{"id":3457,"date":"2019-05-27T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2019-05-27T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:36:36","slug":"mcgratty-bernard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/family-collections\/wills\/mcgratty-bernard\/","title":{"rendered":"McGratty, Bernard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
2nd<\/sup> \u00a0September 1899
Will of Bernard McGratty<\/strong>
(widower of Sarah Trimble) <\/td>		 Transcribed from records of Notary Cyrille Renaud
Record # 1650 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

\nOn this second day of\nSeptember in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine, before me\nCyrille Renaud, Public Notary, residing in the Parish of St. Ambroise of\nJeune Lorette, undersigned, and Charles Wolff and Carl Wolff, both farmers\nresiding in the Parish of St. Gabriel of Valcartier, witnesses requested for\nthe effects of these presents, personally appeared Bernard McGratty, old\ncarter of the City of Quebec now residing in the Parish of St. Gabriel of\nValcartier, Gentleman, who being of sound and disposing mind, memory and\nunderstanding hath requested us the said Notary and witnesses to write down\nand receive in due form of law his last will and testament which he declared\nin manner and form following, that is to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFirstly, I most willingly\nresign my soul into the hands of Almighty God, my Creator, in the humble\nhope that he will receive it to his favor through the sole merits and\nintercession of Jesus Christ, my Saviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSecondly, I desire that all\nmy debts, funeral and testamentary expenses be paid by my Executor\nhereinafter named as soon as possible after my death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThirdly, I give and bequeath\nto the St. Bridget Asylum the sum of fifty dollars and to the Society St.\nVincent de Paul of St. Patrick the sum of fifty dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFourthly, I give and\nbequeath to my son the Rev. Hugh McGratty, Priest of St. Gabriel of\nValcartier the remainder of all my moveable and immoveable properties\nwherever the same may be found and to whatever the same shall amount hereby\nconstituting my said son my universal legatee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFifthly, I nominate,\nconstitute and appoint my said son Hugh McGratty as Executor of this my will\nand testament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSixthly, I revoke all will\nand testament and codicils I may have heretofore made and I declare the\npresent to be my only true last will and testament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThe present will was\ndeclared by the said Testator to the said Notary in the presence of the said\nwitnesses and read to the Testator, by said Notary in presence of said\nwitnesses, who declared to understand it fully and persist[ed] therein.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nDone and passed at St.\ngabriel under notarial number sixteen hundred and fifty. And signed by the\nTestator with and in the presence of Notary and witnesses also hereunto\nsubscribing in his presence and in the presence of each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nTwo marginal notes are good.\nSix words struck out are null.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nBernard McGratty, his\nsignature; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nChs. Wolff, his signature;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nCarl Wolff, his signature;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nCy. Renaud, \nN.P<\/em>.,\nhis signature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nTranscribed by Gerry Neville\n\u2013 April, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n_______________<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note by Patricia Balkcom:\u00a0 Bernard died one year later on the 21<\/em>st<\/em><\/sup> of December, 1900 at the reported age of 78 years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2nd \u00a0September 1899 Will of Bernard McGratty (widower of Sarah Trimble) Transcribed from records of Notary Cyrille Renaud Record # 1650 On this second day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine, before me Cyrille Renaud, Public Notary, residing in the Parish of St. Ambroise of Jeune Lorette, undersigned, 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-TL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457"}],"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=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}