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RECORD: Darwin, George Howard. [ny].09.04. Emma's Property. CUL-DAR262.11.15-16. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR262.11 contains Darwin's financial papers.

These papers were sent to Osbert John Radcliffe Howarth in August 1940. Howarth was the curator of Down House from 1929-1954. Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933.] A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co. Text A540

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W. E. D & G. H. D Executors

W. E. D, G. H. D & Emma D trustees & guardians

To sell land except Down, wh. is to be left to Emma D. for life rent free

Whole Income to E. D for life

£500 to E. D immediately

The £10,000 in Settlement after E. D's death Equally amongst children

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upon trust that W. E. D & GHD shall raise out of the trust moneys (includg. the £10,000 in the settlement) £12000 for each child — the residue equally amongst the sons children of deceased children to take parents share

The advance to W. E. D to be taken as £13000 i.e Claythorpe £8500 + bank £4500

Daughters shares to vested in the Trustees of the will to pay int in to daughter ~~to be~~ kept & after their deaths as they shall appt & on marriage to be settled as the Trustees shall settle

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