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A Collection of Newfoundland Wills
(W)
William Warren

 

Will of William Warren Senior
from Newfoundland will books volume 4 pages 133-134 probate year 1881

1881

William Warren ???

             SB

RJK

 

Admn c/a granted to
Isaac Bartlett

June 14, 1881

Sureties ??????
and ???? ?????

Vol 4
     Folio 275

Est. sworn under $1200.-

 

To the Honorable Robert John Pinsent W. C. L. Presiding Justice over the Supreme Court on Circuit at Harbour Grace
     The Petition of Isaac Bartlett of Bay Roberts Master Mariner

Humbly sheweth

That William Warren late of Harbour Grace Carpenter died at Harbour Grace aforesaid the year Eighteen hundred and seventy six leaving a will which petitioner is informed and believes is now in the hands of the Chief Clerk and Registrar of this Honorable Court.
     That the said William Warren during his life time borrowed from Petitioner the sum of two hundred and forty dollars to be repaid within five years with interest thereupon at the rate of six percent per annum.
     That the sum of about one hundred and thirty dollars is now due and owing by the late estate of the said deceased to your Petitioner.
     That no Probate to the said Will or administration to the estate of the said deceased has yet been granted to any one.
     Your Petitioner therefore prays that Administration to the Estate of the said deceased be granted to your Petitioner or to some fit and proper person to be appointed by this Honorable Court. Isaac Bartlett LS
   And Your Petitioner etc.

 

Supreme Court
Newfoundland

Harbour Grace
          Isaac Bartlett of Bay Roberts Master Mariner maketh oath and saith that the contents of the foregoing petition are correct and true and that the ?????? William Warren had at the time of his decease a fixed place of abode at Harbour Grace aforesaid.

 

 
 Sworn before me 
 at Harbour GraceIsaac Bartlett LS
 this 10th day of 
 May A. D. 1881 

 

Lewis ? Emerson LS

Commr Affts.

 

Mrs. Mary Warren
     Widow late William Warren
Madam
     I have to notify you that whereas an application for Administration to the Estate of your late husband be made on Monday next by twelve o'clock noon, I shall apply for Administration to his Estate on behalf of Mr. Isaac Bartlett a creditor of the said Estate.

Yours truly     
N. O. Ward    
Attorney at Law

Harbour Grace
May 7th 1881 (Date could also be May 11th)

This is the last will and testament of me William Warren of Harbor Grace in the Island of Newfoundland Carpenter in the eighteen hundred and seventy sixth year of our Lord-    I William Warren in the full possession of my reason do give & bequeath to my wife Mary Warren the eastward part of my dwelling house and all the garden in front of the house occupied at present by myself & wife for the term of her natural life    And at her death I bequeath it, that is the eastward part of the house to my son James Warren with half the garden in front    I bequeath to my son William Warren the westward part of my dwelling house now occupied by himself including one room on the first floor & all the westward and over the first floor, and at the death of my wife he shall have half the garden in front of the house    And I bequeath to my son Charles Warren all the new house adjoining the south west part of my dwelling house and a sitting room on the first floor being in the southwest part of the old house.    My wife Mary Warren shall receive the rents from the house that I bequeath to Charles Warren untill he comes or his heirs to take possession of the said property.    Signed William Warren.     Witnesses, Robert Morris, Samuel Stowe, June 1st 1876.


Note by Geoff: William Steel Warren was born about 1812 and may be a son of John and Mary Warren who have ties to Old Perlican. He first married Ann Ryan in Trinity in January 1839. Unfortunately she died in December of the same year. He then married Margaret Piercie in Trinity in 1841. They had son James born about 1842, William Samuel born June 1844, Charles Steele born July 1846 and it would appear that both Margaret and son Robert died in May 1850. His wife Mary mentioned in the will is perhaps a third wife. At this time in 2005 we do not know. William Steel died in Harbour Grace June 3, 1876.

The son William Samuel Warren was my great grandfather. He married Mary Jane Peddle/Piddle from Mosquito (Bristol's Hope). Their daughter Gertrude married my grandfather Ron Martin, the son of Frederick Martin and his second wife and second cousin Elizabeth Martin.

Here is a little information on his son, my great grandfather William, the shipwright.
The Harbor Grace Standard and Conception Bay Advertiser
June 26, 1896
Work on the wrecked schooner Emrys is being pushed ahead, and in two week's time her repairs will be completed. Mr. WARREN is doing his work with the greatest satisfaction to the agents of the vessel's underwriters. (http://home.cogeco.ca/~nfldroots/bit1896.htm)

 

 

Note: The wills in those will books are NOT actual wills. They are either hand-written copies or in later years typed copies of a, "last will and testament," written or typed 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 and also no paragraphs. 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. However, in some of the very long wills, we have tried to insert paragraphs to make it easier for the researcher to read the document.

Contributed by Geoff Martin (William Warren was my great great grandfather)

Page Revised by Ivy F. Benoit (Wednesday February 20, 2013)

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