Will: Mary Caroline (Houghton) Goodwin (1858-1929)

Mary Caroline Houghton (1858-1929) is my 2nd great grandmother.

I am descended through:

• her daughter, Mary Ellen Goodwin (1883-1955) who married Percy Hooley (1882-1919)
• their son, Eric Hooley (1908-1992) who married Brenda Meakin (1912-1982)
  
• their daughter, Sheila Hooley (1938-….) who married John Stanton Wain (1937-….)
  
• Judith Yvonne Wain

The transcription reads:

This is the last and only will of me Mary Caroline Goodwin of No 6 Exchange Street Macclesfield in the County of Chester England. I give abd bequeath all my personal belongings all moneys and household furniture effects absolutely to be equal divided between my daughters Mary Ellen Hooley and Minnie Amelia Hyde and all I possess at my death. And lastly I appoint Mary Ellen Hooley and Minnie Amelia Hyde to be Executors hereof. And I revoke all former Wills made by me in witness whereof I the said Mary Caroline Goodwin have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of July One thousand nine hundred and twenty ninth.

Signed by the said Mary Caroline Goodwin the Testator in the presence of us 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

Jonathan Goodwin, 130 Bond Street, Macclesfield, Mill Foreman

Joseph Hugh Hall, 55 Bond Street, Macclesfield, Plumber

Jonathan Goodwin was George Hedley Goodwin's brother. George Hedley Goodwin was Mary Caroline's husband, he died one year before Mary Caroline in September 1928.

As far as I can tell, Joseph Hugh Hall was not related in any way to Mary Caroline.