Healy Family in the 1841 Census

Above: Top- The Healy family in the 1841 Census. At home was mother Ellen Healy, her children James and Mary, and her granddaughter Ellen Healy. Missing from the family residence was father David Healy, but the advertisement below, taken from the Catholic Advertiser of 1843, perhaps offers a clue as to why he wasn't at Broad Street on the night in question...."Funerals conducted to and from all parts of the country".
David Healy wrote his will on November 25, 1843, and died within months. The will was proved on March 22, 1844. A copy of the will is included in the following blog entries, but the main part of it read as follows:

" I, Mr David Healy of Number 154 High Holborn in the Parish of Middlesex, and County Middlesex, undertaker, and being weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory thanks be unto God calling into ind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all Men each to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament.
That is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give and bequeath of the same in the following manner and form
First I give and bequeath to Ellen healy my dearly beloved wife the sum of four hundred pounds of lawful money of England to be raised and levied out of my bank stock which is eleven hundred pounds at 3 1/2 % Bank of England and one hundred pounds which my wife and son have sureties for and one half of my business on condition that she does not marry and she must undergo one half of the expenses of the business and receive one half of the profit arising therefrom and she must be liable to pay out half the expenses of the business and one half the expenses of clothing, boarding and lodging the present resident family during the time they abide in the family.
I do bind my wife out of her _____ to pay and give unto my granddaughter ELLEN HEALY fifty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain when she is twenty years of age and in case my wife should decease before that time she must deposit the said sum of fifty pounds in the Bank or in some responsible executors hands for the use of Ellen Healy when she arrives at the aforesaid age and not until then. The said Ellen Healy is to reside and continue by the advice of her Grandmother and Uncle JAMES HEALY and if not to be exempt from the said sum.

I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter MISS MARY HEALY the sum of four hundred pounds of lawful money of England exclusive of its interest at the time she gets married or in case she may want any part of it for any other use before then she may draw it not without the full consent of her mother and brother James Healy whatever sum she might draw before her marriage to be debited from her moiety and in case she would get married without the consent of both her mother and brother James the aforesaid four hundred pounds to be at their disposal..

I give and bequeath unto my beloved son MR. JAMES HEALY the sum of four hundred pounds of lawful money of England together with the eight title and interest to one half of my tenements, one half of my stock and trade and the ____ments arising therefrom. I equally bequeath the profits arising out of part____ my tenements
No. 8,9,10,11 and 12, the houses which I hold and occupy in ____ Court, Broad Street, County of Middlesex, to be jointly between my wife and son James Healy as an addition to their stock in trade.

In case that my wife should die the survivor is to have the buildings and trade and the moiety in Bank stock to be equally divided between him or her the survivor and my daughter mary in two equal parts in case James should die without issue.

I bind my son James Healy to give and pay unto my granddaughter SARAH HEALY fifty pounds of lawful money of England when she is twenty years of age and not before. The said Sarah Healy is to be and take the advice of her Grandmother and Uncle James Healy and if she does not be _____ by them she is to be exempt from the fifty pounds.
The whole disp____ of my grandchildren's legacy to be governed by their grandmother and Uncle James Healy and in case that any of them would decease or they shall receive the money the surviving sister to inherit her sum or in case of both dying before receiving their money the sum to be equally divided between the survivor or survivors.
I equally bequeath that my son James Healy in case of his death before then deposit in the Bank of England or in the possession of some honest executor for her use to be paid unto her at said time the said Sarah Healy the sum of fifty pounds of lawful money to be paid to her when ___ lawfully due to her.
I also give to my dear wife and son whom I likewise constitute, make and ordain the sole executors of this my last will and testament all singular my messuages, tenements and holding trade by them freely to be managed and disposed of as they think to the best of their belief and understanding.
And I do disallow and revoke all and every other former testaments, wills, legacies, bequests and executors by me in any wise before named and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal this 25th day of November, 1843.
David Healy Witness: Thomas Parker, Thomas Flynn, Timothy Foley