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Sat 9 Mar 1901 - The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947)
Page 11 - Two Big Wills.
Two Big Wills.
Skarratt and James Wesley Hall.
The wills of Charles Caleton Skarratt, of
Summer Hill, bur more recently of London,
and James Wesley Hall, late of Toorak, Mel
bourne, have been proved (says the Svdney
Daily Telegraph of March 6), the former at
£389,676 10s., and the latter at £67,010. In
each case tho New South Wales estates only
are involved. No bequests are made to
charities or for public purposes.
In the case of C. C. Skarratt, the widow,
Mary Ellen Skarrntt, the son-in-law, Thomas
A Keigwin, Walter Russell Hall, and Kelso
King are appointed trustees and secretaries.
To T. A. Keigwin and Kelso King £500 free
of duty each is bequeathed, with 2 1/2 perr cent
for administration. To Fanny Skarratt,
widow of the testator's late brother, William
Carleton Skarratt, an annuity of £240 is
willed. To testator's widow is bequeathed
£3,000 for immediate use, all articles of
personal and domestic use and adorn-
ment, the right to the use free of rent of any
residence belonging to the testator, subject
to the payment of taxes and insurance. The
residue of the estate Is bequeathed to the trus
tees upon trust to manage same and to pay
one moiety of the annual income to testator's,
widow for her separate use and benefit, and,
subect to such payment, the estate is to.be
subdivided among testator's eight children —
Thomas Carleton Skarratt, Charles Sydney
Skarratt, May Ellen Bridge, wife of John C,
E. Bridge, Emily Carloton M'Quade, wife of
Frederick M'Quade, Lucy Ann Theobald,
wife of Charles Henry Gordon Eyre Theo
bald, Amy Carleton Keigwin, wife of Thomas
Henry Kcigwin, Violet Skarratt, and Daisey
Skarratt, or in the evont of tho decease
of any one of the children, to the
grandchildren, in substitution. Power, is
given to the trustee?, at the request in writing
of either of the testator' sons, to raise out of
the capital of such sons' aliure any Bum or
sums up to £10,000, and to pay the money to
such sons for their absolute use. This will
was made ou Deootnber 23, 1897, but last year
a codicil was added, leaving £3,000 a year to
be puid to tho widow, so long as she may live
with her daughters Daisey or Violet, or either
of the,, to defray the cost of lyiintenance of
their joint home, such provisions to be in
. addition to any provision made in the will.
To each of the eight children of his deceased
brother, William Skarratt. testator bequeaths
£100; to his nephew, Harry Brotliorwood,
£ 1 00 ; and to his niece, Alice Ward, of
Kington, Hereford, England, £100.
Tho trustees of the Hall estate are Walter
Russell Hall (of Sydney), Kelso King (of
Sydney), and Arthur Frederick Hooper (of
Toorak, Melbourne). To each of them £1,000
is bequeathed, free of legacy duty, with 2J
per cent commission for administration. The
trustees, together with testator's widow,
Margaret Kate Lillian Hall, are constituted
guardians of the children under age. To the
widow testator bequeathed all articles of per
sonal or domestic use or household ornament,
with a legacy of £10,000, and an annuity of
£2,000, free from tho control or disporitiou of
uuy husband, should she marry ngaiui.
Louisa Sarah, widow of Albert Henry,
of PorMshed, Somersetshire, England,
comes iii . for a legacy of £2,000,
and Alfred Caddcll, of Emmaville, . be
comes possessed of testator's mining
interests in tho New England and Grafton
districts. To each of his sisters-in-law,
Georgia Frances May Dempster, Maria Huon
Dempster, and Madeline Elma, wife of A.
F. Hooper, testator bequeaths 1,000 shares
each in the Mount Morgan Gold Mining
Company; to Thomas Carleton Skarratt, his
cousin, a legacy of £600,; to George A.
Richards, of Mount Morgan, £2,000; to
Thomas Corner, also of Mount Morgan,
£600; and to his uncle, Thomas Carleton
Skarratt, ot Kington, Hereford, England,
an annuity of £200. Out of the residuary
estate the trustees are directed to pay testa
tor's widow any sum up to £1,000 a rear for
the.inaintenunce and education of each of the
children under age or unmarried ; the trus
tees to have power to increase such allowances
under certain circumstances.