Grace (Corry) Maxwell (abt. 1730)

Biography

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Grace was born about 1730. Grace Corry ...

In 1776, he married a landed widow, Mrs Grace Corry, and her property, in Cos Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone, was settled on the issue of their marriage, with remainder to herself. There was no issue: as she latercomplained in 1779, when seeking a divorce, Colonel Maxwell, in spite of 'repeated efforts for the purpose', had 'never consummated the said marriage, but appears totally impotent'. She also complained that, in the previous year, he had induced her to re-settle her estate on him, in failure of issue; and that she had subsequently discovered that he had made a will by which he had left his remainder in fee in her estate to his nephews and nieces, leaving to her nothing but 'a small island on the coast of North America at ... [that] time ... actually in the hands of the insurgents'. It is unclear if Mrs Maxwell obtained her divorce and reacquired her landed property.

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http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction__perceval-maxwell_papers.pdf

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