| Description | DSCAM/3/445/1: Probate (8 June 1836) of the will (dated 21 July 1826) of Thomas Wainwright of Dudley, Worcs., surgeon.
Next right of presentation to the living of Acton Burnell, Salop (recently purchased from Sir Edward Joseph Smythe) to son, Edward Harper Wainwright; £7000 to daughter Elizabeth, payable in instalments as specified (with interest), in return for which she renounces all claims on the estate of Edward Harper of Gospel End, parish of Sedgley, gentleman, deceased [see DSCAM/3/193]; personal estate and real estate to son; but real estate in the parish of Sedgley subject to a term of 500 years in trust for the working of coal and iron, with power to grant leases thereof etc., paying the surface rents to Edward Harper Wainwright, dividing the mining profits equally between Edward and Elizabeth (the share of Elizabeth being for her for life, thence to her issue, with power of appointment to Elizabeth for want of issue etc.), and determining on the exhaustion of the minerals; power to sell and exchange lands in Sedgley etc. subject to due compensation for Elizabeth for her interest in the mines.
Executors: Edward Harper Wainwright (son), Elizabeth Wainwright (daughter), the Revd Proctor Robinson of Dudley, Clerk and James Sheffield Brooks of John Street, Bedford Row, Middlesex, Esq.
Memorandum (4 June 1827) of the gift of a pony, pianoforte, teapot and portrait to Elizabeth.
Affidavit by Joseph Green Bourne of the due execution of the memorandum, 31 May 1836. |