ENGLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 27 April 1911, Page 783

ENGLAND

FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHARITY. Monsignor Thomas John Marsden, of Birkenhead, Canon and Vicar-General of the diocese of Shiewsbury, and Rector of St. Werburgh’s Mission, Birkenhead, who died on December 28, aged seventy-two, left property , valued for probate at £573 6s 5d gross, with net personalty £683 7s 3d. Subject to a few specific bequests, he left all his property on trust for the reduction of the debt upon the church and mission of St. Werburgh, stating that he had intentionally devoted the residue of his property for the benefit of charity because he considered that any money that had been given to him had been so given by reason of his profession as a priest, and that his duty as to devote such portion of his property to charitable objects. GENEROUS BENEFACTIONS. Miss Helen Mary , Gulson (76), of Hawkesyard Cottage, Rugeley, Staffordshire, who died on November 2, left estate valued at £80,421. Miss Gulson bequeathed £3OOO for the restoration of St. Chad’s Catholic Church, Birmingham; £4OOO to the Prioress of St, Dominic’s Priory, Stone, Staffordshire; £IOO to the Aged Poor Society; the residue of her estate, after providing for private legacies, she left to the executors of her will, desiring, but without imposing any legal obligation, that they will expend £SOOO in paying off the debt, on Hawkesyard Priory, £12,000 for the building fund of the said Priory, £2OO per annum for the repair fund of the said Priory, and the balance for the benefit of the said Priory and members thereof.