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My Inheritance

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  Posted by Digitalis lividus et niger (U8605497) on Monday, 17th December 2007

  Can anyone remind me of the outcome to this issue? I was in hospital when it was resolved, so missed it. It seems as if a similar situation might be developing at the moment, as Lizzie tries to justify herself.

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  Posted by ginslinger (U10123453) on Monday, 17th December 2007

  
  As far as I remember, they set up Brookfield as a limited company with two classes of shares. One class didn't have voting rights and were issued to Elizabeth, Shula and Kenton. I imagine Phil and Jill may also have shares as I think dividends would be a tax efficient way of drawing their "pension" (as an alternative to David and Ruth buying them an annuity - which was mentioned at one time I think). They didn't specify the sharholding - presumably Elizabeth owuld have received more since Kenton had had "his share" already and Shula got a good share of Brookfield bounty when she inherited Glebe but htat is supposition ...

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  Posted by overandout (U10539354) on Monday, 17th December 2007

  I don't think Glebe Cottage was part of the Brookfield estate. Shula inherited it from her grandmother Doris who had inherited it from someone else.(at the moment I forget who)

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  Posted by Reggie Trentham (U7102122) on Tuesday, 18th December 2007

  I think Doris was left the life tenancy of Glebe cottage by Lady(?) Lawson-Hope whose maid she had been as a girl. She left it to Shula in her will when we discovered that she and Dan had at some point bought the freehold.
  
  So it's definitely not part of Brookfield.

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  Posted by Digitalis lividus et niger (U8605497) on Tuesday, 18th December 2007

  Thanks very much. I do feel the youngest should be humble, so to speak, though I acknowledge that has no logic behind it! Could it be simply that Lizzie offends me???

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  Posted by ginslinger (U10123453) on Thursday, 20th December 2007

  Sorry to clarify - I did not mean that it was part of the Brookfield estate in the way Rickyard cottage is for example, rather that it was like Brookfield handed on by Dan and Doris. I am not old enough either in age or listener years to have been around when Dan and Doris handed over but I remember Lizzie bleating "It's all right for Shula, she's got Glebe" when Phil and Jill were making their decision. I got (which I now realise is inaccurate) that Glebe was bought out of Brookfield coffers to provide a retirement home for Doris (as it was for P&J), and that Shula might have got a slice of the cake early when Glebe was left to her alone.
  
  

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