JAMES MYLROIE
Will - 1839 (Lonan)
Lonan
To the honourable H.B.Hartwell Vicar General etc
The humble petition of Margaret Mylroie
Sheweth
That James Mylroie your petitioner’s husband lately departed this life intestate
That your petitioner is desirous that administration should be granted to the estate of the said James Mylroie
Wherefore your petitioner prays a hearing of this petition and that your reverence may be pleased to appoint your petitioner administrix of the said James Mylroie’s estate and she will pray
Ordered that the petition do come on to be heard at a Court to be holden at Douglas on Monday the 25th inst at 1 o’clock in the afternoon whereof all proper parties are to have notice
Given this 15th March 1839. H.B.Hartwell
At a Court holden 25th day of March 1839 Margaret Mylroie is sworn well and truly to administer the estate and effects of James Mylroie deceased, to pay all his just debts and funeral expenses so far forth as the goods will extend and the law binds her and to return a true and perfect inventory of the decedant’s estate and effects to the Episcopal Registry of this diocese when thereto lawfully required and to these ends John Shimmin and Thomas Tear have become bound unto the Lord Bishop and his ………….. in the sum of thirty pounds British.
Decretum est
H.B.Hartwell
1839
30th April F.B.Clucas claims British £10-0-0
1840
5th March John Callister claims British £2-10-0
NOTES
- ALL COLBY - Close Moar
- James married Margaret Teare in 1829 in Patrick, a week after his parents David Mylroie jnr & Catherine Quayle had settled the family estate on him
- Four months later his brother Daniel married Mary Ann Tear in Patrick. There is no evidence about whether the two women were sisters
- James & Margaret had four children: Thomas b1830, Margaret b1833, Eliza b1836, Joseph b1839
- James was buried 11th March, 1839, and his heir-at-law, Thomas, petitioned the Chancery Court for the appointment of guardians to enable him to manage Close Moar
- One year later, his widowed mother Margaret took the children and lived in Douglas, where she made her living as a huckster
Associated Documents
- 1755 Marriage Contract: David Myleroie snr & Margaret Killey (grand parents)
- 1781 Settlement: David Mylroie snr to David Mylroie jnr (grand father to father)
- 1796 Will: David Mylderoi snr (grand father)
- 1799 Will: Margaret Mylroy als Kermott als Killey (grand mother)
- 1801 Mortgage: David Mylroie jnr to John Fargher (father)
- 1803 Sale: David Moylroy jnr to Thomas Cowin (father)
- 1803 Purchase: David Mylroy jnr from Thomas Cowin (father)
- 1806 Purchase David Mylroie jnr from William Croghan (father)
- 1829 Settlement: David Mylroie jnr to James Mylroie (father)
- 1833 Settlement: David Mylroie jnr to Robert Mylroie (father to brother)
- 1834 Will: Catherine Mylroie als Quayle (mother)
- 1839 Will: James Mylroie
- 1840 Will: David Mylroi jnr (father)
- 1840 Petition: Thomas Mylroie to Chancery Court (son)
- 1859 Settlement: Margaret Mylrea to Margaret Morrison (wife to daughter)
- 1862 Will: Margaret Mylrea als Teare (wife)
- 1869 Will: Robert Mylroie (brother)
- 1900 Will: Daniel Mylroie (brother)
- Story: Fathers & Sons: One Mylroie Clan 1663-1900 (Lonan)