From The Wiltshire County Records Office
The ‘888’ Series of Records, titled
“The Edmonds Of Bradford”
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These are no
longer viewable online, but this series contains the following hard copy
documents, some here in full, others as extracts.
Those two marked
“888/2 on CD” are extracted from a purchased data CD.
Not shown here,
there are also on the CD an 1853 Will, and an Indenture (Marriage Settlement),
concerning a John Edmonds of Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire which.
Although it’s in the Wiltshire CRO, is hard to connect it to the
Bradford-on-Avon Edmonds family.
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6/3/1867 – Anna Maria
(Ezekiel Edmonds Snr’s other dau) drew £250 out of her 1/3 from father’s 1833
Marriage Setlmt with her mother (Mary Edmonds nee Hart)
29/11/1860 – Anna Maria
Edmonds turned 21 (=bn 29/11/1839)
18/2/1833 – Marriage
Settlement between Ezekiel Snr and Mary Hart
June Qtr 1855 – Mary Anne
Edmonds (dau of Ezekiel Edmonds Snr) mar an Everard Calthrop
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6/3/1861 – £250 paid to
Anna Maria Edmonds from £3,000 Marriage Stlmt
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11/6/1861 – Mary Edmonds
(nee Hart) widow of Ezekiel Edmonds Snr is living at No 1 Paragon Bldgs in
Bath, gives permission(?) for dau Anna Maria to marry William Collings(?)
Lukis(?) Green? (Geurin? Guerin?) of Horstey Keynes Sussex Esq
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15/5/1855 – Notice to
Trustees of 1813 Marriage Settlement, that Emma Calthrop assigned to Fredk
Ezekiel Edmonds (son of Ezekiel Snr) a
1/13th part and all other part (?) of £7,000 as entitled under the
MS
9/5/1855 – above
mentions Marriage Settlement re Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds & Emma Calthrop (of
Lansdowne Tce, Bath)
23 & 29/11/1813 – above refers
to the Marriage Settlement between Richard Calthrop and Elizabeth Turfitt (the
parents of Emma Calthrop above)
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15/5/1855 – duplicate of
above document to Samuel Everard
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15/5/1855 – Notice to
John Edmonds and Ezekiel Edmonds (Jr) and William Charles Webb, all of BonA,
ref to Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds (of Berryfield House) & Emma’s Marriage
Settlement, that Ezekiel Edmonds assigned to the Trustees £15,000 to which
Ezekiel Edmonds was entitled to as the residual legatee of his late father
Ezekiel Edmonds (Snr) of Frankley House nr BonA, being part of monies secured
to his Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds’s father at 5% pa by Bond, dated 22/12/1847
by John Edmopnds, Ezekiel Edmonds (Jr) and Samuel Edwin Edmonds since deceased,
and also by another Bond dated 8/5/1855 of Ezekiel Edmonds (Jr) and Wm
Charles Webb, and also by an insurance policy dsated 19/9/1849 with the
Caladonian Life Ins Co, whereby £2,999-19-0 was to be paid to Ezekiel Edmonds
(Sr) on the death of John Edmonds, the policy having been assigned by Ezekiel
Edmonds (Jr) to Ezekiel Edmonds as security for £3,000 of the said
£15,000. And also the “equitable
change” by Ezekiel Edmonds (Jr?) of freehold property and “hereditaments” at
Greenland, the property of Ezekiel Edmonds (Jr?), for £2,000 further part of
the £15,000.
Signed
bt John Edmonds (very shaky hand), Ezekiel Edmonds (jr), and Webb
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29/1/1879 (?) – A
(solicitors?) Note
Dear
Sir,
(re:) Edmonds & Wentworth(?)
I
am afraid I am responsible(?) for our recre(?)
It is with keeper(?) Inapted(?)
of dowdow(?) feel(?) therefore mapbes(?) of Miss(?) Torere(?) who represented
the Trustees.
If
you(?) wish(?) Nuu k Neah(?) their Trustees will require any(?) information as
to Nice(?) funds being held death(?) with as Three(?) pounds are absolutely
regared(?) to Mr Edmonds and are ndth(?) in any way inGrch(?) to Nee(?)
trusts(?) of them(?) settlement.
Yours
Sincerely
Jno(?) G(?) Calthrop(?)
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List of Contents (of some sort of
solicitors folder??) marked…
Edmonds vs Edmonds
“Exhibit
to M Edward Bailey Affidavit”
A - Certificate of E Edmonds death (not
encl)
B – Deed of Ref (have this)
C – Letter form Mr Bush (have this)
D – Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds Marriage
Settlement (not encl)
E – Certificate of Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds
Mariage (not encl)
F – Deed of Covenant (not sure which one this refers to)
G – Bond of 1855 (may be one of the papers on the CD)
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15/5/1855 – Notice to
Trustees of Ezekiel Edmonds (Sr) (late of Frankley) will by Ezekiel Edmonds (of
Berryfield House) (copy to his mum of Berryfield House in other doc) re (ref to
Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds’s Marriage Settlement) Ezekiel Edmonds assigning £10,000
from his entitlement under his dad’s will of 22/9/1849, being part of
£20,000 mentioned in that will, (possibly to?) satisfy terms of his Marriage
Settlement.
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15/5/1855 – Notice to
Execs of Samuel Everard’s will (late of Spalding), by Emma Calthrop, of her
share in $3,506. Ref to Fredk Ezekiel
Edmonds’s Marriage Settlement of 9/5/1855, Emma assigns to Ezekiel
Edmonds “…1/13th part a share and all that other the part share and
interest… in the sum of £3,506 (being one Morihy(?) of a sum of £7,012 the
purchase money secured on the Sale of a certain Estate devised by the will of
Samuel Everard in trust for sale as mentioned) to which she was entitled under
the will of her grandfather the said Samuel Everard dated 13/12/1827)…”
subject to her mum’s interest, with full power for Ezekiel Edmonds to discharge
the money.
Copy
to Will’s execs 31/7/1855
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18/8/1879 – Copy of a
letter (for Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds?) from “Somersetshire Bank” Bristol to
“Stuckey Banking Co” Bristol, asking that dividends on £799-11-0 “India 4 Per
Cent Stock” to enable “Robards Lubbock & Co” to receive them on a/c of
Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds
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4/1/1856 – Marked “C”
(ref Ezekiel Edmonds Index) Note from
John M(?) Bush to Bailey Shaw & Bailey, ex “Edmonds Mill” BonA (re costs of
£1-1-0 ?)
Sirs,
Enclose herewith are attested copy of the
settlement of Real Estate by Mr John Edmonds of this place which Mr Edmonds
informed me you wished to have and on the other side is account of my charges
for same.
Yours
Sincerely John M(?) Bush
(attached) – A/c Bush to Bailey Shaw &
Bailey, sundry costs 1856 (year of?) for settlement of estate of John Edmonds
£1-2-1
(attached) – “Edmonds v Edmonds” “In Chancery” A Court (?) cover note dated 16/12/1867
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2/12/1856 to 31/3/1876
– Nine “Consolidated £3 Per Cent Annuities” (Bank of Eng) handled by John
Slater, Henry Everard, and Edward Everard (Trustees of Emma’s Marriage
Settlement). Various values and timing,
add up to just over £10,000
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8/5/1855 – Marked “B”
(ref Index) and “In Chancery”, with a cover note dated 6/12/1867 re
Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds to his mum, and arbitration over Church St Mill
An
Agreement made between Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds esq of Berryfield House and
Ezekiel Edmonds jr of BonA Clothier, re an estate free from encumberances, of
3/4 share in property “…in Church Street BonA built by John Saunders deceased
and late in occpn of John Edmonds, Ezekiel Edmonds jr, and Samuel Edwin
Edmonds, and now of Ezekiel Edmonds jr and William Charles Webb his partner…
all those clothing mills or factories adloining and the stock mill, warehouses,
workshop, wool lofts, drying stoves, ware rooms, cottages, dye houses, and
other buildings in and about the said mills factories and workshops…”, and
Ezekiel Edmonds jr has possession (unencumbered) of fourth part, and Fredk
Ezekiel Edmonds and Ezekiel Edmonds jr desire to effect a partition, Fredk
Ezekiel Edmonds nominates George Haden of Trowbridge (“Engineer”) and Fredk
Ezekiel Edmonds nominates Charles Gane of Tbr (“Builder”) as Arbitrators, and
Arbts in turn nominate “Withers of Norton St Phillip, Builder” as Umpire.
The
Arbts must define tha apportionment without dividing walls or :actual division”
except by boundary marks “during the continuance of a Lease agreed to be
granted” by Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds, to Ezekiel Edmonds jr and WC Webb “of the
divided portion… allotted to Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds…” (although the Arbts can
devise a partition wall as long as it doesn’t diminish the market value of
either part or compromise the 3:1 shares, or render either part less useful??)
(or agree to a value in compensation??), and each part will belong to Fredk
Ezekiel Edmonds and Ezekiel Edmonds jr through a Deed of Covenant and all this
has to be done by 1/7/”next” (1855), but no later than 1/8/1855
else it goes to the Umpire for decision by 1/10/1855 at latest and
binding on all.
Signed
by Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds and Ezekiel Edmonds “jr”
Note
added, signed by very shaky John Edmonds, that he agrees to all this
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10/5/1855 – Release from
Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds to Execs/Trustees of his dad’s will (John Slater of
Tbridge, Mary Edmonds of Berryfield House, his widow, & John Overbury of
Fredericks Place Old Jewry London, Merchant).
Will dated 22/9/1849 said… household stuff to his wife plus £200
cash, £20,000 invested in Trust for his wife Mary… as long as unm, until
youngest turns 21, at which £10k of £20k paid to Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds and
other £10k div between his two daus Mary Ann and Anna Maria, and further £3k in
Trust is Govt Securities for each dau until 25 or marries, when each gets the
principle. And to Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds
all his Real Estate and the balance of his estate.
And
codicil 10/8/1852 appting John Overbury another Exec
And
that Ezekiel Edmonds (Sr) died 21/8/1852, Will proved 20/9/1852,
and that all 3 kids survived
And that Ezekiel
Edmonds at the time of death was entitled to £32.000 (the bal of £38k secured
by Bond dated 2/12/1847 under hands of John Edmonds, Ezekiel Edmonds “the
younger”, and Samuel Edwin Edmonds all
of BonA Clothiers, by which the £32k and interest at 5% to be paid to Ezekiel
Edmonds (Sr) on 1/1/1855, unless required earlier where then to be paid
by 3 equal payts 6 months apart from that date.
And as Samuel
Edwin Edmonds retired from “the
partnership business, and is since dead”, and as the Wills execs have recd from
John Edmonds nad Ezekiel Edmonds (jr) on 12/10/1853 £12k in pt payt of
outstanding £32k, and on 16/12/1854 the execs recd from John Edmonds and
Ezekiel Edmonds a further £5k, with £15k still outstanding.
And as mum is
still unm and both daus are under 21, and as Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds attained 21
on 17/1/1855, and all things paid by execs as reqd except specific £20,
£3k and £3k (for 3 kids), also notes that execs leant money to Wadham Locke,
and that execs have appolied some incomes to Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds’s education,
and that accounts attached covering Ezekiel Edmonds’s death to this date, and that
2 girls have had £90 pa, Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds directs an extra £50 paid
(once?), then Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds now gets rest of estate.
And as Ezekiel
Edmonds the younger on behalf of self and John Edmonds made a claim against the
estate of Ezekiel Edmonds re debts owing to the (previous) partnership at time
Ezekiel Edmonds retired from it, which ahs “proved to be bad”, and as execs
decreed it “not proper to entertain such claim” waited until Fredk Ezekiel
Edmonds turned 21 to have it settled by him (which he accepts to do as part of
his later duties), whatever the outcome, with no impact on the other’s estates.
(All signed off)
Attached
household and other Ezekiel Edmonds-related accounts, from 21/8/1852 to 4/4/1855,
being ap £21,800 in and outgoing.
“Income”
includes… Dividends ex Govt Bonds, Rlwy
Shares, sale of Bonds, rents from “Edmonds & Co” (£260 for ½ year) &
£800 ½ year interest on their Bond (5% on 32k balance), rent from Spackmans,
from “Mrs BeaMarriage Settlement of Holt”, from Edw Taylor, Cornelius Taylor,,
R Hole, the £12k part payt from Edmonds & Co, Bradford Turnpike Bond
interest, extra int from Edmonds & Co, another £5k off Edmonds Bond. Residuals owing…
Edmonds & Co £15,000
IOU Joseph G
Jones £200
Cash at Bank £4,255
Bradford Turnpike
Trust £100
Shares Bradford
Gas Co £192
Bal of 3%
Annuities £1,350
“Expenses”
include… Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds’s mourning clothes £5-16-0 Vet bill £4-6-0 Legacies (inc “Mr Edmonds” £300 ?) Lithograph of
House and Advets (!) £7-5-0 The allowances (Mum £150/qtr, Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds £100,
girls £22-10-0) “Water Bed for Mrs
Edmonds” (from Surgeon A Adye) £5
Ezekiel Edmonds’s outstandings at death inc Butcher £34, Doctor £64,
Brewer £19, Wine Mchnts £2-8-0, Undertaker £148, Tune Piano £1-1-0, Paid Revd
Wm Popham £6-6-0 for “Tomb”, mason for Tomb (Jones) £25-12-0, Advert Berryfield
£20-6-2, G Wilson(?) Blacksmith Tomb £33-7-8, Lawyers £110, Thomas Wheeler for
Malt & Hops(!) £27-4-0, Adv to Wadham Locke, Revd J H Bradney one years rent
of “Land” £29 (first paid 6/5/1853), “Horses” for Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds £75,
and for another Fredk Ezekiel Edmonds horse £100. (Also incs Gravel, Carpenter, Mason, Appraiser, Deeds)
A note to one
section of payments (of ap £380) made “…by Mrs Edmonds before her leaving
Berryfield House… exceed the suMarriage Settlement recd by her from the Bankers
and Cash in the Hosue at Mr Edmonds decease by £25-4-0 This arises no doubt from Mrs Edmonds
having applied some of her private Cash towards domestic Expenses.”
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The Marriage Settlement between
Ezekiel Edmonds and Mary Hart
(888/2 on CD)
Indenture
made 18/2/1833 between Ezekiel Edmonds of BonA Clothier, Mary Hart of
BonA the eldest dau of Samuel Hart of BonA Clothier; and Samuel Slater of
Trowbridge and Joseph Overbury of Cheltenham – a marriage (to be) solemnized
(soon) between Ezekiel Edmonds and Mary Hart.
And in order to
make some provision for Mary Hart in the marriage, Ezekiel Edmonds has agreed
to enter into a Covenant for payment (to the Trustees) of £3,000 in Trust (in
consideration of 5/- paid to Ezekiel Edmonds before signing by Ezekiel Edmonds
??). Ezekiel Edmonds then promises to
the Trustees that he will in case the marriage shall take effect will pay to
the Trustees £3,000 (being) - £1,000 1/3/1833 – £1,000 1/3/1854 –
remaining £1,000 on 1/3/1835.
And
agreed that Trustees are paid on Trust to invest in secure Govt Stocks and
shall from time to time on consent of Ezekiel Edmonds and Mary Hart be
re-invested and shall apply the interest and dividends durin Mary Hart’s life
as she thinks fit, and at her death during Ezekiel Edmonds’s life the income
goes to their children in Trust if under 21 equally, and principle equally on
marriage (followed by a second page, all conditions and possible circumstances
and blah blah blah).
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An Indenture to change Ezekiel
Edmonds & Mary Hart’s Marriage Settlement Trustees (888/2 on CD)
This
has a cover note that’s dated 1/9/1852 and bears Ezekiel Edmonds’s and
Mary’s signatures (but Ezekiel Edmonds died 21/8/18/52 ?), witn J.G. James BonA
Clothier and John Bush BonA “Sol” (solicitor?), singed also by John Overbury
(witn George? Martin, Bush’s Clerk) and John Slater (witn John Bush). Note says that Overbury and Slater as
Trustees undewr the attached Deed acknowledge William Harcomb, John Goldsmith,
& William Fowler as the execs of the Will of Samuel Slater deceased, have
this day (1/9/1852?) trsfd £3,022-13-3 (of) 3½ % Bank Annuities, now 3¼ % Bank
Annuities, into their names in the Bank of Eng… Trust Fund (as referred to in
the Indent attached)…
Indenture
made 6/11/1851 between Ezekiel Edmonds (Sr) of Berryfield House
Gentleman and Mary his wife; and John Overbury of Frederick Place, Old Jewry
London, Cloth Factor and John Slater of Trowbridge Gentleman –
Ref
to Ezekiel Edmonds and Mary’s Marriage Settlement of 1833, and the Samuel
Slater Clothier and the Joseph Overbury in it, and the £3,000 involved,
then outlines the role of the Trustees (then Samuel & Joseph) then a lot
about how the Trustees operate (if a relpacement is needed?)
And
whereas the said intended marriage soon after the date and execution of the
Indenture was duly solemnized and Ezekiel Edmonds paid to Samuel Slater one of
the Trustees £3,000 which was invested by him on 16/7/1834 in (the
above) Bank of Eng Annuities in the name of Samuel Slater to the a/c of the
Execs of his last Will & Tstmnt
And
whereas Joseph Overbury died during the life of Samuel Slater, and Samuel
Slater lately died with a Will and appointed William Harcomb, John Goldsmith,
and William Fowler as his execs, and was since proved
And
whereas Ezekiel Edmonds and his wife Mary have the to appoint new Trustees,
have requested John Overbury and John Slater, and Ezekiel Edmonds and Mary have
requested (those 3) as execs of Samuel Slater, to trsf the £3,022-13-3 into the
names of their new Trustees
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