Cork - Majou, Elizabeth May 17, 1742

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File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning 
ros.dunning@outlook.com May 3, 2018, 4:59 am

MAJOU, ELIZABETH MAY 17, 1742

Source: National Archives Kew England
Written: May 17, 1742
Recorded: May 3, 2018

In the Name of God Amen I Elizabeth Majou of the City of 
Cork Widow being in health of Body and of sound and perfect 
mind and memory praise be given to Almighty God and knowing 
the incertainty of this life on Earth and being desireous to 
Settle my affairs here do make and ordain this my present 
Settlement last Will and Testament in manner and form 
following that is to say first and Principally I give my 
Soul into the Hands of Almighty God who gave it me and for 
my Body I commend it to the Earth to be buried in a 
Christian manner as my friends and Executors shall think 
fitt and as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath 
pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise bequeath 
and dispose the same in manner and form following first I 
bequeath unto my Neice Susanna St Maurice one hundred pounds 
sterling with all my Household Goods Likewise I give out of 
my Seven Hundred Pounds Sterling in the old annuity in 
London left me by my Decease Husband John Majou by his Last 
Will and Testament as follows That is to say I give leave 
and bequeath unto my Brother Charles St Maurice the Sume of 
fifty pounds sterling also to the Three Sons and Two 
Daughters of Captain Saint Maurice deceased Brother and 
Sisters to my said Neice Susanna the Sume of Two Hundred 
Pounds Sterling the same to be Equally divided between the 
said Sons and Two Daughters share and share alike To my 
Neice Lucy Shabet God daughter to my said Deceased Husband 
the Sume of one Hundred pounds Sterling To my God Daughter 
Elizabeth Martin the Sume of one Hundred pounds Sterling To 
Magdalene Massiot the Wife of James Massiot the Sume of 
Twenty Pounds Sterling To Susanna Massiot the Wife of John 
Massiot the Sume of Six Pounds Sterling To the poor of the 
French Church of Corke Ten Pounds Sterling and of this my 
said last Will I do make and ordain my friends James Massiot 
the Elder and John Massiot his Son of the City of Cork 
Merchants my Executors and I do give leave and bequeath unto 
the said James Massiot the Elder the sume of One Hundred 
Pounds Sterling and to my Servant Maid at my Death Three 
pounds and for the residue and Remainder of my Worldly 
Substance I give the Same for the Discharging my funeral and 
necessary Expences In Witness whereof I the said Elizabeth 
Majou have hereunto put my hand and Seal and published this 
as my Last Will and Testament This Twenty first Day of May 
one Thousand Seven hundred and forty Two Elizabeth Majou
(Attestation Clause)
John Riordan Junr_ John Flahaven _ Benj Sullivan Not: Public
Proved at London 3 April 1745
PCC Prob11/739