Reference
X701/1
Title
Marriage Settlement
Date free text
25 Oct 1884
Production date
From: 1884 To: 1911
Scope and Content
i) William Long Fitzpatrick, Bedford, esquire
ii) Amy Christian Long, the Hoo, Willington, Surrey, spinster
iii) Cecil Long, the Hoo, Willington, etc., esquire (father of ii))
iv) William Chandless, 5 Portman Street, Middlesex, esquire
Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick, Christ's College, Cambridge, esquire
marriage is to take place between i) and ii)
i) is entitled to 1/5 share in properties in St Paul's, Bedford, and in Kempston, and to £4,000 3% Consols (part of a larger sum standing in the names of iii), William Chandless and Thomas Chandless as trustees. Is agreed that i) should settle his interest in above, and that iii) would provide £10,000 to be likewise settled
reciting settlement of even date between i), ii) and iv) by which said 1/5th share was conveyed to iv) in trust for sale
now i) conveys to iv)
- interest in £4,000 3% Consols (part of sum of £20,000 now standing in names of iii), Thomas and William Chandless) in trust
trust - various provisions for maintenance of husband and wife, children etc.
power given to appoint new trustees, by i) and ii) during their joint lives, and the life of the survivor, then by the trustees or their executors
with schedule of stock transferred by iii) as equal in value to £10,000
- £4,000 4% Preference Stock of the London and North Western Railway Company
- £4,000 4% Preference Stock of the London and South Western Railway Company
- £900 4% Preference Stock of the Great Eastern Railway Company
signatures of all
witness: N Richard Fitzpatrick, the Parsonage, Woodford, Wiltshire 25 Oct 1884
endorsed with:
appointment of new trustee
i) William Long Fitzpatrick and wife Amy Christian
ii) Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick
iii) Walter George Hatfeild Harter, The Bury, Kempston, esquire
reciting the death of William Chandless on 5 May 1896
iii) is appointed a new trustee in his place
with schedules showing the husband's settled funds and the wife's settled funds
signatures of all
various witnesses 16 Jul 1896
also endorsed;
memorandum as to the sale of £4,000 Consols on 13 October 1896 and the purchase of £1,100 London and North Western Railway ordinary stock and £1,145 Great Western Railway ordinary stock
also endorsed with memorandum as to the death of Amy Christian Fitzpatrick on 1 August 1910 and that there were no children of the marriage. All settled funds (less duty) have been transferred to the husband and he now approves the account of them (as in schedule). Total balance now owing on a mortgage of the Woodlands Estate at Clapham - £9,646..1s..4d 11 May 1911
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