Will: Tighe, William November 19, 1781 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Wicklow Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning ros.dunning@outlook.com September 23, 2017, 10:05 am TIGHE, WILLIAM NOVEMBER 19, 1781 Source: National Archives Kew England Written: November 19, 1781 Recorded: September 23, 2017 In the Name of God Amen I William Tighe of Rossana in the County of Wicklow do hereby make my last Will in manner following that is to say Imprimis I recommend my Soul to Almighty God hoping through his infinite Mercy & the mertis & mediation of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ for a happy Resurrection to eternal life Item I will that my just Debts be all paid Item I will that the Articles of my Marriage Settlement be carried into execution I do hereby appoint my dear Wife Sarah together with my three Brothers Edward Richard and Thomas Guardians of the Persons and Properties of my Children whereas I am seized and Possessed of a real and Personal Estate & several Leasehold Interests not comprized in the above mentioned Settlement made at my Marriage I do hereby devise and bequeath all my said real Estate that is the Towns Lands of Ballimarsimon & Ballimorekanmore lately purchased by me from the Heirs of the late Earl of Ross and the Moiety of Rossanagh purchased by my father from George Johnson Esqr and all other my real Estates whatsoever to my dear Wife Sarah and her Heirs for ever I likewise devise to the same all my Leasehold Interests to her her Executors Administrators and Assigns together with my House at Rossana & the Appurtenances thereunto belonging with all my Household furniture stock of Cattle plate Books & Jewells all which I leave to my dear Wife Sarah subject nevertheless to such Charges as my father by his last Will did charge his Bequests to me & have not been by me discharged and to the Payment of all my just Debts funeral Expences and the following Legacies with which I do hereby charge the same that is to say my second Son Henry I leave the sum of one thousand pounds to my eldest Daughter Elizabeth I leave one thousand pounds to my second Daughter Mary Anne Caroline I leave five hundred pounds and to my third son John Edward I leave five hundred pounds the above Sums to be over and above their respective portions secured to them by my Marriage Settlement and to be paid to them at the age of twenty one Years but not with any Interest before that time Item to my Brother Edward I leave one hundred Guineas Item to my Brother Richard I leave one hundred Guineas Item to my Brother Thomas I leave one hundred Guineas Item to John Lloyd Esqr of Gloster I leave one hundred Guineas Item to my dear Son William being amply provided for I leave my Repeating Watch Item to my Sister Theodosia I leave fifty Guineas Item to my Sister Barbara I leave fifty Guineas Item to the Poor of the Parish of Wicklow and to the Poor of the Parish of St Michans Dublin I leave ten pounds each Item to my dear Wife Sarah I leave all my real and personal Estate whatsoever not otherwise bequeathed or disposed of together with all Arrears of Rent in Tenants' Hands and Money of Bankers' Hands or elsewhere after payment of my Debts funeral Expences and Legacies it being my intention that my above mentioned real and personal Estate shall be equally subject to the payment of all the above Charges Item to my Servant William Murry I leave the sum of fifty Pounds and to every Servant in my family living in my House at the time of my death who shall have been my Servant five Years or upwards I leave a Years' Wages Lastly I do appoint my dear Wife Sarah together with my Brother Richard or either of them to be Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills: made by me heretofore but if it shall happen that my said Wife shall be drowned together with me in our intended passage to England or in our return from England or in any other Voyage or shall be by any Accident or otherwise die before she shall have Administered to this my last Will my Will is then that all my above mentioned real and personal Estate shall go as above devised to my Brother Richard his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns in trust for my eldest Son William in the same manner and subject to the same Charges as I have by this my Will bequeathed the same to my dear Wife Sarah In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed my Seal this nineteenth day of November 1781 eighty one W Tighe (Attestation Clause) Richd Williams _ Wm McCready _ Wm Whitton Proved at London 13 August 1783 to Richard Tighe the Brother power reserved to Sarah Tighe Widow PCC Prob11/1107