Eliza Ann ALSTON [3811]

  General Notes:

Eliza and her brother Rev Herbert were benefactors, giving Vans for the Church Army, Stained Glass in Little Bradley Church, providing scholarships and prizes, particularly for the City of London School. Eliza was unmarried, residing with her brother Herbert on 3 Apr 1881, a resident of Eastbourne in 1899, with a private income.

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 8 Apr 1861, 22 Carlton Hill E St John St Marylebone MDX. Eliza is recorded as a daughter unmarried aged 29 born London City

2. Census: England, 2 Apr 1871, Lt Thurlow SFK. Eliza is recorded as a sister aged 39 a housekeeper born Lt Heland MDX

3. Census: England, 3 Apr 1881, Lt Thurlow SFK. Eliza Ann is recorded as a sister aged 49 unmarried born London MDX

4. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, 51 Townshend Rd St Marylebone LND. Eliza Ann is recorded as a boarder single aged 59 living on her own means born City London

5. Census: England, 31 Mar 1901, 9 Cambridge Rd Eastbourne SSX. Eliza Ann is recorded as a sister single aged 69 born City London

6. Census: England, 2 Apr 1911, 8 Cambridge Rd Eastbourne SSX. Eliza Ann is recorded is recorded as a sister aged 79 single born London.

7. Eliza Ann Alston: Wll, 24 Aug 1899.
I ELIZA ANN ALST0N formerly of Little Bradley Rectory Little Thurlow in the County of Suffolk but now of Cambridge road Eastbourne in the County of Sussex Spinster hereby revoke all wills codicils and other
testamentary dispositions heretofore made by me and declare this to be my last will
I appoint my brother The Reverend Herbert Alston of 9 Cambridge Road Eastbourne aforesaid Clerk in Holy Orders my friend Frederic William Lucas of 21 Surrey Street Victoria Embankment London W C Solicitor and my nephew Gilbert Rowland Alston of 7 New Square Lincolns Inn Barrister at Law EXECUTORS and TRUSTEES of this my will
And I declare that they and the survivors and survivor of them or the the executors or administrators of such survivor or other the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will are hereinafter included in the expression "my trustees" I bequeath to each of them as such executor and trustee the sum of twenty guineas free of legacy duty
I bequeath to my said brother Herbert for his own use absolutely all the plate linen china glass books pictures prints musical instruments furniture and articles of household use and ornament wines liquors and consumable stores and other articles and effects of every kind which at my death shall be in or about any house which I may jointly with my said brother Herbert then be occupying except money or securities for money
I also bequeath to my said brother Herbert my one thousand four hundred and eighty pounds Great Northern Railway Company Three per cent debenture stock and my twelve pounds East Indian Railway Company Annuity Class B or the money or investments for the time being representing the said securities if the said securities shall have been converted or transposed during my lifetime I devise and bequeath to my brother Herbert and his heirs all my share of the Copyhold property at Brighton now in the occupation of Messrs Reed or my share of the proceeds of sale thereof if sold during my lifetime or the investments representing such proceeds of sale I devise and be-queath all the real and personal estate to which at my death I shall be beneficially entitled or of which I shall have any general or special power to dispose by will (and not hereby otherwise disposed of) unto the trustees hereinbefore named upon trust that my trustees shall sell my said real estate (including chattels real) and call in sell and convert into money such part of my personal estate as shall not consist of money with power to postpone such sale and conversion for such a period as my trustees may think proper but so that my real estate shall for the purpose of transmission be impressed with the quality of personality from the time of my death And I direct that the income of my real and personal estate in its actual state of investment for the time being whether consisting of property or investments of an authorised or unauthorised description and whether of a permanent or of a wasting character shall from my death be treated as incoke and no part thereof is to be retained as or added ,to capital but no reversion or other property not actually producing income which shall form part of my estate shall under the doctrine of constructive conversion or otherwise be treated as producing income or as entitling any person to the receipt of income Provided always and I hereby declare thatmy trustees may lease or join in leasing all or any of the said real estate hereinbefore devised in trust for sale and which shall for the time being remain unsold for any term not exceeding twenty one years at the best rent to be reasonably obtained without taking a fine and that the rents and profits thereof or of so much thereof as for the time being remains unsold shall after the payment thereout of all rates taxes costs of insurance repairs and other outgoings be paid or applied to the persons or in the manner to whom or in which the income of the produce thereof is hereinafter directed to be paid and applied And I direct that my trustees shall out of the moneys to arise from such sale calling in and conversion and all other moneys arising from or forming part of my residuary estate pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and the legacies (other than specific legacies) bequeathed by this my will or any codicil hereto And shall invest the residue of the same monies in the names of my trustees in or upon any of the public stocks or funds or Government securities of the United Kingdom or India or any British colony or dependency or any securities the interest on which is or shall be guaranteed by parliament or upon freehold copyhold leasehold or chattel real securities in Great Britain but not in Ireland or in stock of the Bank of England or the Bank of Ireland or Metropolitan Consolidated stock or in or upon the debentures debenture stock or guaranteed or preference or ordinary stock or shares of any railway or other company a fixed or minimum rate of interest or dividend on which is guaranteed (whether absolutely or otherwise) by the Government of India or in or upon the debentures or debenture or rent charge stock of any railway canal dock harbour gas water or other company or body incorporated by special Act of the Imperial Parliament or by the legislature of any British colony or dependency or by Royal Charter or in or upon the guaranteed or preference stock or shares of any such company as aforesaid which shall have paid dividends upon its ordinary capital at the rate of at least five per cent per annum for at least five years prior to the term of investment or in or upon the stocks bonds debentures or securities of any municipality county council public body or local authority in the United Kingdom but not in any stock funds bonds or securities to bearer or transferable by mere delivery or delivery and endorsement though coming within the general description of investments hereinbefore authorised with power for my trustees at their sole and uncontrolled discretion to vary or transpose such investments for others of any nature hereby authorised And I declare that my trustees shall stand possessed of the said residuary monies and the stocks funds shares and securities representing the same hereinafter called the said trust fund and the income thereof upon the following trusts that is to say As to one fifth part or share of the said trust fund in trust for such of the children of my deceased brother Albert who shall be living at my death and such of his grandchildren living at my death or born afterwards and being children of any child of his having predeceased me as being male have attained or shall attain the age of twenty one years or have died or shall die under that age leaving issue or being female have attained or shall attain that age or have married or shall marry under that age if more than one as tenants in common in equal shares per etirpes so that his children which shall be objects of this trust shall take in equal shares and the children being objects of this trust of any child of his having predeceased me shall take equally between them the share which the parent would have taken had such parent survived me and attained a vested interest and as to one other fifth part or share of the trust fund upon the like trusts for the children and grandchildren of my deceased brother Thomas Rowland as hereinbefore declared concerning the share of the children and grandchildren of my deceased brother Albert And as to one other fifth part or share of the said trust fund upon the like trusts for the children and grand-children of my sister Emily Markby as hereinbefore declared concerning the share of the children and grandchildren of my deceased brother Albert but if there shall be no child or grandchild of my sister Emily Markby who attains a vested interest under such trusts then from and after such default or failure of her children and grandchildren my trustees shall hold this fifth part or share including any accretion thereto upon trust to pay the income thereof to my sister Emily Markby for her life without power of anticipation and subject thereto it shall accrue to and form part of my residuary estate as hereinafter directed And as to one other fifth part or share of the said trust fund upon the like. trusts for the children and grandchildren of my deceased brother Henry Carter as hereinbefore declared concerning the share of the children and grandchildren of my deceased brother Albert And as to the remaining fifth part or share of the said trust fund upon the like trusts for the children and grandchildren of my sister Emma Jane Witten as hereinbefore declared concerning the share of the children and grandchildren, of my deceased brother Albert but if there shall be no child or grandchild of my sister Emma Jane Witten who attains a vested interest under such trusts then from and after such default or failure of her children and grandchildren my trustees shall hold this fifth part or share including any accretion thereto upon trust to pay the income thereof to my sister Emma Jane Witten for her life without power of anticipation and subject thereto it shall accrue to and form part of my residuary estate as hereinafter directed And I hereby declare that among the grandchildren of my sister Emma Jane Witten I include not only George Witten and Maud Witten and all other children of my nephew Walter Witten by his present wife Amy Witten or by any future wife but also Emmeline Marian Halstead Witten Emma Maud Witten and George Walter Bond Witten the children of my nephew Walter Witten by his former wife Marian Witten I empower my trustees in addition to the powers of maintenance and accumulation given by law to trustees for minors to raise any part or parts not exceeding together one half of the presumptive or vested share of any minor in the said trust fund under the trusts hereinbefore declared and to pay or apply the same for the education advancement or benefit or such minor as my trustees shall think proper And as to any sums which my trustees shall think proper to apply for or towards the maintenance education advancement or benefit of any minor under the trusts of this my will or any statutory power in that behalf I expressly declare that it addition to any mode of payment or application authorised by statute my trustees may either apply the same themselves or in their sole discretion pay the same to the guardian of such minor without seeing to the application thereof And if for any reason my trustees shall think it desirable to pay any such sums direct to such minor I hereby authorise them so to pay the same and the receipt of such minor shall be a sufficient discharge for the same notwithstanding minority Provided always and I hereby declare that in case all the trusts hereinbefore declared concerning any of the said shares into which my said residuary estate is hereinbefore divided shall determine or fail to take effect then and in every such case the share as to which there shall be such determination or failure (including any additions which may have been made thereto by way of accrues under this present clause and any accumulations which may have been added thereto) and the income thereof or so much thereof respectively as shall not have become vested or been applied or disposed of under or by virtue of the trusts or powers of this my will shall (subject and without prejudice to the trusts powers and provisions hereinbefore declared and contained concerning such share and the income thereof) fall back into my said residuary estate to the intent that the same shall go and accrue by way of addition (in equal proportions) to the other shares in my said residuary estate and so that every such accruing share shall thenceforth be held upon and for the same trusts and purposes (so far as subsisting and capable of taking effect) as are hereinbefore declared concerning the original share to which the same shall be added and be considered as forming part thereof for all purposes And I declare that my trustees shall have the fullest powers of determining what articles of property pass under any specific bequest contained in this my will or any codicil hereto and of apportioning blended trust funds and of determining r:hether any moneys are to be treated as capital or income and generally of determining all matters as to which any doubt difficulty or question may arise under or in relation to the execution of the trusts of this my will or any codicil hereto And I declare that every determination of my trustees in relation to any of the matters aforesaid whether made upoh a question formally or actually raised or implied in any of the acts or proceedings of my trustees in relation to the premises shall bind all persons interested under this my will and shall not be objected to or questioned upon any ground whatever And I declare that it shall be lawful for my executors or my trustees to pay or allow any debts or demands claimed or made against my estate on any evidence which they shall think sufficient and to adjust settle compromise and compound all accounts debts claims demands matters and things respecting my estate and property by reference to arbitration opinion of counsel certificate of accountant or in any other manner and on any terms which they shall think proper and also to give time for the payment or delay the enforcement of any debt or debts due or owing to my estate or any other claim or claims (with or without taking security for the same) and to accept a part in lieu and satisfaction of the whole thereof and also wholly to release or forego any debt or debts claim or claims which they shall consider bad or untenable or such as ought not in justice to be enforced or such as in the opinion of my executors or my trustees I should not have wished to be enforced and generally to wind up and settle my affairs in such manner as they in their absolute discretion shall think most expedient without being responsible for loss And I declare end direct that any executor or original. or future trustee of this my will who is or shall be of the profession of a Solicitor accountant or engaged in any other profession or business shall be entitled to make the same charges and to receive the same remuneration for all business whether of a strictly professional or any other character done by him in or about the administration or management of my estate real or personal in the execution of the trusts of this my will as he would have been entitled to make and receive if he had not been an executor or trustee of this my will IN WITNESS whereof I the said Eliza Ann Alston have to this my last will contained in this and the five preceding sheets of paper set my hand this twenty fourth day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine
ELIZA ANN ALSTON
Signed and acknowledged by the above named testatrix Eliza Ann Alston as her last will in the presence of us present at the same time and who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
ALBERT JOHN WHITE Builder of 10 Ryletone Road Eastbourne
MARY ANN WHITE Wife of above 10 Rylstone Road Eastbourne Sussex

I ELIZA ANN ALSTON of 8 (formerly 9) Cambridge Road Eastbourne in the County of Sussex Spinster declare this to be a codicil to my will which bears date the twenty fourth day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine I confirm the devise and bequest to my brother Herbert Alston and his heirs of all my share of the freehold property (formerly copyhold but now enfranchised) being number 26 North Street Brighton and now in the occupation of Reed C G and Sons Limited 41 Ironmongers and Engineers or my share of the proceeds of sale thereof if sold during my lifetime or the investments representing such proceeds of sale bequeath to each of my domestic servants who shall be in my service at the time of my decease the following legacies free of legacy duty and in addition to any wages then due to them videlicet fifty pounds if the legatee has been in my service five years or more forty pounds if in my service four years or more but less than five years thirty pounds if in my service three years or more but less than four years twenty pounds if in my service for two years or more but less than three years ten pounds if in my service for one year or more but less than two years and five pounds if in my service for under one year And in all other respects I confirm my said will
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunder set my hand this ninth day of April one thousand nine hundred and thirteen
ELIZA ANN ALSTON
Signed by the above named Eliza Ann Alston in the joint presence of us who in her presence and that of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
FRANK ASH Rosemead Mayfield P1 Eastbourne Schoolmaster
E W HARBOURNE 28 Bourne St Eastbourne Schoolmaster

I ELIZA ANN ALSTON of 8 Cambridge Road Eastbourne in the County of Sussex Spinster declare this to be a second codicil to my will which bears date the twenty fourth day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine Whereas the freehold property No 26 North Street Brighton referred to in the first codicil to my will has been sold and I have invested my share of the proceeds of sale thereof together with an additional sum in the purchase of one thousand six hundred and sixty seven pounds local loans stock Now I hereby bequeath the said sum of one thousand six hundred and sixty seven pounds local loans stock or the invest-ments representing the same at my death to my brother Herbert Alston And in all other respects I confirm my said will and first codicil
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunder set my hand this sixteenth day of January one thousand nine hundred and fourteen
ELIZA ANN ALSTON
Signed by the above named Eliza Ann Alston in the joint presence of us who in her presence and that of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
FRANK ASH 24 Mayfield Place Eastbourne Schoolmaster
E W HARBOURNE 28 Bourne Street Eastbourne Schoolmaster
ON the 24th day of May 1917 Probate of this will and two codicils was granted to Herbert Alston Frederic William Lucas and Gilbert Rowland Alston the Executors.

Alston Eliza Ann of 8 Cambridge road Eastbourne spinster died 6 April 1917. Probate London 24 May 1917 to the Rev Herbert Alston Clerk Frederick William Lucas solicitor and Gilbert Roland Alston barrister at law Effects £19208 3s 0d
National Probate Calendar.