RICHARD McYLREA
Will - 1627 (Michael)
Copied from Archdeacon Wills 1628-1636 because it was embedded on p43 of a 939 page .pdf document
December the 4th 1627
Michaell
In the name of God amen I Richard MacYlria sick in body, whole in mynd & of -----[torn] and pfect memorie praised be God doe make this my will & testamt -----[torn] mannr & fforme ffollowing:
Ffirst I bequeath my soule to God & my bodie to Christian buriall
Item: I bequeath to the poore a fferlet malt, a ffirlett wheat, a ffirlett oatte meale, 1 mutton & the rest at the discretion of my exec
Item: left to his daughter Christian a horse and a cow
Item: left to the minister Sr Robert Parre a hogge sheepe
Item: he bequeathed all the rest of his goods moveable & unmoveable unto his children Tho:, Wm: and Bahie whome alsoe he ordained his lawfull exec
Probatum est et solvit vjd
Invent: before May next sub pena
Testes: Ro: Parre xxs ad usum Domi: Jurat
Tho: Corlett & his wife Imp: betwixt horses & mayres 712 kine 1 heffer In sheep & muttons xltye:
The execut at lawfull yeares have bond them selves in Double valew ad usum Domi: to secure the office
NOTES
- Buried 10th December 1627, Michael (Mclera)
- Daughter Christian might be from his first marriage, while Thomas, William & Bahie might be from a second marriage
- No birth records for any of the children
- Land records have a RIc Mc gilrea on Balycrynan Moar quarterland, with a son Thomas who takes over tenancy in mid-1620s which MIGHT be this Richard
Associated Documents
- Story: Early Mylreas in KK Michael 1500-1700
- The following transactions are the only ones surviving for the Mylreas in Michael in the 1600s and have been put together in case someone can make a link between the families. There's a group of 3 relating to Thomas, another 4 relating to John (athough at vastly different times) and 2 for Hugh. However this does not imply generations of the same family
- 1597 Sale: Thomas McYlrea to John Cannell )
- 1602 Sale: Thomas McYlrea to John Cannell ) = same person
- 1607 Sale: Thomas McYlrea to John Cannell )
- 1603 Sale: John McYlrea to Patrick Cannell
- 1661 Purchase: John McYlrea from Robert Freer)
- 1663 Sale: John McYlrea to Pat Cally................ ) = same person
- 1670 Sale: John McYlrea to Adam Callister.........)
- 1703 Sale: Cath & Hugh McYlera to John Quayle)
- 1718 Sale: Hugh McYlrea to John Christian .......) = same person