| Description | 1. Bella Kenrick of Brighton, Sussex. 2. Robert Wills of Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Esq. Recites: 1) Settlement, 18 April 1826. Charles Kenrick, Esq, soon after his marriage with 1, covenanted with Simon Barrow, Samuel Lyon De Symons and Aaron De Symons, Esquires, and Richard Roy, gentleman, that, if during his life he should become entitled to any real or personal estate by virtue of the will of Buxton Kenrick, his fathr, then he would settle the same to the use of himself and 1 for their lives, with remainder to their children, and for default of such issue, to his own use and that of his heirs and assigns. 2) Will of Buxton Kenrick, 4 October 1832. He devised to certain trustees all his real and personal estate to trust to sell the same and after paying certain legacies, etc, to hold the residue in trust for his 12 children. He declared that the share of his son, the above Charles Kenrick, should be divided into two, one moiety of which was to be paid to Charles, and the other was to be invested by the trustees in stocks, which should be assigned to such persons as 1 should appoint, and until such appointment was made by 1, the trustees were to pay her the annual produce of the investment during her life: and after her death or second marriage, and in default of an appointment by 1, the trustees were to stand possessed of the moiety in trust for Charles Kenrick, his heirs and assigns. 3) Death of Buxton Kenrick. 4) The moiety bequeathed to Charles by his father is subject to the settlement in recital 1). 5) There is no surviving issue of the marriage of Charles and Bella Kenrick, and by a sentence of the Lords of Council and Session at Edinburgh, bearing date 16th and 22nd December, 1837, the couple have been divorced, and since then have lived apart. 6) 1 wishes to appoint and assign the moiety bequeathed to her in trust and also her contingent reversion or remainder for her life, in case she survives her former husband, in the other moiety to 2. Now 1 to 2, the moiety, by the above will subjected to her appointment, of one twelfth share of the produce of the real and personal estate of Buxton Kenrick, deceased, and her contingent reversion or remainder in the other half of the twelfth share. |