{"id":3553,"date":"2019-06-04T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2019-06-04T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:20:53","slug":"maher-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/family-collections\/wills\/maher-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher, David"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
15th<\/sup> August 1844
Last Will of David Maher<\/strong>
Husband of Judith Dwyer<\/td>		 From records of Notary Jean-Olivier Brunet
No. 9
Quebec Archives Film #4MO1-1528A <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

\nOn this day the fifteenth day of\nAugust in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four at\neight o’clock at night, We, the undersigned Notary Public duly admitted and\nsworn in and for the Province of Canada herein to fore called Province of Lower\nCanada and residing in the parish of Sainte Catherine, Fossambault, District of\nQuebec in the same Province and before the herein Messr. Paisley Cure of the\nsaid Parish of Sainte Catherine of Fossambault and Mr. William Guilfoyle, farmer\nof the said Parish witnesses having been called and requested \nmand\u00e9s et requis<\/em>\nby Mr. David Maher farmer went to his residence situate and being in the six\nrange of the said Parish of Sainte Catherine of Fossambault, then and there\nbeing we found the said David Maher in a room in a sound and perfect mind,\nmemory, and understanding who desired me the said Notary in the presence of the\nwitnesses therein mentioned to write down and receive in due form of Law his\nlast Will and Testament which he instantly published, made, and dictated word by\nword before me the said Notary and the witnesses in manner and form following,\nthat is to say,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFirst, I resign my soul into the\nhands of Almighty God hoping and believing a remission of my sins by the merits\nand mediations of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour, and my body I commit to the\nearth to be buried at the discretion of my executor hereinafter named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n2\u00ba I give and bequeath unto Judith\nDwyer, my beloved wife, the usufruct of all my property moveable and immoveable\nand that after her death if Anthony Maher behave himself fully to his mother\nthat he will have the farm with all the utensils that will be found there on the\nfarm with two cows and a horse and that the remainder of the cattle if any there\nbe, she may dispose of as she thinks proper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nNow as thus published, made,\ndictated, and named word by word by the said David Maher, Testator, unto us the\nsaid Notary at the said Parish of Sainte Catherine of Fossambault on the day and\nyear first above written and the said present will and testament having\nafterwards read in full over and over again \nlu et relus<\/em>\nto the said Testator by the said Notary in the presence of the undersigned\nwitnesses, the said Testator declared that he had perfectly heard and\nunderstood, the same found it to contain his true and last will and intention\nthat therefore persisted and that herein and declared that he could not sign his\nname as requested to do so by the said notary and the witnesses in faith and\ntestimony of the premises signed. Four words struck null.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nWitnesses<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nH. Paisley, his signature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nWilliam Guilfoyle, his signature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nJ.O. Brunet, Notary, his signature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transcribed by Gerry Neville, February, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes by Patricia Balkcom:\u00a0 David died a week later.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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