| Reference Number | DSCAM/3/291 |
| Title | Norris family wills etc. |
| Description | DSCAM/3/291/1: Letters of administration (19 May 1855) of the effects of Sarah Norris of Enville, Staffs., spinster, granted to her sister, Mary Powell Norris. |
| DSCAM/3/291/2-5: Residuary Account, Legacy Receipts, bills of costs etc., 1855-57. |
| DSCAM/3/291/6: Probate (26 Oct. 1859) of the will (dated 31 Oct. 1855) of Mary Powell Norris of Enville, Staffs., spinster; £10 to brother, William Norris, £5 to his daughter, Louisa Wraxall Norris, £20 to brother, Joseph Norris; rest of estate upon trust for sale; income to Joseph Norris for life, thence capital to William Blurton Norris and Henry Powell Norris, sons of Joseph, as tenants in common; 'And I do hereby expressly declare and make known that I have been induced to give a preference in the disposition of my property ... to my brother Joseph and his family as well in consequence of the uniform kindness attention and liberality shewn to me by him and them as of the unkind treatment which I have from time to time experienced from my brother William and his family and more particularly since the decease of my late dear sister Sarah.'; executors, Henry Beckett of Wolverhampton, Staffs., land agent and surveyor, and Joseph Green Bourne of Heathland, parish of Kinfare, Staffs., gentleman. |
| DSCAM/3/291/7-15: Residuary Account, Legacy Receipts, schedules of debts due to and by Mary P. Norris, other estate accounts and drafts, Many relating to Miss Pardoe, 1859-61. |
| DSCAM/3/291/16/1-17: Bundle of Miss Pardoe's vouchers, 1859. |
| DSCAM/3/291/17/1-32: Bundle of vouchers, 1859-61. |
| DSCAM/3/291/18: List of valuables compiled by Miss Pardoe. |
| DSCAM/3/291/19-20: Bills of costs. |
| DSCAM/3/291/21: Release (24 Oct. 1863) of Beckett and James Samuel Bourne of Dudley, Worcs., gentleman and the Revd Joseph Green Bourne, Rector of Broome, Worcs., the executors of Joseph Green Bourne (executors and trustees of Mary Powell Norris) by Joseph Norris of Henley House, Warwick, Warwickshire, gentleman, William Blurton Norris of St Johns Wood, Middlesex, commission merchant and Henry Powell Norris of 28 Regent Street, Middlesex, estate agent, on payment of £70, the balance of the estate; account attached. |
| DSCAM/3/291/22: Copy bond (dated 24 Sept. 1828) from Joseph Norris of Uttoxeter, Staffs., draper, William Norris of Stourbridge, Worcs., Doctor of Physic, Thomas Norris of Enville, Staffs., farmer, Mary Powel Norris of Enville, spinster and Sarah Norris of Enville, spinster, to Robert Blurton, John Webb, Robert Stone and Robert Cooper, all of Burton upon Trent, Staffs., bankers, to secure the payment of £1000; and receipt for £40 from Mary Powell Norris (as administratrix of her sister, Sarah, and for herself) for her share of all principal interest due on the bond, 16 Apr. 1856. |
| DSCAM/3/291/23-24: Authority from Joseph Norris and his sons to Beckett and Bourne to sell the tenant right of the late Mary Powell Norris in the premises she occupied at Enville, together with all furniture and the goodwill of the business of a school or seminary for young ladies, [Rose Cottage] to Edward Harcourt of Birmingham, innkeeper and wine and spirit merchant, for £260; with related agreement; both 12 July 1859. |
| DSCAM/3/291/25-26: Draft statement of facts as to advances to Joseph Norris, 1860-61; account of cash paid by Mr Norris since the death of Miss Norris. |
| DSCAM/3/291/27-29: Accounts of monies deposited by the Misses Norris with Joseph Green Bourne at interest, and statement of account and vouchers, 1846-57; and account of debts of the Misses Norris. |
| DSCAM/3/291/30: Letter from William Foley, Perry Hill House, Quinton near Birmingham to Miss Sarah Norris concerning the working of his colliery, 1 Oct. 1849. |
| DSCAM/3/291/31: Letter from William Foley, Oak Place, Icknield Street West, Birmingham to Miss Sarah Norris, concerning money he owes her, promises of payment in fiull, his son John and daughter Mrs Bettridge, 2 July 1851. |
| DSCAM/3/291/32: Letter from Henry Beckett of Wolverhampton to Miss Norris re her will, 23 Nov. 1854. |
DSCAM/3/291/33-249: Correspondence received by J.G. Bourne or J.S. Bourne, or forwarded to them by Miss Mary Norris, with drafts of various replies, concerning the affairs of the Misses Norris and administration of their estates, acrimony between members of the Norris family, Mary Powell Norris's conduct, application of the Burton bank for settlement blamed by Joseph Norris on William, attempts of bank to dun William further (#87, 9 May 1856 et seq.), the brothers' interference in Foley/Bettridge concerns (1858); correspondents include Matilda Bettridge, Edgbaston, Henry Beckett, Wolverhampton, William Norris, Stourbridge, Joseph Norris, 7 Yotk Square, East Side, Commercial Road, London, and 36 Ryland Road, Edgbaston and 1 and 73 Edmund Street, Birmingham, etc.; includes occasional receipts and accounts; 11 Jan. 1855-.
#33 from Dr William Norris: ' I have been unfortunately a great sufferer frommy family, having once signed a bond to release my brothers and sisters from a debt contracted by my youngest brother - and unfortunately I have had two brothers killed and the youngest made a Bankrupt, and the principal part of the debt has fallen upon me, and for the last twenty years I have been paying instalments for my sisters as well as my own - and this youngest brother, since his sisters death, has prevailed upon my surviving sister to make a will ... highly incensed with my brother for this clandestine conduct, as he has long ago deprived his sisters of all their property, by getting them to sign a bond for him, and in consequence I have had no communication with him for 20 years ...'
#126 from same (12 Feb. 1859): 'How extraordinary that my last surviving sister should leave the bulk of her property to the very man who took every farthing they had, and who ruined also two excellent brothers, who were deprived of life awfully and suddenly! who had signed bonds of £2000 for this said dishonourable man ... but to be blamed after doing all I have done, is almosy past human endurance; for a man who had degraded and disgraced his family .. and by insolent letters [Mary] obliged me in return to justify myself by writing what you called "offensive letters" - I have though it justifiable to say this much.'
Also, #73, draft statement by Joseph Norris concerning the debt to the bank at Burton, how it arose and what has happened since, 14 Mar. 1856; #82 bill of costs in compromising the debt to the Burton Bank, 1856; #155 notice re George Ebenezer East late of Chester Street, Birmingham, glass manufacturers managing clerk, and formerly of John Street, Aston juxta Birmingham and carrying on business at 1 Edmund Street, Birmingham as a commission agent, coal dealer and dealer in water filters (in partnership with Francis Knight Bent as East and Bent and George East and Company; and also on his own account), an insolvent debtor in Warwick Gaol, May 1859. |
| DSCAM/3/291/250-251: Undated correspondence. |
| Date | 1828-1863 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 298 items |
| Level | Item |