DANIEL MYLREA from GRISSEL CUMMING

Sale - 1778 (Douglas)

Know all men by these presents that I Daniel Mylrea of the town of Douglas in the Isle of Man, gentleman, by and with the consent and approbation of Leonora Mylrea, my wife, for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred and six pounds to me in hand paid at the execution of these presents by Mrs Grissel Cumming of Castletown in the said Isle, widow

Have given, granted, bargained and sold, aliened and confirmed and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell, alien and confirm unto her the said Grissel Cumming, her heirs and assigns forever

All and singular those two dwelling houses situate, lying and being in Castletown aforesaid adjoining eachother and commonly called Deemster Mylrea's house and Ingleby's house with the yard, outhouses and offices to the same belonging and adjoining and also that intack lately granted and allowed to the said Daniel Mylrea, deceased, adjoining to the north east end of the said premises, together with that garden situate in or near the said town of Castletown commonly called Deemster Mylrea's garden adjoining to the lands of his grace, the Duke of Athol in the north, to the rents of Mathias Taggart and Catherine Brew and to Queen Hive Street in the south, to the rent of Mr Robert Kennedy in the east and to the rent of Mr Samuel Wattleworth in the west and of such annual Lord's rents as shall be respectively settled on the said premises by the Setting Quest with all profits, commodities, advantage heriditements, ways, waters, watercourses, easements, liberties and appurtenances whatsoever to the said premises respectively belonging or in any wise appertaining and also the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders of the said premes and every part thereof and all the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand whatsoever of me, the said Daniel Mylrea,of, in and to the said premisesand every part thereof

To have and to hold the said houses, gardens, intack all and singular the premes abovementioned and every part of the same unto her the said Grissel Cumming, her heirs and assigns to the only proper use and behoof of her, the said Grissel Cumming, her heirs and assigns forever, she the said Grissel Cumming, her heirs and assigns, yielding and paying yearly and every year the annual Lord's rent with all boons, suits and services due and payable out of the said premes

And I the said Daniel Mylrea to covenant, promises and agree to and with the said Grissel Cumming that I the said Daniel Mylrea, my heirs and assigns shall awarrant and defend the said premes and their appertenances unto her the said Grissel Cumming, her heirs and assigns against the claim, challenge or demand of all and every person or persons whomsoever

And for the true and faithful performance of this Deed of Sale, I the said Daniel Mylrea and Leonora my wife do bind and oblige ourselves, our heirs, executors and adminisrators in the penalty of six hundred and twelve pounds

As witness our names this eleventh day of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight. Daniel Mylrea Leonora Mylrea

Signed and delivered in presence of Edward Kegg, Richard Crellin

May 12th 1778

The said Daniel Mylrea, gentleman, acknowledged the beforewritten Deed of Sale to be his proper act and deed and that the consideration money mentioned is fully paid and satisfied. And Edward Kegg and Richard Crellin deposed on the holy evangelist that Mrs Leonora Mylrea duly executed the said Deed of Sale in the presence of the said deponents. Before me William Callow

29th November 1780

You are hereby required to settle and adjust the Lord's rent of the beforewritten granted premes. Calcott Heywood .......

To the Setting Quest of Malew

At a Baron Court holden at Castletown for the parishes of Malew, Arbory and Rushen the 14th December 1780

The beforegoing Deed of Sale being acknowledged and proved before the High Bailiff of Castletown and now openly published in Court and no objection offered against it, the same therefore is allowed of for and in the behalf of the most noble John, Duke of Atholl. Lord of the Manor of Mann and the .... confirmed by this Court. Robert Heywood

[Ref: N/SSS Oct 1780 #66]

NOTES

  1. Daniel Mylrea's need for funds was apparently endless. In this contract, he sells the property left him by his bachelor uncle, Deemster Daniel Mylrea, who died in 1775
  2. He was the son of Thomas Mylrea & Rose Savage, and baptised in Peel 1750
  3. His was the Deemster/Archdeacon/Attorney General line of Mylreas; once possessors of the Dollough estate
  4. He should have become a wealthy man at age 25. He inherited the Dollough estate from his uncle and promptly sold in 1775, the Dollough being the Mylrea family estate in Ballaugh that had been in the family at least since 1495
  5. Daniel was in business in Douglas with Robert Heywood, his brother-in-law, and John Taubman snr. These men were also from Deemster families
  6. Daniel & Robert Heywood were recorded as shipowners, in 1781, importing goods to Liverpool from Barbados (Ref:Wilks); other documents show that Heywood, Mylrea & Co traded as money lenders for a time
  7. A later document shows that Daniel borrowed money in 1782 against the family home in Peel (just 5 years after the sale of the Dollough), and a week after he took a mortgage with Taubman snr in 1780, he took a large mortgage with John Jonathan Lee, also against the family home in Peel
  8. Not surprisingly, two years later, Taubman foreclosed and Daniel lost the Herring House and other possessions contained in that mortgage
  9. Daniel later borrowed money from the Duke of Athol in 1795, to pay off existing earlier mortgages on his share of the Peel house (Cottier & Lee) but in 1795 he was able to mortgage the entire house (his mother had died in 1791). The house was the family home.

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