Alice Gelling, 1855

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The humble petition of Thomas Gelling of Liverpool, Flour 
Dealer.
Sheweth:  That Alice Gelling your petitioner's mother departed 
this life in Liverpool on or about the month of December last 
having first duly made and published her last will and testament 
whereof she appointed your petitioner executor as by the said 
will appears.
That your petitioner is desirous of having the said will proved in 
usual form of law.
Wherefore your petitioner prays a hearing of this petition and 
that the said will be received in usual form and your petitioner 
sworn executor thereof in usual form of law and your petitioner 
will pray.  
James Quirk for petitioner.
Ordered that this petition do come on to be heard at a court to be 
holden at Douglas on this day whereof all proper parties to have 
noticed.
Given this 11 day of May 1855   T. A. Corlett
At Douglas 11 May 1835.  This petition is continued 
Petitioner not being preferred with proper pledges
T. A. Corlett
At an Ecclesiastical Court held at Douglas 22 Jun 1855
Upon hearing this petition in presence of parties or their 
advocates and upon consideration of the evidence of Thomas 
Edward Middleton one of the subscribing witness to the last will 
and testament of Alice Gelling deceased delivered to this court 
on the 11th day of May last I am of opinion that the due 
execution of the said will has been ------ and that probate thereof 
should be granted as prayed for and the same is therefore duly 
so ordered adjudged and decreed accordingly.
T. A. Corlett.
Borough of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster to wit
I Thomas Edward Middleton of Liverpool in the County of 
Lancaster Bookkeeper do hereby make oath and say that I and 
William Knight Campbell of Liverpool aforesaid solicitor were 
present and did see Alice Gelling of Liverpool aforesaid widow 
duly sign seal and as her act and deed delivered the will hereto 
annexed, and that the name "Alice Gelling" thereto subscribed 
as the party executing the same is of the proper handwriting of 
the said Alice Gelling and that the names T. E. Middleton and 
W. K. Campbell thereto also subscribed as the witnesses 
attesting the execution thereof by the said Alice Gelling are 
respectively of the proper handwriting of this deponent and of 
the said William Knight Campell and T E Middleton sworn by 
the said Thomas Edward Middleton at Liverpool aforesaid this 
Fifteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty 
five.
Before Me          J. A. Tobin,    Mayor of Liverpool
To all to whom these presents shall come I James Aspinall 
Tobin Esquire Mayor of the Borough and town of Liverpool in 
the County Palatine of Lancaster in that part of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, do hereby 
certify that on the day of the date hereof personally came and 
appeared before me Thomas Edward Middleton the deponent 
named in the Affidavit hereto annexed being a person well 
known and worthy of good credit, and did solemnly and 
sincerely swear to be true the several matters and things 
mentioned and contained in the said affidavit.
In faith and testimony whereof I the said Mayor have cause the 
seal of mayorally of the said Borough and Town to be here unto 
put and affixed and the will mentioned and referred to in the said 
affidavit to be hereunto annexed.  Dated at Liverpool Fifteenth 
day of March in the Eighteenth year of the reign of our 
Sovereign Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United 
kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the 
faith and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred 
and fifty five.      J. A. Tobin.
This is the last will and testament of me Alice Gelling of 
Liverpool in the County of Lancaster widow I give and devise 
all that my one equal moiety or half part of and in all that 
messuage Tenement or dwelling house situate in Barrack Street 
Douglas in the Isle of Man now or lately in the occupation of 
John Kelly and others unto and to the use of my son Thomas 
Gelling his heirs executors administrators and assigns 
absolutely. 
I give and bequeath to my four children Edward Joseph Gelling 
of Everton near Liverpool aforesaid Joiner William Gelling of 
Liverpool aforesaid Joiner John Gelling of Liverpool aforesaid 
joiner and Isabella Gelling of Liverpool aforesaid spinster the 
sum of five shillings each and I appoint my said son Thomas 
Gelling sole executor of this my will as witness my hand this 
Seventeenth day of January One thousand eight hundred and 
fifty five.      Alice Gelling
Signed declared and acknowledged by the said Alice Gelling the 
testatrix as and for her last will and testament in the presence of 
us who being present at the same time in her presence at her 
request and in the presence of each other have hereunto 
subscribed our names as witnesses attesting the same.
J. E. Middleton
W. H. Campbell
At an Ecclesiastical Court held at Douglas 22 June 1855.
Thomas Edward Middleton one of the subscribing witnesses to 
the foregoing paper writing purporting to be the last will and 
testament of Alice Gelling deceased having in the Eleventh day 
of May last made oath upon the Holy Evangelists that the said 
Alice Gelling duly signed and executed the same as and for her 
last will and testament in his presence and in presence of W. K. 
Campbell the other subscribing witness thereto being at the time 
of sound mind Thomas Gelling the executor therein named is 
therefore sworn well and truly to fulfil and execute the same 
according to law to pay all the just debts legacies and funeral 
expenses so far forth as the goods will extend and the law bind 
him and to return to the Archdeacon's Registry of this Diocese a 
full, true,  and perfect inventory of the said estate with an 
accurate account of his acts and proceedings in the premises 
when thereunto lawfully required and to these ends he has given 
pledges namely John Leece Kermode and Henry Kellett who 
have executed the usual bond in the presence of the court
Probatum Est   T. A. Corlett.