Lucy Ann Keough (Name also spelled Kough)
          1885

Estate of Lucy Ann Keough 1885
From LDS Microfilm #2057177

Supreme Court of Newfoundland.
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ST. JOHN'S  }
To Wit.          }
I do swear that I believe that Lucy Ann Keough late of Tilton in the Northern District of Newfoundland deceased died without a Will; and that I will well and truly administer all and every the Goods of the said deceased and pay her debts so far as her Goods will extend; and that I will exhibit a true, full and perfect Inventory of the said Goods of the deceased, and render a true account of my Administration into the Registry of the said Court within six months from the date hereof, or when I shall be thereunto lawfully required; and that the whole of the Goods, Rights, Chattels, Assets, Credits and Effects of the said deceased which he died possessed of, within the jurisdiction of this Court, do not, according to the best of my knowledge, judgment and belief, amount to the value of Eight hundred and fifty ------------------ dollars.

Sworn before me, at St. John's, the 3^rd             }
day of October in the year of Our Lord             }                    James Keough
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty five   }
Otto Emerson
Commissioner of Affidavits.

1885

Estate of Lucy Ann Keough
late of Tilton
in the Northern District.
Married - woman deceased.
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Dated Octobe 3^rd 1885
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Probate^Admin granted to James
Keough of Tilton aforesaid
Planter
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the Execut----------named in the Will.

Sureties - James Callanan
and Patrick Kennedy

Estate sworn under $850⁰⁰/100
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$
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Certificate.
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I hereby Certify that the Notice on the other side hereof written has been posted in my Office from the day of the date thereof to this date and that no Caveat or other objection thereto has been filed or entered

          Dated at St. John's this 2^nd day of October Anno Domini 1885

Otto Emerson
Asst Clk.
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Notice.
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          After three days from the date hereof application will be made to the Honorable the Supreme Court or to one of the Honorable the Judges thereof for Probate of the Will of Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of Lucy Ann Kough formerly of Tilton Harbor deceased to be granted to James Kough of same place.

          Dated at St. John's this 29^th day of September Anno Domini 1885
                                                         Robert J. Kent
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O.E.                                                  Little & Kent
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To The Honorable the Supreme Court of Newfoundland or any one of the Honorable the Judges thereof

The Petition of James Kough of Tilton Harbor in the Northern District of the said Island Planter

Humbly sheweth

That Lucy Anne Kough formerly of Tilton Harbor aforesaid died there on or about the eighteenth day of May last past intestate and leaving her surviving Your Petitioner who was her husband and three Children the issue of the marriage of the said intestate with your petitioner. That the said children are all under the age of twenty one years and reside with your Petitioner. That said intestate died possessed of property situate within the Jurisdiction of this honorable Court of the probable value of about Eight hundred and thirty two dollars. That no probate or administration to her estate has been hitherto granted Petitioner therefor prays that administration to the estate of his said deceased wife may be granted unto him and as in duty bound he will ever pray &c &c &c          Dated at S. Johns this 29^th day of September A.D. 1885

Robt. J. Kent             }                              James Keough
Proctor for Petitioner  }

Supreme Court
Probate side

In the matter of the estate of  }
Lucy Ann Keough               }
formerly of Tilton Harbor deceased  }
I James Keough of Tilton Harbor aforesaid Planter but at present in S. Johns do make oath and say that I am the petitioner in the foregoing petition in the matter named and that the several matters and things in the said petition set forth are just correct and true
Sworn before me at S. Johns this  }                              James Keough
29^th day of September                  }
AD 1885.
Otto Emerson
Commr
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1885

Supreme Court
Probate side
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In the matter of the Estate of
Lucy Ann Kough
formerly of Tilton Harbor dec^d
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Petition for administration
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Fiat J.J. Little
A.J.
Oct^r 2/85

Supreme Court of Newfoundland
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Be it Remembered, That on this third day of October in the Forty ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty five personally appeared James Keough of Tilton in the Northern District of the Island aforesaid Planter, James Callahan of Saint Johns Grocer and Patrick Kennedy of same place Tailor and did acknowledge themselves to be held and firmly bound to our said Lady the Queen, Her Heirs andSuccessors, in the penal Sum of One thousand seven hundred Dollars, to be had, made and levied on their Goods, Chattels and Effects, jointly and severally, if Default is made in any of the conditions following:

NOW THE CONDITION. OF THIS OBLIGATION IS SUCH, that if the above bounden James Keough as Administrator of the Estate and Effects of Lucy Ann Keough late of Tilton aforesaid late of Married - woman deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a just, true, and perfect inventory of all and singular the Goods, Credits and Effects of the said deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, pos-session, or knowledge of him the said James Keough as such Administrator or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons, for him and the same so made do exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, at or before the 3^rd day of April next ensuing the date hereof; and the said Goods, Chattels, Credits and Effects, and all other the Goods, Chattels, Credits and Effects of the said deceased, at the time of her death, or which at any time afterwards shall come into the hands or possession of him the said James Keough or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him shall well and truly administer according to Law, and further shall make, or cause to be made, a just and true account of his said Administration, on or before the 3^rd day of October which will be in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty six and afterwards from time to time as he ------------------------------- shall be lawfully required. And all the rest, residue, and remainder of the said Goods, Chattels, Credits and Effects, which shall be found remaining upon the said Administration Acc'ount the same being examined and allowed by the said Supreme Court of Newfoundland, shall and do pay and dispose of in due course of Administration, or in such a manner as the said Court shall direct; then this obligation to be void and of no effect, or else to be and remain in full force virtue.

Signed and sealed  }
in presence of         }                   James Keough
                                                    Jas. J. Callanan
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                                                    Patrick Kennedy

(Note: Seals affixed to the right of the signatures.)