JOHN MYLREA & trustees

COURT ORDER TO SELL - 1899 (Douglas)

August 1901 Onchan #101

In the High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man, Chancery Division

To his honour Sir Allured Dumbell, Clerk of the Rolls and Judge of the said Division

The humble petition of William Henry Corjeag and John Corkhill Waterson Cowley, Committee of John Mylrea, a lunatic

Sheweth that petitioners are Committee of John Mylrea, a lunatic

That the said lunatic is entitled to one undivided fourth share of a certain dwelling house and premises being situate in and numbered 27 Barrack Street in the town of Douglas, the said John Corkhill Waterson Cowley and Mary Ann Cowley his wife are entitled to another undivided fourth share therein, and Elizabeth Corlett of the town of Ramsey is entitled to the remaining undivided two fourth shares therein

That the said dwelling house and premises being in a dilapidated condition and condemned by the Corporation of Douglas as unsanitary and it being deemed advisable in the interests of the said lunatic to sell the same at a sitting of the said Division of Douglas on the 12th day of April 1899, petitioners obtained your honour’s order to form and concur with the other owners in selling the same

That your petitioners on the 19th day of October 1899 after due and proper advertisement, and subject to the usual conditions of sale, joined with the other owners in putting up for sale by public auction the said dwelling house and premises when, after several bids had been made therefore, the same was knocked down to Jonathan White Johnson of Douglas aforesaid as the highest bidder and the purchaser thereof at the price or sum of £122/10/0, such sale so far as petitioner’s interests are concerned being subject to the approval of this honourable Court

That petitioners are advised and do believe that the said sum of £122/10/0 is a fair price for the said dwelling house and premises and are desirous of obtaining your authority to join with the other owners thereof in the conveyance of the same to the said Jonathan White Johnson in consideration of such sum

Wherefore petitioners pray a hearing and that your honour may be pleased to approve of a sale of the said dwelling house and premises to the said Jonathan White Johnson for the said sum of £122/10/0, and to authorise petitioners to form with the other owners in a conveyance of the same to the said Jonathan White Johnson, and petitioners will pray etc etc. J.M.Cruikshank

Ordered that this petition do come on to be heard at Court to be holden at Douglas on Wednesday the eighth day of November 1899 at eleven o’clock in the forenoon whereof all proper parties and persons to have due notice. Given this 7th day of November 1899. A. Dumbell

At a Court holden at Douglas the 8th November 1899

Upon hearing this petition (ex parte) in presence of counsel for the petitioners (hereinafter called “the Committee”) who are the committee appointed by this Court over John Mylrea, in this petition named a person of unsound mind (so formed by inquisition), and it appearing to the Court that the Committee under and by virtue of an order of this Court dated the 12th April 1899 (hereinafter called “the order for sale”) offered for sale by public auction on the 19th October 1899 (conjointly with the other owners thereof) the dwelling house and premises number 27 in Barrack Street in the town of Douglas, the interest of the said John Mylrea therein being one undivided fourth part or share

That at such auction Jonathan White Johnson as the highest bidder for the property so offered for sale became (subject to the approval of the Court) the purchaser thereof at the price or sum of £122/10/0 and the Committee in and by their petition seek the approval of this Court to the sale thereof at that price, and for authority to join in the conveyance thereof to the said Jonathan White Johnson, and their having now adduced before the Court the evidence of witnesses as to the value of the said dwelling house and premises (which are out of repair and unsanitary) and from which it appears that the said sum of £122/10/0 is a very good price therefore on consideration had thereof, this Court being of the opinion that the sum of one hundred and twenty-two pounds and ten shillings is good and sufficient value for the said dwelling house and premises, and that it would be for the benefit of the said John Mylrea and his estate if a sale thereof at that price were carried into effect

Doth accordingly hereby approve and confirm such sale and in order that the same may be carried into effect doth for that purpose, hereby authorise and empower the Committee representing the interest of the said John Mylrea in the said sold property to make and execute (or to form with other owners of the said dwelling house and premises in making and executing) and to deliver to the said Jonathan While Johnson all such Deeds and Assurances as they may be advised are necessary in law to rest the said dwelling house and premises in him absolutely

And it is so ordered and adjudged accordingly

And it is hereby further ordered that the Committee, after they shall have complied with this order, shall immediately in the manner directed in and by the order for sale to carry the other provisions thereof into effect and fully complete the same. A. Dumbell, CR

Registry Office of Deeds 3rd August 1901 I certify that the foregoing Deed was this day at the hour of 3.25 o’clock afternoon received by me at this Office for the purpose of being registered and recorded according to law and that the same is duly registered, recorded and entered in the Requisition Book fifteen, page 304, No. 3938 Frank J. Johnson, D. Reg

[Ref: August 1901 Onchan #77]

NOTES

  1. Cronk Urleigh
  2. The individuals in this event were trustees of John Mylrea, the disabled son of John Mylrea & Margaret Barrie als Brew of Michael
  3. John Mylrea the subject of this hearing was badly injured in an accident when he working in Manchester (presumably working as a joiner) in 1896. By the 1881 he was living with his parents and listed as a joiner (formerly). The word "imbicile" is added
  4. It is not apparent why Mr Corjeag was a guardian, but being the miller at the Shore mill, a prominent Primitive Methodist local preacher, a substantial land holder & heavily involved in local affairs, he might simply have been a well known person
  5. The reason for the hearing is that the Court needs to approve the sale of a particular property in which John Mylrea the younger has an interest. His sister Mary Ann, and half sister Elizabeth Corlett also have an interest.
  6. From the apportionment of "ownership", the half share for Elizabeth Corlett, the step daughter of John Mylrea snr, must indicate that Elizabeth had inherited her mother's share of the house while the Mylrea children (Mary Ann and her disabled brother John) had inherited the other half. Their sister Emma had died the previous year and Elizabeth's sister had died over two decades previously
  7. John, lived with his sister Mary Ann and her family at Cronk Urleigh, until he died in 1905

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