Submitted by: | Tom Jones |
Date: | 11 August 2009 |
Original: | LDS : 0106546 |
WILLIAM E. CHRISTIAN RAMSEY 1904 In the High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man 46 Common Law Division Testamentary Jurisdiction In the Goods of William Edwin Christian deceased. To his Honor Stuart Stevenson Moore One of His Majesty’s Deemsters and a Judge of the said Division. The Humble petition of William Christian of Taubman Street in the town of Ramsey Sheweth:- 1. William Edwin Christian late of Westbourne Road in the town Ramsey father of your Petitioner departed this life on or about the 23rd day of November 1903 intestate. * It is necessary that letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of the said William Edwin Christian be granted to some fit and proper person or persons and your Petitioner is desirous that such administration be granted to himself WHEREFORE your Petitioner Humbly prays a hearing hereof and that your Honor may be pleased to grant Administration of the estate and effects of the * A “REGISTERED” Stamp appears here and is dated 1 MAR 1904. of the said William Edwin Christian deceased to your Petitioner or to some other fit and proper person or persons of whom this Court may … approve with such other and further relief as to your Honor may seem meet And Petitioner will ever pray &c &c JWHyde For Petitioner. THIS PETITION is to be served upon James Arthur Corkill of Taubman Street Ramsey and Margaret Ann Corkill his wife. Ordered that this petition do come on to be heard at a * Court to be held at Ramsey on Monday the 29th day of February 1904 at 11.15 o’clock in the forenoon. Whereof all proper parties and persons are to have due and lawful notice. Given at Ramsey this 22nd day of February 1904 S Stevenson Moore A franked stamp dated 22 FEB 1904 appears here. In His Majesty’s High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man COMMON LAW DIVISION – [TESTAMENTARY DIVISION] At a Court held at Ramsey the 29th day of February 1904 Upon hearing this Petition in presence of the parties or their advocates, and it being proved that William Edwin Christian late of Westbourne Road in the Town of Ramsey of ----- on or about the 23rd day of November 1903 departed this life at Westbourne Road aforesaid and Intestate, This Court hath decreed William Christian of Taubman Street in the Said Town of Ramsey Mariner a son of the Said deceased Administrator of All and Singular the Personal Estate and Effects of the said Deceased and accordingly he is sworn well and truly to administer the said Estate and Effects of the said Deceased by paying his 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 according to law, and to return to the proper Registry a full, true, and perfect inventory of all and singular the said Estate and Effects, with an accurate account of his administration thereof when thereunto lawfully required S. Stevenson Moore [sig]. A Judge of the said Court. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE Common Law Division [Testamentary Jurisdiction] Estate of William Edwin Christian .deceased Know all men by these presents that we 1. William Christian of Taubman street in the town of Ramsey Mariner Joseph Cannell of Ramsey Draper and Robert Lavery of Ramsey Painter and Plumber are jointly and severally and any two of us jointly bound unto our Sovereign Lord the King in the sum of 2. One hundred (£100) pounds to the payment whereof well and truly to be made to our said Lord the King, his heirs and successors, we bind and oblige ourselves jointly and severally, and any two of us jointly, our Executors and Administrators firmly by these presents. As witness our subscription the 29th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four THE CONDITION of our obligation in such, that if the above named William Christian [hereinafter called the said Administrator ] the intended Administrator of all and singular the personal estate and effects of William Edwin Christian late of Westbourne Road Ramsey aforesaid but now deceased, who died at Westbourne Road aforesaid on or about the twenty third day of November... 1903 do, when lawfully called on in that behalf, make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the personal estate and effects of the said deceased, which have or shall come into his hands possession, or knowledge, or into the hands of any other person for him and the same so made do exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, into the proper Registry in that behalf whenever required by law so to do: and the same Personal Estate, and effects and all other the personal estate and effects of the said deceased which shall at any time come into the hands or possession of the said Administrator or into the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him or which without fault might have come into the hands or possession of the said Administrator do well and truly administer according to law, that is to say, do pay the debts and liabilities of the said deceased so far as the said personal estate will extend and the law bind the Administrator , and to deliver and pay unto the person or persons legally entitled thereto all the rest and residue of the said personal estate and effects, then this obligation to be void and of no effect, or else to remain in full force and virtue. At Ramsey.the.29th day of February…1904 The executing parties to the foregoing Bond Wm. Christian acknowledged the same to be their Act and Deed Joseph Cannell before me Robert Lavery S. Stevenson Moore 29 FEB 1904 In the High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man Common Law Division. Testamentary Jurisdiction In the Goods of William Edwin Christian deceased. To his Honor Stuart Stevenson Moore One of His Majesty’s Deemsters and a Judge of the said Division. The Humble petition of William Christian of Taubman Street in the town of Ramsey Sheweth:- William Edwin Christian late of Westbourne Road in the town of Ramsey father of your Petitioner departed this life on or about the 23rd day of November 1903 intestate. It is necessary that letters of administration of the Estate and Effects of the said William Edwin Christian be granted to some fit and proper person or persons and your Petitioner is desirous that such administration be granted to himself Wherefore your Petitioner humbly prays a hearing hereof and that your Honor may be pleased to grant administration of the Estate and Effects of the said William Edward Christian deceased to your Petitioner or to some other fit and proper person or persons of whom this Court may approve with such other relief as to your Honor may seem meet And Petitioner will ever pray &c &c JWHyde for Petitioner. THIS PETITION is to be served upon James Arthur Corkill of Taubman Street Ramsey and Margaret Ann Corkill his wife. Ordered that this petition do come on to be heard at a Court to be held at Ramsey on Monday the 29th day of February 1904 at 11.15 o’clock in the forenoon. Whereof all proper parties and persons are to have due and lawful notice. Given at Ramsey this 22nd day of February 1904 S Stevenson Moore In His Majesty’s High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man COMMON LAW DIVISION – [TESTAMENTARY DIVISION] At a Court held at Ramsey the 29th day of February 1904 Upon hearing this Petition in presence of the parties or their advocates, and it being proved that William Edwin Christian late of Westbourne Road in the Town of Ramsey of ----- on or about the 23rd day of November 1903 departed this life at Westbourne Road aforesaid and Intestate, This Court hath decreed William Christian of Taubman Street in the Said Town of Ramsey Mariner a son of the Said deceased Administrator of All and Singular the Personal Estate and Effects of the said Deceased and accordingly he is sworn well and truly to administer the said Estate and Effects of the said Deceased by paying his 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 according to law, and to return to the proper Registry a full, true, and perfect inventory of all and singular the said Estate and Effects, with an accurate account of his administration thereof when thereunto lawfully required S. Stevenson Moore [sig]. Examined by Frank J Johnson A Judge of the said Court. Regr
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