Elizabeth Carson Makes a Bequest

How and why Elizabeth Carson ended up living out her last days in Bristol is not known. She certainly did not emigrate because of poverty however. She was able to afford grand gestures in her final will, notable enough that the following record made its way into English parliamentary records:

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11900/page/279406

It would have been in this will that Elizabeth passed along the lands that ended up in the 1881 Belfast auction to her first cousin, Maria West, who by this time was also in England, had married, and was known as Maria Wombwell. 

There is a little political sting in this bequest however that should not pass by unnoticed. Elizabeth felt it necessary to state that her bequest should operate without any religious distinction, a condition that might just help provide some insight into the political outlook and activities of her wider family.