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Manx Genealogy Archive 2

Kissage Kewney Nidderagh Skillicorn Cannell

Can anyone identify the relationships among these legatees in Mary Kissage's will?

The last Will and Testament of Mary Kissage alias Kewney alias Nidderagh
wife of Wm Kissage of the Parish of Kk Christ Lezayre which was Expressed
and Declared by her the Testatrix to be her last will and testament before
the subscribing witnesses on Tuesday the 21st of Octr 1788 and entered into
writing by the Request of the sd Witnesses this 28th Day of the same month
being the day after the Testatrix was buried ­ and the witnesses do say and
declare that the Testatrix was then of sound mind and memory and said her
prayers and commended her soul to god and her Body to Christian Burial

And then she left and bequeathed to Edmund Skillicorn of Kk Michael twenty
shillings as Legacy

Item To William Cannell of Kk Michael she left twenty shillings and to his
Daughter that was married at Castletown Twenty Shillings more

Item To her sister's son John Christian smith of Kk Michael she left twenty
shillings

Item To Mary Corlett now the wife of John Skillicorn she left twenty shillings

Item To Elizabeth the wife of Robert Corlett of Churchtown Lezayre she left
Twenty shillings

Item To Mary Tear she left Ten shillings with what was in her hands and
to Wm Tear she left Twenty shillings and to Elizabeth the wife of Paul
Kewney she left Ten shillings

and to the wife of John Corlett (Gill) she
left Ten shillings

Item To Margaret the wife of Thos Corlett

(lastly) she left Ten shillings
Item To Catherine the wife of Wm Keig she left Ten shillings

Item To Catherine Corlett the Daughter of Jo Corlett of Ballamannagh she
left Ten shillings

Item To Edmund Skillicorn of Kk Michael [she left a Cow ?] after the
decease of her Husband
and o[ne] shillings British apiece to the witnesses hereof

Lastly she constituted ordained and appointed her Husband William Kissage
sole and full Executor of all her Goods Chattles Credits and Effects of
what Kind Nature and nomination soever and a Legacy sufficient in Law to
Exclude Every one that pretends to any Right in her Effects

Witnesses
John Quayle Senr X
Arthur Clague Jur

Upon the same day and in a very short t[ime] after the above will was
Expressed the Testa[trix] called for John Quayle one of the witnesses and
said to him that she had forgot in the declaring her will, for that she
left Twenty shillings to Mrs. Brew of the Gileaugh and twenty shillins to
her Daughter Betty

At a Chapter Court holden at Lezayre June 17 th [..?..] the Exr is Sworn in
Court inform of Law & ha[th] given Pledges for the payment of Debts &
Legacies namely the witnesses of the Will

Probatum est

Joh: [..?..]

Ev. Christian