Will of Amy Henrietta Frances Eccles McClintock (1929)
Introduction
Amy Henrietta Frances Eccles McClintock of Seskinore executed her last will and testament on 15 February 1929.
At the time the will was made, her husband Colonel John Knox McClintock was still living and her daughter Amelia Isobel Eccles McClintock (“Leila”) was expected to succeed to the family’s interests.
The will is remarkably simple. Amy left her entire estate to her only child, Leila, and appointed Francis Samuel DuBedat Colquhoun, solicitor of Dublin, as sole executor.
Subsequent events dramatically altered the operation of the will. Leila died in January 1937, more than five years before Amy. Tony Joynson-Wreford, who proved Leila’s estate, also predeceased Amy in 1940. As a result, when Amy died in 1942, administration of her estate required a more complex probate process involving representatives of the Joynson-Wreford estate.
Transcript
Last Will and Testament of Amy Henrietta McClintock
15 February 1929
I AMY HENRIETTA McCLINTOCK wife of Colonel John Knox McClintock of Seskinore in the County of Tyrone hereby revoke all former Wills or Testamentary dispositions of any kind heretofore made by me and declare this to be my last Will.
I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all my property Real and Personal to my daughter Amelia Isabella Eccles Field absolutely and I appoint to her any property over which I may have a Power of Appointment.
I APPOINT Francis Samuel DuBedat Colquhoun of 25 Clare Street in the City of Dublin Solicitor to be the sole Executor of this my Will and I declare that he shall be entitled to charge for all work done by him or his Firm in connection with the execution of the Trusts of this my Will in the same way as if not being an Executor hereof he were professionally employed by my Executor.
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of February One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty Nine.
Probate
Amy died at:
Molstyn, Orestan Lane, Effingham, Surrey
on 4 April 1942.
The probate papers record that Leila had already died on 30 January 1937 and that Tony Joynson-Wreford died on 23 March 1940.
Administration was eventually granted in 1947 to Thomas Frederick Maddocks, acting as personal representative of the Joynson-Wreford estate.
Significance
Although brief, Amy’s will forms an important link in the succession history of Seskinore.
It demonstrates that Amy intended her estate to pass entirely to Leila, but the premature deaths of both Leila and Tony transformed the succession. The probate papers therefore provide important evidence for the final transfer of family interests from the McClintock line into the Joynson-Wreford family and ultimately to Penelope (“Xenia”) Joynson-Wreford.
See Also
People
- Amy Henrietta Frances Eccles McClintock (1874–1942)
- Colonel John Knox McClintock (1860–1936)
- Amelia Isobel Eccles McClintock (“Leila”) (1898–1937)
- Captain Wilfred Heyman (“Tony”) Joynson-Wreford (1897–1940)
- Penelope (“Xenia”) Joynson-Wreford
- Francis Samuel DuBedat Colquhoun
- Thomas Frederick Maddocks
Estate & Inheritance
- Marriage Settlement of John Knox McClintock and Amy Henrietta Eccles (1893)
- 1937–1938 Settlement and Conveyance of Seskinore
- End of a House That Nobody Wanted: Seskinore 1936–1952
- The Decline and End of The Seskinore Estate
Probate & Wills
- Will of Amelia Isobel Eccles Joynson-Wreford (1935; proved 1937)
- Will of Captain Wilfred Heyman Joynson-Wreford (1940)