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On This Day

23

Aug
2017

In On This Day

By Nicola Gauld

On This Day, 23 August 1917

On 23, Aug 2017 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld

Birmingham Mail

Thursday 23 August 1917

BEQUESTS TO BIRMINGHAM CHARITIES

MOSELEY LADY’S ESTATE

Mrs. Mary Ann Ingram, of Chantry Road, Moseley, widow, whose death occurred on June 10, left estate valued at £19,757. Teststrix left £1,000 to the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Children, £500 each to the Taylor Memorial Home of Rest, Sparkhill; Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham; Royal Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Birmingham; Convalescent Hospital for Children, Moseley Hill; General Hospital, Birmingham; Royal Institution for the Blind, Birmingham; Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women; Birmingham and Midland Ear Hospital; Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital; Birmingham and Midland Orthopaedic Hospital, and the Birmingham Bluecoat School; £2,000 each to Ellen Wyer, Charles Ingram, Walter Ingram, sen., Elizabeth Prudames (if living with her), and £100 each to the executors. The residue of her property is left as to one-half to the above charities and the other one-half to Mary Wilkinson, Josephine Johnson, and Charles Upton Johnson.