This is the last Will of me, Joseph Lowes Thompson of The Croft, Sunderland, Shipbuilder, made this sixteenth day of January one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

I appoint my wife Emma Thompson, and my son Errol Hay Thompson, as my EXECUTORS.

I leave to my wife Emma Thompson £2,000 per annum free of taxes together with the free use of my residence, The Croft, together with it's contents, for so long as she remains my widow.

I leave to my son Errol Hay Thompson the residue or ultimate residue of my estate.

Signed: J. L. Thompson

Witnesses:
B. H. Robson, Secretary, Southwick Yard, Sunderland
H. O. Forster, Clerk, 61 Ormonde Street, Sunderland

On the 4th day of July 1927, Probate of this will was granted at Durham.

Joseph Lowes Thompson, died 24 March 1927

£117,016 19s 5d