JANE CORRAIGE als McYLREA
Will - 1654 (Ballaugh)
Copied from Joyce Oates' Archdeacon Wills 1651-1657 because it was embedded on p280 of a 666 page .pdf document
March 12th 1653 Ballaugh
The last will and testament of Jaine Mcylrea
first committed her soule to God and her bodie of Christian burial
It: left a firlett of corne to ye poore
It: she left to her sonne John Coraige all her pte of ye household stufe and her pte of ye oats yt was in his own hands
It: shee left to Jony Casement a wheele
It: shee constituted and ordained her daughter Margarett her true and lawefull executor of all ye rest of her goods whatsoever
pbat est et solvit
Testes Jo: Cowley, Jo: Corraige Jurati
Tho: Cowley hath past his word yt an inventorye shall bee brought in within 14 dayes sub pena duble value
NOTES
- Dollough?
- Burial 18th February, 1654 (recorded 1653 as per the old calendar)
- The most likely candidate for this woman is the daughter of Raynold Mc ilrea & Ellin Gawn, both of whom died in 1600 in Ballaugh
- The wills of Raynold & Ellin both mention, inter alia, a daughter named Jane who would have been born in the last decade or two of the 1500s
- Aunt of John de Dollough and great aunt of his son, William Mc ylrea, the patriarch of the Deemster/Archbishop/Attorney General line
- Wife of Ffynlo Corraige (d Dec 1654, 10 months after Jaine); children John (married Jony Casement) & Margaret
- Husband held lands in Balla cain quarterland, as did her parents
- Son and grandson, both named John Corraige, engaged in several sales of land to William Mc ylrea of the Dollough in the 1670s -1680s, and the Corraige family had previously been joint tenants with the Mylreas in various land records
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