From members on here accessing probate records on Ancestry and guiding me through the procedure to obtain a will (much easier than I thought once you have those probate entry details), I have found out so much more about my grandfather's family. Really encourage anyone hesitating to fork out that £6 and get a will if there is one.
From even more help here, I could read a report of a posthumous appeal on behalf of my gt gt grandfather, Robert Bryant, in the House of Lords (as directed in his will) in the London Gazette.
From that, I found the name of the pub, The Princess Royal, on Hewitt St, Grangetown where he lived in 1871 census.
It just pays to google an address because this has led to me finding this informative website on Grangetown, with mention of The Princess Royal.
Link now amended as didn't work before
http://188.65.112.140/~daftscou/steve/Twenties2.htm
I am now going to send them the information about Robert Bryant - an illiterate man, guided by solicitors and QCs no doubt, to risk his couple of hundred pounds estate to paying costs if he lost his appeal. He lost...and his wife was in lodgings by 1901 after his death.
From even more help here, I could read a report of a posthumous appeal on behalf of my gt gt grandfather, Robert Bryant, in the House of Lords (as directed in his will) in the London Gazette.
From that, I found the name of the pub, The Princess Royal, on Hewitt St, Grangetown where he lived in 1871 census.
It just pays to google an address because this has led to me finding this informative website on Grangetown, with mention of The Princess Royal.
Link now amended as didn't work before
http://188.65.112.140/~daftscou/steve/Twenties2.htm
I am now going to send them the information about Robert Bryant - an illiterate man, guided by solicitors and QCs no doubt, to risk his couple of hundred pounds estate to paying costs if he lost his appeal. He lost...and his wife was in lodgings by 1901 after his death.
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