Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    Z3/7
  • Title
    Deed of arrangement i) Henry Frederick Alston, Cambridge Terrace, Paddington, Middlesex, esquire ii) Henry Frederick Alston younger, Captain in 99th Regiment of Foot, Edward Hughes Alston, Mate in the Royal Navy, Sydney William Alston, esquire, Georgiana Elizabeth Alston, spinster (children of i) by 1st wife) iii) Reverend William Coyte Freeland, rector of Chilton, Suffolk (surviving trustee of marriage settlement of the Reverend Samuel Bageley and wife Harriet Jane, formerly H J Coyte), said Samuel Bageley, Hoxford, Suffolk, and wife Harriet Jane iv) Arthur James Caldwell v) William Tyringham Praed, George Leeke Baker, Justinian Alston, Odell Castle, esquire.
  • Date free text
    1840-1865
  • Production date
    From: 1840 To: 1865
  • Scope and Content
    i) is indebted in £1232 Bank Long Annuities will cease in 1860. i) is now 50 and will likely live to 1860, whereby his children's interest in said annuities is greatly diminished now to settle family affairs i) with consent of iii) and iv) appoints - said principal sum of £1,217..1s..3d remaining 3% Consols - £493..8s per annum Long Annuities - £10,000 secured by mortgage shall after his decease be for the absolute benefit of ii) equally, upon trust: Consols, Long Annuities and assurance policies of 20 May 1830, 22 December 1831 and 23 March 1837 to be converted into money and 1) expenses paid 2) mortgage debt of £6,000 to William Coyte Freland to be paid off 3) £850 (advanced for purchase of annuity of £96..1s) repaid to George Leeke Baker 4) to pay debts of i) surplus to ii) equally : As to debt of £10,000 and policies of 11 May 1821 and 25 December 1825 a) interest of said £10,000 - to pay interest on £1500 owed to iv) at 5% per annum - annual premiums on 2 assurance policies - residue to i) after decease of i) - satisfy debt of £1500 - raise £1000 for H F Alston junior - residue (maximum of £2000) to Raynsford George Alston (child of i) by 2nd wife, at 21) - excess to ii) : principal of £10,000 to be held in trust (after death of i)) for 3 younger children (as in ii)) Signatures of i) - iv) Endorsed receipt Witnesses: William M Keogh, solicitor, Dublin, S Keogh, Dublin, Charles Baker, solicitor, Lincoln's Inn, George Biggs, his clerk, James Mc Craith, assistant surgeon, R.N., Sterling Moseley Westhorp, vicar of Sibton, G F Andrews, solicitor, Dorchester. 26 Aug 1840 Also endorsed with Declaration as to the alteration of the trusts £1079..1s..5d produced by sale of the Consols £6436..19s..7d by sale of the Long Annuities £504..13s..6d by surrender of the insurance policies (total - £8, 020..14s..6d) of which costs - £169..13s..4d £6046..7s..3d to William Coyte Freeland £922..9s..3d to George Leeke Baker (total £7138..9s..10d) £882..4s..8d is left to discharge debts of i), and is not sufficient so ii) have agreed to an alteration of the trusts. NOW ii) agree that all trust monies will be paid to i) in order to discharge his debts. Signatures of i) and ii) Witnesses: Charles Baker, George Biggs, William M Keogh 18 Mar 1841 Also endorsed with Memorandum as to mortgage by Henry Frederick Alston junior of the £1,000 to which he is entitled on the death of his father and the surplus of the assurance monies etc. to Agnes Anna Marston and Isabella Marston of Mannheim, Germany, spinsters, to secure £400 lent to him by them with interest at 5% per annum 30 Dec 1841 Also endorsed with Release a) Reverend John Joseph Trollope, Wigmore, Hertfordshire, and wife Anne Lucy (formerly widow of Frederick Alston junior) b) Charles Baker, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Middlesex, esquire (trustee of his brother, George Leeke Baker deceased) Recites: - deed of family arrangement of 21 February 1844 - deed of 30 August 1844 - Henry Frederick Alston junior died on 18 May 1847 - a) married on 7 December 1850 - Letters of Administration of the estate of H F Alston junior, granted to Anne Lucy on 24 April 1865 (Principal Probate Register) - Henry Frederick Alston senior, died on 20 September 1864. - b) obtained payment of the various assurance monies and paid £1500 to Edward Hughes Alston and received £1000 for H F Alston junior, on which 1% succession duty was payable NOW in consideration of £990 paid to a) by b) a) releases b) from said sum of £1000 Signatures of a) Witness: Richard Jones, bookseller, Ludlow 3 Jul 1865
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