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Will of Elijah Burry In re ELIJAH BURRY. DECEASED. This is the last Will and Testament of Elijah Burry of Glovertown in the District of Bonavista. Trader. I Elijah Burry being of sound disposing mind memory and understanding do hereby will devise and bequeath as follows.
Dated at Glovertown aforesaid this Tenth day of June in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and nineteen. Elijah BURRY. CORRECT. (Listed in the Margin next to this will the following) Note provided by Heather Burry Dodd November 2013 - due to the handwriting, we had originally thought that the name was spelled Elizah but have now changed it to Elijah. References of his Baptism, Marriage (2nd wife Mary, also mentioned in the Will), and Death are below, and a photo of the Tombstone (http://ngb.chebucto.org/Cemetery/burry-elijah-1922-glovertown-cent-mem-uc-bon.shtml) justifies the change in the spelling of the name
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Note: The wills in those will books are NOT actual wills. They are hand-written copies of a, "last will and testament," written by the court clerk, after the death of the testator, when the executor presented them to the court for probate. The court clerk didn't list the signatures at the bottom, he (or she) just put them in the book in whatever order they were in, on the original document, no spacing most of the time, no punctuation. The originals were kept by the executor. We who have typed these wills, have made every effort to include all the errors that were on the microfilm, in order to avoid destroying the integrity of the originals, where ever they may be. |
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