Episcopal Wills 1798 Maughold #2, Margaret Creetch als Looney als Kelvin

(from MM / LDS 0106406 ) - courtesy of Averil Roper

Articles of Agreement made Conditioned and Agreed upon by and 
      between Margaret Creetch Als Looney Als Kelvin of the Crowcreen ^widow^
      in the parish of KK Maughold on the one part and Ewan Looney
      her youngest Son and Mary Looney his Loving wife on the other part
      are as followeth 
First  that the afforsd. Margaret Creetch Als Looney Als Kelvin Doth give
      and have by these Presents Settled upon the afforsd. Ewan Looney
      and Mary Looney his wife the one half of all her goods and Effects
      Dead or alive_ of what Nature or kind soever in present Possession
      
2. In consideration of the above agreement or settlement they the said Ewan
Looney and Mary his wife Doth hereby Promise to fit and furnish
their Sd. Loving mother with sufficient and decent meat, Drink, and
apparels, and to take due and becoming Care of her During her
Natural Life. 
[Item] if the above Ewan Looney & Mary his wife doth Live with their
      Loving Mother During her Natural Life, and doth content her 
      with a Decent Living as becometh a Loving mother in her old age,
      and Doth Nourish her as afforsd. She Doth promise hereby
      to give to them, the afforsd. Ewan Looney & Mary his wife all that
      Remains of her Goods & Effects Moveable and immoveable after her
      Decease 
[Item] it is agreed that if in case the sd. Margaret Creetch Als Looney Als Kelvin
      their mother are not satisfied or do Dislike with the Maintainance
      that she shall have from her afforsd. Son & Daughter Ewan Looney & Mary
      his wife that She is at Liberty to go where She please, and they
      the afforsd. Ewan & Mary Looney is not to get her remaining goods 
      or Effects after her Decease But She is at Liberty to give them to
      who She thinks Best Deserves them
Lastly for the true and faithfull Performance of all and Singular the
      above agreement and Settlement and Every Article therein contained
      Both Parties concerned do hereby bind & oblidge themselves their
      *------ Exrs. Adminrs. and * -------- in and under the Penalty and
      Forfiture of Forty Pounds Sterling to be Levied and Paid
      according to Law and Practice within this Isle as witness to 
      their names and markes this 7th of January 1798
                                                                                                                                                                  mk
      Signed and Delivered            Margaret Creetch als Looney als Kelvin her X
      in Presence of
                                                                       Ewan Looney  his Mk X
            Ewan Kissag                                                Mary Looney
                  John Kerruish


      Ramsey 17th October 1798
      
      Ewan Kissag and John Kerruish the
      subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Deed
      of Settlement being Duly Sworn on [the]
      Holy Evangelists [Depose] & say that Margt.
      Creetch alias Looney alias Kelvin, Ewan
      Looney & Mary Looney the Executing
      parties thereunto Did in their presence
      [severally] sign & duly Execute the same.

                    Before me
                    James [Wilkes]
                                                      At a chapter Court holden at
                                                Lezayre October 18th 1798
      The foregoing Deed of Settlement having
      been attested before the High Bailiff of Ramsey
      District and now openly published in Court
      and no objection offered thereto the same
      is accepted as and for the Last Will and
      Testament of Margaret Creetch the
      Donor and Ewan Looney the Donee                                                              
      is thereupon sworn ^Exor. ^ in Court in form of                                                                 
      Law and hath given ^Pledges ^for the payment of 
      Debts      Vizt,      John Callow of Ballaskeig
      and      John Callow of Ballacreggan both
      of Maughold ----
                                                                              Acceptum Est
                                                                              E [ v.] Christian
                                                                              John Crellin

Constance Radcliffe in "A history of Kirk Maughold" has written about the main descent:

“Looney Crowcreen (or Looney Yack).

In the form Lowny, this surname is found in Maughold Register from its beginning (1647), and there was a family of Looneys on the croft Bwoaillee Losht, below Ballafayle Kerruish, in the seventeenth century. The fact that John Looney was "of Ramsey" in 1748 does not preclude the possibility of him being a Maughold man, although we must admit that we have not found his baptism in Maughold. His wife Margaret Kelvin belonged to one of the Scottish families who came to Ramsey in the eighteenth century to engage in business, and even in her later years was a determined and masterful woman. On John Looney's death in 1770, she married William Creetch of Ballachrink, whom she also survived. In 1791, she settled her goods on her youngest son Ewan and his wife Mary Taggart, who were to keep her "and live with their loving mother during her natural Life, and to content her with a Decent Living as becometh a loving mother in her old age". This settlement was accepted as part of her will in 1798; she had also inserted a clause that if Ewan and Mary disagreed with her, she would go anywhere else she pleased, taking her goods with her!
By her marriage to John Looney, she had nine sons and one daughter, and from six of these sons are descended all the Looneys in Maughold at the time of the 1841 Census, and subsequently. The Parish Register often refers to them as "Yack" (Jack) after their original ancestor. The eldest son William was described in his father's will as a "poor pitiable object", and it was the second son Daniel (1745-1826) who lived in Crowcreen after the parents' deaths. The third son John (1748-1835) bought the intack Boshin and other land near what became the Hibernian, the inn first opened by his son John and his wife Rachel. The fourth son, Thomas, (c. 1750-1826), a shoemaker, bought part of Ballagilley.
The sixth son Robert (Robin) (1751-1826) bought East Ballaterson (the White House) from an old-established family of Callows, and after the White House was sold to Thomas Quayle and his son John in 1832, Robin's eldest son John and his family were farming from Croit ny kennipey (the present Sexton's house). The eighth son, Patrick (1764-1816), was a stonemason, a trade also followed by his sons Patrick and Simeon. The youngest and favourite son Ewan (b.1766), for a long time tenant of Ballaglass, was the father of Joseph later the owner of Crowcreen and Magher e kew, of John, who farmed the croft on the lower part of Ballaskeig Beg; and of George who was farming 30 acres of Ballagilley in 1851.
Sad to say, there have been no Looneys farming Maughold since the War, although there are many descendants and relations of the family, bearing different surnames, resident in the parish.”

Widow of John Looney, marriage not found but probably c.1742 (? in Ramsey as the Kelvies were of that town) - after his death married Wm Creetch Mau 1770-02-10

Children include:
William (mentioned in will of father as eldest)
DANIEL bapt Mau 1745-08-04 m Isable Cashin Mau 1769-03-30 (8 Children) - will 1826
THOMAS bapt Ram 1748-08-14 and also in Maughold register of same date - ? m Isabel Moore Mau 1775-12-02 (7 children)
John (mentioned in will of father and by implication junior to Daniel) - ? m Margaret Hutchin Mau 1777-01-18 (11 children)
JANE bapt Mau 1754-03-03
ROBERT bapt Mau 1757-07-03 m Margaret Cannell Mau 1786-06-24 (9 Children)
JAMES bapt Mau 1760-09-07 - no marriage found
PATRICK bapt Mau 1764-03-25 m Catherine Cowle Mau 1783-06-01 (9 children)
EWAN bapt Mau 1766-08-03 m Mary Taggart Mau 1790-06-26 (10 children)