Ellinor Creer, 1901

1901 37				

In the High Court of Justice 
Common Law Division      Testamentary Jurisdiction
In the goods of Ellinor Creer Spinster deceased

To His Honor Thomas Kneen Esquire His Majesty’s
First Deemster and a Judge of the Said 
Division

The Humble petition of 
James Clague of Hope
Street in the town of
Castletown and Catherine
Clague his wife

Sheweth as follows:-
1.Ellinor Creer a spinster and a cousin
of your petitioner Catherine Clague departed
this life on the 5th day of February 1901 at
the Crofts in the town of Castletown having first
duly made and published her last will and
testament dated the 20th day of October 1900
whereof she appointed your petitioner James
Clague executor.
2.It is necessary that the said will
should be proved
3.The only next of kin of the said deceased
resident on this Island is a niece Margaret
Kermode of the town of Castletown a widow


Wherefore you petitioner
humbly prays a hearing
hereof and that your 
Honour may be pleased to 
grant probate of the said 
will of the said Ellinor
Creer to your 
petitioner James Clague
and that your petitioners
may have such other
relief as is meet and
they will pray.

Ordered that this petition do come on to 
be heard at a Court to be holden at Castletown
 on Monday the 25th day of February 1901
at 11 o’clock in the forenoon. Whereof all 
proper parties and persons are to have 
due and lawful notice
Given at Castletown this 20th day of February 1901.

This is the last will and testament
of me Ellinor Creer of the Crofts in the town
of Castletown spinster I being of sound mind
memory and understanding at the making
hereof and revoking all will be me heretofore made.
I nominate and appoint James Clague
of hope Street Castletown Coal merchant to be
executor and trustee of this my will.
I direct that the trustee shall convert into
money all my real estate by making sale of 
the same at such time and either by public
auction or private treaty and for such price as
to him may seem advisable.
After the payment of my just debts and
funeral and testamentary expenses  I leave 
and bequeath the following legacies namely:-
(a)Two hundred pounds to each of the daughters
of my late brother Robert Creer (£400)
(b)Twenty five pounds to my nephew John
Thomas Creer son of the late William Creer (£25)
(c)Twenty five pounds to my nephew Edward
Creer son of the late William Creer (£25)
(d)Five pounds to my grand niece Lily
Stowell daughter of James Stowell (£5)
(e)Twenty pounds to Sarah Creer widow of
the late William Creer (£20)
(f)Twenty five pounds to Catherine Clague
the wife of James Clague (£25)
(g)Twenty five pounds to James Clague
my executor and trustee (£25)
(h)Thirty pounds to Frederick Kermode the son
of the late Robert Kelly Kermode (£30)
(i)Ten pounds to Margaret the wife of
the Reverend Smith Thomas Parr Wesleyan 
minister (£10)
(j)Five pounds to         Parr son of
the said Smith Thomas Parr (£5)
(k)Ten pounds to the Blind Asylum
Edinburgh (£10)
(l)Ten pounds to Sir James Gell Knight
to be invested for the benefit of the Castletown
Nurses home and Cottage Hospital
I leave and bequeath to Miss Margaret
Cuninghame Stewart Robertson, Miss Dorothea
Stewart Robertson, Miss Mary Stewart Robertson
and Miss Helen Stewart Robertson the furniture
bequeathed to me by their late Aunt Miss
Cuninghame, and a gold watch, and which 
furniture consists of the following articles
but in case of the marriage of any of the said
Misses Stewart Robertson then I wish the said
furniture and watch to become the property 
of those who do not marry.
A mahogany wardrobe, a chest of drawers
a dressing table, a looking glass, a couch, an
ottoman, a bedside table, two cane bedroom
chairs, a rocking chair with leather cover, a
screen, a walnut wood bedstead,  a gold watch
which belonged to the late Miss Cuninghame.
I leave devise and bequeath the whole
of the residue of the property real and personal
of which I may also die possessed or to which I may
become entitled to my said nephew Edward Creer
son of the late William Creer.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name this 20th day of October
1900.

Executed by the said Ellinor Creer
as and for her last will and testament   Ellenor Creer
in our presence who in her
presence and in presence of
each other have hereunto subscribed
our names as witnesses.
Frank D Corrin
Charles B Bickerstaffe