Michael Moor (Name is also spelled Moores)
          1885

Estate of Michael Moor 1885
From LDS Microfilm #2057177.

Notice ---
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Two days after date application will be made to The Honorable Mr. Justice Pinsent D.C.L. presiding Judge of the Supreme Court on Northern Circuit for Letters of administration to the Estate of Michael Moores late of Brigus deceased to be granted to Bridget Moores widow of said deceased ---
          Dated at Brigus this 29^th day of October AD 1885
________                          J. A. Clift
G.J.A.                               Proctor for Widow
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Supreme Court of Newfoundland.
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BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 29^th 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 Bridget Moores of Brigus in the Northern District of Newfoundland widow Tobias Hackett of same place Deputy Sheriff and Thomas H. Butler of same place Bailiff and did acknowledge themselves to be held and firmly bound to our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Succes-sors, in the penal Sum of Two hundred dollars ------------ to be had, made, and levied on their Goods, Chattels, and Effects jointly and severally if de-fault is made in any of the Conditions following:---

NOW THE CONDITION of this Obligation is such, that if the above bounden Bridget Moores ---------------- as Administratrix ------------------------------ of the Estate and Effects of Michael Moores ----- late of Brigus aforesaid Fisherman deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a just, true and perfect Inven-tory of all and singular, the Goods, Credits and Effects of the said deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, possession, or knowledge of her the said Bridget Moores ----- as such Administratrix ------------------------------------------------ or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons, for her and the same so made do exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, into the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, at or before the 29^th day of April next ensuing to 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 his death, or which at any time afterwards shall come to the hands or possession of her the said Bridget Moores---------------------------------------------- or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons for her shall well and truly admin-ister according to Law, and further shall make, or cause to be made, a just and true account of her said Administration, on or before the 29^th 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 she 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 Ad-ministration account, the same being examined and allowed by the said Supreme Court of Newfoundland, shall and do pay and dispose of in a due course of Administration, or in such 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 and virtue.

Signed and Sealed in the  }                              Bridget^her X_mark Moores
presence of                        }
Geo J Adams
Commr                                                              Tobias Hackett
---------                                                               Thomas H. Butler

(Note: Seals affixed to the right of each signature.)

(A)
1884

I Michael Mores 3 day of December do bequate my House and my part of the land now in position of my brothers with my bed and bedsted to my Son Fances (?)terno(?) Moors and if he should die before I bequate the same to my wife Whilst remain on^mared Bridget Moores

X Thomas asple(?)
Nicholas Hickey

To                                                                
The Honorable Mr. Justice Pinsent DCL
Presiding Judge of the Supreme
Court on Northern Circuit

The Petition of Bridget Moores of Brigus widow of late Michael Moores late of Brigus aforesaid deceased

Humbly Sheweth

That Your Petitioners Husband Michael Moores died at Brigus aforesaid on or about the Sixth day of November last past - leaving him Surviving Your Petitioner and one Child in its an infant

That Your Said Michael Moores at the time of his deceased was possessed of Certain land with a Dwelling House Thereon Situate on the Goulds Road of the probable value of one Hundred Dollars.

That Your Petitioner is instructed that the paper writing hereto annexed marked A which purports to be a will of her late Husband is worthless as a Testamentary disposition -
That no Probate or administration has been granted to the Said Estate
Your Petitioner therefore prays that Letters of administration may be granted to her
And as in duty bound will Ever pray
Witness                                        Dated at Brigus this 29^th day of October 1885 -
First read & Explained
J.A. Clift                                    Bridget ^her X_mark Moores

Supreme Court
Newfoundland

Brigus   }
to wit    } Bridget Moores of Brigus aforesaid widow maketh oath and saith that the Contents of the Within written petition are to the best of Deponents knowledge correct and true

Sworn before me                    }
at Brigus aforesaid                  }                    Bridget ^her X_mark Moores
this 29^th day of October         }
A.D. 1885 (having been         }
first read over and explained)

Geo. J. Adams
Commr

Supreme Court

       In the matter of the       }
Estate of Michael Moores }
          late of Brigus             }
Fisherman deceased          }

Petition of Widow for
Letters of administration

Fiat
R.I. Pinsent
A.J.

Northern District
Brigus          }                              Supreme Court of Newfoundland.
TO WIT       }                                                  -----------------

I do swear that I believe Michael Moores late of Brigus aforesaid Fisherman deceased died with out a Will; and that I will well and truly ad-minister all and every the Goods of the said deceased, and pay his Debts so far as his 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 (Jurisdiction of this) Court, do not, according to the best of my knowle(dge, understanding and belief).

Sworn before me, at Brigus,               }
the 29^th day                                        }
of October, in the                                }                              Bridget ^her X_mark Moores
year of our Lord One Thousand Eight }
Hundred and Eighty-five by the           }
Said Bridget Moores
Geo. J. Adams
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Commissioner.
(Note: words in brackets were missing from the document and entered from memory of previous documents.)

1885
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Estate of Michael Moor(es)
late of Brigus
in the Northern District
Fisherman deceased

Signed October 29^th 1885

Admin granted to
Bridget Moores
of Brigus Widow

Sureties
Tobias Hackett
Thos. H. Butler

Estate sworn under
                    $120⁰⁰/100