ARTIST REGINALD CYRIL WEBB HEADE

[CourtenayL]

Hello British Genealogy

Please could you advise why probate has taken two years and the estate went to the county treasurer and children's officer

I believe commercial artist Reginald Cyril Webb Heade was illegitimate, perhaps Reginald wanted his legacy to be left to vulnerable children

Thank you for your help

1901 BIRTH
Name: Reginald Cyril Webb
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district: West Ham
Mother’s Maiden Name: Webb
Inferred County: Essex

1911 CENSUS
Name: Reginald Cyril Heade
Age in 1911: 9
Relation to Head: Grandson
Birth Place: Forest Gate
Civil Parish: West Ham
County/Island: Essex
Street address: 56 Leonard Road
Sub-registration district: Forest Gate
Household Members:
Ann Webb Mother 64
Florrie Webb Daughter 27
Annie Mary Heade ‘Widowed’ Daughter 31
Reginald Cyril Heade Grandson 9

1917 BAPTISM
Name: Reginald Cyril Webb Heade
Birth Date: 21 Sep 1901
Baptism Date: 31 Mar 1917
Baptism Place: Forest Gate, St Saviour, Essex
Father: James Heade traveller
Mother: Annie Mary Heade
There is no marriage for James and Annie
Why wait to be baptised age 15

1925 CITY DIRECTORY
Art Work
https://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/1043772.html
https://downthetubes.net/?p=36830
Name: Reginald Cyril Heade
Company: Petterson & Heade
Residence Place: London
Occupation: Commercial Artist

1939 NATIONAL REGISTER
Unable to find
Soldier
Using art skills for the war

1957 DEATH
Name: Reginald C W Heade
Death Age: 54
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district: Hammersmith

1959 PROBATE
Probate to Fred Williams county treasurer and Margaret Ethel Cullen children’s officer
Name: Reginald Cyril Webb Heade
Death Date: 14 Oct 1957
Death Place: London
Probate Date: 25 Mar 1959
Probate Registry: London

[Pamelawagster]

1939 there is a Reginald Heade at this address 21 Comeragh Road, Fulham, London, England
There is a Lila Heade also.

Image states commercial artist but mistranscribed as Utd attendant!

[CourtenayL]

Thank you

[CourtenayL]

1939 there is a Reginald Heade at this address 21 Comeragh Road, Fulham, London, England
There is a Lila Heade also.

Image states commercial artist but mistranscribed as Utd attendant!


Birthday is correct on image also

[Pamelawagster]

Can’t see a marraige for him to either a Lila or anyone else. Do you have his death cert? What does that say?

[CourtenayL]

Birthday is correct on image also

No I couldn't find a marriage either

His birthday is mentioned on his 1917 baptism, why so late to be baptised when born in 1901

I wonder if travelers were passing through in 1901 or if there was an encampment at West Ham to meet father James Heade

I wonder if something childbirth related happened to Lilly and that's why his estate was given to the children's officer

I believe Lily died in 1951 aged 40 in Ealing

[Megan Roberts]

Probate was not granted to the County Treasurer and the Children's Officer. Administration (limited) was granted to them. That's an entirely different matter.

Administration is granted when someone dies interstate ie without making a Will. I have not seen the expression administration (limited) before, and wonder perhaps if it might indicate that authorities were not able to identify relatives and so the local authority had to organise his funeral and were granted a limited remit to sort out his estate. However I am sure that there may be others who know more than me.

With regards to his baptism he may have needed to show he was baptised for a job, or maybe he simply felt the urge as one of my brothers did when he was 62 and lying in intensive care!

[CourtenayL]

Explains about limited
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administration_(probate_law)

Thank you, what a sad end for such a talented young man