JOHN MYLREA 1814 Will Ballaugh
originally submitted by Shirley C. Hogensen to Brian Lawson
Ballaugh
The humble petition of John Corlett of Ballaugh.
Sheweth That John Mylrea of Ballacooilley in Ballaugh departed this life on or about the 25th of October now last part. And having sometime previous to his decease made his will nominated and appointed your petitioner wife namely Anne Corlett otherwise Mylrea sole and whole executrix thereof.
That some of the goods and effect of the deceadent are in perishable and wasting condition and requires immediate care and attention to which care and attention your petitioner has been well advised he cannot legally proceed until the said will is proved and your petitioner sworn executor thereof.
He therefore humbly prays for a speedy hearing of this petition.
The will of said deceadent may be ordered to come on to be proved before your Reverence and your petitioner sworn as executor thereof whereby he can be enabled to proceed to the care and management of the goods and effects of the said John Mylrea
And your petition will pray etc etc
Ordered that this petition do come on to be heard at Ballagane in K Marown on Friday the 11th instant whereof all proper parties and persons are to have due notice.
Given this 1st Nov 1814
T. Stephens
NOTES
- Ballacooiley
- Son of Thomas Mylrea & Isabel Killip, born 1738
- Father died when John was 6 years old. His mother remarried and she, together with his uncle, Nicholas Mylrea snr, guided John into the stewardship of Ballacooiley
- When John's father Thomas died, he left his widow with two young children and mortgages worth over £50 plus interest
- John's uncle, Nicholas snr, was probably the guiding influence for John as a boy. Nicholas snr had helped him mortgage part of Ballacooiley when John was 14 years old, most likely to consolidate the debts incurred by his father
- After Thomas's death, Isabel Mylrea als Killip married William Caine 1746
- John married Jane Clark in 1758, when he was 20 years of age. They had 12 children: John (b1759) married Ellinor Corlett (and would become the next steward of Ballacooiley), Daniel (b1761) & Mary Hughes, Isabel (b1763) & Patrick Cowley, Jane (b1765) & James Corlett, Margaret (b1767) & Thomas Corlett, Ellinor (b1774) & John Caley, Ann (b1776) & John Corlett, Thomas (b1781) & Ann Cannon?; Thomas (b1769) & Mary (b1772) died of smallpox within days of each other in 1773, William (b1771), & Thomas (b1779) died in infancy
- Wife Jane died 1803
- John's 1777 purchase of the North Flatt lands proved to be an unsound financial decision and led to several mortgages and sales in the ensuing 5 years, including the disposal of North Flatt. John paid off his final mortgage in 1802, twenty years after he had originally taken it out
- Oldest son John succeeded to Ballacooiley on death of father
- What second son Daniel (b1761) did with his life is not known but he and Mary had eight children in Ballaugh. As a teenager, the boy was left a small legacy by his grandfather, Daniel Clark "to put him to some honest trade"
- The third surviving son named Thomas, baptised in 1781, was most likely the fellow who married Ann Cannon in Braddan, and worked as a gardener/labourer
- John was 76 when he died, and Ballacooiley was transmitted to his son, John jnr, who was by then 55 years of age
- In 1868, Ballacooiley was lost forever when the oldest son of John jnr, Thomas, was drowning in debt and the bank stepped in and sold the estate
Associated Documents
- 1733 Will: William Mylrea (grand father)
- 1733 Purchase: Thomas McYlrea from Robert Corlet (father)
- 1738 Sale: Thomas Mylrea to William Bridson (father)
- 1738 Sale: Thomas Mylrea to William Killip (father & uncle)
- 1739 Mortgage: Thomas Mylrea to John Caine (father)
- 1740 Sale: Thomas McYlrea to Nicholas McYlrea snr (father to uncle)
- 1742 Mortgage: Thomas Mylrea to Thomas Mylrea (father)
- 1743 Mortgage: Thomas Mylrea to Mary Gollin (father)
- 1744 Mortgage: Thomas Mylrea to William Corlett (father)
- 1744 Will: Thomas Mylrea (father)
- 1752 Mortgage: Nicholas Mylrea snr & John Mylrea to Robert Siddleton
- 1777 Will: Isabel Cain als Mylrea als Killip (mother)
- 1777 Mortgage: John Mylrea snr to Richard Quirk & Thomas Waterson
- 1780 Mortgage: John Mylrea snr to Henry Craine
- 1782 Sale: John Mylrea snr to Daniel Corlet
- 1782 Sale: John Mylrea snr to John Corlet
- 1782 Mortgage: John Mylrea snr to Daniel Craine
- 1785 Marriage Contract: Isabella Mylrea & Patrick Cowley (daughter)
- 1801 Marriage Contract: John Mylrea jnr & Ellinor Corlett (son)
- 1803 Will: Jane Mylrea als Clark (wife)
- 1810 Will: Isabel Cowley als Mylrea (daughter)
- 1814 Will: John Mylrea snr
- 1815 Will: Ann Corlett als Mylrea (daughter)
- 1830 Will: Daniel Mylrea (son)
- 1832 Will: Elinor Caley als Mylrea (daughter)
- 1839 Will: Daniel Mylrea (grand son)
- 1843 Will: Mary Mylrea als Hughes (daughter-in-law)
- 1846 Will: John Mylrea jnr (son)
- 1857 Will: Ellinor Mylrea (daughter-in-law)
- Story: Three Daniels & A Thomas (grand son & his descendants)
From Summary of Wills, A Manx Notebook
1759-3 E CLARKE Isabel CRYE d 8 jun 1759; dau Margt, Jane (w/o John Mylrea had dowry)
1815-2 E CORLETT Anne MYLREA d sep 1815; ch John + Jane jt admrs - ua - uncle (mo's side) John Caly supv; husb John (shoemaker) sworn
1823-2 E CORLETT Thomas dated 18 Aug 1822; curraughside Ballaugh;ch Jane (parcel of intack purchased by him from Cath Kneale (widow David Kneale) [NSS May 1800 #9]); wife Margt als Mylrea exec (+ all other purchased land)
Last updated: March 2016