Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HF41/2/18/9
  • Title
    Petition (copy) of Mary Louisa Powers now residing at Tickhill, Yorkshire, spinster, a person of unsound mind but not so found by Inquisition (by Edward Sills of Potton, solicitor)
  • Date free text
    21 Feb 1920
  • Production date
    From: 1883 To: 1920
  • Scope and Content
    regarding £5865..4s..5d Consolidated Stock Standing in Court – account of legacy of £6000 settled on Annie Amelia Powers, spinster, for life, distributable because of Annie Amelia Powers’s death recites Will of Charles Powers (died 28 April 1873) Order in Powers v. Race and Race v. Powers moiety of £5350 Consols then in Court and moiety of £1086..1s..10d over to Annie Amelia Powers Legacy Account further investment in Consols of £2673..13s..8d (Consols 101½%) to make up £5940 cash, therefore £5865..4s 5d Consols to Annie Amelia Powers Legacy Account. Under National Debt (Conversion) Act of 1888 turned into £5865..4s..5d 2% Consolidated Stock Annie Amelia Powers’ 3 brothers and 2 sisters Arthur Charles Powers died 22 April 1884 Hugh Edward Powers died 29 November 1899 Elizabeth Kidman Powers died 21 December 1893 - all unmarried Mary Louisa Powers above and George Walter Powers sole survivors. Mary Louisa Powers unsound in mind 1898 Order in Lunacy 10 May 1899 gives Edward Sills power of committee of her estate Order in Lunacy 19 February 1920 Sills allowed to apply to High Court of Justice for transfer of above sums to Lunacy Credit of Mary Louisa Powers, spinster recites mortgage in £400 and interest 1) George Walter Powers (mortgagor) 2) Trustees of Charles Powers’ Will (mortgagee) residual interest on Charles Powers’ Will 1 Feb 1883 Further charge in £100 parties as above 11 Jun 1883 2nd mortgage in £300 1) G W Powers (mortgagor) 2) A J Hills (mortgagee) (£500 owed to Charles Powers’ trustees) residual interest Will of Charles Powers 14 Aug 1885 Deed of Trust 1) G W Powers 2) A J Hills All his interest in Will of Charles Powers to 2) on trust to sell or realise part of moiety at 2)’s discretion to pay money due by 1) and until payment keep down the interest balance to 1) 7 Jul 1886 3rd mortgage in £353..3s..6d 1) G W Powers 2) C S M Cox subject to above deeds interest in Will of Charles Powers 20 Oct 1886 4th mortgage in £838 and interest 1) G W Powers (mortgagor) 2) Robert Bridge Strange supplementary to deed of 7 July 1886 any balance of surplus moneys on that deed 21 Oct 1887 Transfer of mortgage in £300 1) Arthur John Hills (old mortgagee) 2) Flora Louisa Matthews (new mortgagee) 26 Jan 1888 Conveyance 1) G W Powers (vendor) 2) Frederick Archdale etc. all interest in estate of Charles Powers deceased 31 May 1888 ie. all mortgages on it transferred to 2) Conveyance 1) George Race and T J Hooper 2) Frederick Archdale etc. of moiety of G W Powers interest in Charles Powers Will subject only to settled interests in 3 settled legacies but including contingent interest of G W Powers 13 Jun 1889 Release 1) F L Matthews (old mortgagee) 2) Frederick Archdale etc. of all share and interest under mortgages to 2) 25 Sep 1900 Death of Arthur John Hills 10 July 1909; appoints wife Mary Christian Staresmore Hills executrix (pencil note died) Robert Henry Lindsell died 18 February 1891 Frederick Archdale died 13 February 1903 Charles Samuel Lindsell died 6 October 1909 Robert Strange Bridge died some years ago not known if C S M Cox dead petition moiety to :- Credit of Mary Louisa Powers and other moiety to Account of G W Powers and his Assignees 21 Feb 1920
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