Robert Oates 1856

Robert OATES 1856
Film No:  E/50/0106457
Braddan  1856

The last Will and Testament of Robert
Oates of the town of Douglas Ship Carpenter.
I leave devise and bequeath unto my wife
Mary Oates my whole and Entire half
of a dwelling house and premises erected
by me and situate in Atholl Street in
the said town Bounded on the west by the
savings bank, on the east by the Post Office
on the north by Athol St. No. 37.

I also leave devise and bequeath unto
my said wife all other my real and 
personal estate of every discription
and ................................ and do
hereby nominate constitute and appoint
my said wife Executrix of this said last
Will and Testament ...............................
claimants with one shilling each
legacy, as witness my subscription
this 9th day of July 1856.

Signed Published and 		)
declared by the Testator	)	Robert Oates
as and for his last Will	)
and Testament in our		)
presence.			)

Robert Moore
Henry Kneale

At an Ecclesiastical Court held at Douglas
17th Octr. 1856.

Robert Moore and Henry Kneale the subscribing witnesses as to the
foregoing paper writing purporting to the last Will and
Testament of Robert Oates having made oath upon the Holy
Evangelists that the said Robert Oates the Executing party therein
when of sound mind duly signed and executed the same in their
presence as and for his last Will and Testament – Mary Oates the
Executrix therein named is therefore sworn well and truly to fulfil
and Execute the same according to law to pay all the just debts legacies
and funeral expenses of the Testator so far forth as the goods will extend
and the law bind her and also to return to the Episcopal Registry of
this Diocese a full true and perfect Inventory of the said Estate
with an accurate account of his acts and proceedings in the premises
when thereunto lawfully required and to these ends she has given
pledges namely Robert Moore and Henry Kneale who have
executed the usual bond in the presence of the Court.

							Probatum est
							T.A. Corlett

1856
Episcopal		The humble Petition of 
			Mary Oates of the Town
			of Douglas ....................

Sheweth
	That your Petitioners
husband Robert Oates some
short time since departed
this life having first duly
made and published his
last will and testament
whereof he appointed your
Petitioner Executrix.

	That your Petitioner
is desirous to attain probate
of the said will.

	Therefore your Petitioner
prays a hearing hereof
and probate of the said
will and Petitioner will pray
..............................
		? Carnegie
		for Petr.

Ordered that this Petition do come
on to be heard at a Court to be holden
this day whereof all .................
parties to have ................

	Granted this 17th day of October 1856

		T.A. Corlett

At an Ecclesiastical Court held at Douglas
17th Oct. 1856.

Upon hearing this petition in presence of the parties or their
advocates and upon examination of Robert Moore and Henry
Kneale the subscribing witnesses to the will of Robert Oates
and upon consideration had thereof I am of opinion that the
due execution of the said will has been proved and that probate
thereof should be granted as prayed for and the same is
therefore hereby so ordered adjudged and Decreed accordingly.
			T.A. Corlett

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