Originally Posted on Facebook:  April 14, 2020

Last Will & Testament of William Turnbull Marley b. 1846- d. 1902, Durham, England.

This William was the father of Annie Marley (Anderson) our generation's Great-Grandmother. William was a butcher who left his family with an estate that was valued at £121 which converted with today's inflation would be worth in excess of £14,000. It is quite an extensive and generous will and a very interesting read.

He wrote his will in July of 1902 and passed away in October of the same year. His executors were Mark Walker (relationship unknown) and George Hardy (brother in law). He first bequeaths his gold and silver watches and his gold Albert (a watch chain fashioned after Prince Albert) to his son Thomas. The will goes on to provide a regular sum of ten shillings a week for his dear wife Elizabeth and a sum divided for each of his living children which are all named.

Annie and William Anderson immigrated to Canada in 1904 and while it wasn't directly after the passing of her father it is this inheritance which may have set them upon this path only about 18 months later.