John Quirk
          1885

Estate of John Quirk 1885
From LDS Microfilm 2057177

NEWFOUNDLAND     }
In the Supreme Court    }

AFFIDAVIT.
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You shall swear that you believe this to be the true last Will and Testament of John Quirk late of Saint Johns in the Central District of the Island of Newfoundland Farmer deceased

You shall swear that you will pay all the Debts and Legacies of the Deceased, so far as the Goods shall extend and the Law shall bind you; and that you will exhibit a true, full, and perfect Inventory of all and every the Goods, Rights and Credits of the deceased, together with a just and true account into the Registry of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, when you shall be lawfully called thereto: And you shall further swear that the whole of the Goods, Rights, Chattels, Assets, Credits and Effects of the said John Quirk ------------------------------------- deceased, and of which he died possessed, do not, according to the best of your knowledge, judgment and belief, amount to the value of three thousand two hundred ----------------- Dollars

So help you God.

Mary^her X_markQuirk

SWORN before me, at St. John's      }
this twenty fifth                                  }
July A.D., 1885. having first             }been
read over and Explained ----
Prescott Emerson
    ----------------
Commissioner of Affidavits, Supreme Court.

1885

Estate of John Quirk
late of St. John's
in the Central District
Farmer       deceased
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Dated 27^th July A.D. 1885
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Probate granted to
his widow Mary Quirk
the Executrix named in
the Will.
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Estate sworn under $3200
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To the Honorable Supreme
Court or one of the Honorable
Judges thereof.          

The Petition of Mary Quirk of Saint John's Widow

humbly sheweth

          That your Petitioners late husband John Quirk late of Saint John's aforesaid Farmer died there on the Eighth day of July last having previously made and Executed his Last Will and Testament which is hereto annexed.

          That Said deceased in and by his Said Will appointed your Petitioner Sole Executrix thereof.

          That Said deceased was at the time of his death possessed of property of the probable value of Three thousand dollars.

          That the said Will has been proved in common form.

          That neither Probate nor Administration has been taken out to the Said Estate.

          Petitioner therefore prays that your Lordships will be pleased to grant her Probate to the Estate of

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the Said deceased.

          And as in duty bound will every pray &c

Saint Johns                                                  Mary^her X _markQuirk
July 24^th. A.D. 1885          }

Newfoundland                                                            In the Supreme Court
St. John's          }
to wit                } Mary Quirk at present of Saint John's aforesaid Widow maketh oath and saith that the Contents of the foregoing Petition are correct and true to the best of Deponent's Knowledge and belief and that She is the Petitioner therein named.

Sworn before me
at Saint Johns aforesaid  }                                        Mary^herX_markQuirk
this 24^th day of               }
July AD. 1885 having     }
been first read over
and explained. Otto Emerson
                              Comm^r

1885
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Petition for Probate
to the Will of the
late John Quirk
of St John's Farmer
deceased

Notice

After three days application will be made to the Honorable the Supreme Court or one of the Honorable Judges thereof for Probate to the Will of the late John Quirk of St John's Farmer deceased to be granted to Mary Quirk Executrix under the Said Will

St Johns                              Hugh H Carter
July 18^th 1885                   Proctor
O.E.

          I hereby certify that the notice on the other side written was^duly posted in my office on the day of the date thereof and that no caveat or other objection has been Entered thereto in the meantime.

                                                  Otto Emerson
St. Johns                                   Asst Clk
July 23^rd 1885

This is the Last Will and Testament --- of one John Quirk of Saint John's in the Island of Newfoundland Farmer___ I, appoint my wife Mary Quirk my sole Executrix and I give and bequeath unto my said wife all the property whether real or personal that I am possessed of or that I may die possessed of.

Signed by the Said John
Quirk in the presence of us     }                              John Quirk
who in his presence and
in the presence of Each other   }
hereto Subscribe our names     }
as witnesses -

Hugh H. Carter Barrister at Law
John Dwyer ??? Farmer

SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND.
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                    }
TO WIT      }
Hugh Hoyles Carter
of St. John's in the Central District Barrister at Law maketh oath and saith that on the          day of          A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty          at St. John's aforesaid he, this Deponent, was present and did see John Quirk --------- late of St. John's -Farmer- the Testator named in the paper writing hereto annexed, duly sign, publish and declare the said annexed paper writing as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of this Deponent and of John Dwyer of St. John's Farmer ------------------------- the other subscribing withness thereto. That Deponent and said John Dwyer --------------------- then and there signed their names to such Will as such witnesses, in the presence of the said Testator and of each other ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ and that at the time of the said execution of the said Will the said Testator was of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, to the best of Deponent's knowledge and belief.

SWORN BEFORE ME at St. John's, in }
the Island aforesaid, this 23^rd               }
day of July                                               }                    Hugh H. Carter
A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred      }                              ------
and Eighty Five                                       }
Prescott Emerson
Comm^r
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Last will of
John Quirk of St Johns
Farmer
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Fiat - J.J. Little
A.J. S.C.
24 July/85