Submitted by: | Wayne Knapp |
Date: | 1 September 2011 |
Original: | LDS : 0106478 |
MARGARET CORLETT als QUAYLE DOUGLAS 1873 Will No.118 Episcopal To Your Worship Richard Jebb Esq Vicar General The humble petition of John Corlett of the town of Douglas, Car Proprietor That Margaret Corlett formerly Quayle the wife of your petitioner departed, this life on or about the 4th day of December 1872 without issue and intestate. That it is necessary that Administration of the Estate and Effects of the said deceased should be granted to your petitioner or some other fit and proper person for the benefit of all the parties interested therein. Wherefore your petitioner prays a hearing hereof and that your Worship may be pleased to appoint him or some other fit and proper person to administer the the Estate and Effects of the said Margaret Corlett deceased And petitioner will pray tc [signed] Wm Williamson [prefecture?] [new page: 2] Ordered that this petition do come as to be heard at an Ecclesiastical Court to be held at Douglas on Thursday the 27th day of November 1873 at 10 o’clock in the forenoon. Whereof all proper parties and persons are to have due and lawful Notice. Given at Douglas this 24th day of November 1873. [signed] R. Jebb [new page: 3; Court Form] Diocese of Sodor and Mann At an Ecclesiastical Court held at Douglas on the 27th day of November 1873. Upon hearing this Petition in the presence of the Parties or their Advocates and It being proved that Margaret Corlett, wife of John Corlett, late of the town of Douglas in the Parish of Braddan, on or about the 4th day of December 1872, departed this life intestate This Court hath decreed John Corlett, the husband of the said deceased Administrator of All and Singular the personal Estate and Effects of said deceased, and accordingly, he is sworn well and truly to administer the said Estate and Effects of the said deceased by paying her just debts and funeral expenses so far forth as the said Estate and Effects will extend and the Law bind him and distributing the residue thereof according to Law, and to return to the Episcopal Registry of this Diocese a full, true and perfect Inventory thereof, with an accurate account of his administration thereof when thereunto lawfully required, and to these ends he hath given pledges, namely, William James Kermode, of Douglas in the Parish of Braddan and Robert Kinley of Douglas in the Parish of Braddan, who have entered into and executed the usual Bond in presence of the Court. Decretum Est [signed] R. Jebb [new page: 4; Court Form] Whereas the Ecclesiastical Court of this Isle and Diocese of Sodor and Mann hath this day granted Administration of the Estate of Margaret Corlett late of Douglas in the Parish of Braddan deceased to John Corlett her husband. William [Initials in margin "R.J."] And Whereas ?James Kermode of Douglas in the Parish of Braddan and Robert Kinley of Douglas in the Parish of Braddan have agreed to become Pledges for the due and faithful Administration of the said Estate by the said John Corlett according to Law. William Now, know all Men by these presents, that we, the said ? James Kermode and Robert Kinley hereby bind and oblige ourselves, jointly and severally, and our Heirs, Executors and Administrators, firmly by these presents as pledges for the said John Corlett that he shall well and truly administer, all and singular, the Personal Estate and Effects of the said deceased according to Law. And in his default we bind ourselves, and each of us, our Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, to be answerable and responsible for the whole to the said Court, and to all parties interested in the said Estate and Effects, or the adminis- tration thereof, in the place and stead of the said John Corlett.. Witness our subscription, this 27th day November in the Year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy three. [signed] W.J. Kermode Robert Kinley At a Ecclesiastical Court held at Douglas on the 27th day of November 1873 The foregoing bond and obligation was duly signed and delivered, and also acknowledged by the executing parties to be their proper Act and Deed Before me, [signed] R. Jebb
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