X284/21/3/8

Release Parties: (i) Ellen Sydney St.John of 7 Foulis Terrace, South Kensington [Middlesex], spinster; (ii) Francis Savile Harry Judd of Rickling, Bishops Stortford [Essex]; (iii) Beauchamp Moubray, Baron St.John and Oliver Claude Pell of Wilburton Manor, Ely [Cambridgeshire] Recitals: - marriage settlement of 24 Apr 1868 [see X284/21/3/2]; - death of St.Andrew St.John on 2 Nov 1887; - 6,551 was received from Law Life Assurance Office on death of St.Andrew St.John which was invested by Beauchamp Moubray St.John and Oliver Claude Pell as 4,342/11/7 Queensland 4% inscribed stock (repayable 1 Jan 1915) and 2,054/10/1 New South Wales 3.5% inscribed stock; - will of Ellen Georgiana St.John [see X284/21/3/4]; - death of Ellen Georgiana St.John on 26 Dec 1890 and proof of her will in PPR on 30 Jan 1891; - St.Andrew and Ellen Georgiana St.John had two children - Ellen Sydney St.John (who became 21 on 16 Oct 1890) and Margaret Beaufort St.John, aged 16 years; - (i) was now entitled to half the trust estate under X284/21/3/2; - (i), or (ii) as her trustee, had received the income from the trust monies; - 81/7/9 of the New South Wales stock had been sold by (iii) to pay succession duty on her share of 10,000 secured on Grange Farm, Melchbourne [see X284/21/3/2]; - (iii) had retained 2,171/5/9 Queensland stock and 986/11/2 New South Wales stock as moiety for Margaret Beaufort St.John and transferred the simlilar sum to (i) as her moiety; Operative Part: - in consideration of her moiety (i), with (ii) her trustee, released (iii) Witnesses: - Edward Nassau Senior of 27 Albert Gate, Knightsbridge, London SW, gentleman; - Charlotte Judd of Rickling [Essex], spinster Endorsements: - indenture of 30 May 1896 in which Margaret Beaufort St.John of 30 Thurlow Square, Kensington released Beauchamp Moubray St.John on payment of her moiety of stock to her trustees Edward Nassau Senior, Albert Julian Pell, Oxley Durant Parker and Herbert Leslie Melville Tritten, reciting: death of Oliver Claude Pell in Oct 1891; sale by Beauchamp Moubray St.John on 18 May 1896 sold 327/11/2 New South Wales stock applying the proceeds, in part, to paying succession duty on her part of 10,000 secred on Grange Farm, Melchbourne and, in part, as payment to Margaret Beaufort St.John; witness Arthur R.Farrer of 66 Lincolns Inn Fields [London]

6 May 1891

From: 1891 To: 1896

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St.John, Ellen Sydney,
Judd, Francis Savile Henry,
St.John of Bletsoe, Beauchamp Mowbray, 17th Baron,
Pell, Oliver Claude,
Law Life Assurance Office,
St.John, Ellen Georgiana,
Senior, Ellen Georgiana,
St.John, St.Andrew,
St.John, Margaret Beaufort,
Senior, Edward Nassau,
Judd, Charlotte,
Pell, Albert Julian,
Parker, Oxley Durant,
Tritten, Herbert Leslie Melville,
Farrer, Arthur R.

family settlements, assurance, equity investments, deaths, wills, Melchbourne Grange Farm, specific solicitors