There are twelve wills in my folder for the Chorley/Churley/Chorly/Churly family and none for the Charley/Charly/Charlie family from the National Archives at Kew. However, there are 25 wills for the Charlie/Charley family on the Devon Wills Genuki website. There are six for Chorley and 30 for Churly/Churley also on the Devon Wills Genuki website. The name was spelled interchangeably it would appear but thus far little work has been done on this family in Devon. I am always hopeful that someone will take it on as a one name study. Given the book written up on the Charley family I think it would probably be very interesting but I would do Buller before I did Charley and I haven't got time to do Buller! I barely have time to do what I am doing and this in retirement!
I will add these 15 wills to my blog in hopes that one day someone will find it advantageous to them. I do not think any of them are related to my line at Bishops Nympton/Kentisbury/Coombe Martin.
These two records following for the marriages of Moses Chorley from the transcriptions of Roy Parkhouse (http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Wellington/Transcripts/copyrite.htm). This is perhaps Moses Chorley baptized 30 Apr 1731 at Kittisford Somerset and son of Moses and Amey Chorley who were themselves married 14 Nov 1722 at Saint Peter Cathedral, Exeter she being Amiah Mynard.
A Moses Chorley married Mary Saunders 29 Jun 1785 at Wellington Somerset (both sojourners). There is a second marriage for Moses Chorley and Sarah Baker 23 Jan 1795 at by license at Wellington and Moses is from Sampford Arundel.
There is a marriage for Ann Chorley and Edward Trood 12 Apr 1799 at Sampford Arundel according to an online record for the Troode/Trood family (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/r/o/Peter-W-Troode/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0454.html). But as with all things online you must be cautious as the children are somewhat suspect having been born 30 years after they were married.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 26 Apr 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1415/181
Testator: Moses Chorley, Yeoman
Place: Sampford Arundell, Somerset
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 20 Feb 1800, probated 10 Oct 1804
Read: Electronic copy images
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Moses
[Margin]: Chorley
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Moses Chorley of Sampford Arundell in the
3 County of Somerset yeoman made and published
4 this twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord
5 one thousand Eight hundred First I will and direct
6 that I may be decently buried without pomp or
7 state at the discretion of my Executor hereinafter
8 named and as touching such worldly Estate which
9 it hath pleased God to bless me with I give and
10 bequeath in manner following (that is to say)
11 give and bequeath unto my dear wife Sarah all
12 such household Furniture as was her property before
13 my Intermarriage with her Also I give and bequeath
14 unto my daughter Ann now the wife of Edward
15 Trood of Churchstanton in the County of Devon
16 yeoman the sum of two hundred pounds to be paid
17 to her in Twelve Months after my death by my
18 Executor hereinafter named with Interest for the
19 same in the mean Time and whereas by my Marriage
20 Settlement I have covenanted and agreed to be paid
21 the sum of two hundred pounds unto Hugh Bellett
22 and Baker Bellett Trustees herein named for the Intent
23 and purpose of putting the same at Interest and the
24 Interest and profits thereof to pay unto my said
25 Wife Sarah for and during her Life in case she shall
26 Survive me and from and after her death then
27 In Trust to pay the said principal Sum of Two
28 hundred pounds as I by my last Will should give
29 or appoint the same Now I do hereby give direct
30 and appoint the same in manner and to form
31 following (that is to say) as to one Moiety thereof I give unto my said daur
32 Ann The other Moiety thereof I give unto my Executor
33 hereinafter named all the Rest Residue and
34 Remainder of my Messuages Lands Tenements and
35 hereditaments Goods Chattels Rights Credits Monies
36 and Securities for Money personal and Testamentary
37 Estate and Effects whatsoever and of what nature
38 or kind soever and wheresoever situate lying and
39 being (after payment of all my debts Legacies and
40 Funeral Expences) I give devise and bequeath unto
41 my Son Moses his heirs Executors Administrators
42 and Assigns whom I nominate constitute and appoint
43 whole and Sole Executor of this my will hereby
44 abrogating and making null and void all former Wills
45 by me at any Time heretofore made or executed and do
46 declare this to be my only true last Will and Testament
47 And lastly I do constitute and appoint Prior Fry of
48 Sampford Arundell aforesaid Gentleman to be Guardian
49 and Overseer of my said son Moses and his Estate and
50 Effects during his Minority In witness whereof I have
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51 to this my last Will and Testament contained in
52 two sheets of paper to the first sheet thereof set
53 my hand and to the second sheet thereof my hand
54 and seal the day and year first above written
55 The Mark and Seal of Moses X Chorley Signed
56 sealed published and declared by the Testator Moses
57 Chorley as and to be his last Will and Testament in
58 the presence of us who have hereunto at his request
59 in his presence and in the presence of each other
60 subscribed our Names as Witnesses hereunto Jno Symes
61 Sarah Symes Rebecca Hill
62 This Will was proved at London on the
63 Tenth day of October in the year of our Lord one
64 Thousand Eight hundred and four before the Right
65 honorable Sir William Wynne Knight doctor of Laws
66 Master keeper or commissary of the prerogative Court
67 of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of
68 Moses Chorley the Son of the deceased and the sole
69 Executor named in the said Will to whom admon
70 was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels
71 and Credits of the said deceased having been sworn
72 by Commission duly to administer
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