Submitted by: | Cathy Wilson |
Date: | 29 January 2002 |
Original: | LDS: 0106227 |
17 In the name of God Amen. I Elinor Creer of Ballasalla in the parish of Malew being weak of body but of sound and perfect mind and memory at the making hereof, do hereby make this my last will and testament as followeth Imps I commit my soul to God and my body to a Christian burial. I leave and bequeath to my son Thos Creer the bed quilt which I wear on my own bed. I leave and bequeath to my daughter Elinor McCray, als Creer a black quilted petticoat which she now has, my best cloak a sheet and a cask which she now has. I bequeath to my grand-daughter Catherine McCray my spinning weel. I leave and bequeath to my son John Creer a chest & a box. I leave and bequeath to my daughter Esther Cottier als Creer my blue gown, my bodies & a flannel smock & best blanket. I leave and bequeath to my daughter Isabel Curry, als Creer a feather bed and bolster, a blue and caer gown, a black gown, a bed gown & a cask to put herring in. I bequeath to my grand daughter Margaret Creer, a silk hankerchief and to the rest of her brothers and sisters a blue andwhitecrer petticoat for shirts for them. I bequeath to my grand-daughter Ann Creer, a white apron. Lastly, I nominate constitute and appoint my loving and dutiful son Wm Creer to be my whole & sole Exr of all the rest of the remainder of my effects, movable & immovable of what kind or nature soever, hereby revoaking and disannulling all former will or wills by me made and this to be my only last will and testament. In testemony whereof I have hereunto set my mark to my name this 17th Decr 1773 Witnesses present. And also it is my desire that if any person dispute Charle Cotteman my mrk X } this my last will, I leave them or either of them six ...Bridson } jurati pence legacy. Elinor Creer, alias Quark, my mark. At a Court in Castletown June 12th 1777. The Excr is sworn in Court in form of Law & hath given pledges for the payment of debts & legacies namely Robert Radcliffe & Charles Cotteman, one of the witnesses. Solivt Probatum est Thomas Cubbon Inventory Of Goods of Ellinor Creer KK Malew An inventory of the goods of Ellinor Creer, als Quark of KK Malew apprized by four men. Sworn by ye sumner of malew the 13th Feb 1777 are as follows. £ s d To bolster & feather bed at 3d per lb 00 - 10 - 6 blanket 4/- two other blankets 2/- quilt 3/- old quilt 6d 3 sheets 4/- bedstead 2/6 5 and a half yds green cloth 3/- ladder 2/- 2 gowns 3/- 3 old bedgowns 2/4 2 petticats (of the best) 3/6 3 old petticoats 3/- old ?mantle 2/- 3 old shifts 3/6 4 handkerchiefs 4/2 3 small blankets 1/6 2 flannel shifts 1/6 white apron 1/6 black cap 3d thread at ?? 9d check apron 1/- old basket of caps 2/- bodies and ?homecher 1/2 3 pairs stockings 1/- pair of old shoes 4d old hatchet 1d old smoothing iron 4d small /rinch and two old dollons 2d old spinning wheel 3/- cubbard 6d winding blade 00 old arm chair 00 two sacks 1d small chest 2d 3 old ?mools 2d old big wheel 1d small barrel 00 wooden bowl 1d wooden beason 00 2 small dishes ladle & 3 old nochin 5 threnchen pillow case and bags 6 pewter plates 3 pewter chargon parcel of old spoons 2 candlesticks glass bottles pot & pot hook parcel of earthenware vessels ?greasle & beaking stone & old ballners old barrel pair of tongues old chaft bead cash found in her keeping £4 due to her from son William for a deed of gift she gave him of the house & gardens Total of the above £9/?/?
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