Jone Blake, widow, is the testatrix. Cow Honeybourne is now part of Honeybourne. Long Marston is 5 miles away as is Mickleton.
Other than the fact that the surname of Jone is Blake there is no other mention of Blake in her will.
Will of Joan Blake, widow, 1689, Will number 89 at Cow Honeybourne, Consistory Court of Gloucester, GDR/Wills/1689(89).
Ancestry.com. Gloucestershire, England, Wills and Inventories, 1541-1858 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Gloucestershire Probate Records. Diocese of Gloucestershire, Finding Reference GDR, Wills and Inventories. Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester, UK.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 25 Jul 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Joan Blake
Place: Cow Honeybourne, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document: 2 Feb 1687; probated 30 Apr 1689
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Wrapper]: Testum Joanne Blake dess pbat 30 April 1689 Reg C 89
1 I Jone Blake of Cowhoniborne in the County of Glocester Widow this second day of February Anno dom[ini] 1687
2 doe make and ordaine this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following Whereas John
3 Rawlins was by a former Agreend to pay one hundred pounds three yeares after my decease
4 to whom I should appoint it, I will dispose and Appoint it as followeth Imprimis I Give
5 and bequeath unto my Cosen William Trapp or to his Surviveing Children Ten pounds
6 Item, I Give and bequeath unto my Cosen John Byland or to his Surviveing Children Ten pounds
7 Item, I Give and bequeath unto my Cosen Joseph Smyth Ten pounds Item I give and bequeath
8 unto my Cosen Rachell Hands or to her Surviveing Children Ten pounds All which Summs
9 above named are to be paid three years after my decease Item, I Give and bequeath unto my
10 Cosen Joanne Rawlins forty pounds to be paid at twenty and one yeares of Age or at her
11 day of Marriage Item, I Give and bequeath unto my Cosen John Rawlins, two yonger
12 daughters Elizabeth and Sarah five pounds a piece to be paid at Twenty and one yeares of Age
13 or at the day of their Marriages Item, I Give and bequeath unto my Cosen John Rawlins
14 Ten pounds And further, out of my personal Estate I appoint as followeth
15 Item, I Give unto my Cosen John Merrell twenty Shillings I Likewise appoint unto
16 Mr Ward ten shillings Item I Give and bequeath unto my Cosen Joanna Rawlins Ten
17 pounds to be paid to her at the Age of Twenty four years Item I Give and Bequeath
18 unto my Cosen Joseph Smyth Ten pounds more to be paid to him at twenty four years of
19 age Item I doe appoint unto my Cosen Joanna Rawlins, All my Goods in my new Lodgeing
20 Chamber Excepting one press and one Bedstead, And if in Case, Joanna should decease
21 before the forty pounds first above mentioned appointed to her be due then my Will is that
22 it should be equally divided between my Cosen Joseph Smyth and my Cosen John Rawlins two
23 daughters that is the one halfe to Johann Smyth and the other halfe equally between the other two Elizabeth and Sarah And further if Joseph Smyth should decease before the first above mentioned
24 Summ of Ten pounds given to him be due then to be paid to his father And I do nominate
25 and appoint my Cosen John Rawlins to be sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament
26 revokeing all other Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made In witness whereof
27 I have hereunto sett my hand and Seal the day and year abovewritten
28 the mark of Jone Blake
29 jone bl
30 Sealed and delivered
31 in the p[re]sence of
32 Thomas Peter
33 Katherine Harris
[Page 2]
34 30 Aprilis 1689
35 Jurat fuit Ex[ecu]tori in h[uiusm]o[d]i Test[ament]um noiat
36 de bene pinp_end idm Test[ament]um
37 ac ad ex__end ___lin cor me
38 Henricum Kirkham
39 Vicarium de Mickelton
40 Probatum erat h[uiusm]o[d]i t[estamentu]m apud Glouc[este]r
41 30 die mensis Aprilis A[nn]o d[omi]ni 1689 Coram
42 vente viro Richo: Parsons Legu[m] d[o]c[t]ore[m]
43 Rindi in xpo mas ac dni dni Roberti
44 p[ri]mie dna Glouc Epi Vicar in sp[irt]ualibus
45 gen[era]li etc p Johem Rawlins Ex[ecu]tori etc Cui etc
46 primitus de bene etc ac de pleno etc insin[uatum]
47 de vero etc Coram discreto viro Henro Kirkham
48 Clico etc Jurat[o] (Salvo jure cujuscu[m]q[u]e)
This Blog will talk about researching my English ancestors from Canada but also the ancestors of our son in law whose families stretch back far into Colonial French Canada. My one name study of Blake and of Pincombe also dominate my blog these days. I published the update and revision of The Siderfin Family of West Somerset and it can be downloaded using - http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/The Siderfin Family of West Somerset - Elizabeth Kipp 4600.pdf
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Will of Jone Blake, widow, Cow Honeybourne, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry, probated 30 Apr 1689
Labels:
Blake,
Byland,
Cow Honeybourne,
Gloucestershire,
Gloucestershire Wills,
Hands,
Harris,
Kirkham,
Merrell,
Peter,
Rawlins,
Smyth,
Trapp,
Ward
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment