Beneficiaries of the will of William Crawshay, died 1910 (General)

by JaneyH , Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Monday, May 26, 2014, 20:25 (3828 days ago) @ dink999

Wow - thanks so much! I realise that William Crawshay was a man of considerable wealth, given his business interests in mines in the Forest. However, £50 for a servant back in 1910 must have been a significant sum.

It's interesting to note that in the 1911 Census GGB was the landlord of the New Zealand Inn at Newnham - I wonder if this move from gamekeeper to innkeeper was the result of his inheritance? His time at the New Zealand Inn was shortlived, however, as the Gloucester Journal reported on 14 September 1912 that a hearing at Littledean Petty Sessions had granted that the licence should be transferred from GGB to a Terwyn Mitchell.

Later on, looking at the marriage register entries on this site for some of GGB's younger children (1916-1918), he is back to being a gamekeeper, and also a wheelwright and carpenter.