Will: Hickey, James July 3, 1809 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Limerick Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Ros Dunning ros.dunning@outlook.com April 5, 2019, 9:26 am HICKEY, JAMES JULY 3, 1809 Source: National Archives Kew England Written: July 3, 1809 Recorded: April 5, 2019 In the Name of God Amen I James Hickey Ord Seaman of HMS Ship Sceptre Joseph Bingham Esquire Captain being in bodily health and of sound and disposing mind and memory and considering the perils and dangers of the Seas and other uncertainties of this transitory life Do for avoiding Controversies after my decease make publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner following (that is to say) First I recommend my Soul to God who gave it and my Body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it shall Please God to order and as for and concerning all my Worldly Estate I give bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth (that is to say) all Wages Prize Money Sum and Sums of Money Lands Tenements Goods Chattels and Estate whatsoever as shall be any ways due owing or belonging unto me at the time of my decease I do give devise and bequeath the same unto my Dearly beloved Sisters Judy Hickey Mary Hickey and Johannah Hickey at Mr Tench's at the Sign of the Coach and Horses Marldyke Limerick Ireland and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my beloved Sisters Judy Hickey Mary Hickey and Johannah Hickey sole Executrixs of this my last Will and Testament Testament hereby revoking all former and other Wills Testaments and Deeds of Gifts by me at any time heretofore made and I do ordain and ratify these Presents to stand and be for and as my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof to this my last Will I have set my hand and Seal this nineteenth Day of May One thousand Eight hundred and Eight and in the forty Eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the third over Great Britain and Ireland James Hickey X his Mark Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of us at Sea where no Stampt Paper could be had Joseph Bingham Captain _ Alex Lumsdale Master Proved at London 3 July 1809 PCC Prob11/1501