Catherine Kelvie als Blackburn, 1748

LDS Film Number  0106379

This is the Last Will &  Testament of  Cath  Kelvie als  
Blackburn of the Town of  Ramsey who departed 
This life about the  22nd  of June  Anno  Dom :
1748  who being sick  & weak in Body but of per
fect mind & memory at the making  hereof

First She left all worldly goods unto her 
Three children ecepting  her apparrel linnen
& woolen which  she left unto her Aunt  Eliz :
Clague   ( for taking care of & maintaining  her young :
est child  James Kelvie ) excepting  her wearing gown 
& red petticoat which she left unto her maid, Jane
Kneal being one of the Witnesses ; together wth her
Best Ring unto her sd  son  James  & the next
"---n "  second best ring unto her husband  Thos
Kelvie, and all the rest equally betwixt her
"---d " children  - Item she left  six pence legacy to
"-----y "  that could legally claim right to her goods
She left her sd  Aunt  Eliz :  Clague to take care
of her sd child  James  two or three years
"---ntes "       Cath  Cowle
                 Jane  Kneal    [ Jurate ]  

At a Consistory Court in  KK Micheal
                                          July  20   1748
The " -----ds " being all under age their Uncle 
Wm: Clague is sworn  Overseer - as also - [-----]
"----ttn " payment of Debts & Legacys according to Law
"------le " is agreed upon that the second child is to
be in the custody & Tuition of Elizabeth  Clague
[pledges]  for the '--------- '  Thos " Ca--------- "
&  Thos  Cannel  junior
The husband is sworn to enter a just  " -------- "
Of the goods for ye  orphans

Solvit   12d                probatum  ' --- "
[ Feb ]  6  1748            Edw :  Moore

Wm Cowle is sworn overseer for the orphans of Cath: Kelvie
als Blackburn -- and Elizth the step mother is sworn
to deliver up the goods of the deceased to the overseers
& to the Legacies  as  "------   ---- "    Edw :  Moore

Lib in  [ Chapter ]  Court in [ Lezayre ]   May  30th  1749
Thos: Kelvie father of the orphans of Cath: Kelvie has
by consent of the overseers taken the goods in the Inventory
& undertakes to give fourty shills more than the [appraisin]
Pledges in form of Law -- are Edwd Curphy & Wm Curphy
[Fi: Devinnah]                         Edw:  Moore

Names mentioned in the inventory,
Item to the decds pt of cash in Jon Looney's hands                        5  - 00 - 9
Item to the decds pt of what was owing from John  Stephan         3  - 00 - 1

To the within named Prizors being convein'd to value 
and estimate the House and Gardens & May Ground belonging 
to Thos: Kelvie husband of the within Decd Cath: Kelvie
and having view'd  the premises, do value & esteem
the  same upon the decd part, to be worth,  one
pound fifteen shills per Annum --  and this we return 
for our verdict as witness our subsciptions this  28th 
March    1749
                         Hugh  Martin
                         John  Stephenson   
                         John  Black
                         Wm.  Kermod