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Supplemental Abstract of Title of John George Gray to freehold land at Whitley
PA2002/25/1
1913 - 1932
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
I. 29 Nov 1913. Indenture. Having recited a marriage settlement dated 20 Oct 1857 made in anticipation of the marriage of Lady Gwendoline Elizabeth Talbot to Edward Petre in which the lands therein mentioned were vested in the settlement trustees for 1000 years to raise an annual income of £250 for Lady Gwendoline, an annual income of £500 for the first son and heir, and then further sums for further children in the lifetime of Edward Petre with his consent; further deeds (1868-1911) including a mortgage in favour of Mary Adela Petre to secure outstanding purchase monies on the sale of a settlement property; Edward Petre's death on 21 Nov 1902; that there were four children of the marriage attaining the age of 21, Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre, Bertram Edward Joseph Petre, Mary Adela Petre, and Mary Gwendoline Lady Tichbourne; that the sum raisable of £12,000 had been discharged on the death of Edward Petre; that Lady Gwendoline Elizabeth Petre died 3 Sep 1910; that the sums under the trust had been discharged but no deed entered into, Charles Edmund de Trafford and Edgar Hibbert as trustees of the term of 1000 years and Mary Adela Petre as mortgagee released the land and premises comprised in the settlement to the settlement trustees.
II. 14 Aug 1922. Deed of Disentail. Having recited the settlement of 23 Jan 1899; that outstanding death duties of Edward Petre had been raised via a mortgage; that part of the Whitley estate had been sold to discharge the mortgage, Francis Turville-Petre, with the consent of Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre as protector of the settlement, conveyed to Thomas William Heelis of Bolton, solicitor, the freehold land and hereditaments of the settlement free of the male entail but subject to any charges taking priority and so that during the joint lives of Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre and Francis Turville Petre, Francis should receive £425 annually, and that during the joint lives of Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre and Gwendeline Turville-Petre the trustees should pay to Gwendeline Turville-Petre £100 annually, and that during the joint lives of Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre and Aleathea Turville-Petre the trustees should pay to Aleathea £100 annually, and during the joint lives of Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre and Marion Turville-Petre the trustees pay £100 annually to Marion, and that during the joint lives of Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre and Gabriel Turville-Petre the trustees pay £100 annually to Gabriel.
Enrolled in the Central Office of the Supreme Court on 22 Aug 1922.
III. 10 May 1926. Vesting Deed. Having recited the marriage settlement of 23 Jan 1899;subsequent deeds and events; that Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre was of full age and the tenant for life; that the deed was to be entered into to give effect to the Settled Land Act 1925, the settlement trustees declared that the land and premises described in the schedule (the Whitley Estate) were vested in Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre to be held subject to the terms of the settlement. Additional powers conferred by the settlement and exercisable by the tenant for life were set out and Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre had the power to appoint new trustees during his lifetime. The schedule set out ordnance survey numbers, names of tenants, A Lole, C.H. Rollason, C.H. Radcliffe, and Miss Seymour, description of the land and acreage.
IV. 21 Oct 1927. Declaration of Trust. Supplemental to III declaring that Adrian Laurence Cave and Bernard Edward Fitzalan Baron Howard of Glossop were the trustees of the marriage settlement for the purposes of the Settled Land Act 1925.
V. 21 Oct 1927. Memorandum endorsed on III that Adrian Laurence Cave and Bernard Edward Fitzalan Baron Howard of Glossop were the current trustees of the settlement.
VI. 1 May 1928. Declaration of Trust. Reciting the retirement of Adrian Laurence Cave and the appointment of Ralph Dutton, it was declared that Bernard Edward Fitzalan Baron Howard of Glossop and Ralph Dutton were the settlement trustees.
VII. 1 May 1928. Memorandum endorsed on III that Bernard Edward Fitzalan Baron Howard of Glossop and Ralph Dutton were the trustees of the settlement.
VIII. 7 Jun 1928. Conveyance. Having recited that the legal estate was vested in Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre and that Bernard Edward Fitzalan Baron Howard of Glossop and Ralph Dutton were the settlement trustees, Oswald Henry Philip Turville-Petre conveyed to John George Gray of Rosehill, Saint Nicholas Street, Coventry, contractor, for £6,500, several pieces of land at Whitley, Warwickshire containing 33 acres 2 roods 17 perches described in the first schedule and shown on the plan tinted pink, subject to rights of purchasers to remove timber, the tenancies referred to in the schedule, rights of drainage from the adjoining land and cottages on the south easterly side of the lane 185 on the plan [lane from Old London Road to Coventry to London Road] and rights of way granted over the lane to Alexander Edward Stokes and further rights of drainage and way over the lane granted to Winifred Helena Bowen. Purchaser's indemnity against claims by tenants for compensation. Acknowledgment for production of deeds in the second schedule. First schedule sets out OS numbers, description of land, tenants namely A Lole, C.H. Rollason and Miss Seymour, and acreages. The second schedule lists 21 deeds (1869-1928).
IX. 31 May 1928. Official certificate of search in HM Land Registry.
X. 31 May 1928. Memorandum endorsed on VIII that John George Gray had conveyed 48 square yards situate between London Road opposite Humber Road and a proposed new road running parallel, to Coventry Corporation together with rights to run mains cables and pipes.
XI. 2 Feb 1932. Certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge.
Abstract dated 1933.
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