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ElizabethHerts
09-03-22, 16:39
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-X929-JXL?i=251&cc=1784428

This is the will of Thomas Radcliffe who died in 1867.
It's fairly straightforward but there is a word I can't read in the paragraph starting "Secondly". Also, I don't understand its meaning.

"I leave and bequeath the sum of one shilling to all ca-ants? whom the laws of this island will sanction to claim the same."
Mary from Italy
09-03-22, 17:03
I think the link's wrong: it's just showing a page with marriages.
ElizabethHerts
09-03-22, 17:18
I think the link's wrong: it's just showing a page with marriages.

Oops, sorry.
ElizabethHerts
09-03-22, 17:19
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSN6-GXZN?cat=234410

That should work!
Phoenix
09-03-22, 17:37
It looks like claimants, with the l missing.
Phoenix
09-03-22, 17:44
Does Isle of Man law insist that children be left something? I note another will names all the children, specifically to leave them one shilling each.
ElizabethHerts
09-03-22, 17:48
Does Isle of Man law insist that children be left something? I note another will names all the children, specifically to leave them one shilling each.

I don't think so as I have had another will where everything went to the wife and the children weren't mentioned at all.
ElizabethHerts
09-03-22, 18:18
It looks like claimants, with the l missing.

Thanks, Phoenix. It's rather messy with the bleed-through from the page on the reverse.
Olde Crone
09-03-22, 23:05
I think adult children did have a lawful right to inherit a shilling (well, it was sixpence originally). Manx inheritance laws were fascinating and very fair originally, not so much now.

OC
ElizabethHerts
10-03-22, 07:23
I think adult children did have a lawful right to inherit a shilling (well, it was sixpence originally). Manx inheritance laws were fascinating and very fair originally, not so much now.

OC

I've downloaded a few Manx wills from Family Search but I have yet to transcribe them. I'll report back with any interesting findings.
maggie_4_7
10-03-22, 08:28
I don't think so as I have had another will where everything went to the wife and the children weren't mentioned at all.

In that link the will actually mentions the law " whom the law of this island will sanction to claim the same"