Margaret Emma Bowles FRIPP [25526]

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1. Margaret Fripp: Letter to Edward Liveing, 14 Jun 1914, 23 Glenmore Rd Oxton Birkenhead.
Liveing Archive 264a-d M E Fripp 25526 to EL 14 Jun 1914.

23 Glenmore Rd
Oxton
Birkenhead.
14 June 1914.
Dear Dr Liveing
I cannot tell you how much I value your kind gift of the portrait of George Downing it looks extremely well in my drawing room. The man who is bringing out the Fripp pedigree is Mr F A Crisp, F S D Grove Park Piers,
270 Walworth Rd
London SE
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I know nothing of him except that he wrote to me, and to others 10 months ago, asking for various bits of information about our family.
I shall be glad to send you any details that you would like to have and that you do not yet possess.
Perhaps the best way will be for me to tell you what I have and
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then you will tell me what you want. I have the Botle or Bowles Pedigree (the Lincolnshire family from Alaine de Bolle,) 1216 to 1746.
Those who have studied the subject most, are convinced that our own branch is one and the same with this, but there is a gap about 1640. We cannot be sure about the father of Charles's Bowles of Chatham (Rome House) and also of Rochester born 1640
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but from then till now, our pedigree on the Bowles side is quite straight and clear.
Then I have a M.S. book in which I have gathered all kinds of interesting information about the Bowles. This pedigree and this book I will lend you for two or three weeks, if you like, and if you will be kind enough not to allow them to go out of your own possession.
My M.S. book contains a copy of the Burial
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Registers of St Swithins London Stone of which I spoke to you, and which were given to me by the churchwarden.
When I lived in London I searched the M.S.S. in the British Museum and found some very interesting bits of history there \endash you are welcome to take a copy of anything I send.
The "Fripp" papers I
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have lent just now, but can lend them to you in 3 or 4 weeks time.
I have an old book by Rev Cayley Iillingworth once rector of Scampton were the Bolles lived.
This is very interesting and I also have a book, less trustworthy called "Notitiae Ludae" or "Notices of Louth"¹ printed by William Edwards, of
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Louth but anon.
The date is 1834, Mr Illingworth's book was my father's. I inherited it from him and value it highly. It was a great pleasure to me to come and see you.
With kind regards to Mrs Liveing and yourself.
Yours very sincerely
ME Bowles Fripp.
I have a note that the Rev George Downing was Canon of Ely. I wonder whether this is true?

Footnote.
1. Notice of Louth William Edwards
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2. Margaret Emma Bowles Fripp: Will, 22 Dec 1915 Probate 23 Jan 1917.
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENTof me MARGARET EMMA BOWLES FRIPP of 17 Templemore Road Oxton Birkenhead in the County of Cheater Spinster
Whereof I appoint Edward Phillips Statham of 14 Prince of Wales Mansions Battersea in the County of London and Annie Hope Hinds of 11 Victoria Place in the City of Carlisle Spinster EXECUTORS and TRUSTEES and in case either of them shall predecease me or be unable or unwilling to act at the time of my decease I appoint my cousin Frederick Gould Bale Sanders (at present residing at Wellington New Zealand but who is shortly returning to take up his permanent abode in England) EXECUTOR and TRUSTEE in the place of that one And I give to each Executor who shall prove my Will a legacy of Fifty pounds Duty free I give to my old and faithful servant Elizabeth Baker of Old Hall Street Malpas Cheshire the sum of Thirty pounds duty free and also such of my furniture as shall in the opinion of my Trustees be suitable and sufficient to fully furnish a Bed-sitting room for her own use I also direct my Executors to appropriate a sum of Five hundred pounds Duty free and to sink the same in the purchase of a life Annuity for the said Elizabeth Baker such legacy gift and annuity to take effect whether she shall or shall not be in my service at the time of my decease I give my Pearl Ornaments to Nora younger daughter of the said Edward Phillips Statham and wife of Frank Bickley of the Record Office London and I desire all my other chattels and effects to be sold and the proceeds applied by my Executors for the purposes of this my Will
I give to the President for the time being of the Girls Friendly Society of the Diocese of Chester One hundred pounds Duty free to be used at her discretion for the good of the said Society
I devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate not hereby otherwise disposed of together with all my interest under the Will of Miss Sophia Ridgeway Sanders in case I should live to become entitled thereto by such survivorship as in the said Will mentioned unto my said Executors and Trustees Upon trust to sell and convert the same into money and out of the proceeds thereof together with my ready money to pay my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the legacies and annuity bequeathed by this my Will with the duties thereon and to stand possessed of the clear residue of my estate (if any) Upon trust for my cousin Ada Mary Elton Fripp of Stoke Lodge Burnham Somerset Spinster for her life and after her decease Upon trust to pay and divide the same both capital and income unto and equally between her nephews Edward Fitzgerald Fripp and Alfred Elton Fripp of The Chaplains House Parkhurst Isle of Wight or such one of them as shall be living at the time of her decease and the issue of either of them who may be then dead leaving issue then living such issue to take equally among themselves their deceased parents share only But if there shall be no person who shall live to take a vested interest under the above provision then Upon trust for Heathcote Dicken Statham absolutely
Lastly I direct that my Executors and Trustees may retain any part of my estate in the condition of investment in which it shall happen to be at the time of my decease (and especially my Bristol Gas Stock) for so long as they shall think fit or otherwise may convert and get in and from time to time invest and reinvest the same not only within the limits by law permitted to Trustees but also in the security of the Indian or any Colonial Government or in the Debentures or Debenture Stock or Preference Shares or Preferences Stock of any Railway or other Company Incorporated either by Royal Charter or Special Act of Parliament or under the Joint Stock Companies Acts and having its registered Office situate in England or Wales or in any British Corporation Loan or on the security of Life Interests coupled with Policies of Assurance
IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this Twenty-second day of December One thousand nine hundred and fifteen
MARGARET E BOWLES FRIPP
Signed by the said Margaret Emma Bowles Fripp as and for her last Will and Testament in the presenee of us both present at the same time who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
F S MOORE Solicitor Birkenhead
JOHN C SESSIONS His Clerk
On the 23rd January 1917 Probate of this Will was granted to Edward Phillips Statham and Ann Hope Hinds the Executors.

Fripp Margaret Emma Bowles of 17 Templemore Rd, Oxton Birkenhead spinster died 11 November 1916 at 15 Henrietta St Cavendish Sq, Middlesex Probate London 23 January to Edward Phillips Statham Cmdr RN and Ann Hope Hinds spinster
Effects £757 18s 1d
National Probate Calendar.