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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 1876 

Updated on 16 Mar 2006