THOMAS GRAVES McMURRAY

Will - 1846 (Peel) Chancery Petition #??

Thomas Graves McMurray 1846

To the worshipful Thomas A. Corlett Vicar General of this Isle etc. etc.

The humble petition of Mrs Margaret McMurray of Peel

Sheweth

That Thomas Graves McMurray your petitioner''s late husband departed this life some short time ago leaving petitioner his widow him surviving

That by the will of the said Thomas G. McMurray your petitioner is appointed executor

That petitioner is desirous to have the said will received

Wherefore she prays a hearing hereof and that said will may be executed and petitioner sworn thereof and she will pray

Robert H Moore for petitioner

Ordered that this petition do come on at Douglas on Friday … with due notice to parties. Given this 22nd of April 1846 Thomas A. Corlett

This is the last will and testament of said Thomas Graves McMurray, purser in the Royal Navy, at present residing in the town of Peel in the Isle of Man made this the eighth day of January 1846

I leave and bequeath to my present wife Mrs Margaret McMurray … Moore the whole of my property and effects of what nature soever

And I nominate constitute and appoint her the said Margaret McMurray whole and sole executrix of this my will in testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name the date aforesaid. T. G. McMurray

Signed and duly executed by the testator in our presents who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. Daniel Buchanan, Edward G. Karran

At an Ecclesiastical Court held in Douglas the twenty fourth April 1846

Daniel Buchanan and Edward G. Karran the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing paper writing purporting to be the will of T. G. McMurray, deceased, having made oath on the Holy Evangelist that the said T. G. McMurray the testator when of sound disposing mind, memory and understanding duly signed and executed the same as and for his last will and testament

Margaret McMurray the widow and executrix of the said testator is therefore sworn well and truly to fulfil and execute the said will according to law, to pay all just debts, legacies and funeral expenses so far forth as the goods will extend and the law bind her to return to the Episcopal Registry a full, true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods and effects of the testator with an accurate account of her acts and proceedings in the premises when thereunto lawfully required and to these ends she has given pledges, namely John Kelly and Basil Mylrea who have entered into the usual bond in presents of the court

Probatum est

T. A. Corlett

NOTES

  1. Thomas McMurray's wife, Margaret, was the daughter of William Mylrea & Jane Plaice and born about 1803 in Peel
  2. He had married PHilip Moore in 1728, and he died in 1735
  3. Margaret subsequently married Thomas Graves McMurray in 1842

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To his worship Thomas Arthur Corlett esq, Vicar General etc etc

The humble petition of Philip St Andrew Moore of Peel

Sheweth

That Margaret McMurray, your petitioner’s mother, lately departed this life intestate, leaving your petitioner and Jane Price Moore, a minor, her surviving children

That your petitioner therefore prays a hearing thereof and that your worship may be pleased to grant administration of the goods and effects of the said Margaret McMurray to your petitioners, and he will pray etc etc. J. Kelly jnr for petitioner

Ordered that this petition be heard at an Ecclesiastical Court to be held at KK Michael on Thursday the 25th inst whereof all proper parties to have notice. Given this 25th March 1852 T.A.Corlett

At an Ecclesiastical Court held in KK Michael the 25th March 1852

Upon hearing this petition in presence of the parties or their advocates and it appearing that Margaret McMurray otherwise Moore, widow, some time ago departed this life intestate, leaving … the petitioner and Jane Price Moore who are therefore as her only children and next of kin decreed joint administrators of all and singular the goods, rights, credits, chattels and effects of the said deceased

And the petitioner is sworn well and truly to administer the said estate and to pay all just debts and funeral expenses of the deceased so far forth as the goods will extend, and the law bind him and to return to the Episcopal Registry of this diocese, a full, true and perfect inventory of the said estate and an accurate account of his acts and proceedings of the premises and there unto lawfully required, and to these ends he has given pledges namely Bazil Mylrea of Peel and John Kelly of German who have entered into the usual bond in presence of the Court

Decretum est T. A. Corlett

1852

18th June, John Keawn claims Sterling £15

Following – three pages itemised inventory total value £51/13/6

...... Christian, Thomas Corkan, Richard Kinvig, William Ratstan

NOTES

  1. Margaret was the daughter of William Mylrea & Jane Plaice and born about 1803 in Peel
  2. She had an illigetimate son George with Philip Moore, the grandson of Sir George Moore, in 1828
  3. A year later she married Philip Moore and had two more children: Philip St Andrew 1831 & Jane Price 1835
  4. Philip snr died in 1836 and Margaret subsequently married Thomas Graves McMurray in 1842 of the Royal Navy
  5. Daughter Jane Price Moore married John Kelly, the advocate, who might have been her guardian (see 1845 petition) or her guardian's son

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