The testator is John Blake yeoman of Prestbury. He has a son Thomas and another baby due in 1726. His will is not probated until 1732.
There are several wills for Blake at Prestbury – Jane Blake in 1822, John Blake 1680, John Blake 1801, William Blake 1706 and William Blake 1820.
John Blake whose will was probated in 1680 has been blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/07/will-of-john-blake-yeoman-prestbury.html
John names his children as Thomas (eldest), John, Mary Halling, Elinor, William, Elizabeth and Robert. This John names his property as Herle within the parish of Prestbury which is given to Thomas. Is Kirles Herle and has it perhaps fallen to John when Thomas does not have an heir. Thomas has not left a will.
A rather interesting discovery at the National Archives (UK):
Gotherington and Bishop's Cleeve [no ref. or date]
[no title] D1637/T14 [c.1300]-1357
10
Related information: See also D1637/T6
Contents:
Lands in Gotherington and Bishop's Cleeve (Thomas de Agmondesham and William Agmondesham.
Original bundle
Bishop's Cleeve D1637/T14/1 [n.d.]
Contents:
[c. 1300]
Grant: [sic]
(i) Elona/Pigare of Goderinton [Gotherington]
(ii) William de Agmondesham, clerk
- 1 acre and 2 fardels of arable land in the parish of Bishop's Cleeve, two acres in Middelfeld next to the land held by Robert de Blake of Wodemonekote [Woodmancote], half an acre lying towards Brockhampton next to the land held by William Baldwyne of the same place, one fardel lying towards Saperton next to the land held by William le Ussher and one fardel lying towards Mokemede next to the land held by Richard Upehull.
Rendering accustomed services to the chief lord of the fee.
Witnesses: William le Ussher, Adam Haym, Edmund de Thornhull, Adam le Freman, Robert de Bonetoun, Robert Durel, William de Prestebury [Prestbury], clerk, and many others.
Seal tag with lines from a similar deed in the same hand.
Endorsement: Pigas, 15th cent. hand.
Woodmancote is just three miles from Prestbury. It would appear that there was a Blake family in this area circa 1300. The Calendar of Patent Rolls does not mention this particular Blake in the entries there. It does rather present a different picture on this particular area if there was a Blake family already there. Have they come down from the Madebrok area in Herefordshire? Roger le Blake had transferred land to the Knights Templer in the early 1300s as noted earlier in a blog and this same land transfer was credited to a Richard le Blake named as the head of the Blake family at Calne. I mentioned earlier that I felt that some of the Blake family in Gloucester was descendant of the Blake family at Calne and finding the possibility that a Blake line was in this Prestbury area in the 1300s is something I must pursue once I get all the wills done. I photographed some documents at Kew in this time period. It would be most interesting to solve the Calne Blake family in terms of ancestry. The Blake family at Calne and the Blake family at Andover do appear to come together through the marriage of Margaret Blake and John Blake in the 1500s (not my direct line) and this has added some confusion to the Andover Blake line which I think is entirely separate from the Calne Blake line. Each new item provides a little more fuel for thought!
There is a will for William Blake in 1706 to come which might be interesting in this time period as well.
John Blake, Yeoman, Will number 92, 1732, Inventory number 17 of Prestbury, Consistory Court of Gloucester, GDR/Inventories/1732 (17).
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: 16 Jul 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: John Blake, Yeoman
Place: Prestbury, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document: 12 Apr 1726; probated 18 May 1732
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Wrapper]: 18 May 1732 Test: Johannis Blake husb de paroi[ss]a de Prestbury
1 In the Name of god Amen I John Blake of Prestbury in the
2 County of Glouc[este]r Yeoman Do make this my last Will and Testament
3 in manner following That is to say First I Give and Devise unto
4 my loving wife Elizabeth My Two Closes of pasture ground lying
5 in the parish of Prestbury aforesaid called Kirles and all other my
6 lands in Prestbury afores[ai]d with their appurten[an]ces To hold to my
7 said wife Elizabeth her heires and assigns for Ever Upon Trust th[a]t
8 she as soon as may be after my Decease shall absolutely sell
9 the said Closes and lands with the app[ur]ten[an]ces to the best
10 Purchaser th[a]t may be got for the same and out of the money to
11 arise by Sale thereof shall in the first place pay off and discharge
12 such Mortgage money and other Incumbrances w[hi]ch affect the
13 same or any part thereof or to w[hi]ch the same or any part thereof
14 is lyable and also one Bond Debt of Ten pounds now
15 owing by me to Edward Nicholls of Tewkesbury in the County
16 of Glouc[este]r Malster and the Interest thereof and the residue of
17 the money that shall arise by such Sale after payment of the
18 said Mortgage money Incumbrances and Bond Debt shall apply
19 towards the Breeding up and Educating of my Son Thomas and of
20 such other Child with which my said wife is now enceinte It[e]m
21 I Give and Bequeath unto my said Son Thomas the Summe of
22 Twenty pounds to be paid within one year next after my Decease
23 into the hands of John Kilmaster of Siddington St Peter in the
24 said County of Glouc[este]r Yeoman who by him put out at
25 Interest or otherwise applied as he shall think proper for the
26 use and benefit of any said Son and I Give and bequeath unto
27 the Child my said wife is now ensceint of when it shall be
28 born the Summe of Fifteen pounds to be likewise paid into the
29 hands of the said John Kilmaster within one year after the
30 Birth of such Child to be by him applied for his or her benefit
31 as he shall think proper both the said Legacies to be paid by
32 my Executrix hereafter named out of my personal Estate
33 and in Case my said Son Thomas shall dye before his s[ai]d Legacy
34 shall become payable Then I Give his Legacy of twenty
35 pounds to the Child my said wife is now enseint of as afores[ai]d
36 And in Case the said Child my said wife is now enseint of as aforesaid
37 shall not be born alive or if it shall be born alive and shall dye
38 before his or her said Legacy shall become payable Then I Give
39 his or her said Legacy of Fifteen pounds to my said Son Thomas to be
40 paid and applied in such manner as his said other Legacy of
41 Twenty pounds is above directed to be paid and applied Item
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42 All the rest of my personal Estate I Give and bequeath to my
43 said wife Elizabeth she paying the Legacies herein before
44 given and my just Debts not herein before sufficiently provided
45 for And I Do make my said wife Elizabeth Sole Executrix
46 of this my last Will and Testament And I Do hereby Declare
47 that the Residuary Bequest of my personal Estate herein
48 before made to my said wife is and shall be taken to be
49 in her and satisfaction of all her Dower w[hi]ch she may have
50 a claym in the said Closes called Kirles or other my lands
51 herein before devised to her upon the Trusts above menc[i]oned
52 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seale
53 the Twelfth day of Aprill Anno D[omi]ni One thousand
54 Seven hundred Twenty and Six
55 John blake
56 Signed Sealed and published
57 in the p[re]sence of us who
58 subscribed our Names as Witnesses
60 in the Testators p[re]sence
61 Mary Hiet
62 The mark x of Walter A Crint
63 Joseph Nicholls
64 John Trevancon
65 18 May 1732
66 Jurat fuit Eliza Blake
67 Executrix coram nie
68 Edw[ar]do Niccolls Sur
69 Probatum fuit hoi Testum 18 die mensis
70 Maij Anno D[omi]ni 1732 Coram Verli Viro Duo
71 Henrico Penrice Milite Legum Doctore sendi
72 in djse sois ac diu diu Elisae permissione
73 dia Glouc[este]r Etei Vicns in Sprualibris genlies
74 per Elizabeth Blake Executricem et Cui et
75 primitus de bene et at de pleno et cre[d]iom
76 de vero et rile jurat Salvo jiore cujuisque
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77 An Inventory made this 20th Day
78 of Aprills of the Goods and Chattels
79 of John Bleak of Prestbury Yeom[an]
80 Deceased
81 l s d
82 Imprimis His wearing apparel and money in purse 03:00:00
83 Three beds and beding and all other Household Goods 08:14:06
84 Five Horses and two Colt 22:00:00
85 One Waggon and two Dung carts 01:10:00
86 Corn Growing 23:00:00
87 Wheat Thrashed and unthrashed 01:00:00
88 Two Stacks of Hay 02:05:00
89 ___ Shepicks Sieves and one Bushell 00:07:06
90 One Sow and pigs and 2 other pigs 03:01:06
91 Thirty Six Sheep 11:14:00
92 Eight Cows and one Bull 26:00:00
93 Six young Beasts 08:00:00
94 Nine Calves 04:10:00
95 Taken and appraised by us Tot: 123:02:06
96 the mark of
97 Tho[ma]s Horn
98 Tho[ma]s Curtis appraisers
99 Exhibitum fuit hod Juven 18
100 die mensis Maij Anno D[omi]nio 1732
101 per Elizam Blake Executriuem
102 et pro vero et Sub protestations
103 tamen de addendo
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Thursday, July 31, 2014
Monday, January 28, 2013
Will of Francis Buller of Tregarricke - The National Archives PROB 11/212/119, probated 27 May 1650
This next group of three Buller wills I have labeled Francis 2, Francis 3 and Francis 4. I do not know if my Christopher Buller is descendant of this line but not being able to locate him anywhere thus far I decided to read all of them and if I am reading them I might as well transcribe them as I might miss an important detail. Christopher Buller is highly respected by his peers where he is living and often asked to be an executor of wills within the family. He appears to have owned his shop on Tooley Street and supplied slops to sailors one would assume given the occupation. Slops being their clothing as it was thus referred to.
Although he married Mary Beard and they baptized all of their children at St Mary Magdalen in Bermondsey, he buried his two infant children and his first wife and had himself buried at St Olave Southwark. The Parish Registers at LMA are one of my must sees when next we are in England as the time period in which he lived are not yet online (if they exist and they appear to at LMA). He was buried in 1832 at the age of 69 giving him a likely birth year around 1763 and that is the most information that I have on his early years.
Francis Buller married Sybill Nicholls the daughter of John Nicholls of St Kew. They had five sons and two daughters who are mentioned in this will: namely, 1. Francis, 2. John, 3. Richard, 4. Peter and 5. Philip and 1. Anne (married to Hancock) and 2. Thomasine. Francis was a brother to Sir Richard Buller of Shillingham and it is his son Francis and grandson Francis that are mentioned in this will as the nephews of the testator. Francis (testator) appears on the Visitation of Cornwall in the lengthy Buller entry but only to list his family. They are not extended into the next generation. He is a possibility as an ancestor of my Buller line. As a younger son of Francis Buller and his wife Thomasine Williams of Shillingham who died 28 Sep 1616 it was his older brother Sir Richard who inherited primarily from his father.
This Buller line traces back to Ralfe Buller of Wood (Somerset) and by the third generation following his great grandson John married Alice Beauchamp the heir of her father John Beauchamp to property in Lillesdon Somerset. The line continues at Lillesdon (and the possibility that I am descendant of one of these families as there are also many lines in the earlier family as well) until the marriage of Richard Buller and Margaret Tretherslie (daughter of Thomas Tretherslie and widow of Edward Courtney). It was their son Francis Buller of Shillingham that was the father of this Francis and Sir Richard. There are so many many possibilities for one of these Buller lines to be ancestral to Christopher Buller of St Olave Southwark. Many of the lines are not traced down in the Visitation. The full test of the visitation of the county of Cornwall can be found on books.google.com:
http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_visitations_of_Cornwall.html?id=t0U7AQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
and is downloadable from there.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 27 Jan 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/212/119
Testator: Francis Buller
Place: Tregarricke, Cornwall, England
Date of document: 22 Nov 1649, probated 27 May 1650
Read: Electronic copy images
Document quality: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T: Francis
[Margin]: Buller
1 In the name of God Amen
2 The twoe and twentieth day of November in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand
3 six hundred Forty nyne I Franncis Buller of Tregarricke in the County of Cornwall
4 Esq[uie]r haveing before me the uncertainty of my continuence in this world And knowing
5 that it is as naturall for man to dye as to be borne And desireing to sett my house in
6 order that peace may continue in my family after my decease doe in the feare of gods
7 holy name, now in the time of my perfect minde and memory make and ordaine this
8 my last will and testament in manner and forme following. First I bequeath my
9 soule into the hands of the Almighty god my creator and Redeemer hopeing assuredly
10 to receive eternall life through Jesus Christ my alone Saviour And my body to bee
11 buried in the Chancell of Pilint Church Item I give to the poore of Pelint twenty
12 shillings To the poore of Lansellos tenn shillings To the poore of St Kew tenn
13 shillings And to every poore at my buriall two pence Item I give to my Servants five
14 pounds to be distributed amongst them as my wife shall thinke fitt Item I give and
15 bequeath unto Franncis Buller my oldest sonne All those my Messuages Lands
16 tenements rents rever[s]ions services and hereditaments with th[e ]appurtenances here
17 after men[t]ioned (that is to say) All my right title terme claimes interest and demand
18 whatsoever which I have or ought to have of in and unto the Barton of Tregarricke
19 with all and singular the appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise
20 appertaineing And also all my right title terme clayme and interest which I now
21 have and ought to have of in and unto the feilds called Gayland with the app[ur]ten[an]ces
22 And likewise all my right title terme and estate which I have yet to come of in and
23 unto the Messuage and tenement called Wilton And further I give to the said
25 Francis my sonne All these Lands and tenements with the appurtenances called
26 _anacue which I there lately purchased of Sir Peter Courtney knight with the
27 rents reversions services and hereditaments to the same belongeing or app[er]taynning
28 And also I give to the said Francis my sonne All those my Lands and tenements
29 with the appurtenances called Talvan which I there latly purchased of Robert
30 Raw gent deceased with the rents issues and proffitts thereof And also I give to my
31 said sonne Francis All those Messuages Lands tenements rents and hereditaments
32 with the appurtenances in or called Tremayne which I there lately purchased of
33 John Killiewe Esq[uir]e and John his sonne and heire with the rents reversions and services
34 thereof belonging or appertaineing All which said mentioned Lands Barton Tenements
35 and hereditaments are lyeing and being within the said parish of Pelint in the said
36 County of Cournewall And also I give to the said Francis my sonne all those my
37 Messuages Lands Tenements and hereditaments with the appurtenances called
38 Landeare within the parish of Dueloe which I there late purchased of Edward Calmady
39 of Wenbury in the County of Devon Esq[uir]e with the rents reversions and services to
40 them belonging And likewise I give to the said Francis my sonne all those my
41 messuages Lands Tenements Rents and hereditaments with the appurtenances called
42 Tremellicke in the parish of St Pinnocke which I there late purchased of Stephen Jay
43 deceased And my will is that Francis Buller of Shillingham Esq[uir]e and Francis
44 Buller gent his sonne My Nephewes and their heires and assignes and every of
45 them shall stand seized of and in all and singular the said Messuages Barton Lands
46 and tenements with their appurtenances respectively afore mentioned by me given to
47 the said Francis my said sonne to the use and beheese of the said Francis my sonne
48 and the heires males of his body lawfully to be begotten on the body of any woman which
49 he shall att any time hereafter marry and take to wife by and with the speciall
50 consente of the said Francis Buller of Shillingham and Francis his sonne or one
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51 of them And for default of such heire males to the use of the heires males of my body
52 lawfully begotten And for default of such heires in the use of my right heires forever
53 ____ allwayes, and my will is That if the said Francis my sonne shall marry or take
54 to wife without the speciall consents of the said Francis Buller of Shillingham and
55 Francis his sonne my said Nephews or one of them That then the said Francis my
56 sonne shall not further hold or be possessed of all or any of the afore mentioned messuages
57 Barton Lands tenements rents reversions or hereditaments whatsoever, nor of any part
58 thereof But shall from thence forth only have receive and take the summe of fowerscore
59 pounds yearly by quarterly payments in lieu and recompence of all the Lands tenements
60 and hereditaments afore mentioned And my will and desire is that my said Nephews
61 or one of them their or one of their heirs or Assignes shall from time to time have
62 full power and authority to manage and or lymitt and direct the said Messuages Lands
63 Tenements rents and hereditaments and the issues and proffitts thereof for the best
64 advantage and beheese of my said sonne Francis Buller untill he shall soe marry with theire
65 or one of their consents as aforesaid And my will is that for the preferment of my said
66 Francis Buller in any such marriage to be had by and with the consents of my said
67 Nephewes as aforesaid my sonne Francis with the consents of my said Nephewes or one
68 of them shall have full power and authoritie to alter and change or dispose of any the
69 Messuage Barton Lands or tenements afore mentioned for the creation of Joynt and
70 or mayntenance to be had made or assured out of or by the Lands tenements Barton
71 rents and hereditaments afore mentioned or out of or from any part thereof for any
72 such woman as my said sonne Francis shall soe marry or otherwise at the pleasure
73 or likeing of my said Nephewes or one of them Item I give and bequeath unto
74 John Buller my second sonne all my estate right title terms interest and demand
75 whatsoever which I have or ought to have of in and unto my Messuage and tenement
76 called Kelliew in the said parish of Lanesalles with all and singular the appurtenances
77 to the same belonging or appertaineing And I give to the said John my said sonne all
78 such quicke goods and corne as shalbe of myne upon the said Tenement called Kelliew
79 at the time of my death Item I give to Ann Hancock my daughter twenty shillings
80 to make her a ring Item my will is that my wife shall have and hold the lower
81 tenement in St Kew which was heretofore the tenement of her Uncle Nicholas
82 Nicholls gent deceased dureing her life if she release her estate formerly appointed
83 to her ioynture and maintenance in the two tenements called Wilton and Killiowe
84 aforesaid that is to say if she shall within twenty dayes next after my decease
85 release and yield up her said estate in Wilton to my said Nephewes or to one of them
86 for the use and beheese of my said sonne Francis And doe likewise release and
87 yield up her said estate in Kelliowe to my said sonne John Buller And shall pay
88 the summe of twenty pound per Annum to my Executor hereby made and ordained if
89 shee marry from the time of her second marriage dureing her life and not else Item
90 I give unto my said wife my second best feather bedd in Tregarricke with the furniture
91 to the same belonging And I also give her all my houshold goods at St Kew And
92 all my plate which is not my childrens now liveing I leave to my said wife to be
93 disposed by her at her pleasure Item I give and bequeath unto Richard my third sonne
94 all my estate right title tearms and interest which I am to have in the tenement
95 called Tregavethicke within the said parish of Lansalles after the decease of
96 Marrien Trassell wife of John Tressell with the Lease for the same And I also give
97 the said Richard the sume of two hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be
98 paid him by my Executor at such time and times as my said Nephews or one of
99 them shall think fit and appoint And untill such time as the said Richard shall
100 receive the said two hundred pounds my Executor to pay him thirteene pounds six
101 shillings and eight pence yearly by quarterly payments for his maintenance And
102 tenn pounds of like mony dureing the life of the said Marrian Trussell for increase
103 of her por[t]ion Item I give onto Peter my fowerth sonne All my estate right title
104 terme and interest whatsoever which I have and ought to have of in and unto the
105 Messuage and tenement called Lanwarnicke within the said parish of Dueloe which
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106 I there bought of Robert Cole with my deeds for the same And also I give unto the said
107 Peter the summe of two hundred pound of like mony to be likewise paid by my Executor at
108 such time and times as my said Nephewes or one of them shall thinke fitt and appointe
109 And untill the said Petter shall marrie the said two hundred pounds my Executor to pay
110 him thirteene pounds six shillings eight pence yearly by quarterly payments for his
111 maintenance and increase of his person And if the said Robert Cole shall happen to
112 dye within two yeares next after my decease Then my Executor to pay the said Peter
113 my said sonne the sume of one hundred pounds more of like mony for increase of his
114 por[t]ion Item I give unto Phillip my fifth sonne the summe of fower hundred pounds
115 of like mony to be likewise paid by my Executor at such time when as the said Phillip shall attaine to the age of one and twentie yeares and untill the sayd Phillipp
116 shall receive the summe of fower hundred pounds my Executor to pay him yearly
117 the summe of ___teene pounds of like mony by quarterly payments for his maintenance
118 and increase of his portion And my will is that my Executor shall pay away any
119 reasonable summe of mony of the said fower hundred pounds at any time when he
120 my said Nephewes or one of them shall thinke fitt to disburse the same for the preferment
121 of the said Phillipp in any caleing convenient for him Item I give unto Thomazine my
122 daughter All my estate right title terme and interest whatsoever which I have and ought
123 to have of in and unto the two severall tenements called Trerachicke and ____ow
124 within the said parish of Pelintt with my deeds which I have to the same And also
125 I give the said Thomazine the summe of two hundred pounds of like mony to be paid
126 her by my Executor at such time and times as my said Nephewes or or one of them
127 shall thinke fitt and appoint And untill the said summe of two hundred pounds be
128 paid her my said Executor to pay her yearly the summe of thirteene pounds six
129 shillings and eight pence for her maintenance and increase of her portion And my
130 will is that if any or either of my said fower youngest children last mentioned
131 shall happen to dye before the payment of their severall respective portions be
132 made as aforesaid Then the portion of him her of them so dyeing shalbe equally
133 devided amongst him her or them of the said fower youngest children surviveing
134 and what estate or tearms shalbe then to expire in either of the respective Messuages
135 or tenements afore appointed to the said Richard, Peter and Thomazine soe happening
136 to dye shall revert descend and be to the use and beheese of my Executor And
137 further my will is That if at any time after my decease the said Francis my
138 sonne whom I tend to make and ordaine to be the Executor of this my last will
139 and testament upon notice or demand of my said Nephewes or one of them to him
140 to be given shall refuse to give such reasonable securitie to my said Nephewes
141 or one of them for payment of my said fower youngest childrens severall sum[m]e and
142 sum[m]es of mony afore appointed and by me to them respectively given, with the
143 severall yearly payments for their severall maintenance as my said Nephewes
144 shall thinke fitt That then my said Nephewes or one of them their heires and
145 assignes shall have full power and authority to sell or dispose of any of the
146 Messuages Lands or Tenements goods or Chattells whatsoever in this my p[re]sente
147 will and testament by me given or to be given or bequeathed to my Executor for
148 payment thereof rspectively in manner and forme aforesaid And shall have like
149 power and authority to sell alter or dispose of the respective Leases and estates
150 thereof afore appointed to Richard, Peter and Thomazine my said sonne and daughter
151 for their best advantage and beheese respectively as my said Nephewes shall thinke fitt
152 or either of them Item I give to my said Nephews twenty shillings apeece to make
153 them two rings And I doe most earnstly desire and hereby appointe and authorize
154 my said Nephews ioyntly and severally to be Overseers and trustees of this my last
155 will and testament Item all that rest and residue of my goods and chattells not hereby
156 given or bequeathed of what kinde qualitie or condition soever they or any of them are
157 of I give and bequeath unto the said Francis Buller my oldest sonne whom I make
158 and ordaine to be Executor of this my last will and testament And to be wholly
159 guided and directed by my said Nephewes or one of them from time to time for the
160 manageing and carrying on of the burthen and affaires of this my present will and
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161 testament And what charges costs or expences my said Nephewes or one of them shall have
162 time to time disburse or expend in or about my suite of law which may happen touching the
163 premisses or for the imployment of any person or persons which shalbe imployed in or about
164 any of the comandes of my said Nephewes or one of them for or concerning the execution
165 thereof my said Nephewes and every of them shall from time to time satisfy them
166 out of from or by any of my goods or chattells whatsoever And further my will is
167 that my said Nephewes or one of them shall from time to time have full power to raise
168 pay and disburse any reasonable sum[m]e or sum[m]es of money for placing of any of my
169 said other younger children in any calling fitt for him or them And the same so raised
170 payd and distributed for the purposes aforesaid to deduct out of his or their portion or
171 portions for whom it shall soe paid and disburse And I doe hereby desire and appointt
172 Phillipp Tingcombe in Richard Langston George Corner and Edward Tomlinson to have
173 the ministeriall imployment and to act doe and accompt for my Executor as they shalbe
174 directed from time to time by my said Nephewes or one of them And I doe hereby nullify
175 and revoke all former and other wills and testaments whatsoever by me formerly made or
176 ordained And I charge my said sonne Francis to be kinde dutifull and courteous to his
177 mother and loveing to all his brothers and sisters. In witnes whereof I have to this
178 my last will and testament put my hand a seale geeven the day and year first
179 above written Francis Buller Sealed signed published and acknowledged in the
180 presence of us whose names are subscribed William hancocke William Purdy
181 Edward Tomlinson
Although he married Mary Beard and they baptized all of their children at St Mary Magdalen in Bermondsey, he buried his two infant children and his first wife and had himself buried at St Olave Southwark. The Parish Registers at LMA are one of my must sees when next we are in England as the time period in which he lived are not yet online (if they exist and they appear to at LMA). He was buried in 1832 at the age of 69 giving him a likely birth year around 1763 and that is the most information that I have on his early years.
Francis Buller married Sybill Nicholls the daughter of John Nicholls of St Kew. They had five sons and two daughters who are mentioned in this will: namely, 1. Francis, 2. John, 3. Richard, 4. Peter and 5. Philip and 1. Anne (married to Hancock) and 2. Thomasine. Francis was a brother to Sir Richard Buller of Shillingham and it is his son Francis and grandson Francis that are mentioned in this will as the nephews of the testator. Francis (testator) appears on the Visitation of Cornwall in the lengthy Buller entry but only to list his family. They are not extended into the next generation. He is a possibility as an ancestor of my Buller line. As a younger son of Francis Buller and his wife Thomasine Williams of Shillingham who died 28 Sep 1616 it was his older brother Sir Richard who inherited primarily from his father.
This Buller line traces back to Ralfe Buller of Wood (Somerset) and by the third generation following his great grandson John married Alice Beauchamp the heir of her father John Beauchamp to property in Lillesdon Somerset. The line continues at Lillesdon (and the possibility that I am descendant of one of these families as there are also many lines in the earlier family as well) until the marriage of Richard Buller and Margaret Tretherslie (daughter of Thomas Tretherslie and widow of Edward Courtney). It was their son Francis Buller of Shillingham that was the father of this Francis and Sir Richard. There are so many many possibilities for one of these Buller lines to be ancestral to Christopher Buller of St Olave Southwark. Many of the lines are not traced down in the Visitation. The full test of the visitation of the county of Cornwall can be found on books.google.com:
http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_visitations_of_Cornwall.html?id=t0U7AQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
and is downloadable from there.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 27 Jan 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/212/119
Testator: Francis Buller
Place: Tregarricke, Cornwall, England
Date of document: 22 Nov 1649, probated 27 May 1650
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Document quality: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T: Francis
[Margin]: Buller
1 In the name of God Amen
2 The twoe and twentieth day of November in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand
3 six hundred Forty nyne I Franncis Buller of Tregarricke in the County of Cornwall
4 Esq[uie]r haveing before me the uncertainty of my continuence in this world And knowing
5 that it is as naturall for man to dye as to be borne And desireing to sett my house in
6 order that peace may continue in my family after my decease doe in the feare of gods
7 holy name, now in the time of my perfect minde and memory make and ordaine this
8 my last will and testament in manner and forme following. First I bequeath my
9 soule into the hands of the Almighty god my creator and Redeemer hopeing assuredly
10 to receive eternall life through Jesus Christ my alone Saviour And my body to bee
11 buried in the Chancell of Pilint Church Item I give to the poore of Pelint twenty
12 shillings To the poore of Lansellos tenn shillings To the poore of St Kew tenn
13 shillings And to every poore at my buriall two pence Item I give to my Servants five
14 pounds to be distributed amongst them as my wife shall thinke fitt Item I give and
15 bequeath unto Franncis Buller my oldest sonne All those my Messuages Lands
16 tenements rents rever[s]ions services and hereditaments with th[e ]appurtenances here
17 after men[t]ioned (that is to say) All my right title terme claimes interest and demand
18 whatsoever which I have or ought to have of in and unto the Barton of Tregarricke
19 with all and singular the appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise
20 appertaineing And also all my right title terme clayme and interest which I now
21 have and ought to have of in and unto the feilds called Gayland with the app[ur]ten[an]ces
22 And likewise all my right title terme and estate which I have yet to come of in and
23 unto the Messuage and tenement called Wilton And further I give to the said
25 Francis my sonne All these Lands and tenements with the appurtenances called
26 _anacue which I there lately purchased of Sir Peter Courtney knight with the
27 rents reversions services and hereditaments to the same belongeing or app[er]taynning
28 And also I give to the said Francis my sonne All those my Lands and tenements
29 with the appurtenances called Talvan which I there latly purchased of Robert
30 Raw gent deceased with the rents issues and proffitts thereof And also I give to my
31 said sonne Francis All those Messuages Lands tenements rents and hereditaments
32 with the appurtenances in or called Tremayne which I there lately purchased of
33 John Killiewe Esq[uir]e and John his sonne and heire with the rents reversions and services
34 thereof belonging or appertaineing All which said mentioned Lands Barton Tenements
35 and hereditaments are lyeing and being within the said parish of Pelint in the said
36 County of Cournewall And also I give to the said Francis my sonne all those my
37 Messuages Lands Tenements and hereditaments with the appurtenances called
38 Landeare within the parish of Dueloe which I there late purchased of Edward Calmady
39 of Wenbury in the County of Devon Esq[uir]e with the rents reversions and services to
40 them belonging And likewise I give to the said Francis my sonne all those my
41 messuages Lands Tenements Rents and hereditaments with the appurtenances called
42 Tremellicke in the parish of St Pinnocke which I there late purchased of Stephen Jay
43 deceased And my will is that Francis Buller of Shillingham Esq[uir]e and Francis
44 Buller gent his sonne My Nephewes and their heires and assignes and every of
45 them shall stand seized of and in all and singular the said Messuages Barton Lands
46 and tenements with their appurtenances respectively afore mentioned by me given to
47 the said Francis my said sonne to the use and beheese of the said Francis my sonne
48 and the heires males of his body lawfully to be begotten on the body of any woman which
49 he shall att any time hereafter marry and take to wife by and with the speciall
50 consente of the said Francis Buller of Shillingham and Francis his sonne or one
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51 of them And for default of such heire males to the use of the heires males of my body
52 lawfully begotten And for default of such heires in the use of my right heires forever
53 ____ allwayes, and my will is That if the said Francis my sonne shall marry or take
54 to wife without the speciall consents of the said Francis Buller of Shillingham and
55 Francis his sonne my said Nephews or one of them That then the said Francis my
56 sonne shall not further hold or be possessed of all or any of the afore mentioned messuages
57 Barton Lands tenements rents reversions or hereditaments whatsoever, nor of any part
58 thereof But shall from thence forth only have receive and take the summe of fowerscore
59 pounds yearly by quarterly payments in lieu and recompence of all the Lands tenements
60 and hereditaments afore mentioned And my will and desire is that my said Nephews
61 or one of them their or one of their heirs or Assignes shall from time to time have
62 full power and authority to manage and or lymitt and direct the said Messuages Lands
63 Tenements rents and hereditaments and the issues and proffitts thereof for the best
64 advantage and beheese of my said sonne Francis Buller untill he shall soe marry with theire
65 or one of their consents as aforesaid And my will is that for the preferment of my said
66 Francis Buller in any such marriage to be had by and with the consents of my said
67 Nephewes as aforesaid my sonne Francis with the consents of my said Nephewes or one
68 of them shall have full power and authoritie to alter and change or dispose of any the
69 Messuage Barton Lands or tenements afore mentioned for the creation of Joynt and
70 or mayntenance to be had made or assured out of or by the Lands tenements Barton
71 rents and hereditaments afore mentioned or out of or from any part thereof for any
72 such woman as my said sonne Francis shall soe marry or otherwise at the pleasure
73 or likeing of my said Nephewes or one of them Item I give and bequeath unto
74 John Buller my second sonne all my estate right title terms interest and demand
75 whatsoever which I have or ought to have of in and unto my Messuage and tenement
76 called Kelliew in the said parish of Lanesalles with all and singular the appurtenances
77 to the same belonging or appertaineing And I give to the said John my said sonne all
78 such quicke goods and corne as shalbe of myne upon the said Tenement called Kelliew
79 at the time of my death Item I give to Ann Hancock my daughter twenty shillings
80 to make her a ring Item my will is that my wife shall have and hold the lower
81 tenement in St Kew which was heretofore the tenement of her Uncle Nicholas
82 Nicholls gent deceased dureing her life if she release her estate formerly appointed
83 to her ioynture and maintenance in the two tenements called Wilton and Killiowe
84 aforesaid that is to say if she shall within twenty dayes next after my decease
85 release and yield up her said estate in Wilton to my said Nephewes or to one of them
86 for the use and beheese of my said sonne Francis And doe likewise release and
87 yield up her said estate in Kelliowe to my said sonne John Buller And shall pay
88 the summe of twenty pound per Annum to my Executor hereby made and ordained if
89 shee marry from the time of her second marriage dureing her life and not else Item
90 I give unto my said wife my second best feather bedd in Tregarricke with the furniture
91 to the same belonging And I also give her all my houshold goods at St Kew And
92 all my plate which is not my childrens now liveing I leave to my said wife to be
93 disposed by her at her pleasure Item I give and bequeath unto Richard my third sonne
94 all my estate right title tearms and interest which I am to have in the tenement
95 called Tregavethicke within the said parish of Lansalles after the decease of
96 Marrien Trassell wife of John Tressell with the Lease for the same And I also give
97 the said Richard the sume of two hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be
98 paid him by my Executor at such time and times as my said Nephews or one of
99 them shall think fit and appoint And untill such time as the said Richard shall
100 receive the said two hundred pounds my Executor to pay him thirteene pounds six
101 shillings and eight pence yearly by quarterly payments for his maintenance And
102 tenn pounds of like mony dureing the life of the said Marrian Trussell for increase
103 of her por[t]ion Item I give onto Peter my fowerth sonne All my estate right title
104 terme and interest whatsoever which I have and ought to have of in and unto the
105 Messuage and tenement called Lanwarnicke within the said parish of Dueloe which
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106 I there bought of Robert Cole with my deeds for the same And also I give unto the said
107 Peter the summe of two hundred pound of like mony to be likewise paid by my Executor at
108 such time and times as my said Nephewes or one of them shall thinke fitt and appointe
109 And untill the said Petter shall marrie the said two hundred pounds my Executor to pay
110 him thirteene pounds six shillings eight pence yearly by quarterly payments for his
111 maintenance and increase of his person And if the said Robert Cole shall happen to
112 dye within two yeares next after my decease Then my Executor to pay the said Peter
113 my said sonne the sume of one hundred pounds more of like mony for increase of his
114 por[t]ion Item I give unto Phillip my fifth sonne the summe of fower hundred pounds
115 of like mony to be likewise paid by my Executor at such time when as the said Phillip shall attaine to the age of one and twentie yeares and untill the sayd Phillipp
116 shall receive the summe of fower hundred pounds my Executor to pay him yearly
117 the summe of ___teene pounds of like mony by quarterly payments for his maintenance
118 and increase of his portion And my will is that my Executor shall pay away any
119 reasonable summe of mony of the said fower hundred pounds at any time when he
120 my said Nephewes or one of them shall thinke fitt to disburse the same for the preferment
121 of the said Phillipp in any caleing convenient for him Item I give unto Thomazine my
122 daughter All my estate right title terme and interest whatsoever which I have and ought
123 to have of in and unto the two severall tenements called Trerachicke and ____ow
124 within the said parish of Pelintt with my deeds which I have to the same And also
125 I give the said Thomazine the summe of two hundred pounds of like mony to be paid
126 her by my Executor at such time and times as my said Nephewes or or one of them
127 shall thinke fitt and appoint And untill the said summe of two hundred pounds be
128 paid her my said Executor to pay her yearly the summe of thirteene pounds six
129 shillings and eight pence for her maintenance and increase of her portion And my
130 will is that if any or either of my said fower youngest children last mentioned
131 shall happen to dye before the payment of their severall respective portions be
132 made as aforesaid Then the portion of him her of them so dyeing shalbe equally
133 devided amongst him her or them of the said fower youngest children surviveing
134 and what estate or tearms shalbe then to expire in either of the respective Messuages
135 or tenements afore appointed to the said Richard, Peter and Thomazine soe happening
136 to dye shall revert descend and be to the use and beheese of my Executor And
137 further my will is That if at any time after my decease the said Francis my
138 sonne whom I tend to make and ordaine to be the Executor of this my last will
139 and testament upon notice or demand of my said Nephewes or one of them to him
140 to be given shall refuse to give such reasonable securitie to my said Nephewes
141 or one of them for payment of my said fower youngest childrens severall sum[m]e and
142 sum[m]es of mony afore appointed and by me to them respectively given, with the
143 severall yearly payments for their severall maintenance as my said Nephewes
144 shall thinke fitt That then my said Nephewes or one of them their heires and
145 assignes shall have full power and authority to sell or dispose of any of the
146 Messuages Lands or Tenements goods or Chattells whatsoever in this my p[re]sente
147 will and testament by me given or to be given or bequeathed to my Executor for
148 payment thereof rspectively in manner and forme aforesaid And shall have like
149 power and authority to sell alter or dispose of the respective Leases and estates
150 thereof afore appointed to Richard, Peter and Thomazine my said sonne and daughter
151 for their best advantage and beheese respectively as my said Nephewes shall thinke fitt
152 or either of them Item I give to my said Nephews twenty shillings apeece to make
153 them two rings And I doe most earnstly desire and hereby appointe and authorize
154 my said Nephews ioyntly and severally to be Overseers and trustees of this my last
155 will and testament Item all that rest and residue of my goods and chattells not hereby
156 given or bequeathed of what kinde qualitie or condition soever they or any of them are
157 of I give and bequeath unto the said Francis Buller my oldest sonne whom I make
158 and ordaine to be Executor of this my last will and testament And to be wholly
159 guided and directed by my said Nephewes or one of them from time to time for the
160 manageing and carrying on of the burthen and affaires of this my present will and
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161 testament And what charges costs or expences my said Nephewes or one of them shall have
162 time to time disburse or expend in or about my suite of law which may happen touching the
163 premisses or for the imployment of any person or persons which shalbe imployed in or about
164 any of the comandes of my said Nephewes or one of them for or concerning the execution
165 thereof my said Nephewes and every of them shall from time to time satisfy them
166 out of from or by any of my goods or chattells whatsoever And further my will is
167 that my said Nephewes or one of them shall from time to time have full power to raise
168 pay and disburse any reasonable sum[m]e or sum[m]es of money for placing of any of my
169 said other younger children in any calling fitt for him or them And the same so raised
170 payd and distributed for the purposes aforesaid to deduct out of his or their portion or
171 portions for whom it shall soe paid and disburse And I doe hereby desire and appointt
172 Phillipp Tingcombe in Richard Langston George Corner and Edward Tomlinson to have
173 the ministeriall imployment and to act doe and accompt for my Executor as they shalbe
174 directed from time to time by my said Nephewes or one of them And I doe hereby nullify
175 and revoke all former and other wills and testaments whatsoever by me formerly made or
176 ordained And I charge my said sonne Francis to be kinde dutifull and courteous to his
177 mother and loveing to all his brothers and sisters. In witnes whereof I have to this
178 my last will and testament put my hand a seale geeven the day and year first
179 above written Francis Buller Sealed signed published and acknowledged in the
180 presence of us whose names are subscribed William hancocke William Purdy
181 Edward Tomlinson
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