Rufus Jarman researcher?

[Arranroots]

Hi Lyn

You can post anything you have transcribed yourself if you wish.

Or send by PM if that's easier.

 

[Fitz John Hall]

Hello Lynda ,

It's most interesting to see how the pieces are falling into place within the Will ; the trust was common knowledge in our family as my father can remember his mum ; Annie Hall discussing the trust in the early 1940's .

Also , entries within  John Fitz John Hall's diary ;  indicate a close bond between his older sister Ann , whereby he sees her as the closest to a Mother he had ever experienced in life , this accounts for Ann Jarman's Will.

As offered , I would  like to see what was transcribed in your productive research , that would be much appreciated thanks .

Fitz John Hall

[MegM]

Hi, Lynda - and thank you very much for posting these fascinating details. I'm really interested to see how she changes her mind regarding the legacies.
She was a very wealthy woman and, even after her charitable distributions, Major Chapman's children should have been 'much advantaged'!
I gather from what you've written that these were the people who were the subject of the executors' search?
Would love to hear any more details.
Could I ask how and where you obtained the will?
Thanks again.
MegM

[Lyn4]

I find I can't attach a Word document here and I am suddenly having trouble with my usual email account  so I can't send my summary of the will  by pm either. I will sort something out soon, because I would like to know if anyone has any background information about all the people in it. 

If you search the London Gazette for a mention of Jarman or Beadel in 1993, you'll see that they were actually looking for all persons claiming to be next of kin of AEJ alive at her death, but only in connection with a £1000 trust. Rosa Julia Claget received  £1000 at the beginning of the original will,
separately from the residual estate - and that £1000 was adjusted to income only after her marriage, just like the rest of the estate. There seem to be two references in the first codicil to what should happen to all this - firstly  to all of the next of kin (and they are all listed in the London Gazette) but later to  the specific named people that I listed above.  The London Gazette is also looking for anybody claiming the two legacies of £100 each to Fitz John Hall's daughters. The children of Major Chapman would have been nieces and nephews of Rosa Julia Claget - children of her sister. 

Ann Elizabeth Jarman sounds like a kind person in her will. I think she was probably quite close to the Beadel children as well, after they lost their mother. In 1871, nine-year-old Rupert was at her house for the census. But non family members did seem to come in and out of the will at quite a rate in the latter stages. I found it quite amusing that she switched £1000 from St Josephs Church to St Johns Chapel and tehn withdrew it completely.   

Regards Lynda

[Lyn4]

Sorry - I meant 1933 - not 93!

Lynda

[Durhamgirl]

I am researching early antique dealers of whom John Boykett Jarman (d. 1864) was one.  Does anyone have any family records with either a picture of this particular member of the Jarman family or any records which he may possibly have kept by any chance relating to his business?  I would be most interested if so.

For the record, he was one of the leading dealers in decorative art and also in illuminated missals in the first half of the nineteenth century, initially with a shop in the Strand and also a shop in New Bond Street.  He had some pretty exclusive customers and also quite a reputation for faking!

Many thanks.