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A Collection of Newfoundland Wills
(R)
Catherine Russell

 

 

Will of Catherine Russell
from Newfoundland will books volume 12 page 66 probate year 1921

In re
     CATHERINE RUSSELL.      DECEASED.

I, Catherine Russell of Green's Harbor, in the Electoral District of Trinity, Newfoundland, Widow, of Edward Russell, late of Bay Roberts, in the Electoral District of Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, deceased, do hereby nullify and revoke all previous wills made by me, and do make and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament as follows, namely. I give and bequeath all my real and personal estate in Bay Roberts or elsewhere, of every kind whatsoever, to my adopted daughter, Jessie Drover for her own personal use and benefit, and which she can sell or dispose of at any time she may think fit; And it is my wish for her to give the sum of Five dollars per year for Missions, in memory of my late husband and myself. I hereby appoint the said Jessie Drover sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand at Green's Harbor aforesaid this Twenty fifth day of February in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and Nineteen. CATHERINE RUSSELL
Signed, published and declared by the said Testatrix in our presence, on the date aforesaid who also signed our names in her presence and in the presence of each other, as witnesses thereto. Josiah Taylor Com affidavits     Robert S. Smith. Methodist Minister.

CORRECT.
William F. Lloyd
Registrar of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland

(Listed in the Margin next to this will the following)
Fiat Aug 12/21
Kent J.
Probate granted
to Jessie Drover
Aug 16/21
Estate sworn
at $941.00

 

 

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.

Page contributed by Judy Benson and Ivy F. Benoit

REVISED BY: Ivy F. Benoit May 28, 2002

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