JOHN & MARIA MYLROIE to WILLIAM COWLEY

Release - 1905 (Lonan)

This Deed made the eleventh day of February one thousand, nine hundred and five between John Mylroie of Glen View House, Laxey in the parish of Lonan, engineer, and Maria Mylroie (formerly Killip) wife of the said John Mylroie of the one part and William Cowley of Cronk Moar of the other part

Whereas Thomas Cowley then of the said parish of Lonan and Isabella Cowley his wife did on the tenth day of March 1860 grant and pass their Deed of Bond and Security unto John Killip then of Ballacollister in the said parish for the principal sum of one hundred pounds payable with interest, costs and charges and secured and made chargeable upon a parcel of Intack land situate in the said parish of Lonan called and known by the name of Thalloo Carrooin or Carrooin’s Land and also upon another parcel of Intack land adjoining and called and known by the name of Scorren and situate in said parish of Lonan

And whereas the said John Killip died on or about the twelfth day of March 1887 leaving a will in writing bearing date the eighteenth day of February 1881 probate whereof was on the eleventh day of May 1887 granted to his sons John Killip and James Killip, the executors therein named

And whereas the said John Killip and James Killip as such executors as aforesaid did by Deed bearing date the first day of December 1888 assign (inter alia) the said Deed of Bond and Security unto Maria Killip then of South Cape in the said parish of Lonan, spinster

And whereas the said Maria Killip is now the wife of the said John Mylroie

And whereas by Deed of Sale bearing date the twenty-ninth day of June 1849 John Courtney Bluett for the consideration of twenty pounds purchased from Thomas Cowley and Isabella Cowley his wife a portion of the said lands and premises called Thalloo Carrooin adjoining Cronk Moar in the said parish of Lonan and which said portion is delineated upon a plan attached to a certain Deed of Sale from Matthias Cowley and his wife to John Courtney Bluett bearing date the twentieth day of July 1849 and duly recorded (such portion containing two acres of land and being hereinafter as “the said lands and premises”) and was purchased by the said John Courtney Bluett for the purpose of straightening the boundary between Thalloo Carrooin and Cronk Moar aforesaid and now forms part of Cronk Moar, the property of the said William Cowley

And whereas the said William Cowley has requested the said John Mylroie and Maria Mylroie to release the said lands and premises from the operation of the said Deed of Bond and Security of the tenth day of March 1860 and the said John Mylroie and Maria Mylroie have agreed to execute this Deed

This Deed therefore witnesseth that the said John Mylroie and Maria Mylroie do hereby in consideration of the premises and of the sum of five shillings to them in hand paid by the said William Cowley (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged) grant and release unto the said William Cowley the said lands and premises to have and to hold the same unto the said William Cowley, his heirs and assigns from the date hereof freed and discharged from the operation of the said Deed of Bond and Security of the tenth day of March 1860 and from all liability to contribute towards the payment of the principal sum and all interest, costs and charges due and to accrue due thereunder

Provided always and the foregoing release is hereby granted upon the express condition that nothing herein contained shall in any wise prejudice the said John Mylroie and Maria Mylroie or either of them or their or either of their executors, administrators or assigns from recovering the amount now due or at any time hereafter to become due in respect of the said Deed of Bond and Security of the tenth day of March 1860 from the remainder of the property thereby granted in security by the said Deed of Bond and Security and from all and every persons and person legally liable therefore witness the names of the said John Mylroie and Maria Mylroie hereunto subscribed this the day, month and year first above written. John Mylroie, Maria Mylroie

Signed and delivered in presence of Thomas A. Kelly

At Douglas the 11th February 1905 Thomas Arthur Kelly known to me and the subscribing witness to the execution of the foregoing Deed appeared and made oath that John Mylroie and Maria Mylroie the executing parties thereto duly signed and executed the same in his presence. Before me Frank J. Johnson, Dy. Reg. of Deeds

Registry Office for Deeds 11 February 1905 I certify that the foregoing Deed was this day at the hour of 1.10 o’clock afternoon received by me at this Office for the purpose of being registered and recorded according to law and that the same is duly registered, recorded and entered in the Requisition Book fifteen, page 317, No. 4112. Frank J. Johnson, D. Reg

[Ref: Feb 1905 #54 Lonan – see Mar 1860]

NOTES

  1. Ballaraugh
  2. John Mylroie was the younger - and only surviving - son of John Mylroie & Ann Quilleash. He was born in Lonan in 1846
  3. John jnr was a miner, as his father was, but over the years rose up the ranks to become an engineer
  4. He married Maria Killip in Liverpool in 1903 when he was 57
  5. There were no children of the marriage
  6. Maria had also been born in Lonan and it seems she inherited at least two Deeds of Bond and Security after her father's death in 1887
  7. This Assignment is for a mortgage that she inherited. The second was assigned in 1906

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