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Contents of a will

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ellie

master brummie
I have been given some information "abstract of the Will" from 1884 gained from the Birmingham library

The wording states" it mentions freehold properties at 11 and 12 Spooner Street Vauxhall, Birmingham"

Does this mean they were owned by the gentleman who died.?

If they were not living there at the time of death and appeared never to have lived there does it mean that they owned and rented them out.

This man, Samuel Cooper, appeared to move around a fair but within the same area near Digby, Legge,, Moland Streets. I am therefore surprised that if he owned property that they did not live in it.

Is it possible to get copies of the original will rather than what appears to be a typed summary. I might do this if someone can tell me they think it is worthwhile.

I am in Australia and will send away to get it if necessary.
 
Many houses were sold on 99 year leases, the freeholder owned the land they stood on and collected a 'ground rent' usually a nominal annual sum and if the lease ran its full term the property ownership reverted to him.

Many of those freeholds however were sold and re-sold many times during the lease period and often bought by the leaseholder when the time was getting short.

In recent years lease holders have been given the right to buy their freeholds in a similar fashion to the council tenants right to buy. E.
 
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