Tim Anderson quotes : >...and I give and bequeath all my Household Goods ... and also >my Carriage ... also with my seat or pew in Saint Nicholas >Chapel in Whitehaven aforesaid and my Mortgage upon a >share of the Whitehaven Theatre with the Silver Ticket >attached to it unto such of my Daughters as may be living >unmarried at the time of my decease so long as they shall >respectively remain unmarried and to the survivors or survivor >of such of them as may from time to time continue to unmarried... Very interesting. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it before. I understand the principle of giving the ice on the cake to the unmarried daughters. After all, the married ones have probably already had their 'dowry' and are now tied to the financial fortunes of their husbands. What you now want is to marry off the younger ones; and how better than to show them off in a carriage, a pew and a theatre box? But to do this generation after generation? That seems excessively thoughtful and not very practical. It would surely require some sort of Trustee arrangement? Unless ... hmm ... could it be that he had some specific grandchildren in mind? Chris chris@dickinson.uk.net

I wrote: >But to do this generation after generation? Oops! I'm completely wrong. Guy Etchells has enlightened me about the meaning of 'from time to time' and will, I hope, post in due course. I like to demonstrate my fallibility from time to time :-) Chris chris@dickinson.uk.net

Hi Patricia -- Go to www.old-maps.co.uk and search Black Ling as an address. The number one result should be Black Ling, Egremont, Cumbria. Click on this. From the next list click Black Ling Cottages. I think that you may be given a list of cottages. Choose one and click and you will get a map. At the bottom of this page click on "Enlarged Map". You will find the Black Ling cottages on this 1867 map just up the road, through Snellings and Kell Head, from Rothersyke House. Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Dickinson" <chris@dickinson.uk.net> To: <ENG-CUL-COPELAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [CUL-COP] Whitehaven Churches: Holy Trinity vs. Saint Nicholas vs. Saint James > Tim Anderson quotes : > > >...and I give and bequeath all my Household Goods ... and also > >my Carriage ... also with my seat or pew in Saint Nicholas > >Chapel in Whitehaven aforesaid and my Mortgage upon a > >share of the Whitehaven Theatre with the Silver Ticket > >attached to it unto such of my Daughters as may be living > >unmarried at the time of my decease so long as they shall > >respectively remain unmarried and to the survivors or survivor > >of such of them as may from time to time continue to > unmarried... > > > Very interesting. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it > before. > > I understand the principle of giving the ice on the cake to the > unmarried daughters. After all, the married ones have probably > already had their 'dowry' and are now tied to the financial > fortunes of their husbands. What you now want is to marry off the > younger ones; and how better than to show them off in a carriage, > a pew and a theatre box? > > But to do this generation after generation? That seems > excessively thoughtful and not very practical. It would surely > require some sort of Trustee arrangement? Unless ... hmm ... > could it be that he had some specific grandchildren in mind? > > > Chris > chris@dickinson.uk.net > > ______________________________