Will: O'Leary, William December 19, 1843 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Limerick Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning ros.dunning@outlook.com March 5, 2018, 3:24 pm O'LEARY, WILLIAM DECEMBER 19, 1843 Source: National Archives Kew England Written: December 19, 1843 Recorded: March 5, 2018 In the Name of God Amen I William O'Leary of Glin in the County of Limerick being now thank God in sound mind memory and understanding altho' not having my worldly affairs and dealings so wound up as I that I could make as exact a distribution of my property and effects as I would wish still lest the Lord may call me from this world before I could do so I hereby make this my last Will and Testament revoking and annulling all or any former Will or Wills I might have made I resign my Soul to Almighty God and trust to his mercy for the forgiveness of my manifold sins In the disposal of my worldly effects for the reasons above mentioned I will and bequeath unto my beloved wife Bridget O'Leary to my beloved daughter Juliet O'Leary and my beloved son John O'Leary all and singular my Goods and Chattels Real and Personal Property freehold and otherwise of whatsoever kind that I now have or hereafter may become possessed of for their several uses after paying my lawful debts to be equally divided share and share alike between them during the lifetime of my beloved Wife and at her demise the one third share (now reserved by me for her use during her lifetime) to be divided equally between my dear children Julia and John already named from the high opinion I have of my dearly beloved Wife's good sense and attachment to our dearly loved children (having known and loved her since my boyhood) I hereby constitute and appoint her sole Guardian to my children and Executrix to this my last Will and Testament to be managed by her for the purposes already stated until my dearly loved children shall respectively attain the age of twenty one years I hope if health and opportunity permit to be more explicit but as before stated lest I should not I hereby subscribe this as my last Will and Testament Given under my hand and seal the 19th day of December 1843 three William O'Leary seal In presence of us Bernard McMahon _ Danl Leahy _ James Browne Proved 13 July 1847 Proved at London 11 October 1848 PCC Prob11/2082