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Administration of John Otridge 1876 Source: w2: Principal Probate Registry Wills. Transcript of 2nd Admon: In the High Court of Justice Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division (Probate) The Principal Registry Be it known that John Otridge late of No 2 Torriano Avenue Camden Road Villas in the Parish of Saint Pancras in the County of Middlesex died on the 8th day of January 1854 at No 2 Torriano Avenue aforesaid a Bachelor without Parent and intestate leaving Margaret Mogford (wife of Henry Mogford Esq) and Jane Pringle Widow his material and lawful Sisters only next of kin and the only persons entitled to his personal estate and effects. That on the 6th day of March 1854 Letters of Administration of the personal estate and effects of the said deceased were granted by the Preorogative Court of Canterbury to the said Margaret Mogford and Jane Pringle who for sometime intermeddled in the said personal estate and effects and are both since dead leaving part thereof unadministered the said Jane Pringle having survived the said Margaret Mogford and died on the 13th day of November 1874 having made her Will and thereof appointed John Mogford Sole Executor who duly proved the same........ (end of page 1) (Page 2) ..... that the said Margaret Mogford died intestate leaving the said Henry Mogford her lawful husband her surviving who took Letters of Administration of her personal estate and effects and is since also dead having made and duly executed his Last Will and Testament and thereof appointed Mary Taylor Spinster and the said John Mogford Executors and that the said Mary Taylor alone proved the said Will in the Principal Registry of Her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 30th of July 1874. And be it further known that by an Indenture of Assignment bearing date the 7th of March 1857 made between William Augustus Sadler Pemberton Esquire of the one part and William Ashwell Esquire of the other part it is amongst other things recited that John Otridge deceased by his last Will and Testament with two Codicils thereto gave and bequeathed one fourth part of the monies stock funds and securities to arise or be produced from the sales therein directed of his real and leasehold estates or from that part of his personal estate which he had thereby directed to be converted into money to his Son the said John Otridge....... (end of page 2) (Page 3) ..... absolutely and it is further recited that by Indenture of Assignment bearing date on or about the 6th March 1857 and made between John Pringle of the one part and William Augustus Sadler Pemberton of the other part for and in consideration of the sum of Three thousand and three Pounds to the said Jane Pringle paid by the said William Augustus Sadler Pemberton the said Jane Pringle did assign (amongst other things) all that one half of the one fourth part or share to which she was entitled as one of the next of kin of the said John Otridge the Son then deceased of and in the Residuary Estate and Effects of the said John Otridge the testator and of and in the Stocks Funds and Securities of which the same might consist or by which the same might consist or by which the same might be represented and of and in the interest dividends and annual produce thereof unto the said William Augustus Sadler Pemberton his Executor Administrator and Assigns and it is by the said Indenture of the 7th day of March 1857 witnessed that in consideration of the sum of Three thousand Pounds to the said William Augustus Sadler Pemberton paid by the said William Ashwell the said William Augustus Sadler Pemberton did assign and set over unto the said William........ (end of page 3) (Page 4) .....Ashwell (amongst other things) the said one half of the said one fourth part or share to which the said William Augustus Sadler Pemberton as assignee of the said Jane Pringle was entitled as one of the next of kin of the said John Otridge the Son of an in the Residuary Estate and Effects of John Otridge the testator and of and in the Stocks Funds and Securities of which the same might consist and of and in the interest dividends and annual prduce thereof to hold to the said William Ashwell his Executors Administrators and Assigns subject to a proviso for redemption as therein mentioned. And be it further known that by another Indenture bearing date the 17th day of August 1861 endorsed on the said Indenture of the 7th day of March 1857 and made between the said William Ashwell of the one part and Thomas Staunton of the other part it was witnessed that in consideration of the sums of Five hundred Pounds and Three thousand three hundred and fifty two Pounds twelve shillings and sixpence respectively paid by the said Thomas Staunton to the said William Ashwell as therein mentioned he the said William Ashwell did bargain sell assign transfer and confirm unto the said Thomas Staunton all and singular the several parts shares and interests and other the premises comprised in and assignment to the said William Ashwell by the said Indenture of the 7th day of March 1857 to hold to him the said .....(end of page 4) (Page 5)...... Thomas Staunton for his own absolute use and benefit. And be it further known that by an Indenture of Assignment bearing date the 6th day of August 1872 and made between the said Henry Mogford of the one part and Thomas Staunton of the other part after reciting the Will and Codicils of the said John Otridge to the effect set forth in the said first mentioned Indenture and reciting also the death of the said Margaret Mogford the Wife of the said Henry Mogford on the 24th of July 1871 and that the said Henry Mogford as her Husband became upon her death beneficially entitled to the moiety of her the said Margaret Mogford of and in the one fourth share of the Residuary Estate of the said John Otridge the testator which was by his said Will and Codicils bequeathed to or in trust for his Son John Otridge it was witnessed that in consideration of the sum of Seven hundred Pounds paid by the said Thomas Staunton to the said Henry Mogford he the said Henry Mogford di assign and transfer unto the said Thomas Staunton all that moierty or equal half part or share of and in the one individual fourth part or share of the Residuary Estate of the said testator John Otridge which was by his Will and Codicils bequeathed to or in trust for his said Son John Otridge and to which said one fourth part or...(end of Page 5) (Page 6)... share the said Margaret Mogford and Jane Pringle became beneficially entitled on the death of the said John Otridge the Son as his two Sisters and only next of kin to hold the said Thomas Staunton his Executors Administrators and Assigns absolutely. And be it further known that the said Thomas Staunton is now by virtue of the said recited Indentures of Assignment the sole person beneficially interested in the said one fourth share of the Residuary estate of the said John Otridge the testator which was by his Will and Codicil bequeathed to or in trust for his Son John Otridge ------------ And be it further known that the said Mary Taylor and John Mogford having been duly cited with the usual intimation but not having in anywise appeared on the 27th day of July 1875 the Right Honourable Sir James Hannen Knight the Judge of Her Majesty's Court of Probate on motion of Counsel in default of the appearance of the said Mary Taylor and John Mogford the parties cited as aforesaid decreed letters of administration of the unadministered personal estate and effects of the said John Otridge the Son deceased under the limitations hereinafter mentioned to be granted to the said Thomas Staunton. And be it also known that at the date hereunder written Letters of Administration..... (end of page 6) (Page 7)......of the personal estate of the said John Otridge deceased left unadministered as aforesaid and limited as far only as concerns the distributive shares and interest of the said Margaret Mogford and Jane Pringle as next of kin of the said deceased in and to the one individual fourth part or share of the said deceased in and to the residuary personal estate and effects of John Otridge the Father deceased or the Stocks funds or securities in which the same may be invested and the interest and dividends due and to grow due thereon but no further or otherwise were granted by Her Majesty's High Court of Justice at the Principal Registry of the Probate Division thereof to the said Thomas Staunton of No 4 Landsdowne Place Brighton in the County of Sussex Gentleman he having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same Personal Estate under £3000 No Leaseholds Former Grant Prerogative Court of Canterbury March 1854 Dated the 27th day of May 1876Updated on 16 Mar 2006