Benefactors

EMMA GRACE, nee BRODIE research by Joan West

1841 CENSUS

Wardrobes Farm.   James Grace 51,widower, Mary Grace 40, sister single, Oliver James Grace 7, Mortimer Kelson 6, Emma Brodie 35, single, of independent means

MARRIED at St. Marylebone, London

1846. Emma Brodie, daughter of Alexander Brodie, clergyman dec’d, married James Grace, widower of Princes Risborough, son of Thomas Grace.

EASTBOURNE 1851 CENSUS

Emma’s mother is head of house, widow of a clergyman, with Emma, married, 3 sisters, and a brother, all single, 6 house servants and a coachman.

DEATH of JAMES GRACE James Grace died 1857.

1861 CENSUS Eastbourne.    Emma Grace, 55, widow.

1862.  EMMA GRACE FOUNDATION FORMED

1871 CENSUS Eastbourne. Emma’s sister Anna Hall, 67, is head of house, with Emma Grace 63.   Also 3 servants.

1881 CENSUS Walters Ash, 3^rd cottage from The Wheel,   Emma Grace, 76, widow, 76, gentlewoman.

DEATH & PROBATE

Emma Grace died 3^rd November 1890 at Eastbourne.   Executors, William Brodie of Eastbourne & Frederick Brodie of Isle of Wight, brothers.   £10,852 – 16 – 8d.   Re-sworn February 1891, £11,018 – 8 – 3d

See below for details of the gifts given by Emma Grace, being the profits from a farm at Walters Ash to support Loosley Row School and Speen School.

1862.  CONVEYANCE and TRUST DEED for the EMMA GRACE FOUNDATION

October 3^rd 1862.  Ash Farm, between

1.      James Tilbury, yeoman, William Day his mortgagee (for £700) and: -

2.      Reverend William Johnson Burgess, Charles Brown of Lacey Green gent and Edward Anderson farmer of Darvills Hill, Vicar and churchwardens of St. John’s Church Lacey Green and Emma Grace, widow, of Loosley House William Brodie Esq of Eastbourne, Sussex, Frederic Brodie Esq of Uckfield, Sussex,   Thomas Wheeler of High Wycombe, banker & brewer, George Frederick Chambers Esq of Kensington.  

James Tilbury agreed to sell to the parties of the 2^nd part for £830 upon trust, for the support of certain schools.  The said sum to be pay £700 to William Day, mortgagee, and £130 the purchase money.

THE TRUST

Upon trust that the Incumbent and Chapel Wardens of the aforesaid Chapel of St. John the Evangelist at Lacey Green and their successors and the said Emma Grace, William Brodie, Frederick Brodie, Thomas Wheeler and George Frederick Chambers, trustees and their successors, shall at all times hereafter, in the first place, from time to time, pay and apply the rents, issues and profits of the said messuage, lands and premises, towards the repair and improvement of the said premises and also insuring the buildings.  And shall pay and apply the surplus of such rents, issues and profits in the following manner : -

TO LOOSLEY ROW SCHOOL

ne equal half thereof, Upon Trust, to transfer the same, half yearly, into the hands of the Trustees of the school erected by the said Emma Grace at Loosley Row.   To be applied towards the support, carrying on and maintaining of such school in the way and manner directed by the Trust Deed thereof

TO SPEEN SCHOOL

The remaining equal half of such surplus rents and profits Upon Trust, in like manner to transfer the same, half yearly, into the hands of the Trustees of the school also erected or in the course of erection by the said Emma Grace at Speen  

SCHEDULE

All that messuage wherein John Joynson formerly dwelt, now and for  some time past in the occupation of James Tilbury situate near Naphill Common, with the yard, garden, barn and outbuildings and premises thereto belonging.  And also all those 7 parcels of arable, meadow and pasture land, lying in a ring fence adjoining the messuage, all which closes contain together 16 acres, 3 roods and 39 poles, bounded on the greatest part of the N and E by farm and lands formerly belonging and in the occupation of ? Jones, but now to the representative of the late Sir William Lawrence Young, Bart, and in the occupation of Thomas Hall.   On the south side principally by land now or late belonging to William Janes, but partly by Naphill Common and on the West partly by a meadow formally occupied by John Joynson and now or late belonging to George Roctor and party by the Common, All of which said lands, except the parts occupied by the homestead forming 7 closes were formerly called respectively: - Further Field, Middle Field, Hither Field, Orchard, First Meadow, Second Meadow and Third Meadow.   But in the Tithe Map are called respectively  ; -Pitty Meadow, Square Meadow, Orchard, Home Field, Lower Field, Long Field and Big Meadow

CHARLES BROWN of Stocken Farm, churchwarden, was instrumental in formalising Lacey Green School and giving it to St. John's Church, Lacey Green.

24th March 1860 Conveyance

Charles Brown purchased from the executors of Sarah Shard of Grymsdyke Lodge

nos 1 and 2 Grymsdyke Cottages and a Schoolroom

DEED OF GIFT

3rd February 1875.   Charles Brown conveyed to the Minister and Churchwardens of St. John's Church, Lacey Green: -

Schedule

All that piece of ground situate at Lacey Green adjoining the highroad there, containing twenty-one and a half yards or thereabouts and in depth sixteen yards or thereabouts, as is now fenced out and divided from the other land of the said Charles Brown and which piece of land, hereby conveyed many years ago, given by the said Charles Brown for the purposes of education and on which piece of land schools and other buildings have for some time been created and built.

DEEDS OF GIFT

1.      3^rd April 1924.    Deed of Gift from Harold Edward Carter of Grymsdyke 27perches of land.

2.      8^th February 1977. Piece of previously loaned land to the rear of the Village Hall, given by Lady Bateman.

3.      January 1977, Gift of a flag and flag-pole from Mrs Waite of Loosley House