Catherine Gelling 1856

Submitted by: Kay Clegg
Date: 23 September 2015
Original: 0106258


GELLING, Catherine  1856  Braddan  A 18  0106258

Braddan
18.
To his worshipful vicar general Corlett etc. etc.
1856
The humble petition of Isabella Gelling of the County of Middlesex spinster

Showeth
That Catherine Gelling of Craven Hill Bayswater in the county of Middlesex your 
petitioner's sister some short time since departed this life having first duly made and 
published her Last will and testament whereof she appointed your Petr and Charles Heard 
Wild Esquire her Executrix and Executor
That your petitioner and the said Charles Heard Wild obtained probate of the said 
will in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on the 6th day of September last.
That the deceased being at the time of her death entitled to property in this Island it is 
necessary that the will of the deceased should be received here and the executors sworn 
to execute the same
Wherefore petitioner prays a hearing hereof and that your worship may be pleased to 
direct your commission? to Henry Webb of the city of London to swear your petition 
Executor of the said will (saving the right of the said Charles Heard Wild) and 
petitioner will pray
                          Ridgway Harrison?
                          For petitioner

Ordered that this petition do come on to be heard at a Court to be holden at Douglas on 
Friday next whereof all proper parties are to have due notice
Given this sixteenth day of October 1855
T. A. Corlett

At an Ecc Court held at Douglas
19 October 1855
Upon hearing this petition in presence of the pe[tinoners]? or their parties and as motion 
of petitioner’s Advocate it appears that it is necessary for the ends of justice that a 
commission should issue to London in the county of Middlesex to authorize Henry 
Webbe Solicitor of the said place to administer the proper oaths to swear in Isabella 
Gelling the petitioner as admn for will of Catherine Gelling deceased and the same is 
therefore hereby so ordered adjudged and decreed accordingly.
T.A.Corlett


Isle of Mann
Thomas Arthur Corlett Vicar-General, Chancellor and
Official Principal of the Honorable and Right-Reverend
 Father in god Horatio by Divine permission Lord Bishop
Of Sodor and Mann and official of the Venerable
Joseph Christian Moore, clerk master of the Acts Archdeacon 
of said Diocese ?  lawfully authorized
 To Henry Webb of London Esquire 
Solicitor ? greeting ??

1856 / 18   Arch
See  1886 / 57

Whereas Catherine Gelling late of Craven Hill Bayswater in the county of Middlesex 
spinster departed this life on or about the 6th of January last past having first duly made 
and executed her last will and testament whereof she appointed her sister Isabella Gelling 
spinster and her nephew Charles Heard Wild executrix and executor and whereas the 
executrix now resides beyond seas and by reason thereof cannot without great 
inconvenience and expense come to our Ecclesiastical Court and having subscribed into 
our said court an exemplification of the will of said Cathe  Gelling with probate thereon 
under seal of the prerogative court of York (of which the annexed is a true copy) and by 
our petition heard on the 17th Octr last prayed administration of the goods, rights, credits, 
chattels, and effects of said testatrix within this Diocese (saving the right of the said 
Charles Heard Wild the executor) therefore we did decree a commission to issue forth to 
you for the purposes hereinafter mentioned in manner and form following (Executrix so 
requesting) We therefore in aid of the law do give unto you the said Henry Webb full 
power and authority to administer the annexed oath to the said Isabella Gelling to swear 
her faithfully to administer the goods rights, credits, chattels and effects of said testatrix 
in terms of the Will and according to law to pay all the just debts, legacies, and funeral 
expenses of said testatrix to make a full true and perfect inventory of her estate and to 
render a just and true account thereof unto the Archdeaconal Registry of said Diocese and 
further to do in the premises as shall be needful requesting that (such oath being 
administered) you duly transmit to us the whole proceeding thereon subscribed with your 
proper hand immediately after the execution thereof, together with these presents, so that 
we may administer justice in the premises.
Given under our hand and seal at Ramsey in the said Isle this 26th day of Novr in the year 
of our Lord 1855

The form of the oath to be administered to the said Isabella Gelling she laying her right 
hand on the Bible or New Testament.

Testament

Your oath is, that you shall well and truly administer the goods, rights, credits, chattels 
and effects of Catherine Gelling deceased, that are within the Diocese of Sodor and Mann 
in terms of her will and according to Law by paying first her just debts and funeral 
expenses and then the legacies therein contained as far forth as the same will thereto 
extend and the law binds you; and you shall make a full true and perfect inventory of all 
and singular the said goods rights credits chattels and effects and exhibit the same unto 
the Archdeaconal Registry of said Diocese and render a just account of your 
administration thereof when thereunto lawfully required.
Isabella Gelling

                                                             So help you God ---
                                            The above oath was duly administered
                                    to the said Isabella Gelling at my office No
                                     11 Argyll Street in the County of Middlesex
                                      this nineteenth day of December 1855 by me
                                                         Henry Webb

                         Extracted from the Registry of the 
                          Prerogative Court of Canterbury
This is the last will and testament of me Catherine Gelling of Craven Hill Bayswater 
in the county of Middlesex spinster I give and bequeath to my dear sister Isabella Gelling all 
my leasehold assuages? No. 35 Albemarle? Street within the Liberty of Westminster in 
the county of Middlesex to hold the same for herself her executors administrators and 
assigns for all my term? estate and interest thereto in paying the rent and observing and 
performing all covenants which shall during the said term become due and have to be 
performed in respect thereof I swear and bequeath to my said sister all my household 
furniture plate linen china and other household effects so said about my said house at the 
time of my demise {origl so Henry Webbe ? Wm Thos Cock} to hold the same unto and 
for her own absolute use and benefit.  I give and bequeath to Sarah Butler the sum of ten 
pounds and as to all my ready money, money in the public funds or upon mortgage and 
all other the rest residue and remainder of my real and personal estate and effects 
whatsoever and wheresoever and over which I have any disposing power I give and 
bequeath the same to my executors hereinafter named upon trust to invest such part or 
parts thereof as shall consist of money in some or one of the government or parliamentary 
stocks or funds of Great Britain or at interest on mortgage of or in the purchase of 
freehold copyhold or leasehold securities or Railway Bonds or debentures and to continue 
such part thereof as shall be invested at the time of my death in any manner yielding 
interest in their then state of investment or to sell and convert the same into money and 
reinvest the same in the said governments of Parliamentary stocks or funds or at interest 
as aforesaid and the same stocks funds and securities to alter and vary as often as to them 
her or him may seem advisable and expedient and upon trust to pay the interest dividends 
and annual produce thereof unto my said sister Isabella Gelling or to permit her to receive 
the same for her sole use and benefit for the term of her natural life and from and after 
her decease do and shall stand possessed of and interested in the said stocks funds and 
securities upon trust to pay and assign and transfer the same unto and to be divided 
among such person or persons as my said sister shall by any deed during her lifetime or 
by her last Will and Testament direct or appoint and in default of any such direction or 
appointment and so far as any such if incomplete shall not extend then unto between and 
among all my nephews and nieces who shall be living at the death of the survivor of 
myself and my said sister share and share alike to and for his her and their own absolute 
use and benefit and I do hereby declare that the shares made payable to my nieces may be 
paid to their respective hands notwithstanding covertures and that their receipts alone 
shall be a sufficient release and discharge to my executors paying the same. 
Provided always and I further declare that if the trustees hereby appointed or hereafter to be 
appointed in pursuance of this present trust shall die or renounce or be unwilling or 
incapable to act in or be desirous to be discharged from the trusts of this my Will before 
they shall have been all duly performed it shall be lawful for the said Isabella Gelling if 
living and if not then for the surviving or last continuing trustee or for his or her 
executors or administrators to appoint any fit person or persons to supply the vacancy or 
vacancies so accruing in the said trusteeship and that immediately after every such 
appointment the said trust stocks funds and premises shall be transferred in such manner 
that the same may trust in such new trustees or trustee subject to the trust aforesaid and 
that every such new Trustees or trustee as well before as after such transfer shall have and 
may exercise all the powers and authorities contained in this my will as effectually as if 
originally herein named as trustees or trustee and further that no one or more of the 
trustees hereby or hereafter to be appointed shall be answerable or accountable for any 
other of them or for any money or trust premises received under any receipt in which he 
or she may join only for conformity or by any means for involuntary losses and that every 
trustee may retain and be allowed all charges and expenses incurred in the execution of 
the trusts hereof and I appoint my said sister Isabella Gelling and my nephew Charles 
Heard Wild Engineer Executrix and Executor and trustees of this my Will in witness 
whereof I the said Catherine Gelling have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand 
this first day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty three ---  
Catherine Gelling --- Signed and declared by the said Catherine Gelling 
the Testatrix as and for her last will and testament in the presence of us present at the 
same time and we in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto 
subscribed our names as witnesses the several erasures against which we have signed our 
names in the margin hereof having been first ---Henry Webb 11. 
Argyle Street, London--- Wm Thos Cock his clerk---

The will of Catherine Gelling late of Craven Hill Bayswater in the county of Middlesex 
spinster deceased was proved at London on the sixth day of  September in the year of our 
Lord one thousand and fifty five before the worshipful John Haggard Doctor of Laws and 
master keeper or commissary of the prerogative court of Canterbury lawfully constituted 
by the oath of Isabella Gelling spinster the sister of the said deceased and Charles Heard 
Wild the nephew of the said deceased the executors named in the said will to whom 
administration was granted of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said 
deceased they having been first sworn duly to administer  Chas Dyneley 
 John Iggulden  W.F. Gostling} Deputy registrars.

In the name of Good(sic) Amen.  Proof of the will to these presents annexed having been 
heretofore admitted in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. We, Granville Harcourt 
Vernon, Master of Arts Commissary and Keeper General of the Exchequer and 
Prerogative Court of the most Reverend Father in God, Thomas, by Divine Providence 
Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan, do approve of and 
register the same, and do pronounce, decree, and declare for the validity thereof, and do 
fully in the Lord by these presents, commit and grand administration of all and singular 
the goods, rights, chattels of Catherine Gelling late of Craven Hill Bayswater in 
the county of Middlesex, Spinster (having in her lifetime and at her death bond notabilia 
in diverse dioceses or peculiar jurisdictions within the province of York) deceased, which 
were in her life-time and at her death with in the province of York aforesaid to Isabella 
Gelling spinster, her sister, and Charles Heard Wild, her nephew the Executors in the said 
will named having first before the worshipful Thomas Spinks, Doctor of Laws, Surrogate 
of the Right Honorable Sir John Dodson Knight, Doctor of Laws, Master Keeper or 
Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, lawfully constituted, by virtue of a 
requisition in that behalf directed taken the oath according to law in that case required 
(saving any other persons right)
Given at York under the seal of our said office this twelfth day of September in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight-hundred and fifty five
Wm Hudson       Deputy
Jos. Buckle  }  Registrars

Extracted by 
Brown & Hotham
  Proctors York

[Oval Seal with the letters L.S within]


Ex’d R Brown A.K.
At an Ecclesiastical Court held in Douglas
on the 22nd day of February1856


The Original last Will and Testament of Catherine Gelling late of Craven Hill Bayswater 
in the County of  Middlesex spinster deceased having been heretofore proved and 
registered in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and an exemplification of said will with 
probate thereon under seal of the Prerogative Court of the Most Reverend Father in God 
Thomas by divine providence Lord Archbishop of York Primate of England and 
Metropolitan having been exhibited into this court of Sodor and Mann (of which the 
annexed is a true copy) by Isabella Gelling the Executrix therein named who prayed 
administration with said will annexed within this diocese the same is therefore accepted 
of by this court and administration of all and singular the goods, rights, credits, chattels 
and effects of said Catherine Gelling with her said will annexed is hereby granted and 
committed unto the said Isabella Gelling (the like power being reserved for Charles 
Heard Wild the Executor also named in said will when he shall apply for the same)  She 
having been already sworn (by Henry Webb of London Esquire solicitor by virtue of a 
special commission to him in this case directed) well and truly to administer the same in 
terms of said will and according to law, to pay all just debts legacies and funeral expenses 
of said testatrix so far forth as the goods and effects will extend and the law bind her and 
also to return to the Archdiaconal Registry of said Diocese a full and perfect inventory of 
said estate and effects with an accurate account of her acts and proceedings in the 
premises when thereunto lawfully required and to those ends she hath given pledges 
namely James George Gelling and John Hodgson late both of Douglas who have 
executed the usual bond in presence of the Court.
Acceptum et Decretum est.
T.A. Corlett

In Her Majesty's High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man
Common Law Division Testamentary Jurisdiction
                                                    At a Court holden at Douglas
                                                       on the 25th January, 1886
It appearing that the foregoing official copy or exemplification was accepted by the 
Ecclesiastical Court of this Isle on the 22nd day of February, 1856 as and for the last Will 
and Testament of Catherine Gelling, then late of Craven Hill Bayswater in the county of 
Middlesex spinster deceased and that administration (with her will annexed) if the 
personal estate within the Isle of Man of  the said Catherine Gelling was granted to 
Isabella Gelling, the executrix herein named power being reserved of making the like 
grant to Charles Heard Wild the other executor in such will named when he should apply 
for the same and it further appearing that the said Isabella Gelling has since departed this 
life without having fully administered the same. This court hath granted administration de 
bon non/(with her said will annexed) to the unadministered personal estate and effects, 
(within this Isle) of the said Catherine Gelling deceased to Richard Gelling of 1 Davidson 
Terrace in the Town of Douglas Esquire and accordingly he is sworn well and truly to 
administer the unadministered personal estate and effects of the said deceased within this 
Isle in terms of the said will and according to Land Power reserved of making a grant of 
probate to the said Charles Heard Wild the other executor in said will incurred where he 
shall make application for the same
WLDrinkwater
a Judge in the Law Court

Whereas the Ecclesiastical court hath this day granted probate of the will of Catherine 
Gelling of the city of London deceased to Isabella Gelling of the same city
And whereas James George Gelling of the town of Douglas and John Hodgson of the said 
town have agreed to become pledges for the said Isabella Gelling for the due 
administration of the said Estate according to law.
Therefore know all men by these presents that we, the said James George Gelling and 
John Hodgson hereby bind and oblige ourselves and our Executors and Administrators as 
pledges for the said Isabella Gelling for the due and faithful administration of the goods 
and effects of the said deceased according to law and in their default we bind ourselves 
and our executors and administrators to be answerable to all parties interested in the said 
Estate of the administration thereof.
Witness our subscription this twenty second day of February 1856
At Vicars Court held at Douglas
the 22nd day of February 1856 
Taken before me
T.A. Corlett

                           Jas G Gelling    John Hodgson

                                        18.
To the worshipful vicar general Corlett 
Etc.  etc.

The humble petition 
of Isabella Gelling of the
City of London
Sheweth
That Miss Catherine Gelling of the city of London aforesaid your petitioner's sister 
sometime since departed this life having first duly made and published her last will and 
testament whereof she appointed your petitioner her executrix
--- That sd sister obtained probate of the said will in England
--- The deceased being entitled at the time of her death to property in this Isle your 
petitioner presented her petition to your worship at a Court holden at Douglas on the 
eighteenth day of October last to have the said will received and praying that your 
Worship would be pleased to direct your Commission to Henry Webbe of the City of 
London Solicitor [?] in your Petitioner Executrix under the said Will ---
--- That the said Commission was accordingly [?] and [?] since been returned to your 
Worship duly executed with the [?] [?] 
--- Wherefore Petitioner prays a hearing hereof and that your Worship may be pleased to 
[?] in the usual form and Petitioner will pray.
[Benjamin?] Harrison  [very faint]
For Petitioner

Ordered that this Petition do [come on ?] to be heard at a Court to be holden at Douglas 
on Friday next with notices to parties
Given this 20th February [1856]
T.A. Corlett

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                                                At an Eccl Court held in Douglas
                                                On the 22nd day of February 1856
Upon hearing this petition in presence of the parties or their advocates and upon reading 
the commission issued by this court to Henry Webb of London Esquire Solicitor and also 
his certificate of having duly accepted the same by administering the oath at the foot 
thereof to the petitioner Isabella Gelling on the 19th day of December last and she having 
this day given pledges for the due administration of her office as Executrix administrator 
with the will of Catherine Gelling annexed I am of opinion that administration with the 
will of said Catherine Gelling annexed should now issue to the said Isabella Gelling as 
prayed for and the same is therefore hereby so ordered and decreed accordingly.
T. A. Corlett


Transcribers notes:  Catharine Gelling of London.
Baptized 18 Mar 1789 St. Mathews Douglas d/o Richard Gelling & Deborah Wilks. 
Spinster.  Her younger sister and co-executor Isabella b 1794 died in London 1871.
Her nephew and co-executor Charles Heard Wild born about 1819 London was the son of 
Charles Wild and Catharine's sister Margaret.
Richard Gelling, who took over the executorship in 1886 was the son of Catherine's 
brother Thomas, of the Iron Foundry of Douglas.  
Richard and his brother James built the iron casts for the Lady Isabella Wheel (1854).  
James is the "James George Gelling" who, along with John Hodgson, were pledges for Isabella.
 

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