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1892 – WALTON John of 29 Scotland Road, Nelson Lancashire, shoemaker died 11 February 1892. Probate Lancaster 27 February to Smith Walton and John Walton, joiners and Sarah Ann Walton, spinster. Effects £156 10s.

The Preston Guardian

Saturday November 22 1851

Charitable Bequests

The will of the late Miss Walton, of Marsden Hall, near Colne, was proved in the Prerogative Court of York, on the 8th inst., by Edward Parker and Edward Every Clayton, Esqrs., the executors, by which the following charitable legacies, free from duty, are bequeathed:- To the Church Missionary Society, £300; Church Pastoral Aid Society, £300; Church National Society for Educating the Poor, £300; Bible Society, £300; Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, £300; also twenty-seven annuities to various poor widows and persons in ery indigent circumstances, and legacies to twenty-five servants and labourers, from £100 to £30. By the death of this lady, the following legacies to charities bequeathed by her late sister, Mrs. Maw, of Marsden Hall, become payable, free from duty:- To the Church Pastoral Aid Society, £500; Church Missionary Society, £500; Church National Society for Educating the Poor, £500; Protestant Association Society, £500; Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, £500; the Bible Society, £500; Irish Scripture Readers' Society, £100; Religious Instruction Society of Dingle Colony, £100; Achill Society, £100. Miss Walton was the last of her house, and the sole living descendant of the ancient families of the Banastres and the Waltons, as well as the last representative of the Rev. Dr. Wroe, warden of Manchester, whose persuasive powers in the pulpit earned him the appellation of "silver-tongued Wroe." The late Miss Walton's charities were unbounded, their extent almost incredible. With estates worth £11,000 a-year, herself and her late sister were constantly studying how they could best advance religion and exercise benevolence. They contributed £2,000 to the building of a church in 1845; they augmented the benefice, expended £3,000 in building a national school and master's house; endowed two parochial schools with adequate incomes; and provided a good parsonage house for the incumbents. These are but a few of the good works which remain in testimony of their charitable munificence.

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