Description Will of Wallace Meagher of Pictou, NS

(Handwritten)

Will of Wallace Meagher, deceased

Certified Copy of Will for Reg of Deeds Pictou

This is the last Will and Testament of Pictou in the County of Pictou, Butcher.

I hereby revoke all former wills or other Testamentary dispositions by me at any time heretofore made and declare this only to be and contain my last will and Testament.

I give devise and bequeath unto my Sister Louise Doherty of Pictou in the County aforesaid widow of Edward Doherty late of the same place Butcher deceased all the real and personal Estate to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease unto her use and benefit during her life time and after Decease I bequeath the same to the Roman Catholic Church at Pictou aforesaid for the use and benefit of the said Church and Convent in equal shares each.

I do appoint the Reverend Father Gillis at present the Parish Priest at Pictou aforesaid or Such his successor as may be officiating at Pictou aforesaid at the time of the coming into effect of this my bequest to the said Church and Convent at Pictou aforesaid Trustee of this my last will (words are scratched out) with full power to apply the same in equal shares to the use and benefit of said Church and Convent as to him seemeth just and proper.

And I do hereby appoint m said Sister Louisa Doherty and my friend James henry Brown of Pictou Bookkeeper joint Executrix and Executors of this my last Will.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this second day of February AD 1905.

Signed Wallace Meagher (L.S.)

Signed published and Declared by the above named Wallace Meagher the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us both present at the same time, who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.

Signed John Gollan
Signed Fannie McKenzie

Province of Nova Scotia
County of Pictou S.S.
In the Court of Probate of Wills

I John D. McLeod Registrar of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing paper writing is a true copy of the last Will and Testament of Wallace Meagher late of Pictou in the County of Pictou Butcher deceased which said will was duly admitted to Probate in said Court at Pictou on the 26th. day of November AD 1907.

Witness my hand at Pictou this 26th. day of November AD 1907.
John D. MacLeod Registrar

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA, REGISTRAR OF DEEDS
Office, County of Pictou, MAR 20 1908 I certify that the within instrument was duly registered at 3:30 PM of the above day in Book 4 page 267 on the certificate of John D. MacLeod Reg

John Yorston Registrar.