{"id":3911,"date":"2019-06-12T11:21:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2019-06-12T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:22:00","slug":"goodfellow-janet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/family-collections\/wills\/goodfellow-janet\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodfellow, Janet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
7th<\/sup> July 1873
Last Will of Janet Goodfellow<\/strong>
Wife of William Whillians
\u00a0 <\/td>		 From records of Notary Edward George Cannon
No. 7417
Quebec Archives Microfilm #1578 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

\nOn the seventh day of July in the year of\nour Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy three, before us the undersigned\nNotaries Public residing in the City of Quebec personally came, appeared and was\npresent Janet Goodfellow of the Parish of St. Gabriel de Valcartier in the\nCounty of Quebec, wife of William Whillians of the same place, Farmer, which\nsaid Janet Whillians being apparently in good bodily health and of sound and\nperfect mind, memory and understanding requested us the said Notaries to receive\nher last Will and Testament which she instantly made, dictated and named unto us\nword for word in manner and form following, that is to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nII recommend my soul unto Almighty God\nhoping for a free pardon and remission of all my sins through the intercession\nof Jesus Christ, My Saviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nI wish and direct that all my just debts be\nfully paid and satisfied by my Executor hereinafter named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nI give and bequeath unto my affectionate\nsisters Marion Goodfellow, wife of Henry Roark of Valcartier aforesaid, Farmer,\nand Margaret Goodfellow, wife of William Knox, after my decease all my wearing\napparel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nAnd as to the rest and residue of all my\nproperty real and personal moveable and immoveable without any exception or\nreserve, which I may die possessed of, I give and bequeath the use and usufruct\nthereof unto my beloved husband the said William Whillians for and during his\nnatural life only on the condition however that he will not marry it being my\nintention and will that should my said husband marry a second time, then and in\nthat case all my said property real and personal moveable and immoveable shall\nbelong to my brothers and sisters from the day of his second marriage, and I do\nhereby appoint in that case my said brothers and sisters my universal legatees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nAnd I do hereby order and direct that after\nthe death of myself and of my said husband whatever property should remain if\nany the same shall be divided share and share alike between the relations of my\nsaid husband and of myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nAnd I do hereby appoint my said husband\nsole executor of this my present last Will and Testament hereby revoking all\nformer wills and codicils at any time heretofore by me made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nIt was thus made, dictated and named by the\nsaid Janet Whillians, Testatrix, unto us the said Notaries on the day and year\nfirst above written, and the present last Will and Testament having been read,\nread over and over again\nlu et relu au long <\/em>to the said\nJanet Whillians, Testatrix, by Mtre. E.G. Cannon one of us the said Notaries in\nthe presence of Mtre. Cyprien Labr\u00e8que his confrere who was present all the time\nduring the execution hereof, the said Janet Whillians declared to have perfectly\nheard and understood the said Will and Testament and persisted in the contents\nthereof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThus done and passed at the said City of\nQuebec in the office of Edward George Cannon, one of the undersigned Notaries on\nthe day and year first above written under the number seven thousand four\nhundred and seventeen the said Janet Whillians having signed these presents\ntwice read as aforesaid together with us the said Notaries in faith and\ntestimony of the premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nJanet Whillians, her signature;  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nC. Labr\u00e8que, \nN.P<\/em>.,\nhis signature; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nE.G. Cannon, \nN.P.<\/em>,\nhis signature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated and transcribed by Gerry Neville<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes by Patricia Balkcom:\u00a0 I have not found the date of Janet\u2019s death, her husband, William, died in 1889.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

7th July 1873 Last Will of Janet Goodfellow Wife of William Whillians \u00a0 From records of Notary Edward George Cannon No. 7417 Quebec Archives Microfilm #1578 On the seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy three, before us the undersigned Notaries Public residing in the City […]<\/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-115","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911"}],"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=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}