Posted here for traffic really.
A while back I posted about my late Grandfather's Will. I wasn't sure if it was credible as, after recently downloading a copy, my mum said it wasn't the original will she'd seen. Mum had initially been shown a typed will and the the recently downloaded one was handwritten.
My mum's sister had been left everything in my GF's Will (my mum nothing) when he passed away in 2000. Sorry, I don't know how to link to my previous thread.
I decided to contact the witnesses to the downloaded will, (previous Will mum saw didn't show any names) just to see if they would confirm their signatures were genuine.
Long story short, I contacted the first witness last week (both addresses were on the Will), and explained why I was there.
The lady was lovely, invited me in, and I showed her the Will, but on seeing it she says she has no recollection of signing any will and cannot recall being present in any house/building and witnessing my gf signing his will.
The lady did say her memory isn't what it was, and she said the signature did look like her writing, but nothing about the circumstances of my gf's will jogged her memory. The lady knew my aunt (mum's sister and executor and beneficiary of the Will) very well and recalled many memories of her, but was adamant she could not remember witnessing anybody ever signing a will.
Yesterday, I managed to contact witness two (who my mum knows to be a closer friend of my aunt's) and explained why I had gone to see her.
I showed this lady just the part where her signature is at first, to which she commented that it looked 'dubious', but she did go on to say that she had gone to my GF's house purposely to sign a will.
Witness 'two', on finding out who the other witness was, said that she couldn't remember if witness 'one' had also been present when my GF's Will was signed. She did remember there was a few people there, but couldn't remember who.
When I said to witness two that witness one couldn't remember witnessing anybody's will, witness two just said "well she wouldn't as her memory is shot to pieces".
I should add that this WIll was apparently written around 30 years ago, which is obviously a long time ago, but I'm just wondering where to go from here.
Realistically there doesn't seem much point in pursuing matters further, as one witness is adamant that she signed the Will, and I'm unsure whether witness one has just simply forgotten about witnessing the will.
The thing that's making me undecided is, Witness one has offered to write a short letter stating that she has absolutely no recollection of ever witnessing my GF's Will (should I want her to) and I'm wondering if witness two may just be saying she witnessed the will because she is a) a close friend of my aunt's and/or b) she doesn't want to be involved in any possible correspondence etc, should I decide to go further.
Further more, if witness two can't remember witness one being present at the signing of the Will, then how can she be certain that witness one has herself forgotten about whether she was present or not?
In short, could there be a possibility that witness one wasn't present when my gf signed his will (and she may have signed this document later under the pretence it was for something else maybe?), I really don't know what to think or do!