Von Maria Catharine Sophia Charlotta CLOUDT

Fourthly, the other sister, Maria Cathar. Sophia Charlotta, lived with her brother, the President, whom she liked very much. However, yearly she paid to him a certain amount for herself, her chambermaid, and a servant. Educated in The Hague and by association with high life, she had gained much insight into human character. The relationships with her were very agreeable because of her being well-bred and of a very keen mind. Her brother, the President, bequeathed to her House Impel with all the furniture, therein, as her usufruct for life, with the exception of the silverware and the linen. She remained living there, kept her own carriage, lived quite in keeping with her rank, and kept a good house. But she could never pardon her brother, Mauritze Godfried, that he alone succeeded at Lauersfort; for, ever since then, she had had the idea that the President would appoint her and her brother, heirs of equal parts. Therefore, some indifference came up between them. They were, however, on friendly terms but met very seldom and only on exceptional occasions when etiquette required so. In her testament she left out her brother, who she otherwise had always liked so much, and appointed her sole heirs: two children of her sister, Chanoisse von Stechow zu Quernheim, whom she already always had had with her during the lifetime of the President; the Canon and Postmaster von Stechow; and the son of her youngest brother, Baron von Cloudt zu Vercken. However, after her death, the share of the canoness should revert to the two other heirs. Five of her nieces, who went by her name, Charlotta, got a donation in linen; and each of them [also received] 10 to 12 pounds in silverware. She had never married and died in 1786 at the age of 73 years. As a result of the partition of 1740, she had greatly improved her estates, which she had received at a very low rate, and which had lain partly uncultivated. She had also bought much from her sister, the Lady von Stechow. Her inheritance amount to about 50,000 Rthlr. ¹¹⁶ ²⁰⁷

4508. Von Maria Catharine Sophia Charlotta CLOUDT ¹¹⁶ (Von Pelden G. Jost Wyrich Freyherr CLOUDT II⁷, Von Pelden G. Wyrich Adolph CLOUDT Drost⁶, Von Pelden G. Wilhelm Reiner CLOUDT⁵, Von Pelden G. Jost Wyrich CLOUDT I⁴, Von Pelden G. Wilhelm CLOUDT³, Van Gertruid WURM-\GUTTERSWICK², Heinrichs (Von)¹).

Birth Notes: 1713

Death Notes: 1786

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