William Cain, 1823

            Braddan 
The humble petition of David Cain and Elizabeth Cain of the parish of
Jurby.
Sheweth:  That William Cain of the town of Douglas brother of your
petitioners departed this life on or about the second day of November
instant intestate leaving behind him considerable personal property to which
your petitioners and others his relatives are entitled.
That it is necessary for the preservation and management of the said estate
that Letters  of Administration of the said decedent's estate should be sued
out without loss of time.
Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray a hearing of this petition and
that your Reverences may be pleased to appoint and swear your petitioners
administrators in trust of the estate of the said William
Cain or otherwise that some other proper persons relatives of the said
decedent may be appointed administrators in trust of his estate and
your petitioners will pray.

Orders that this petition do come on to be heard at a Consistorial Court
to be holden in Ramsey on the last Thursday in this instant month
whereof all proper parties and persons are to have due notice.
Given this 22nd November 1823  T. Stephen.

We the undersigned do severally acknowledge to have received and been paid
respective distributive shares of the estate of the late William
Caine late schoolmaster of the Free School Douglas as next of kin of the
said deceased and we do hereby acquit and discharge the administrators
of the said estate namely David Caine and Stephen Kneale from all suits and
demands connected with the  said estate and in respect thereof.
As witness our names this 20th day of November 1837.
James Craine
Patrick Cain
John Mylechraine
John Corlett
Wm Kelly
John Cashin his x mark
Patrick Callister
Signed in presence of Thos Caine

At Ramsey March 3 1838.  
Thomas Cain the subscribing witness to the
foregoing receipt and release made oath upon the Holy Evangelists that
the same was duly signed and executed in his presence by James Craine,
Patrick Cain, John Mylecharaine, John Corlett, Wm Kelly, John Cashin,
and Patrick Callister
Before me  Fred Tellet

William Caine late master of the Charity School of Douglas, bachelor, having
departed this life on or about the 2nd November instant intestate, and this
court having received intelligence thereof and upon the humble petition of
David Caine and Elizabeth Cain brother and sister of the intestate hath
decreed them the said David Cain and Elizabeth Cain together with Patrick
Caine now abroad in Liverpool and his sisters
Anne, Margaret, Elinor, and Jane and the children of Alice deceased
co-administrator of all and singular the goods rights and credits chattels
and effects of  their intestate brother movable and immovable whatever and
the rest of kind having relinquished the burden of this
administration to David Caine the petitioner and Stephen Kneale husband
of Margaret aforesaid, they are thereupon sworn well and truly to administer
the same to exhibit and inventory and pay debts so far forth
as goods will extend and the law bind them and to be true ad just to each
other and their absent coadmors in the division of the residuum and to these
ends they have given pledges in form of law namely John Corlett of Jurby and
Esther Mylecharaine of Ballaugh.
              Decretum Est