MARGARET CLAGUE als McYLREA
1724 - Will (Braddan)
Braddan 1724
Margt Clague als McYlrea departed this life the 31st day of January last intestate whereupon her six children viz William, Jane, Thomas, John, Robert and Paul Clague are decreed sole and joint administrators of all her goods moveable and immoveable whatsoever and a legacy to the husband upon sight of the inventory.
Decretum et solvit 3s
William and Jane are with the husband
William Clague sworn in form of law
The inventory clear and debtless amounts to the sum of £7/0/0
The whole goods yet in the hands of the father and the younger children viz Robert and Paul in his tuition who hath given pledges to pay each child’s proportion of the above inventory as they shall call for it. Thomas Mylrea and William Clague
NOTES
- Second daughter of Thomas McYlrea and Margaret Craine (Ballacooiley). Born 1684 so 40 when she died. Mother died 1684 soon after Margaret's birth; father died 1711
- Married William Clague in Ballaugh 1701 when she was about 17 years of age. William Clague had a farm Ulikan in Braddan
- She might have had more than six children but if some died, they had the same names as the living but different birth years (LDS); William (1703), Jane (1706), Thomas (1708), John (1711), Robert (1712) and Paul Clague (1716)
- The signatory to her Court probate papers, Thomas Mylrea, might not necessarily have been an immediate relative since her father Thomas Mylrea died in 1711 and her nephew Thomas Mylrea would have been 14 years of age and living in Ballaugh. However, her ½ brother Thomas was known to still be alive and thus the most likely candidate to be the signatory on the document
Associated documents
- 1684 Will: Margaret McYlrea als Craine (mother)
- 1711 Will: Thomas McYlrea (father)
- 1713 Will: William McYlrea (½ brother)
- 1724 Will: Margaret Clague als Mc ylrea
- 1733 Will: William Mylrea (brother)
- 1738 Will: John McYlrea (½ brother)
- 1738 Will: Margaret McYlrea als Lewn (½ sister-in-law)
- 1738 Will: Katherine Cowley als Mylrea (sister)
- 1738 Will: Joney Curlet als McYlrea als Crain (step-mother)
- 1762 Will: Ellinor Clague als Mylrea (½ sister)
- 1764 Will: Jane Killey als Mylrea (½ sister)
- Stories: The Mylreas of Douglas & District 1600-1900