taken from PAPERS PAST

PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE
27 February 1915

On application by the solicitor to the Public Trust Office, the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Wellington has granted probate of the wills of the following deceased persons to the Public Trustee, the executor named in the wills:

(some birth years are estimated from age at death)

William James BURTON, (1847-1914)
- late of Greenmeadows, well-sinker

Thomas CHAMBERLAIN, (1848-1915)
- Longburn, Manawatu, farmer

John William COPITHORNE, (1847-1915)
- Wellington, music seller
- born in Ireland
- died in Dr HUTHWAITE's nusing home 17 January 1915 in Otaki
- husband of Sarah (1850-1925)
- estate Stamp Duty 1917 = ?7,436 (2011 equivalent $1,032,302)

Adam FORREST, (1870-1914)
- Opotiki, farmer

Christopher HENNESSY, (1840-1914)
- Opotiki, settler

Robert Steel JAMIESON, (1844-1914)
- Collingwood, farmer

Mark JARVIS, (?)
- Greenmeadows, Napier, labourer

Alexander MacDONALD, (1830-1914)
- Auckland, farmer

Anthony MARLEY, (1834-1914)
- Wellington, caretaker

Susan QUICK, (1845-1914)
- Tauranga, spinster

Ellen Elizabeth RANWELL, (1827-1914)
- Wellington, widow

Denis RYAN, (1833-1914)
- Porangahau, sheeparmer

William SHOENMAKER, (1830-1914)
- Hokitika, retired hotel keeper

Caleb SMITH, (1839-1914)
- Culverden, county clerk

James Archibald Grant Reid WALLACE, (1875-1914)
- Lyttelton, master mariner

John WATTERSON, (?)
- Hokitika, tailor