• 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
  • Level of description
    item