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Wallace Hale's Early New Brunswick Probate, 1785-1835

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Reference7452
Family NameBONSALL
Given NamesGeorge
Was there a Will? No
Was an inventory completed? No
Date administration granted1831-10-10
CountySaint John
ParishCity of Saint John
Probate is for a woman? No
Abstract references a vessel? No
Abstract City of Saint John, St. John County. Died 27 September 1831 intestate. Administration granted 10 October 1831 to his sisters, Mary BONSALL and Elizabeth BONSALL, spinsters. Fellow bondsmen Daniel SCOVIL and Charles CROOKSHANK, all of the City of Saint John. Petition for administration stated that deceased was a widower; that he left three children, the eldest being a minor, 16 years of age; that his father died some years since and his mother is now an aged woman unequal to the cares of business; that his brothers are also dead with the exception of one who left the Province some years ago and believed dead. On 4 May 1838 Mary BONSALL, as the surviving administrator, being in an infirm state of bodily health, petitioned to have administration granted to John KERR, merchant, with consent of the deceased's eldest daughter, Margaret Jane, who had attained her majority, her husband Edmund KAYE, and the other two children of the deceased, Mary BONSALL the Younger and Anne E. BONSALL, with their guardian Daniel SCOVIL Esq. also consenting. Administration granted 3 May 1838 to John KERR. Fellow bondsmen Edmund KAYE and Charles CROOKSHANK.
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