ELIZABETH McYLROI als CALLOW
Will - 1788 (Lonan)
Lonan
At a Chapter Court holden at Beemaghag in the parish of KK Onchan on the 3rd day of June 1788, Elizabeth McYlroi als Callow of the parish of KK Lonan having departed this life on or about the 21st day of January last part intestate and this Court having received intelligence thereof have decreed her four children namely Margaret, Esther, Mary and Ann McYlroi co-administrators of all and singular her goods, chattels and effects moveable and immoveable whatever, who being of too tender years to undertake the burden of the administration of the said estate, David McYlroi and John McYlroi their uncles are sworn their guardians and supervisors as also in trust for them well and truly to administer the said estate, to pay all the just debts of the intestate so far forth as the goods and effects will extend and the law shall bind them and to return a perfect Inventory of the said estate to the Registry of this Court.
To these ends they have given pledges in form of law namely Thomas Skillicorn and John Killip both of the parish of KK Lonan.
Michael Callow and Thomas Callow uncles by the mother’s side are also sworn guardians and supervisors of the said children.
Decretum est
Ewan Christian
NOTES
- Married William Mylroi 14th December 1771. Six daughters: Margaret (?), Esther (1774), Mary (1775), Ellinor (1777), Ann (1779), Jane (?); daughters Ellinor & Jane not identified in mother's will so presumably they had died between 1781 and 1788
- Her husband, William Mylroii, was the son of Richard Myleroi & his third wife, Mary Quark, and baptised 1746
- Husband William died 1781
- No burial for Elizabeth although there are no entries in the burial register between 7th April & 18th November in 1788.
- Uncles David & John McYlroie were William's half brothers
- The daughters brought an action against David and John because, as administrators of Elizabeth's will, they sold all of the goods, and did not given an account of the inventory nor return the surplus funds to the daughters. Uncle John was accused of keeping the funds and earning interest on same. The outcome was that David and John were ordered to sort the inventory within 2 weeks or they would go to prison
- Esther married James Garrett in Douglas in 1802, Margaret MIGHT have married Edmund Clark in Lonan in 1801, Mary MIGHT have married James Callow in Lonan in 1799; of Ann, no certain information is available but she MIGHT have married Jhon Corlett in Lonan in 1807
- Lonan parish registers from the early 1700s are far from complete so extreme caution must be exercised when attempting to draw conclusions about these families and their relationships
Associated Documents
- 1723 Will: Margaret McYlroy (husband's grand mother)
- 1732 Marriage Contract: Richard Molleroy & Ellinor Ffargher (husband's father)
- 1749 Will: Richard Myleroi (father-in-law)
- 1781 Will: William Mylroii (husband)
- 1788 Will: Elizabeth Mylroie als Callow
- 1789 Petition: Margaret Mylroie & sisters vs David & John Mylroie (daughters vs brothers-in-law)
- 1796 Will: David Mylderoi (½ brother)
- 1798 Will: John Mylroy (½ brother)