Mary Bridson, 1830

At a Chapter Court at Castletown 12th May 1830.
Mary Bridson of the parish of Malew having departed this life on or about
the 4th instant intestate.  And this court having received intelligence
thereof hath decreed her only child Ann Esther administratrix of all and
singular her goods rights credits chattels and effects moveable and
immoveable whatever - and said Ann Esther being under age - her father
Philip Bridson is thereupon sworn her guardian and supervisor and in
trust for her well and truly to administer the said estate to return a full
true and perfect inventory thereof to the Episcopal Registry and to pay
all the intestates just debts, so far forth as her goods and effects will
extend and the law bind him and to these ends he hath given pledges in form
of law namely William Dinwoody of Malew and Robert Duff of
Douglas
 Decretum Est   John Nelson and B. Philpot
This day Philip Bridson of Ballasalla in the parish of KK Malew yeoman
personally appeared before me and made oath on the Holy Evangelists
that on or about the first day of May 1830 Mary the deponent's wife died
intestate leaving Ann Esther the only issue of the said marriage her
surviving.
That some short time afterward the deponent applied for and obtained letters
of administration of the said estate and he then truly valued to
the best of his knowledge the whole of the personal property of which
the said deceased died possessed and to which the deponent was also equally
entitled to the sum of six hundred pounds British or thereabouts and for
which amount he entered into a bond in the usual form.
That at the time aforesaid this deponent omitted to take into account
the several personally debts due and owing by the deponent and his said wife
at the time of her deceased and also the subsequent expenses of the funeral
which amounts in all to the sum of seven hundred pounds British
to the best of the deponent's knowledge and belief.  As witness his
subscription this 27th day of March 1832.         Philip Bridson
Taken and sworn before me   Robert Kelly High Bailiff