Reference
AN14/6
Title
Office copy will of Rev John Alington of Letchworth [Hertfordshire]:
Date free text
10 February 1860
Production date
From: 1860 To: 1864
Scope and Content
- appointing his sons Henry and Charles as executors;
- devising all real estate held as a trustee to his executors;
- bequeathing to his wife Elizabeth £3,000 of which £500 was to be paid immediately on his death and the rest within twelve months - provided she renounced claim on the rest of his estate;
- devising Creakers at Great Barford, his estate at Wilden and his estate at Twywell [Northamptonshire] including advowson of the Rectory of Twywell to his son Charles;
- devising his house at Abbotsley Downs [Huntingdonshire] and estates in Finedon [Northamptonshire] and Ippolitts [Hertfordshire] to his son Julius;
- by virtue of the authority granted by his marriage settlement with his former wife Eliza Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Plumer he appointed that his daughter Frances, wife of George Yalden, should receive out of the £10,000 stock (settled by Sir Thomas Plumer and addition made by his will) so much as added to the share of the £10,000 stock settled on her at her wedding would give her equal share of both sums with her brothers and sisters Mary, Charles, Emily and Julius amongst whom he appointed the remainder equally;
- if any of his children died in testator’s lifetime leaving issue which survived him the issue to take equal in portion their parents’ share “as my eldest son William will become entitled if he should survive my sister Mrs Gunnel and myself to a perpetual rent charge” of £300 chargeable on the estate of late Sir George Leeds in Sutton;
- bequeathing to his second son Henry all household furniture, plate, linen, china, wines, stores and other household effects in his dwellings at Little Barford and Letchworth and all stock and crops on his farms at Letchworth and Little Barford and all money in either of his bankers’ hands at the time of his death on condition that he paid the legacy of £3,000 to testator’s wife;
-devising and bequeathing all money in a fund he intended to invest for the benefit of his children and residue of his real and personal estate to executors in trust for sale and to convert into money and divide equally between his children William, Frances, Mary, Henry, Charles, Emily and Julius;
- directing that the share of Frances Yalden was for her own separate use and was to be invested in the names of the trustees or any trustees approved by her, the principal to descend as she directed in her will if she was survived by her husband and, in default of any will, to be shared equally by her offspring;
- witnesses: Thomas Widdows, James King;
- proved at London on 4 February 1864
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