JANE MYLREA als Stowell

Will - 1900 (Malew)

In the High Court of Justice Common Law division (Testamentary jurisdiction)

In the goods of Jane Mylrea, widow, deceased

To His Honour Kneen Thomas esquire, His Majesty's First Deemster and a judge of the said Division

The humble petition of Flaxney Stowell junior and Edward Stowell of the town of Castletown, guardians of Thomas Mylrea a minor

Sheweth as follows:

Jane Mylrea, widow, and the sister of your petitioners departed this life at Castletown on 21st day of August 1900, intestate

It is necessary that Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of the said Jane Mylrea, deceased should be granted

The only next of kin of the deceased is the said Thomas Mylrea, a son who is a minor

Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray a hearing thereof and that your honour may be pleased to grant Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of the said Jane Mylrea deceased to Thomas Kewish or to some other fit and proper person, and that your petitioners may have such other relief as is meet and they will pray

James ......, Advocate for the petitioners

Ordered that this petition do come on to be heard at a Court holden at Castletown on Monday the 15th April 1901 at 11.30 o'clock forenoon whereof all proper parties and persons are to have due and lawful notice

Given at Castletown the 13th day of April 1901

A Gell CR

Next page is a proforma, confirming that Thomas Kewish was the administrator of the estate of Jane Mylrea, deceased

In the goods of Jane Mylrea deceased

Whereas Thomas Kewish of Castletown was at a sitting of the High Court of Justice at Castletown on the 15th day of April 1901 granted Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of Jane Mylrea of Castletown, widow, deceased

And whereas the said Jane Mylrea left her surviving one only child Thomas Mylrea, a minor

And whereas the said Thomas Mylrea has attained the age of twenty-one years

And whereas the said Thomas Kewish has filed in the Registry Office of this isle a statement of his accounts in connection with the estate of the said Jane Mylrea deceased, and which statement shows a balance of six hundred and sixty six pounds ten shillings and seven pence as due to the said Thomas Mylrea

Following pages are proforma of the Court, setting the pledges estate. There is also a page of financial reckoning

NOTES

  1. Jane Mylrea als Stowell was the daughter-in-law of Thomas Mylrea, the miller of Glen Wyllin
  2. Her husband was John Thomas Mylrea, a ship owner and corn dealer in Castletown, who died at the relatively early age of 48
  3. John Thomas, by virtue of his father's 1876 will, inherited a 1/3 share of Harry's mill and associated land in Michael. He then left the Michael holding to his wife, Jane Stowell (LV 1898), and when she died in 1900, they passed to their only child, Thomas, who was still a minor (LV 1901)
  4. Thomas Mylrea was born in 1883, so only 11 years old when his father died, and 17 years old when his mother died
  5. Young Thomas married in Liverpool in 1904 but tragically his wife died a few weeks later
  6. He left for the USA soon afterwards where he married Bertha Margaret Thomas and became a father to two daughters. The family made its home in Oklahoma
  7. In 1908, he sold his share of "Harry's" mill that had come into the family when his grandfather, Thomas Mylrea, purchased it from John Cain, the village cooper, in 1858
  8. Thomas lived in Oklahoma city for the rest of his life. He died at the age of 90, and is buried there

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