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HN10/280/Orlebar1
Title
Will of Valentina Augusta Orlebar of Husborne Crawley, spinster: - Arthur William Bullen and John Thomas Green of Woburn, gentleman to be executors and trustees; - to her cousin John Francis Orlebar 100; - to her cousin Cuthbert Knightly Orlebar 100; - to her cousin Vere Barnard Orlebar, lieutenant in the Royal Navy, 100; - to her friend Anna Maria Messiter 100; - to Francis Openshaw, major in 19th Foot 200; - to each executor 50; - to Society in London for the relief of the Homeless and Destitute 100; - to Rector and Churchwardens of Husborne Crawley 100 to be invested and the income distributed to the poor on the anniversary of her death; - residue of personal and all real estate to her trustees upon trust for conversion to cash/sale, investing the monies, paying the annual income to her nephew Orlando Orlebar (son of her dead sister) for his life, remainder to his sons aged 21 and over, remainder (if no sons) to his daughters, remainder (if no children) to Beauchamp Orlando Orlebar, second son of Richard Orlebar of Hinwick; reserving the right, after the death of Orlando, to raise up to half the trust fund to advance his children; express clause that no daughter of Orlando should have any interest in the trust fund during his life; residue of any income to be reinvested; express bar on sale of the trust fund unless deferment would harm it; provision that any money given to a female would be for her sole and separate use; - power for appointment of new trustees; - witnessed by Henry Thomas Hall and Charles Herbert, clerks to John Thomas Green
Date free text
26 Dec 1872
Production date
From: 1872 To: 1872
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