Records of Lady Conyngham's Trust

Typescript copy of the will of Ellen, Lady Conyngham; trustees' minutes, 1817-1974, and related papers, 1910-1934; steward's papers, including accounts, 1822-1824, 1828, lists of women in York hospitals, 1823-1843, and correspondence, 1824-1845, 1851; financial papers, including accounts, 1816-1977, bank books, 1894-1931, receipts, 1854-1882, 1911-1975, paying-in books, 1926-1935, 1940-1968, and papers relating to stocks and sinking fund, 1934-1967; papers relating to the Charities Commission, 1876-1935; applications for payments of annuities from poor clergyman, 1817-1881, 1904-1952, clergymen's widows, 1831, 1906-1962, and poor women, 1816-1854, 1931-1962; combined files of applications, elections and correspondence for annuities to clergymen's widows and poor women, 1914-1953; list of beneficiaries of the annuity paid to clergymen's widows, 1916-1928; list of those helped by the Trust, 1932-1933.

Lady Conyngham's Trust was established by the will of Ellen, Dowager Countess Conyngham of Mount Charles, in 1814.
Countess Conyngham left money in trust to be distributed by the Archbishop, Dean, and Recorder of York for a number of charitable causes.
Annuities of £10 each were to be paid to six poor women of York aged over 50 and chosen by the trustees. The trustees were also to elect ten poor clergyman, with livings in Yorkshire valued at less than £100 per year, to receive annuities of £20 each, and twelve poor indigent and distressed widows of clergy, to receive the same amount.
Annuitants were required to submit a petition and certificate in writing, attesting to their circumstances.
The Countess also bequeathed investments, the dividends from which to be divided between the poor women of four York hospitals; St Thomas's Hospital, St Catherine's Hospital, Mrs Middleton's Hospital, and Mrs Mason's Hospital.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute prior to 1993. A further addition was made to the archive in 1993.

Lady Conyngham's Trust was established by the will of Ellen, Dowager Countess Conyngham of Mount Charles, in 1814.
Countess Conyngham left money in trust to be distributed by the Archbishop, Dean, and Recorder of York for a number of charitable causes.
Annuities of £10 each were to be paid to six poor women of York aged over 50 and chosen by the trustees. The trustees were also to elect ten poor clergyman, with livings in Yorkshire valued at less than £100 per year, to receive annuities of £20 each, and twelve poor indigent and distressed widows of clergy, to receive the same amount.
Annuitants were required to submit a petition and certificate in writing, attesting to their circumstances.
The Countess also bequeathed investments, the dividends from which to be divided between the poor women of four York hospitals; St Thomas's Hospital, St Catherine's Hospital, Mrs Middleton's Hospital, and Mrs Mason's Hospital.

A typescript finding aid, to file level, is available for consultation in the searchroom of the Borthwick Institute.

Created by S. A. Shearn, 10.06.15.

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The accounts for Lady Conyngham's Trust, 1906-1913, can be found in the records of Wandesford Hospital at the Borthwick Institute, reference: DR WH/4/3.

Sally-Anne Shearn, 'The Sextoness of Goodramgate', from the Borthwick Blog, July 2015 (http://borthwickinstitute.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-sextoness-of-goodramgate.html)

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