{"id":3393,"date":"2019-05-23T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2019-05-23T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T18:07:36","slug":"murphy-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/family-collections\/wills\/murphy-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy, Ellen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

23rd<\/sup> August 1856
Will of Ellen Murphy<\/strong>
Wife of Lawrence Cullen <\/td>
From records of Notary Daniel Watters
No. 2648
Transcribed from Quebec Archives Microfilm #4M01-5808 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

\nIn the year of our Lord, one thousand eight\nhundred and fifty six, on the twenty third day of August, I the undersigned\nNotary Public duly admitted & commissioned and sworn in and for the Province of\nLower Canada, residing in the Parish of St. Augustin, County of Portneuf, in the\nsaid Province, and the witnesses hereinafter named and denominated, went to the\nresidence of Mrs. Ellen Murphy, spouse of Mr. Lawrence Cullen, farmer, residing\nwith her said husband, at the Parish of Ste. Catherine, where being we found the\nsaid Ellen Murphy in good bodily health and enjoying all the faculties of her\nmind, memory, judgement and understanding, who declared unto us the said Notary\nand witnesses, that considering the certainty of death & the uncertainty of the\nhour thereof, and therefore being anxious and desirous of arranging and\nordaining her temporal affairs, in order to be better prepared to leave this\nworld whenever it will please Almighty God to call her hence, she hath and\nhereby doth publish her last will and testament which she dictated unto the said\nNotary in the presence of the said witnesses, in manner following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFirstly, I recommend my soul to God\nAlmighty, My Creator, begging forgiveness of all my sins, and the enjoyment of\neternal happiness in the world to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSecondly, I do will and ordain that all my\njust debts be paid and any wrongs by me done, if any there are, repaired as soon\nas possible after my decease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThirdly, I do will and ordain that my body\nshall be interred in a manner suitable to my condition, relying in the\ndiscretion of my said Testamentary Executor hereinafter named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFourthly, I do give and bequeath unto my\nbeloved husband, Lawrence Cullen, the use and full enjoyment (usufruct) during\nhis natural life of all and every and singular my properties and estate, real\nand personal, moveable and immoveable of whatever kind and nature the same may\nconsist in, and in what places soever that the same may be situated, that I may\nbe possessed of at the day of my decease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFifthly, I do give and bequeath unto James\nCullen, my son, all and every the property real and personal, present and\nfuture, that I may die possessed of and of whatever kind and nature the same may\nconsist, and in what places soever the same may be situated, for by him to use\nand dispose thereof on the day of the decease of my said beloved husband in full\nproperty and forever by and in virtue of these presents under the express\ncondition nevertheless that the said James Cullen, my son, will keep and\nmaintain from the day of the decease of my said beloved husband, Margaret &\nCatherine Cullen, his sisters, and to provide for and therewith all and every\nthe necessaries of life: meat, drink, clothing, washing, mending, boarding and\nlodging and to furnish them all the they want but not beyond his means, until\nsuch time as the said Margaret & Catherine Cullen, his sisters, are provided by\nmarriage or otherwise, and under condition that they shall work for the benefit\n& profit of their said brother according to their bodily health & strength &\nmoreover to pay unto the said Margaret & Catherine Cullen each five pounds\ncurrency and to Moses, David, Patrick and Lawrence Cullen and to Johanna Cullen\neach one shilling currency, the whole to take lieu & be in payment to them of\nall hereditary claims in the estate & succession of the said Testatrix, their\nmother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nAnd for the execution of the present will,\nI name for the Executor, the said James Cullen, my son, into the hands of whom I\ndo hereby divest and disseize and dispossess my self of all the said property\naccording to the meaning of the law actually in force concerning wills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nAnd finally, I do hereby revoke all other\nwills and testaments that I may have heretofore made desiring this present one\nmay have its full effect for such is my last will and desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThus done and dictated by the said\nTestatrix unto the said Notary on the day and year first above written under the\nnumber two thousand six hundred and forty eight, in the house above said in the\nsaid Parish of Sainte Catherine in the presence of Messr. David McCullaugh and\nJohn Power, both farmers of the said Parish of Sainte Catherine, witnesses,\ncalled for the effect hereof, and these presents having been read over by the\nsaid Notary unto the said Testatrix, in the presence of the said witnesses\ndeclared that she well understood the same in all its contents and persisted\ntherein, and the said Testatrix the said John Power declared that they could not\nsign their names, the said David McCullaugh signed together with I the said\nNotary, first duly read over according to law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nWords expunged are Null.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nDavid McCullaugh, his signature; \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nD. Watters, \nN.P<\/em>.,\nhis signature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nTranscribed by Gerald Neville, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note by Patricia Balkcom:\u00a0 Ellen outlived her husband.\u00a0 She died 14 years later in 1870.\u00a0 Her surviving eight children are all mentioned in the will.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

23rd August 1856 Will of Ellen Murphy Wife of Lawrence Cullen From records of Notary Daniel Watters No. 2648 Transcribed from Quebec Archives Microfilm #4M01-5808 In the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty six, on the twenty third day of August, I the undersigned Notary Public duly admitted & commissioned and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[44,35],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVLnF-SJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}