This reprint of Susan (Susannah) O'Boyle's will ,died 1912 NZ, has come to light recently. has lots of info and connects Alexander to her as her brother and also her other sisters that were still alive at the time.
The gender and marital status of Irish Catholic testators had a decisive bearing
on the frequency with which they recognized individuals and structures outside
their own household (see Table 3). In general, women willed bequests to distant
kinfolk with greater frequency than men and expressed their religiosity more
resolutely in terms of their testamentary dispositions. Susan O'Boyle of County
Antrim, for example, combined both of these concerns in the provisions of her
will. She devised all her land and personal effects upon a favoured niece, Susan
Morgan, and instructed her executor, Patrick O'Connor, to charge the remainder
of her estate with a series of endowments. He was first to apply £60 for the
erection of two headstones and railings for O'Boyle and her late husband,
Francis, at Leeston, and to use a further £20 to secure the same for her late
brother, Alexander McCloy. After £30 had been expended for the purpose of
procuring masses for the repose of her soul, £ 100 each were to accrue to her sister
Sarah Morgan and niece, Elizabeth Morgan, both of Ireland. An additional £150
was set aside for two nephews and three other nieces from the same family.44
She
devised lesser sums upon her sister-in-law, Margaret McCloy (£90), the wife of
her late brother, and their three children (£90 each), her niece, Ann Probyn (£90),
and another sister, Jane Willis (£50)45
The will of a Galway-born widow, Mary Walsh, was less typical. Her
testament generously bequeathed proceeds of the sale of her properties situated
in Essex and Clothier streets to the Mother Superior of the Notre Dame de
Missions, Christchurch, and stipulated that her clothing be distributed among the
poor.46
By contrast, Alice Leonard instructed the executor of her estate to sell her
freehold property at Barbadoes Street and divide the proceeds equally between
44 These were John, Daniel, Jane, Catherine, and Sarah Morgan.
45 The Will of Susan O'Boyle, 7690/1912, NA-CH; Death Index, 554/1912. O'Boyle's niece,
Susan Morgan, was the recipient of the residue of her estate.
