| Reference Number | DSCAM/3/234 |
| Title | Will of Moses Hughes and Pearson-Hughes trust |
| Description | DSCAM/3/234/1: Probate (12 July 1864) of the will (dated 22 Mar. 1860) of Moses Hughes of Eve Hill, Dudley, Worcs., victualler and brickmaker; household stores to wife, Mary; household goods etc. to wife for life, with power to continue business of victualler, thence to daugter, Esther Moore, at valuation; rents of 5 dwellinghouses at Eve Hill and of a dwellinghouse etc. at Lower Gornal, to wife for life; rents of 2 dwellinghouses in Wolverhampton Street, Dudley to be invested during minority of youngest son, Henry, thence upon trust for sale, with the proceeds and the accumulated rents and investments to be divided equally between his 10 children - William, Isaac, John, Edward, Sarah, wife of John Pritchard, Honor, wife of John Cartwright, Esther Moore, Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Bird, Caroline Hughes and Henry Hughes; son Isaac to bring into hotchpot the £50 advanced him by testator; executors, William Hughes (brother) and William Hughes (son). |
| DSCAM/3/234/2: Residuary Account etc., 1866. |
| DSCAM/3/234/3-4: Admittance of John Pearson of the parish of Rowley Regis, Staffs., yeoman (as brother and customary heir of Sarah, late wife of William Harper of Brockmoor, nailer), to the reversion, upon the death of Harper, in a moiety of 1r. 2p. of land at Brockmoor and the buildings erected thereupon; surrender of the same to James Mullett of the parish of Rowley Regis, farmer and Benjamin Beckley of Brierly Hill, shopkeeper; and their admittance. All 17 Oct. 1822. Manor of Kingswinford. And duplicate [representing the other moiety?]. |
| DSCAM/3/234/5: Declaration of trust (31 Jan. 1823) between Pearson, Mullett and Beckley; above property upon trust for sale; Pearson to receive 6/- a week for life and Mullett to provide meat, lodging, washing etc. for life; any balance upon trust equally for Elizabeth, wife of James Mullett, Alexander Hughes of Netherton, parish of Dudley, Worcs., brickmaker, Thomas Hughes of the same, brickmaker, Enoch Hughes of Holly Hall, same parish, brickmaker, Sarah, wife of Dennis Marsh of Woodside, same parish, brickmaker, Hannah, wife of Samuel Scriven of Holly Hall, brickmaker, Ann, wife of Benjamin Beckley, Jane, wife of John Batham of Brierley Hill, shoe maker, Maria, wife of James Cooksey of the parish of Rowley Regis, labourer, and Moses Hughes of Holly Hall, brickmaker. |
| DSCAM/3/234/6: Notes on affairs between Moses Hughes and Messrs Beckley and Mullett. |
| Date | 1822-1866 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 6 items |
| Level | Item |