• Reference
    FN1324
  • Title
    Sale notice of the river Ouse navigation and Eaton mills [Gives details of title]
  • Date free text
    10 Jun 1864
  • Production date
    From: 1864 To: 1864
  • Scope and Content
    The conditions of sale summarise the title as follows: - part of the property belongs entirely to one owner (apparently Cullum); - part is held by tenants in common in equal moieties (one belonging to the owner of the entirety of the rest, the other belonging to the estate of a testator, John Francklin, whose estate is being administered by the Court of Chancery in two suits: Francklin v Edgell, and Hole v Edgell. The sale of this latter moiety is directed by the Court. The Edgells are John Francklin's in-laws - see pedigree). The root of the title is the Chancery decree of 1690, which laid down: - Henry Ashley ) Bedford - Barford - Henry Ashley ) Barford - St Ives - John and Ann Jemmatt ) Henry Ashley's share descended eventually to Ashley Palmer (died 1792) by whose will of 1790 his estate was devised to his wife. She died in 1829 and it has since been held under her will (no details given). The Jemmatts' share descended to Sarah Foster, 'in whom the reversion in fee expectant in the life estates of two persons was vested in 1731'; her grandson and heir was John Francklin (died 1801). Therefore apparently Sir T. Cullum derived his claim from Ashley Palmer's widow, and presumably his widow was Dame Anne Cullum [see FN 1326-1329]. The Cullums were an old Suffolk family and there are two or three in the Dictionary of National Biography. The 6th baronet, Sir John, married a Gery (not Bedfordshire). The 7th baronet, Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, was a surgeon, botanist and Bath King of Arms; he died in 1831. His eldest son was the 8th baronet, also Sir Thomas Gery Cullum and also a botanist; and his 2nd son was John Palmer Cullum, who followed him as Bath King of Arms, so there must have been a Palmer connection. There were Gibson-Cullums at Hardwick House in 1888. The title is now extinct.
  • Level of description
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