| Reference Number | DSCAM/5/12/1 |
| Title | Papers relating to the Samuel Mills and Richard Mills trusts and Jane Mills, deceased |
| Description | DSCAM/5/12/1/1: Copy of the will (dated 19 Nov. 1864) of Samuel Mills of Darlaston House, Darlaston, Staffs., Esq., late an iron master and coal owner; household effects to wife, Phebe; horse and dead farming stock and instruments of husbandry at Court Farm and the Whiteway Head Farm at Whitton near Ludlow, Salop, his freehold farm at the Delves in the parish of Wednesbury, Staffs., his freehold farm at Great Barr and leasehold farm called the Brockhurst in the parish of Wdnesbury, to son Richard at the age of 21, otherwise to sink in residuary personal estate; mourning rings to Thomas Tilley and John Tilley; annuity of £800 to wife and of £8 to Elizabeth Fisher of 2 Western Terrace, Hunter's Lane, Handsworth, Staffs.; 5/- a week to Thomas Rock and William Lumm, both of Darlaston, iron workers 'my old and faithful servants'; appoints James Slater (son-in-law), Martha (daughter) and Richard (son) as executors and trustees, the last on his majority; wife and first two trustees to be guardians of infant children;
£5000 upon trust for Martha for life, thence to her children in such manner as she shall appoint, which failing to all equally as tenants in common at the age of 21, in default of which to his own issue equally as tenants in common, remoter descendants taking equally per stirpes; Darlaston House and estate upon trust to pay income to wife for life, thence to children equally as specified; Court, Whiteway Head and Whitton farms, all at Whitton, in trust to pay income to Martha for life, thence subject to the same powers and provisions as the £5000; freehold farms at Great Barr and the Delves upon trust to pay income to son for life, thence to the son's issue with power of appointment etc., and remainder to testator's own issue as tenants in common;
freehold property in Darlaston and Wednesbury and freehold factory in Bell Street, Darlaston, to be divided into 7 shares upon his youngest child reaching majority, upon trust for his children (Ellen, wife of the Revd James Loy; Elizabeth, wife of James Slater; Phebe, Mary, Anna, Richard and Jane), each cestui que trust to receive the income for life, thence to the issue of each with power of appointment etc. and otherwise equally, with remainder in default of issue to testator's other children, except Martha, equally as specified; residue of real and personal estate upon trust for sale, the income arising to be applied to paying the annuities, and subject thereto, to be divided into 7 shares upon trusts the same as those governing the Darlaston and Wednesbury freeholds;
powers of management of trustees; leasing powers; Darlaston House estate not to be sold without wife's authority in her lifetime; grandchildren benefiting from power of appointment to bring such into hotchpot; any daughter may appoint by will up to £100 p.a. of the income of her trust; applicatio of funds for maintenance and education;
powers of trustees respecting agreements made by testator on 3 Aug. and 19 Oct. with Samuel Lloyd, Joseph Foster Lloyd, Wilson Lloyd and William Henry Lloyd, and Sampson Lloyd, Thomas Lloyd, Sampson Lloyd Foster, Edward Rigge Lloyd, William Bevington Lowe, Sampson Lackary Lloyd and Edward Jones, for the sale of iron works and collieries etc. |
| DSCAM/5/12/1/2: Copy case for the opinion of counsel on behalf of Mrs Mary Whitefoord and her children [she being one of the children of Samuel Mills] in the matter of Samuel Mills, deceased; outlines family relationships and settlement; Mrs Whitefoord wishes to exercise her power of appointment; two of her children, Mary Whitefoord and Charles B. Whitefoord are unmarried and without means; 17 Aug. 1911. |
DSCAM/5/12/1/3: Copy draft order in Mills v Slater (Chancery Division 1901. M.2297) re the Mills trusts; statement of funds in court; July 1919.
Plaintiffs: Martha Mills, spinster, Revd Henry Mills Loy, Alice Elizabeth Loy, spinster, Agnes Slater, widow, Elizabeth Slater, now a widow, Edith Mary Farrow, spinster (now Edith Mary Windus, married woman), Cicely Farrow, spinster (Now Cicely Slater, married woman), Millicent Farrow, spinster (now Millicent Browning, married woman), Henry Mills Wood, Charles Hastings Wood (since deceased), Arthur Francis Wood, Lionel Wood, Francis Ryle Wood (since deceased), Ellen Wood, spinster (now Ellen Hopkins, married woman) and Jane Mills, spinster (since deceased).
Defendants: James Slater (since deceased), Samuel Mills Slater, Edward Tilley Slater, Archibald Slater, Revd James Barclay Joyce, Revd James Loy (since deceased), Revd Henry Farrow (since deceased), Charles William Wood (since deceased) and Mary Whitefoord, married woman (since deceased). |
| DSCAM/5/12/1/4: Copy order re Samuel Mills, deceased; Chancery Division, 16 Feb. 1920. |
| DSCAM/5/12/1/5: Trust accounts re trustees of the late Samuel Mills, Esq. and re the representatives of the late Richard Mills, Esq.; 1914-16. |
| DSCAM/5/12/1/6-12: Statements of account relating to the division of the residue of the Samuel Mills trust, 1920-21, inc. Martha Mills legacy and Mrs Cicely Slater's income account; and final division of income and of trust funds, 15 Aug. 1923. Statement shewing division of the proportion of the residue of the Samuel Mills trust allotted to the Farrow family (£29179) at 31 Dec. 1920. |
| DSCAM/5/12/1/13: Statement of account re Samuel Mills deceased (Whitton Court estate) - sale of tapestry and distribution of proceeds - with covering letter; June 1927 |
| DSCAM/5/12/1/14-35: Original and copy correspondence between Messrs Slater and Company, solicitors, Darlaston, Messrs Slater and Camm, Dudley, the beneficiaries and others concerning the management and winding up of the trust; 6 Sept. 1915, 17 Mar. 1916, 7 Apr.-5 Aug. 1921. |
| DSCAM/5/12/1/36: Correspondence with the Bank of England concerning trust's investment in Consols; 11 Jan.-3 Feb. 1922. |
| DSCAM/5/12/1/37-39: Draft statements endorsed 'Mills Trust, Mrs Mary Whitefoord's income' for 1916-20, and other miscellaneous financial calculations. |
| DSCAM/5/12/1/40: Estate Duty forms, account and papers re Lieutenant-Commander Francis Ryle Wood of 77 Oakwood Court, Kensington, Middlesex (d 1915), appointee of a share in the Samuel Mills estate under the will of his mother, Anna Wood, exercising her limited power of appointment under the will of Mills; 1916. |
| DSCAM/5/12/1/41: Copy deed poll appointment (dated 13 Mar. 1915) by Elizabeth Slater of Bescot Hall, Walsall, Staffs., widow of £1768 10s 2d Consols (representing one seventh of he proceeds of freeholds at Darlaston sold under an order in Mills v Slater), in favour of nine of her children as tenants in common - Margaret Hewins, wife of William Albert Samuel Hewins, Samuel Mills Slater, the Revd Edward Tilley Slater, Archibald Slater, Mary Theodora Saunders, wife of the Revd Thomas Avening Bekenn Saunders, Maurice Slater, Gilbert Slater, Dorothea Grove, wife of the Recd Walter Frederick Grove, and Bertha Yardley, wife of Archibald Wilkes Yardley. |
| DSCAM/5/12/1/42-57: Capital and income accounts (incomplete) re Jane Mills, deceased, for 1916-25; with related correspondence, mainly from Archibald Slater of Slater and Company, Darlaston to Gilbert Slater of Messrs Slater and Camm, Dudley, Aug. 1916- May 1919, Nov. 1921-Jan. 22, Oct. 1925. |
| Date | 1911-1927 |
| Format | Typescript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 57 items |
| Level | Item |