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Will - CATHERINE DUNN, 20 NOV 1851
This
is the last Will & Testament of me Catherine
Dunn of Dullerton in the Parish of Donaghedy and County of Tyrone Spinster.
I hereby revoke all former will or wills heretofore made by me. I do hereby
will and direct that all my household furniture and chattels of every kind be
sold and all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of the proceeds of
said sale as soon after my decease as convenience will admit. I leave devise
and bequeath unto Robert Bond Esq. of the City of Londonderry Merchant Francis J Porter of Donaghedy Second Presbyterian
Minister and John Gilliott Stilwell of
Arundal Street Strand London Navy Agents their heirs executors
administrators and assigns all my funded property in the Government Stock of
England amounting three thousand and fifty pounds (to hold the said sum with
the proceeds of my furniture and chattels after paying my funeral expenses and
just debts) unto the said Robert Bond Francis
J Porter and John Gilliott Stilwell and the survivor of them and their heirs
executors administrators and assigns of said survivor upon trust nevertheless
and to & for the several uses intents trusts and purposes hereinafter
mentioned and dividends of and concerning the same I will and direct that the
dividends on thirteen hundred and fifty pounds of the Government Stock be paid
to my brother Rear Admirable Sir David Dunn K C B of Rocklands in Devonshire
England to be paid him half yearly as they become due (should he survive me) I
order and direct that the sum of fifteen hundred and twenty five pounds be paid
the children of my late niece Jane Bond share alike on their arriving at the
age of twenty one respectively and in case of the death of any of the said
children before arriving at the respective age of twenty one their share or
shares to be divided amongst the surviving children of my said niece Jane Bond
share alike and that the dividend on ₤850 say eight hundred and fifty
pounds of said sum of fifteen hundred and twenty five pounds be applied during
the life of my brother Admiral Sir David Dunn should he survive me and at his
death the dividend on the full sum of fifteen hundred and twenty five pounds so
ordered to be paid the children of my niece Jane Bond on their arriving at the
respective age of twenty one be applied in finishing the education of said
children I will and direct that the sum of fifteen hundred and twenty five
pounds be paid to my niece Martha Porter share alike on their arriving at the
age of twenty one respectively and in case of the death of any of her children
before the age of twenty one their share or shares to be divided amongst the
surviving children of my said niece Martha Porter and that the dividend on
eight hundred and fifty pounds of said sum of fifteen hundred and twenty five
pounds be applied during the life of my brother Admiral Sir David Dunn should
he survive me and at his death the dividend on the full sum of fifteen hundred
and twenty five pounds be applied in finishing the education of the said
children of Martha Porter during their minority. It is my will and desire
should any of the children marry during their minority without the consent and
approbation of my Trustees their share or shares shall be divided amongst the
children of the family to which said child belongs and I further will and
direct that Catherine Porter and Margaret Catherine Bond children of my said
nieces or the survivor of them arriving at the age of twenty one be paid over
the Residuary Balance of any in the hands of my Trustees. If
both children are alive the sum to be divided equally between them. And
I nominate and appoint the said Robert Bond Francis J Porter John Gilliott Stilwell Executors of this my
last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this second day of November one thousand
eight hundred and fifty – Catherine
Dunn
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Signed Sealed Published & Declared by testator as & for her last Will
and Testament in presence of us & of each other – Andrew Dunn -
James Rasson //
Appeared
Personally James Rasson of Londonderry in the
County of Derry in Ireland Gentleman and
made oath that he is one the subscribed witnesses to the last Will and
Testament now hereunto annexed of Catherine Dunn late of Dullerton in the
Parish of Donaghedy in the County of Tyrone in Ireland Spinster Deceased who
died on the thirty first day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
the said will bearing date the second day of November one thousand eight
hundred and fifty.
And he further made oath that on the second
day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty aforesaid the said
Testatrix duly executed her said will by signing her name at the foot or end
thereof in the presence of him the deponent and of Andrew Dunn the other
subscribed witness thereto both of whom (to wit this deponent and his said fellow
witness) were present at the same time and this deponent and the said Andrew
Dunn thereupon attested and subscribed the said will in the presence of the
said Testatrix and also of each other – James
Rasson
On the fourteenth day of November one
thousand eight hundred and fifty one the said James Rasson was duly sworn to
the Truth of this affidavit by virtue of the Requisition hereto annexed before
me – George Smyth surrogate of the Diocese of Derry ://-
Proved
at London
20th November
1851 before the Judge by the oath of Robert Bond Esquire and the Reverend
Francis James Porter two of the Executors to whom admon. was granted having first
been sworn by Commission only to Administer Power reserved of making the like Grant
to John Gilliam (in the Will written John Gilliott) Stilwell the other Executor
when he shall apply for the same.
