My GG-grandfather George Inman divided his estate between his wife and four of his five children, then:
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I give to my eldest son Arthur Inman the sum of Ten pounds providing he stay at home and be a good help to his mother till he is twenty one years of age but all things to be as my wife thinks best for there sole use.
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Whether Arthur ever got the money I don't know, but the reason for his exclusion became clear from a newspaper cutting about one of the many occasions when Arthur got into trouble with the law.
He stole some meat (although he worked as a butcher), with the excuse that he was starving.
But a police sergeant told the court that Arthur's father (who was not rich, but certainly not badly off) told him that his son was "the very worst lad he knew of. He had been at sea on board a fishing smack but had absconded, and they would not take him back on any consideration."