This is the Testament and Inventory for John Chillas, servant at Disblair Cottage, New Machar who died on the 30 January 1849

1.  Cash in the house         £1/3/6d
2.  Cash deposited with the Town and County
Bank on 12 January 1849 per receipt - £96
Interest due thereon - 2/4       £96/2/4d
3.  Cash deposited in Aberdeen Savings
Bank - £5/16/4
Interest due from 11 June 1844 - 7/7       £6/3/11d
4.  Debts due to deceased:
William Stephen, Disblair Cottage - £1/10/-
Margaret Craig, Nelson St, Aberdeen
per acknowledgement dated 20 June 1844
Balance - £5
Interest from 27 July 1844 - 11/3 - £5/11/3
Thomas Nicol Dyce - £1/10/-
Margaret Silver, Aberdeen - £22
James Crombie - £2
From the circumstances of these two debtors
no value can be put on the sums due by them      £8/11/3
5.  Value of deceased's other effects, vizt Chest
5/-; Books - 15/-, Clothes 20/- - £2
Silver Watch - £1/10/-         £3/10/-
          -----------
£115/11/-

Alexander Milne, shoemaker in Aberdeen appeared and confirmed the date of death and stated that he along with the Rev George Moir, Minister of the Free Church, New Machar had entered into the possession and management of the deceased's estate as Executors nominated by him in his Testament executed on the 29 January 1849

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At Aberdeen, 6 February 1849 - Testament of John Chillas presented by James Collie, advocate
I John Chillas at present servant to Mr William Stephen Disblair Cottage being desirous to provide for the management and disposal of my moveable Estate after my death, do hereby make, constitute and appoint the Revd George Moir Minister of the Free Church at New Machar, and Mr Alexr Milne Boot and Shoe maker  Aberdeen to be my sole Executors and administrators with full power to them to intromit with my whole moveable Estate and executry of every description, to give up Inventories thereof, to confirm the same, and generally to do every thing competent to Executors.  Declaring always that the said Revd George Moir and Mr Alexander Milne shall be accountable to the residuary legatee herein after named for their Intromissions in virtue hereof after deducting all my lawful debts, sickbed and funeral charges, the necessary expenses to be laid out in confirming and recovering my said means and estate and the legacies herein after appointed to be paid.  And I do ordain my said Executors to pay and deliver the following legacies to the persons afternamed and designed vizt:- To my half sister Margaret Chillas wife of Robert Forbes gardener Inverury the sum of Ten pounds Sterling, To Mr Alexander Milne one of my Executors afore written the sum of Five pounds Sterling.  To the sustentation fund of the Free church of Scotland the sum of Five pounds Sterling.  To the Missionary Schemes of the Free Church in equal proportions the sum of Five pounds Sterling and that at the farthest within twelve months after my decease.  And whatever residue there may be of my said means and Estate falling under this testament I ordain the same to be accounted for and paid over to Helen Chillas my daughter wife of William Watson Shoemaker Potterton, Belhelvie, whom I hereby appoint to be my residuary Legatee and I consent to the registration hereof in the Books of Council and Session and others competent therein to remain for preservation
At Disblair Cottage, 23 January 1849 before William Stephen Esq of Disblair Cottage and Alexander Elrick present servant to the said William Stephen Esq
 
                                    (Transcribed by Diane Baptie)

John Chillas appears to be the one born 1803 Peterculter to Alexander Chillas and Christian Rae. Half sister Margaret would appear to be a daughter by Alexander Chillas and his previous wife Margaret Mackie. A Margaret Chillas had a child John Rae b. 1803 Peterculter by John Rae.

Helen Watson appears in the 1851 census for Belhelvie and was born circa 1825 but I can find no baptismal record as Helen would have been illegitimate. John's son Thomas Chillas b. 1842 Belhelvie to Elizabeth Garden, died aged 6 at Muerton, Belhelvie 19 Feb 1848.

I can find no marriage for Margaret Chillas to Robert Forbes, described in the testament as gardener, Inverurie, and no census records in Inverurie 1841 or 1851 for this couple. However, Isobel Chillas, sister of Margaret, wife of Thomas Forbes, was in Inverurie at this time.