CATHERINE McYLREA & MARY CANNELL als McYLREA
Will - 1723 (Michael)
Michael, 1723 Feb 13
Catherine McYlrea departed this life about the 9th of April last, intestate whereof the court having intelligence has directed her next relations viz her sister Mary Cannell’s als McYlrea’s children Tho, Jon, Cath and Jane Cannell joint administrators of all her goods and chattels whatsoever, Jane being absent the other three are sworn in form of Law and gave pledges Edward Tear & Gilbert Tear Probatum est & solvit 1:2
Michael
Mary Cannell als McYlrea departed this left about the 20th of April last, intestate, whereof the court having intelligence has decreed her 4 children Tho, Jon, Cath & Jane Cannell joint administrators of all her goods moveable and immoveable whatsoever and the former three are sworn in Court (Latin?) Secondo forman legis & give pledges ut infra Do est & solvit – 1:2 Pledges Edward Tear & Gilbert Tear
NOTES
- Sisters - Catherine unmarried. Mary married to Rich Cannell (no record)
- Parent of women = Hu Macilera; his children = Cath Macilera (b1656), Mary McYlera (b1659), William Machlera (b1663)
- Brother William died in Braddan in 1699
- Mary’s children identified in will: Thomas (1691), Cath (1695), John (1702) & Jane (1707); Husband Rich died 1727 - his will also names Daniel - a baptism recorded for a Dan, son of Rich, in 1786
- Eldest son was Daniel, baptised in 1686, married Cath Corlett/Curlett, 1718. Dan was heir at law to his father's lands in Balnarenny. Wife Cath's father Adam Curlett was a tenant on the treen of Balnafadyn and in Rencullen, as was Ric Cannell, Dan's father
- The absent Jane would have been 17 when her aunt and mother died. She might have married Robert Cain in 1734
- Balnarenney (aka Ballafreere) is noted on the parish burial registers for Catherin & Mary, and Ric
Associated Documents
- 1699 Will: William Mylrea (brother)
- 1736 Will: Margaret Cain als Kinish, Mylrea, Gelling (sister-in-law)
- 1738 Will: Ann Mylrea (niece)
- 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
From Summary of Wills, A Manx Notebook
1727-1 E w CANNELL Richard d 5 May; Ballnyrenny; ch Danl, Thos, John, Cath, Jane; gson Danl Cannel
1714 Oct Ballafadeen 00 28 00
OLD ENTRY Adam Curlett {3s 3d} Rich Cannell {21d}
NEW ENTRY Rich Cannell {21d} Adam Curlett {5s 3d} Rich Cannell {21d} cu cetr
There being several divisions and differences betwixt the above Adam Curlett and Rich Cannell the setting quest have now made a division of the lands and settlement of the rents as is above sum entered unto which agreement and settlement both partys have agreed as appears by their return on the file. Anno 1714.
Oct Rencullen 00 36 00
OLD ENTRY Adam Curlett {} Rich Cannell {}
NEW ENTRY Adam Curlett {6s 9d} Rich Cannell {2s 3d} cu cetr
The sd persons are then to come out in charge for the future according to the above settlement and division of the setting quest.
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