Baptised in Avebury church.Curator B KIng

The Last Will & Testament of Mary Louisa Caswell1946

I MARY LOUISA CASWELL of Avebury in the County of Wilts Spinster here by
revoke all testamentary dispositions heretofore made by me and declare this to be my
last will which I make this 22nd day of November one thousand nine hundred and forty si x.
1. Subject to the payment of my funeral and testamentary expenses death duties and debts I
DEVISE AND BEQUEATH the whole of my estate whatsoever and wheresoever
unto my Sister ALICE ELIZABETH CASWELL for her own absolute use and benefit and APPO INT
her Sole Executrix of this my Will.
2. Provided ALWAYS that in the event of my said sister predeceasing me
then:-
(1) I BEQUEATH the sum of Fifty Pounds (free of duty) unto my nephew
Richard John Caswell of 49 Oxford Rd Calne in the said County of Wilts whether he shall accept
the appointment of Executor herinafter contained or not.
(2) SUBJECT to the payment of my funeral and testamentaryexpenses d eath
duties and debts I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all the residue of my real and personal estate
whatsoever and whersoever unto my nephew JAMES HENRY CASWELL of Avebury aforesaid AND I
HEREBY APPOINT the said James Henry Caswell & Richard John Caswell Executors of
this my Will

Mary Caswell

Signed by the above Mary Louisa Caswell as her last Will in the presence
of us both present at the same time who in her presence and the presence of each other have
hereunto set our names as witnesses.

Randolph A RobbinsPhillip a M Y
Robbins
Avebury
Avebury
Clerk in Holy Ordersmarried
woman

In the 1891 census Alice is listed as being at ThomasTilly's (aged 6 9) house,
who was a baker and grocer. SHe is said to be a companionof Rhoda Ti lly (aged
20 yrs) and was 22 yrs old herself.

In an entry from the school log book for Avebury, is the following no te.
On June 23 1880 "The Rev. B. King, Mrs King and Miss Peelgave Mrs. P eel's
prizes for needlework to the girls. The first prize was taken by Emil y Deacon,
the second by Alice Caswell".

In a letter from Susan Arnold, curator of The Wiltshire Life Societ y at The
Great Barn, Avebury, she summarises the situation as follows:

To try and make sense of all this, (she means the censusreports) - i t seems
that Louisa Caswell carried on the family business as a baker and grocer after
the death of her husband in 1880. She is listed as having 2 sons at home in
1891, James aged 24 yars and John aged 16 years. Her daughters are not
mentioned at this address, but from other sources we canstate that Alice would
have been 23 years old and Louisa (she means Mary Louisa).When Louis a senior
dies in 1909 we find that the listing in the trade directories also changes
from 'L. Caswell' to 'Misses Caswell'. So Alice leaves theTilly bakery and
returns home to carry on the bakery business with her sister. They also
virtually bring up their nephew James, son of George Henry.