Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 13 July 1912

LOCAL WILLS. MANY LEGACIES BY MRS.LOUISA DARELL-BROWN. Property to the total value of £190,744 IM. gross, and £186,655 9d. net, has been left by Mrs. Louisa Dareil-Brown. of Queen-mansions, Victoria-street, Westminster, and White Rock House, St. Margaret's-road. Hastings, wife Mr. Henrv Darell-Brown. and daughter of the late Mr. George Henry Brown, who died the 29th of May.

Her husband, and Mr. Romer Williams, and Mr. Henry Shadforth, are the executors. The will bears the date the 22nd February, 1909, with a codicil of October, 1911, by which testator leaves: To her husband, and, in addition thereto, all share and interest in Societad Especial Miners Sabina; £500 each to Komer Williams and Henry Shadforth, her cousin Robert Henry Bullock Marsham. Harry Wilmot Lee, Laura wife of Robert H. B. Marsham, her god-daughter, Marv Evelyn Marsham. her sisters-in-law, Emily Mary Bennett and Flora Eliza Clarke', and her nephews, Lionel Altham Graham Clarke. John Eagles Graham Clarke. Leonard Warre Graham Clarke, and Gerald Graham Clarke, her niece, Grace Emily Darell-Brown, and her cousin, Eugenie Sea ton. each her cousins, the Rev. Ernest William Brown Mrs. Jessie Buchanan. £1.900 each to her nephew, Henry Forbes Darell-Brown, and the Rev. Otway Darell- Brown. £4,000 each to her god-daughters, Mary Louisa Seaton and Hester Mary McDonald Griffiths Buchanan.

£5,000 equally to the daughters of the late Mrs. Edith Tarleton. £1,000 to her god-daughter, the Lady Elizabeth Blanch Mary Hay. £200 each to Ada. Olive Mabel, and Violet Grace, daughters of the late Edward Rogers, ef 56. Friday-street. E.C. £4,000 in trust for her cousin, Alice Burnett, for life, and then to the eaid daughters of Edith Tarleton. £300 to her coachman, John Melton. each to her indoor and outdoor servants of five years' service if her service her death, to each other of such service.

£12.000 in trust for her husband for life, and then to the St. Catherine Clun Valley Cottage Hospital, established by her Clun, Shropshire. White Rock House, Hastings, to her husband for life, and then to her nephew, Henry Forbes Darell-Brown. And all the rest and residue of her property to her husband for life, and then: £5,000 to her nephew, Henry F. Darell- Brown. £500 each the East Sussex Hospital, Hastings; the Buchanan Homoeopathic Hospital, St. Leonards: the National Benevolent Institution ; the Governesses' Institution, 32, Sackville-street. W.

£500 the Rector and Churchwardens of Knighton, Radnor, in trust to apply the income for painting, repairing, and maintaining the tomb of her sister. Catherine Brown, in the churchyard of that parish, and the balance to distributed New Year's Eve each year in the form of fuel and flannel or otherwise among the deserving parishioners of Knighton over the age of 76 as the said Rector and Churchwardens think fit  and testatrix desires a brass tablet recording this bequest to be erected in the said church; and the ultimate residue to one-sixth equally to the children of the Rev. Lionel Edward Darell-Brown, one-sixth equally to the children of Edith Tarleton. one-sixth equally to the children Flora Eliza Graham Clarke, one-sixth equally to the children of Ernest William Brown, equally the children of Eugenie Seaton, and one-sixth equally to the children of Jessie Buchanan.