High Sheriff John Bean - Details on John Bean [1755-1829] by Lorna P Cowan

Details on John Bean [1755-1829] by Lorna P Cowan
John Bean 1755-1829 died, possibly leaving the estate in debt. The Letters of Administration of John Bean’ s Life Assurance Policy taken out in 1812 included the very official Grant of Administration of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury of 6th April 1830. This shows that John died with very little estate apart from the value of the policy that was then £5700. This had been assigned to John Hitchens as part of the settlement. He “died intestate a widower”.
“Letters of administration of the Goods Chattels & Credits of the said deceased have not been granted to any person whatsoever so that there is not now any legal representative of him”. The document lists his children:
Catherine Sarah Drury (wife of the Rev.Benjamin Heath Drury Clerk)
Maria Anne Harriot Lyne (wife of the Rev.Charles Philip Lyne Clerk)
Felix Freeman Frederick Bean
John Dickson Dyke Bean
Milo Bean
Luke Bean
Leonard Orlando Bean a minor
as: “his natural and lawful and only children and the only persons entitled in distribution to his personal estate”
Re Felix Frederick Freeman Bean…As the eldest surviving son he would have inherited his father’s estate. However he sold the Litlington estate for £39,500 in August 1830, a year after his father died, possibly to meet debts.
Note the spelling of Litlington.
Ref SAS C517 re sale of several estates to the Rev.Thomas Scutt of Brighton.
Attested copy of deed of conveyance of 31 Dec 1830 Felix Freeman Frederick Bean, esq, late of Clapham House but now of Brighton;
SAS/G/49/14/911 SAS/GA/49/911
From Felix Freeman Frederick Bean, esq to Rev Thomas Scutt of certain bullock and sheep leazes on Berwick Common
SAS/G/49/14/920 SAS/GA/49/920
Litlington was put up for sale in 1829, sold in 1830 and he emigrated to South Africa from England in 1833. So LOB was 24 when he emigrated