Will: Bannon, Patrick July 26, 1818 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Westmeath Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning ros.dunning@outlook.com May 27, 2019, 11:15 am BANNON, PATRICK JULY 26, 1818 Source: National Archives Kew England Written: July 26, 1818 Recorded: May 27, 2019 In the Name of God Amen I Patrick Bannon Able Seaman invalided from His Majestys Ship Magicienne number on Ships Books 279 and sent sick from the Prince Regent Merchant Ship now a Patient in the Royal Naval Hospital at the Cape of good Hope not being in perfect health but of sound and disposing mind and memory and considering the perils and dangers of the Seas and other uncertainties of this transitory life (and for avoiding controversies after my decease)do make publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say first I recommend my soul to God that gave it and my body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God to order and as for and concerning all my worldly Estate I give bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth that is to say all my pay wages prize money and all and singular other sum or sums of money lands tenements Goods and Estates whatsoever as shall be any ways due owing or belonging unto me at the time of my decease I do give devise and bequeath the same unto my father Michael Bannon a Yeoman living at Bellfield near Mullingar in the County of Westmeath Ireland except my Bedding and wearing apparel these I bequeath to Thos Connor also invalided from the Magicienne and now a patient in the said Hospital hereby revoking all former and other Wills Testaments and Deeds of Gifts by me at any time heretofore made and I do hereby constitute and appoint my said father Michael Bannon sole Executor to this my last Will and Testament and I do ordain & ratify these presents to stand and be for and as my only last Will and Testament In Witness whereof to this my last Will and Testament I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and in the 58th of the reign of His Majesty George the third of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland etc etc Patrick Bannon his mark Signed sealed published and delivered as the last Will and Testament of the said Patrick Bannon in the presence of us J Duke Surgeon Naval Hospital _ James Abercrombie Proved at London 18 November 1819 PCC Prob11/1622