{"id":3648,"date":"2019-06-05T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T14:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2019-06-05T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T14:11:15","slug":"kerr-margaret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/family-collections\/wills\/kerr-margaret\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerr, Margaret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td> 10<sup>th<\/sup> June 1877<br> Last Will of <strong>Margaret Kerr<\/strong><br> Wife of James McCartney <\/td><td> From records of Notary Charles Henry Andrews<br> No. 2291<br> Quebec Archives Online <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>\nOn the tenth day of June in the\nyear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nAt the request of Margaret Kerr,\nwife of James McCartney of the Parish of St. Gabriel of Valcartier, I the\nundersigned Notary Public went to her residence in said parish where I found her\nsick in bed but of sound and perfect mind who requested of me in the presence of\nThomas O&#8217;Neill of the place known as Little River near the City of Quebec,\nFarmer, and Joseph Harriet of the same place, Farmer, to write down her last\nwill and testament which she made &amp; dictated as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nI will and bequeath to my beloved\nhusband, James McCartney, all my property moveable and immoveable of whatever\nnature or kind whatsoever which I may be possessed to be enjoyed by him during\nhis natural life time and which property I desire he may will and bequeath as he\nmay deem fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nIt was thus made, dictated, and\nnamed as aforesaid in the presence of the said witnesses and me the said Notary\nthe said Testatrix having declared to have perfectly heard and understood the\nsame having been first duly read the said Testatrix hereby making null and void\nall former wills by her made and declaring this to be her last will and\ntestament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nThus done and executed at the\nParish of Valcartier on the day and year first above written and recorded in the\noffice of Charles H. Andrews under the number two thousand two hundred and\nninety one the said Testatrix having declared she could not sign her name these\npresents first duly read as aforesaid,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nMargaret Kerr, her mark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nThos,. O&#8217;Neill, his signature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nJoseph Harriet, his signature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nC.H. Andrews, Notary, his signature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[Translated and transcribed by Gerry Neville]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Notes by Patricia Balkcom:\u00a0 Margaret died 10 days later at the reported age of 57.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10th June 1877 Last Will of Margaret Kerr Wife of James McCartney From records of Notary Charles Henry Andrews No. 2291 Quebec Archives Online On the tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven, At the request of Margaret Kerr, wife of James McCartney of the [&hellip;]<\/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-WQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648"}],"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=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}