Fermanagh - O'Flaherty, Hugh October 11, 1795 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Fermanagh Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning ros.dunning@outlook.com October 26, 2017, 6:55 am O'FLAHERTY, HUGH OCTOBER 11, 1795 Source: National Archives Kew England Written: October 11, 1795 Recorded: October 26, 2017 In the Name of God Amen I Hugh O'Flaherty of Enniskillen and County of Farmanagh Merchant finding my health a little impared but being of Perfect memory and understanding thanks be to Almighty God for it do settle & adjust my worldly concerns in manner following Viz First I bequeath my Soul to Almighty God and my body to be interred among my Ancestors and my funeral Expences to be paid by my Executors hereafter mentioned and after the payment of my said Debts I order my Executors to ake an Inventory of all my stock in trade with all my household furniture my outstanding Debts and all my Book Accounts with all my Bonds Cash and every of my Goods & Chattles & the same to sell by Auction Private Contract or as my said Executors may think most convenient & most profitable And the same to be made in two equal shares and to my beloved Wife Hanna O'Flaherty I leave and bequeath the one half of the same also a house and Tenement I hold in Ballyshannon during her life and my dwellinghouse wherein I live during the Minority of my Son Hugh O'Flaherty now Aged on the fourth of November 1795 eight Years old she my said Wife to Cloath and Educate my said Son until he come of Age without any charge to him whatever and to my said Son Hugh O'Flaherty I leave & bequeath the other half or share and the same to be put to Interest by my Executors until he comes of Age and then to be put into his actual possession by my Executors together with my dwellinghouse wherein I now live and also all the Yearly profits arising to me out of the houses in the Town of Enniskillen and at my wife's decease if he survives her to have all and every my house and Tenement in the Town of Ballyshannon only reserving out of Wm Wilson's Tenement & house to my Brother John Flaherty the Yearly sum of two Guineas during said lease the same to commence two years after my decease and paid half Yearly and to my Niece Margaret O'Flaherty I leave and bequeath the sum of Five Guineas sterling and to my Niece Jane O'Flaherty I bequeath the like sum of Five Guineas sterling the same to be paid to Margret one Year after my decease out of Willm Wilson's Tenement and to Jane the Year following out of said Tenement as the rent becomes due or payable and if my said Brother John O'Flaherty shall die before Wm Wilson's lease be expired that the sd bequeathed sum of two Guineas shall go to the use of my said Son Hugh O'Flaherty and as to my Interest in an East India Ticket left me by my Uncle Bryan O'Flaherty I leave the one half to my said Brother if he be living at the time it may be recovered if not the whole to my Son and if my said Son shall die before he comes of age I order my Executors to make four equal shares of what his part may be and Pay to my said Wife one fourth of the same and to my said Brother one fourth share and to Margaret Stinson Wife to John Stinson Tobacconist Dublin one fourth part and to my Cousins Edward and John O'Flaherty Tobacco and SnuF Manufacturers Dublin one fourth share and Lastly I constitute ordain and appoint my trusty & well beloved Friends John Stinson Tobacconist Dublin and Wm Crooke Enniskillen Chandler & Thos Irvine Merchant Enniskillen my whole and sole Executors to this my last Will and Testament & revoking all will and wills by me formerly made do Constitute this my last In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eleventh day of October in the Year of our Lord 1795 five Hugh O'Flaherty Signed sealed & acknowledged by the Testator in the presence of us Wm Crook//Robert Mc Clellan//Wm Maguire 22 July 1818 Administration with Will annexed to Hugh O'Flaherty William Crooke and Thomas Irvine the surviving Executors having renounced PCC Prob11/606