CATHERINE CANNELL daughter of DANIEL MYLROIE

COURT ORDER - 1907 (Braddan)

In the High Court of Justice

Common Law division, Testamentary jurisdiction

To his honour Stewart Stevenson Moore esq, Deemster, a judge of the said High Court

The humble petition of Catherine Cannell of the Glen, Laxey in the parish of Lonan, widow Showeth as follows:

Daniel Mylroi late of Laxey Glen in the parish of Lonan died on or about the 29th day of December 1899 leaving a will in writing dated the 7th day of June 1897 whereof he appointed his daughter your petitioner, then the wife of Joseph Cannell, executrix

At a Court holden at Douglas on the 14th day of February 1900 administration of the personal estate and effects of the said Daniel Mylroi with his said will annexed was granted to the said Joseph Cannell during the coverture of your petitioner

The said Joseph Cannell died on the 5th day of April 1900 without having fully administered the estate of the said Daniel Mylroi

Wherefore your petitioner humbly prays a hearing hereof and that your honour may be pleased to grant probate of the said will to your petitioner and your petitioner will pray etc etc. Louis Kewley, advocate for the petitioner

Ordered that this petition do come on to be heard at a Court to be holden at Douglas on Monday the 21st day of January 1907 at 10.30 o’clock forenoon whereof all proper parties and persons to have due notice. Given at Douglas this 19th day of January 1907. S. Stevenson Moore

In the High Court of Justice

Common Law division, Testamentary jurisdiction

In the goods of Daniel Mylroi deceased

We the undersigned next of kin of Daniel Mylroi late of Laxey Glen in the parish of Lonan who died on or about the 29th day of December 1899 leaving a will in writing dated the 7th day of June 1897 whereof he appointed his daughter Catherine Cannell, wife of Joseph Cannell, executrix and administration to whose estate and effects with his said will annexed was on the fourteenth day of February 1900 granted to the said Joseph Cannell during the coverture of the said Catherine Cannell, the said Joseph Cannell having since died without having fully administered the said estate hereby authorise Llewellyn Kneale, advocate, or any person authorised by him to appear for us at any Court after this date and consent to probate of the said will being granted to the said Catherine Cannell this 17th day of January 1907. …. Corlett

Witnessed by J.T.Cowin, Laxey

And we the following being two of the legatees entitled to the unadministered portion of the estate of the aforesaid deceased do hereby consent to probate of his said will being granted to his widow Catherine Cannell this 17th day of January 1907. Harriet Cannell, Norah Cannell

Witnessed by J.T.Cowin, Laxey

NOTES: further to the will of Daniel Mylroie 1899 Lonan

  1. Laxey Glen - Glen Road
  2. Catherine Cannell was the youngest daughter of Daniel Mylroie & Mary Ann Teare. She and her family had lived with/ next door to Daniel for many years before his death
  3. Daniel Mylroie was the third son of David Mylroie jnr & Catherine Quayle, and baptised in 1805 in Lonan
  4. He was a shoemaker by trade but did very well in his business life. He had properties and was a money lender
  5. He married Mary Ann Teare in Patrick in 1829, and they had 8 children although only 3 daughters and 1 son were mentioned in Daniel's will
    • John 1830, married Sarah Ball, a builder, died a few days after his father
    • Mary Ann 1833, had a child out of wedlock, married James Lawson, a miner
    • Ann, no baptismal record, 1836ish married Robert Corlett, a miner
    • Thomas 1840-1855
    • Margaret 1841
    • Catherine 1842, married Joseph Cannell, a miner
    • Lenora 1844
    • Isabella 1845-1849
  6. After Mary Ann died in 1871, Daniel remarried, to Jane Lowry 1874
  7. The current Court Order sought permission for Catherine to complete the administration of what was an extensive estate left by her father, Daniel
  8. One immediate action was to call in the debt owned him by his cousin's late son, Thomas Joseph Mylroi, who had borrowed several times from Daniel and apparently had not repaid the loans at the time of his death in 1906
  9. Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage, a woman's legal rights and obligations were subsumed by those of her husband, in accordance with the wife's legal status of feme covert

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