MORSE/DAVIES/PREEST (Estate worth) (General)

by mrsbruso , Friday, August 29, 2014, 03:09 (3734 days ago) @ MPGriffiths

For what it's worth, in my Forest family at least, it was fairly common for property to be left to one individual with the understanding that a certain amount of money, generally income from that property or somehow otherwise related to it, would be paid to another individual as part of the will.

There are letters indicating that an elder brother responsible for executing the father's will is still struggling to come to terms with agreed upon payments when the youngest brother reached his majority 13 years following their father's death. Income from various different enterprises are given to different family members over a number of years.

In another will, the nephew inherits the homestead on the understanding that he pays the niece a sum of money, which he never does. Other than questioning the young man's morals and a good fifty years of tut-tutting, nothing more came of the matter.

Perhaps it was redress to the non-payment of this sort of agreement that was at issue. Some of these instructions can see terribly vague. It's difficult to know whom is being left what, with the instructions as to what is to be done with incomes and such in the meantime, and remainders in the end.