| Description | Copy will of Susanna, widow of Charles Hurt of Wirksworth and daughter of Richard Arkwright, reciting the marriage settlement of Charles Hurt and Susanna Arkwright (9-10 June, 1780 - by which lands at Kirk Ireton, Kniveton, Wirksworth, Matlock, were transferred to Philip Gell and John Toplis and younger in trust for Charles Hurt for life and then to preserve contingent remainders, being to the use of Susanna his wife for life, and then to their children, with covenant by Hurt to Gell and Toplis to surrender, after the marriage, copyhold land within the manor of Wirksworth and the manor of Wirksworth, in the manor court to the above trusts, and reciting the settlement by Richard Arkwright upon Susanna of £5000 in view of the marriage and a further £15000 in trust to be laid out on the purchase of freehold land and reciting an appointment by Charles and Susanna (1823) of the above lands to the use of their 7 children in various recited shares, revoking the appointment in the said deed poll (except as appointed to Edward Nicholas Hurt) and appointing it to the use of her children Susanna Ryle, Charles Hurt, Richard Hurt, Mary Anne Arkwright and John Francis Thomas Hurt (who has taken the name John Wolley) in various portions i.e. 2 1/15th shares to Susanna Ryle, 5 1/15th shares to Charles Hurt, 3 1/15th shares to Richard Hurt, 2 1/15th to Mary Anne Arkwright and 3 1/15th shares to John Wolley and dvised £10,000 under the will of her late father to her sons-in-law John Ryle and Peter Arkwright with all her real and personal estate upon trusts to sell and share out as follows; £3000 to Charles Hurt, £1000 to Richard Hurt, £1000 each to the daughters of Richard Hurt, £100 each to Susanna Ryle and Mary Anne Arkwright, £2000 to John Wolley, £100 each to her grandchildren Alfred Arkwright, Emma Ryle and Charles Wolley, her grandchildren Alfred Arkwright, Emma Ryle and Charles Wolley, £50 to her great-grandaughter Caroline Davenport, £20 to her other grand-daughters, £100 each to her grandsons Robert Gesaguliers Hurt and Philip Anthony Hurt, £50 to her friend Miss Ann Wagner, £20 each to her friends Mrs Thomas Clarke and Mrs Bramwell and £10 to her friend Miss Watson. Witnessed by James Milnes, Robert Wigley her butler and Maria Jackson her housekeeper. 5 January 1835 |