Will: Loughnan, Maria June 10, 1842 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Kilkenny Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning ros.dunning@outlook.com February 3, 2018, 3:27 am WILL: LOUGHNAN, MARIA JUNE 10, 1842 Source: National Archives Kew England Written: June 10, 1842 Recorded: February 2, 2018 This is the last Will and Testament of me Maria Loughnan Widow of Peter Loughnan Esqr deceased and now of Crohill Lodge in the County of Kilkenny I devise all my real estate of whatsoever tenure and wheresoever situate and all my chattels real and personal estate of every nature and kind whatsoever to which at my decease be entitled either in possession reversion upon any contingency or otherwise howsoever unto Nicholas Cahill of Lismayne and Thomas Wright of Foulksrath both of the County of Kilkenny Esqrs their heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively upon trust in the first place to pay all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences out of my personal estate and in the event of my personal estate not being sufficient for that purpose to pay any balance which may then remain due out of my real estates which I hereby direct and empower to be sold or a sufficient part thereof for that purpose and I bequeath the residue of my personal estate after payment of my debts to my said trustees their executors administrators and assigns respectively upon trust to sell and convert the same save any chattels real of which I may die possessed or be entitled to into money and to invest the monies to arise therefrom in the name or names of the trustees or trustee for the time being of my will in or on the public funds or in Government or in real securities at the option and desire of my daughter hereinafter mentioned and subject thereto and to the bequests hereinafter mentioned upon trust to pay the rents and profits of my said real estates and chattels real and the interest dividends and produce of such my personal estate as and when the same shall become due and not by way of anticipation into the hands of my daughter Maria Power wife of Francis Robert Power Surgeon and now of London for her sole and separate use independently of her said husband and freed and discharged from all debts and control of his (and for which rents and profits interest dividends and produce her receipts alone shall be a sufficient discharge to my said trustees) for and during her natural life and from and after her decease to and amongst and to the use of any child or children which she may have by her present or any future husband which she may take in such shares and proportions and in such manner as she shall by any deed or will duly attested by two witnesses limit and appoint and in default of appointment to and amongst such child or children share and share alike as tenants in common if more than one and if only one to such only child absolutely and in the event of my said daughter dying without having any child living at her death or who shall have been married in her lifetime then in trust for and to the use of such person or persons as my said daughter shall devise the same unto provided however and it is my will and intention that the said Francis Robert Power my said daughter's present husband and every member of the family of my late husband Peter Loughnan shall be excluded from taking any benefit whatsoever under by or from such power of my bequeathing my said estate or property now given and devised by me to my said daughter and in the event of any bequest or devise being made by her to the said Francis Robert Power or to any member of my said late husband's family it is my will and intention that such bequest or devise to the amount thereof shall be void and shall go over and be distributed and applied in manner hereinafter mentioned as if my said daughter had died intestate as to the amount of such bequest or devised and in case my said daughter shall become entitled in manner before mentioned to the absolute disposal and property of and in the said real estate and personal property of which I have so given her the life use in the first instance and shall die intestate as to the whole thereof then my will and intention is that my said trustees or the survivor of them and the heirs executors and administrators of such survivor shall out of the rents and profits of my said real estates and chattels real and out of the said annual proceeds of my said personal estate pay in each and every year upon the anniversary of my decease for ever a sum of twenty five pounds to such person as shall for the time being be acting in and performing the duties of a Roman Catholic Parish Priest in the Parish of Freshford in the County of Kilkenny and a like sum upon the same day to the like person in the Parish of in the City of Kilkenny such sums of twenty five pounds and twenty five pounds to be applied and devoted to the purposes of saying and offering up Masses for the repose of my soul and the souls of my late husband and of my said daughter and any child or children which she may have and who shall have died without becoming entitled to the benefit of such bequests for such child or children and as to the rest and residue of my said real and personal estate after payment of such annuities of twenty five pounds and twenty five pounds upon the contingency hereinbefore mentioned upon trust to pay the annual rents and profits and produce thereof to such person as aforesaid who shall for the time being be acting in and performing the duties of a Roman Catholic Parish Priest of and in the parish of Freshford to be distributed and applied by him annually to and amongst such of the poor of the said Parish as he shall think fit for their clothing and education and in such shares and proportions as he shall consider best suited to carry out the intention of this my will provided that no one person shall receive any more than the sum of three pounds sterling in any one year and in case my said daughter shall be reason of any such bequest as aforesaid to her said husband or to any member of my said late husband's family die intestate in manner aforesaid as to the amount of such bequest then my will is that the annual produce of such bequest shall be applied in equal moieties having masses said and offered up in manner aforesaid in such Parishes and for the repose of the souls of the persons hereinbefore mentioned in that behalf provided it shall not exceed the said sums of twenty five pounds and twenty five pounds annually and in case it shall then the surplus to be applied as the residue of my said estates and property has been hereinbefore directed to be accredited in case of such intestacy as aforesaid of my said daughter and it is my further will that my said trustees shall out of my said property raise and take the sum of two hundred pounds to be applied by them in manner following that is to say fifty pounds thereof to the persons who shall at the time of my death (or whenever my said trustees can raise the amount from my assets) be acting in and performing the duties and functions of a Roman Catholic Parish Priest and Roman Catholic Curates of and in the Parish of Freshford fifty pounds thereof to the like person in the Parish of Saint James in the City of Kilkenny fifty pounds thereof to the like person in the Parish of Ballyraggett and fifty pounds thereof to the persons who shall be performing the duties and functions of Roman Catholic Parish Priests in the Convent in Walkin Street in the City of Kilkenny and my desire is that such sums shall be applied by such persons respectively in saying and offering up masses for the repose of my soul according to the usages and rites of the Roman Catholic Church I leave and bequeath a sum of one hundred pounds to be paid by my said trustees to the persons who shall at the time of my death or whenever my said trustees can raise the amount from my assets be acting in and performing the duties and functions of a Roman Catholic Parish Priest in the Parish of Freshford to be applied by such person to and amongst such poor persons within the said Parish as he shall think most worthy and for the purpose of their praying for the repose of my soul I further give and bequeath a sum of twenty pounds to my servant Bridget Power and ten pounds to Oliver Walshe I declare that if my said trustees or either of them or any trustees or trustee to be appointed under this clause in my will shall die or be unwilling or incompetent to accept or execute the trusts of my will it shall be lawful for my said daughter whether covert or sole and after her death for the competent or accepting trustee or trustees for the time being if any whether retiring from the Office of Trustee or not or if none for the Executors or Administrators of the last deceased trustee to substitute by any writing under their or his hands or the hand of any person or persons in whom alone as the case may be or jointly with any surviving or continuing trustee my trust estate and property shall be invested and I exempt every trustee of my will from liability for losses occurring without his own wilful default and I authorize him to retain and allow to himself or his Cotrustee all expences incidental to the trusteeship and to the instituting and maintaining and defending any suits or actions in respect of or concerning my said estates and property and I further empower my said trustees or trustee for the time being to make leases in possession and not in reversion of my freehold estates and chattels real at the best improved yearly rent which can reasonably be had for the same without fine and for a term not exceeding thirty one years or three lives Provided that as long as my said daughter shall live her assent shall be testified in writing to the making of any such lease and if my said daughter shall have no issue by her present husband and shall marry again I empower her to settle upon such after taken husband not being a member of the said Loughnan family an interest for life only in one moiety of the amount of the rents and profits and annual produce of my said Estates and property and at his decease in case he shall survive my said daughter the estate and principal sums which shall have produced such moiety shall go and be subject to the trusts of this my will in like manner as the other moiety upon the death of my said daughter shall have become upon any of the contingencies aforesaid And I appoint my said trustees to be Executors of my will lastly I revoke all other wills heretofore made In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two Maria Loughnan (Attestation Clause) James Cullinan _ Joseph .......... (Codicil revoking the raising and application of a sum of two hundred pounds and revoking the legacies to servant executed 12 July 1842 witnessed by James Cullinan and John O'Flynn) (2 January 1846 appearance by James Cullinan of Freshford in the County of Kilkenny Medical Doctor as to execution of the Codicil) 15 January 1846 Administration with Will annexed to Anna Maria Power (in the Will written Maria Power) Wife of Robert Francis Power the Executors having renounced PCC Prob11/2029