will of Joseph LANGRISH made 29 July 1814

The will of Philip PARMITER yeoman made 18 June 1815

The will of Thomas PARMITER yeoman made 20 October 1845

The will of Elizabeth PENNY made 23 September 1819

The will of Matthew RANDALL farmer & innholder made 8 November 1836

The will of William RANDALL malster & victualler made 8 August 1782

The will of Sarah REDMOND spinster proved 17 February 1825

The will of Christopher SENNECK made 8 October 1748

The will of John SENNECK made 8 October 1748

The will of Anthony SMITH riding officer of HM Customs made 24 April 1760

The will of John TRINKHOLE made 28 April 1829

The will of Sarah TRINKHOLE spinster made 27 March 1852

The will of Bexey TEWXBURY made 18 March 1760

The will of John TUXBURY made 18 March 1760

The will of Charles VYE made 7 July 1807

The will of George WHITE made 21 August 1840

The will of John WILLIAM gentleman proved 19 June 1818


Our thanks to Sally Meek for transcribing the two Parmiter wills, to Anthony M Carter for tanscribing the Tewxbury will, and to Ros Dunning for transcribing all of the other underlined wills above

The London Gazette, June 4, 1880

The Reverend HENRY JAMES FITZGERALD, Deceased.


Pursuant to the Act of Parliament of 22 and 23 Victoria, cap. 35, intituled " An Act to further amend the Laws of Property, and to relieve Trustees.*'


NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any claim or demand against or upon the estate of the Reverend Henry James Fitzgerald, late of West Lulworth, in the county of Dorset, Clerk, deceased (who died on the 1st day of April, 1880, at West Lulworth aforesaid, and whose will, with two codicils thereto, was proved in the District Registry at Blandford of the Probate Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice, on the 6th day of May, 1880, by Samuel Tucker, of Saint Andrew's Farm, in the parish of West Lulworth aforesaid, Yeoman, and James Symes Hull, in the will called James Hull, of Baltington Farm, in the parish of Tyneham, in the said county of Dorset, Yeoman, two of the executors named in the said will), are hereby required to send the particulars, in writing, of such claims or demands to the undersigned, on or before the 1st day of July, 1860, after which date the said executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased among the persons entitled thereto, having regard only to the debts or claims of which they shall then have had notice; and will not afterwards be liable for the assets so distributed, or any part thereof, to any person or persons of whose claim or demand they shall not then have had notice.—Dated this 29th day of May, 1880.

SYMONDS and SON, Dorchester, Dorset, Solicitors, for the said Executors.



The London Gazette, 19 October 1943


Name of Deceased (Surname first)

CLARIDGE, Frances Ellen Elizabeth


Address, description and date of death of Deceased

The Hazard Hotel, West Lulworth, Dorset, Wife of George Daniel Claridge.

4th October, 1943.


Names, addresses and descriptions of Persons to whom notices of claims are to be given

and names, in parentheses, of Personal Representatives

Preston Redman Neville-Jones & Howie, 19, North Street, Wareham, Dorset, Solicitors.

(George Daniel Claridge, John Edward Wilson Claridge and Robert Coulson Howie.)


Date on or before which notices of claim to be given

19th December, 1943 (129)



The London Gazette, 14 November 1961


Name of Deceased (Surname first)

HILL, Stanton Cyril Robert.


Address, description and date of death of Deceased

"Woodleigh," West Lulworth, Dorset, formerly " Spring Cottage," Lulworth, Gentleman.

1st November 1961.


Names, addresses and descriptions of Persons to whom notices of claims are to be given

and names, in parentheses, of Personal Representatives

A. F. Eaton & Co., Midland Bank Chambers, 18A St. Mary Street, Weymouth, Solicitors.

(Gordon Eric Mills and William Reginald Bowles.)


Date on or before which notices of claim to be given

16th January 1962 (060)



The Times - 6 March 2006

Latest wills

David Brian Dunbar Dickson, of London SW3, left estate valued at £2,069,003 net. He left £10,000 to Holy Trinity Church, West Lulworth, Dorset.