Daniel Constable ALSTON [3765]

  General Notes:

Manuscript Indenture Deed of Assignment between Daniel Constable Alston Manningtree 1841
Deed of Release of a Messuage and Premises at Manningtree forming the Corner House at the extremity of the Turnpike at manningtree on the Harwich Rd., Daniel Constable Alston of Manningtree in the Co Essex Brewer of the First Part, James Howard of the Same Place Ship Owner and John Thomas Ambrose of Mistley in the Co. Essex
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Essex Record Office
Manorial records of Wix Hall or Abby
DEEDS OF WIX AND MISTLEY Level: Series D/DXk 28-40
Deeds of Westlands Farm, Wix
Reference Code D/DXk 33 Dates of Creation 11 APRIL 1857
Admission of Daniel Constable ALSTON of Maningtree, gentleman, (youngest son of Daniel C.A [as in 32], on death of Sarah Cutting (wife of Jos,Q) [Recites D.D.XK, 32; & Absolute Surrender, dated 15 January 1830, of William, Ham of Wix, farmer, to use of D.D.A. senior of the reversion in the moiety of the farm called Westlands]. The said farm called Westlands in Wix [as in 32]. [Steward: Robt.Winter gentleman]. Date From 1857 Date To 1857

D/DXk 36 ERO
Absolute Surrender for £480; of Daniel Constable Alston of Little Bromley, gentleman
DEEDS OF WIX AND MISTLEY
D/DXk 28-40 Deeds of Westlands Farm, Wix
Scope and Content:
by the direction of John Wenden of Great Bromley, farmer, to use of Elizabeth Wenden (wife of John W).
[As in D.D.XK.32]
[Steward: William Esdails Winter gentleman. Deputy-steward for this purpose only: Charles Spencer Owen gentleman]
Dates of Creation: 13 March 1860.

Essex Record Office
Level: Fonds DEEDS OF WIX AND MISTLEY
Level: Series D/DXk 28-40 Deeds of Westlands Farm, Wix
Level: Item
Reference Code D/DXk/38
Dates of Creation 16 May 1860
Scope and Content Manor of Wix Hall or Abby. Admission of Eliz.Wenden (w.of John W.) on Absolute Surrender of D.D Alston [D/DXk 36] [As in D/DX 32] [Court of Edgar Walter Gerland esq., held at the house of Mr. Geo.Webb at Wix. Steward: Wm.Esdaile Winter]. [Homage: Hoe Rudland & Roobt. Barber]. [One paper & one parchment copy].

Essex Record Office
Level: Category Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds DEEDS OF WIX AND MISTLEY
Level: Series D/DXk 28-40 Deeds of Westlands Farm, Wix

Level: Item
Reference Code D/DXk/37
Dates of Creation 16 May 1860
Scope and Content Manor of Wix Hall or Abby. Admission of Eliz.Wenden (w.of John W.) on Absolute Surrender of D.D Alston [D/DXk 36] [As in D/DX 32] [Court of Edgar Walter Gerland esq., held at the house of Mr. Geo.Webb at Wix. Steward: Wm.Esdaile Winter]. [Homage: Hoe Rudland & Roobt. Barber]. [One paper & one parchment copy].

Deaths.
Alston - 15th inst., aged 42, Daniel Constable Alston, Esq., of Little Bromley, Essex.
Ipswich Journal 24 March 1860.

Deaths
On the 15th inst., aged 42, Daniel Constable Alston Esq., of Little Bromley."
Bury and Norwich Post 20 March 1860.

Daniel Constable Alston
Age: 44
Birth Date: abt 1816
Death Date: abt 1860
Burial Date: 21 Mar 1860
Burial Place: Manningtree, St Michael and All Angels, Essex, England

England Return of Owners of Land 1873. Essex.
Alston D. C. (Exors). Colchester 116a 2r 32p gross estimated rental value. L214.

In 1965/6 the Manningtree church was demolished and housing built on the site, in the process the grave yard memorials were lost and the deceased exhumed and reburied in Mistly churchyard.

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 30 Mar 1851, High St Manningtree. Daniel is recorded as a son married aged 34 brewer employing 12 men born Manningtree ESS HO107/1780

2. Daniel Constable Alston: Will, 1 Mar 1860, Little Bromley ESS.
Daniel died a widower leaving a young family, his estate was left in trust for his children's benefit to his Executors and Trustees his brother Edward John Alston of Gt Bromley ESS, and brother in law Frederick Wase of Holbrook SFK.

Ipswich

Will
Daniel Constable Alston

July 1860

Last Will and testament of Daniel Constable Alston of Little Bromley Essex Gentleman

All freehold and leasehold estates (except those vested in me upon mortgage) to
Edward John Alston of Great Bromley Essex Gentleman and Frederick Wase of Holbrook Suffolk farmer,
their heirs, etc. according to the nature and tenure of the trusts, and for them to make sale and dispose of
my estates as soon as possible following my death as well as the copyhold or customary messuages, lands, etc.
to which I or any person in trust for me may be seized or entitled either together or in parcels and either by
public auction or private contract with full power to buy in and to rescind any contract for sale without being
responsible for any loss etc. and by and out of the money to arise from such sale to pay for my funeral and
testamentary expenses and debts and invest the residue in their name/s in any public stocks or funds of
Great Britain or on government or real security in England with power to vary at their discretion and to hold
the stocks, funds, securities and annual income thereof upon trust for my child/ren who shall attain
the age of twenty-one shared equally. For trustees to use up to one half of any one child's share for their advancement
or benefit, and to apply whole or part of the annual income of a share as they see fit for any child entitled for their
maintenance or education either directly or to his guardian/s and otherwise accumulate the residue (if any) thereof
in the way of compound interest by investing the same and the resulting income thereof to be used the same way.

If no child surviving to attain the age of 21 I give and bequeath the said stocks, funds, monies, shares and
securities or so much thereof as shall not have been vested or applied under the trusts aforesaid to Edward John Alston,
his heirs, etc.

Until all estate shall be sold, trustees to apply the income of that estate to pay those payable
after all rates, taxes, expenses of repairs, insurance, etc. have been paid.

All freehold and copyhold hereditaments vested in me upon mortgage to Edward John Alston and Frederick Wase, heirs, etc.
subject to the equity of redemption subsisting therein respectively but the money secured on such mortgages shall be
considered as part of my personal estate.

I appoint Edward John Alston and Frederick Wase guardians of my children and executors of this my Will and
authorise them to pay any debts owed by me at this time and to accept any composition or security for any debt and
to compromise or submit to arbitration and settle all accounts and matters belonging or relating to my estate and to
act in regard as they shall think fit without being responsible for any loss.

Receipt/s in writing of the trustee/s for the time being acting in the co-execution of any trusts shall fully discharge the
purchaser/s or other person/s paying.

If any trustee shall die or be desirous of being discharged, become incapable to act, etc. then the trustee/s (including
the retiring trustee) may appoint another person to be trustee who is to be given the same powers as the original trustee.

Trustee/s to be chargeable for the time being only with such monies as he/they shall actually receive and shall not be
answerable the one for the other nor for any banker, broker, or other person in whose hands the trust money shall be
placed nor for the insufficiency of any stocks, funds, etc. or involuntary losses. Trustee/s to reimburse themselves for
all expenses incurred in the execution of this my Will.

Signed, 1st of March 1860
D. C. Alston

Signed in the presence of us
C. S. Owen Sol'r Manningtree
E. Southgate servant to Mr D. C. Alston

A correct copy

On the 19th day of July 1860 the Will of Daniel
Constable Alston late of Little Bromley in the County of Essex

Gentleman deceased who died on the fifteenth day of March
1860 at Little Bromley aforesaid was proved in the District
Registry attached to Her Majesty's Court of Probate at Ipswich
by the oaths of Edward John Alston of Great Bromley Essex
Gentleman and Frederick Wase of Holbrook Suffolk farmer the
executors having been first sworn duly to administer - effects
under £7,000 - extracted by C. S. Owen
Sol'r Manningtree

Transcribed and summarised by C. L. O'Sullivan 04.08.2023

3. Daniel Constable Alston: Will, 1 Mar 1860, Little Bromley ESS.
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Daniel married Susannah WASE [3916] [MRIN: 1345], daughter of Jeremiah WASE of Bruisyard Hall [10005] and Susannah LING [32090], on 7 Nov 1843 in Bruisyard SFK. (Susannah WASE [3916] was born in Bruisyard SFK, baptised on 7 Sep 1815 in Kettleburgh, Suffolk, died on 4 Oct 1855 and was buried on 10 Oct 1855 in Manningtree SFK.)