The Petition of William Walsh concerning the Will of Judith Hennessey
Probate year 1831, from the LDS microfilm # 2056192
To the Honble E. B. Brenton Esquire
Acting Chief Justice of Newfoundland The memorial of William Walsh
of St. John's, Farmer Humbly sheweth
That on the 3rd day of October 1816 the late Judith Henessy , mother in law to your Honors memorialist died; leaving a will wherein she bequeathed to her daughter (My late wife) in conjunction with two other daughters, her interest in a certain farm known by the name of
Henessy's Farm.
That Messrs Nicholas & Joseph
Gill were appointed by the said late
Judith Henessy to act as joint executors on the said will, but having refused to act, the sole management of the deceased estate devolved upon your Honor's memorialist, who has paid debts due by the deceased to the amount of
upwards of £100.
That two of the grand children of the late Judith Henessy are desirous of selling their interest in the said farm but find that they cannot do so without Letters of Administration being taken out. When upon application to the Clerk of the Court, your Honor's memor- ialist was informed that no Admi- nistration could be granted unless Messrs Nicholas & Joseph Gill renounced the will.
Wherefore your Honor's Memorialist humbly prays that your Honor will be pleased to order Messrs
Nicholas & Joseph Gill to appear in your Honorable Court to show cause why they will not renounce the said will, so as to enable your Honor's memorialist to administer to the estate.
And as in duty bound Your Honor's memorialist will ever pray.
Witness John Bulger Jr . ( ? )
St. John's Newfoundland 12 December 1831
In the Honorable the Supreme Circuit Court.
On the petition of William Walsh
of Saint John's, farmer it is ordered that Nicholas
Gill and Joseph Gill of Saint John's merchants, the persons named in the last will and testament of Judith Hennessey late of Saint John's aforesaid widow deceased, do appear at Chambers on Monday the 19 ins t at 11 O'clock to show cause if any they have why they refuse to take upon themselves the trust of executors to the said
will & why they do not renounce the last will and allow the said Walsh to administer to the estate of the said Judith Hennessy under the said will.
By order
W. Dickson
N. Circuit Court
St. John's 14 Decem. 1831 I hereby renounce every right which I might claim as executor under the will of the late Judith
Hennessey. 23rd December 1831
Jos, Gill
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