Waters Upton wills and probate 1659 to 1856
This page is a work in progress, with abstracts of wills and probate records only for the period 1659 to 1856 so far. The period covered is however an interesting one, with many wills and administrations (or admons) up to 1730 being accompanied by inventories.
Decade Index. 1650s, ’60s | 1670s | 1680s, ’90s | 1700s | 1710s | 1720s | 1730s, ’40s, ’50s | 1760s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s | 1800s | 1810s | 1820s | 1830s | 1850s 🡓
Name Index (testators / intestate). Allen: Robert (1798); Sarah (1801 / 1802); Sarah (d. 1819 / 1837); Sarah (1833 / 1837). Austin: Martha (1814 / 1814). Barkley / Bartley: Vincent (— / 1664); William (1702 / 1703). Bolas: John (1705 / 1710). Bucknall: Edward (1659 / 1661). Christian: Thomas (1753 / 1761). Corfield: John (1735 / 1736); Mary (1852). Daintith: Margaret (1668 / 1668). Davies: Matthew (1854 / 1855); Thomas (1690 / 1699). Davison: Alice (1722 / 1722); Thomas (1713). Dawes: Elizabeth (1725). Dickin: John (1797 / 1807); John (1820 / 1821); William (1828 / 1831). Evans: Charles (1813 / 1820). Fowke: Edward (1784). Garmeston / Garmson / Garmston: Dorothy (1715); Elizabeth (1671 / 1671); Francis (1667 / 1667); John (1674 / 1674); John (1691 / 1692); Thomas (1665); Thomas (1671 / 1671); Thomas (1690 / 1690); Thomas (1705); Thomas (1741 / 1741). Groom: John (1765 / 1765). Haseldine / Hazeldine: Isabell (1676 / 1676); Richard (1683); William (1730). Hatton: Thomas (1807). Hill: Richard (1821); Robert Wilbraham Bromhall (1814 / 1815). Hilton / Hylton: Andrew (1668). Hitchin: Alice (1671 / 1671); Mary (1701 / 1702); Richard (1657 / 1659). Hobson: Thomas (1807 / 1818). Hughes: John (1728 / 1729). Humphreys / Houmphreys: Ralph (1705); Robert (1662 / 1664). Icke: William (1849 / 1851). James: Anne (1702); Joseph (1805 / 1819); William (1683 / 1692). Jones: George (1812); Richard (1835 / 1837); Thomas (1696). Mancell: John (1798 / 1804). Nicklin: Richard (1810 / 1820). Parrock: Thomas (1716 / 1719). Pidgeon: John (1814 / 1814). Randles: John (1754). Smith: William (1733). Stockall: Thomas (1728). Titley: John (1856); Thomas (1820 / 1821). Upton: Alice (1729 / 1729). Wase: Henry (1770 / 1777); John (1715 / 1715); Whitfield: Thomas (1852 / 1853). 🡓
Note: For wills, two dates (year when written and year when proved) are given after the testators name, with the latter date hyperlinked to the relevant abstract. For most admons (grants of letters of administration), a single date (year of grant) is given and is italicised as well as hyperlinked; in one case, this is preceded by the year of death (which was several years before the grant).
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1650s, ’60s: 1659 | 1661 | 1664 (x2) | 1665 | 1667 | 1668 (x2)
Richard Hitchin
Will proved (PCC) 14 Jun 1659 at London
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop yeoman being weake in body but of good and perfect memorie” |
| Property: | “my dwelling house in Waters Upton aforesaid wherein I doe now inhabite and dwell with the appurtenances thereunto belonging”; “one messuage or tenement with thappurtenances in Waters Upton aforesaid wherein one Andrew Hillton doth now inhabite and dwell“, “my two messuages or tenements in Hoddnett”. |
| Beneficiaries: | Elizabeth (eldest daughter) (“two tables boards standing in the two parlours the presse and Cubboard in the house the Furnesse the brewing vessell and Ioyle fatte and the maulte Mill and one large bible all which goods before bequeathed to remain to her after the decease of Alice my wife her mother”, the testator’s dwelling house in Waters Upton “in like manner after the decease of her said mother to her and her heires forever”, and joint residuary legatee); Mary Hitchin (“my Second daughter”) (the testator’s dwelling house at Waters Upton, if her sister Elizabeth should have no heirs, and joint residuary legatee); Margery (“my youngest daughter”) (the testator’s dwelling house at Waters Upton, should neither Elizabeth nor Mary, her sisters, have any heirs; £10 to be paid by her sister Elizabeth, on Elizabeth’s marriage, should she inherit the house at Waters Upton; the house occupied by Andrew Hillton, should her sister Mary have no heirs; joint residuary legatee); Alice (daughter) (£10 to be paid by her sister Elizabeth, on Elizabeth’s marriage, should she inherit the house at Waters Upton; the house occupied by Andrew Hillton, should neither Mary nor Margery, her sisters, have any heirs; joint residuary legatee); Alice (wife) (the houses at Hodnet to be “formerly estated upon my said wife during her life if she shall fortune to survive mee” with “all right state title interest terme and demand with full power to alienate sell and dispose of the same for the paying of my debts and maintenance of her and our children”; joint residuary legatee); John Adams (godson) (5s); Thomas Phillips (brother-in-law) (“my best suite of apparrell to witt breeches doublett and stockings and one shirte”). |
| Other wishes: | “my body to bee buried in the Church or Church yard of Waters Upton in the parish of Highe Arcoll” |
| Executor: | Alice (“my loving wife”) |
| Signed and dated: | 23 Dec 1657 |
| Witnesses: | Thomas Woodcocke, Thomas Garmeson, William Bartley (X), John Hitchin (X) |
| Probate to: | Alice Hitchin (relict) |
| Notes: | This appears to be the only Waters Upton will from the time of the Commonwealth. A copy of this will is held at Shropshire Archives – the catalogue entry states that wife Alice, and daughters (from eldest to youngest) Elizabeth, Marie and Marjory were named in the will, that a messuage at Hodnet was involved, and that the will is noted to the effect that one of Hitchin’s daughters was the wife of a T Corles. (An indenture dated 24 Jun 1685 held at Shropshire archives involved Thomas Corless of Shrewsbury, a butcher, his wife Margery, Thomas Adams of Newport, a wheelwright, and Adams’s wife Alice, a sister of Margery and daughter of Richard Hitchin who was late of Waters Upton.) |
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Edward Bucknall
Will proved (L&C) 7 Jun 1661 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters-upton in ye County of Salop yeoman disseased in body yet in p[er]fect memory” |
| Beneficiaries: | Unnamed (wife) (a challenge to read this part of the will but it appears that the remainder of the testator’s estate, after the payment of his debts, was to be at her disposal so long as she remained a widow or, if she should marry, until her eldest daughter reached the age of 18, and provided she brought all the children up she was then to “enjoy ye one halfe” of the estate); Mary (eldest daughter) (if she lived to the age 18 then “she may enjoy ye one halfe of ye land if her mother [married?] & at her mothers decease ye whole” subject to legacies to her sisters); Elizabeth and Martha (daughters) (£20 apiece to be paid to them by their elder sister Mary if she came to enjoy one half of their father’s land, with the whole of the £40 going to the survivor of the two should one of them die in the meantime). |
| Executors: | “my loveing wife” (unnamed) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 7 May 1659 |
| Witnesses: | Edward Bury, Elizabeth Porrock (X) |
| Inventory: | two oxen (£6 10s), foure kine (£12), foure yearlings (£4), 3 calves (£1 4s), two mares (£3), 12 ewes & 13 lambs (£3), 23 hog sheep (£[3 / 4?] [6 / 16?]s 8d), 3 Swine (£1 10s), poultry (5s), one waine (£3), two Tumbrells & a cart=body (£2 10s), waine timber & plow timber & boards & planks for plowes & yoakes all manner of implements of husbandry (£1), corne in house and barne & growing on the ground (£10), two Table boardes one Cupboard and one presse (£1 10s), two chests (14s), 6 coffers (12s), 3 beds in the chamber and ye furniture (£7), 2 beds standing in ye sellars & a paire of bedsteeds (£3 0s 8d), one Wetting vessell (10s), 3 barrells and 2 Stunnes (10s), boukes and all manner of trinnen ware (6s 8d), chaires & stooles and formes (6s), foure brasse pannes (£2), five brasse kettles (£1), one brasse pot & 2 iron pots (£1 6s 8d), one skellet one chafing=dish and 3 brasse candle=stickes (4s), 11 pewter dishes (£1), salts saucers & pewters candlestickes (4s), one flaggon & spoones 2 broaches & a dreeping pan & 1 paire of Canbats (5s 8d), 2 grates 2 paire of tongs 1 fire shovell & potgeales (6s), one Cisterne stone (2s 6d), one haire cloath (3s 4d), 3 paire of cardes (3s), ye testators wearing apparell (£2 10s), linnen & napery ware (£3), flax and hemp (10s), bacon (2s 6d), butter (3s), bookes (7s), things yt came not to our mind (1s) (total £81 16s) Appraisers Thomas Garmeson, John Garmson (X), Francis Garmson junior (all of Waters Upton) Dated 24 May 1659 |
| Probate to: | Mary (relict) |
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Vincent Bartley
Will proved (L&C) 17 Jun 1664 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in ye County of Salop Yeoman being in good health and of p[er]fect memory” |
| Property: | “the living at Waters Upton” |
| Beneficiaries: | Elinor (wife) (the ‘living’ at Waters Upton during her life, “twenty pounds which is in the hands of Thomas Meeson of Meeson due to me by his Bond”, “half [?] of my goods moveable and imoveable”), Margarett wife of Thomas Adams of Northwood (daughter) (“whatsoever moneys are owing me in other places”, “the other half pt of my goods moveable & imoveable”), Thomas Barcley, Richard Barcley and Vincent Barcley (nephews, sons of testator’s brother Richard) (40s apiece), John, William, Anne and Margaret (nephews and nieces, children of testator’s brother William Barcley) (40s to each), “ten poore Children of the parish of Waters Upton” (“ten Ewe sheep to be disposed […] at the discretion of my Executors”). |
| Executors: | Thomas Adams (son-in-law), Thomas Garmson [surname written as Garmeston in probate statement] |
| Signed (X) and dated: | No date |
| Witnesses: | Tho: Chaloner, Muriell Lloyd |
| Inventory: | Foure oxen (£14), Foure cowes (£13), 3 Heifers (£6), a bullocke & a Heifer (£3), 3 yearlings (£3), one mare & 2 colts (£5 13s 4d), 2 Swine (£1), 21 Sheepe (£1 6s 8d), pullen of all sorts (£[?] 3s 4d), corne in ye house & barnes (£8 2s 6d), corne on ye grounds (£2), hay (£2 10s), a Waine a tumbrell & 2 pairs of Iron=bound wheeles (£6 13s 4d), 2 plowes 2 harrowes and all implements of husbandry & husbandrie tymber (£1 6s 8d), 2 Whitches in ye barne (13s 4d), Manure or Dung (8s), 2 panns 2 brasse pots & 2 kettles and other utensills of brasse & 1 iron pot (£3), all manner of utensills of pewter (£1), one waincot bed & 2 cupboards (£1 15), 3 paire of bedsteads (10s), 3 feather beds & a flock bed as also blankets coverlets rugs and other furniture belonging to beds (£6), sheets 7 paire, and all other linnens & naperie ware (10s), 3 tables & a carpet, cushions chaires benches stooles (£1 10s), 1 chest 5 coffers (14s), 4 barrells & all other wooden ware (18s), bread cheese butter beife bacon& all other provision (£1 10s), broaches, fire shovells, tongs pot gales gates (4s), his wearing apparell (£3), a Chattell Lease (£6 13s [?]d), upon Land & other securitie £50 (£50) (total £148 6s 6d) Appraisers William Bartley (mark: ‘<’), Thomas Holland (mark: ‘H’), John Garmeston (mark: ‘iG’) Dated 4 Feb 1663/4 |
| Probate to: | Thomas Adams and Thomas Garmeston |
| Note: | In the will, Vincent’s surname is written (by the clerk) as Barcley, but it appears that an attempt was made to change the first instance to Bartley. The inventory is written on two pages; in it, Vincent’s surname is written as Bartley, and it is stated that he “departed this life Feb: 1: 166¾”. |
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Robert Houmphreys
Will proved (L&C) 29 Dec 1664 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the Countie of Sallop yeoman beeinge of p[er]fect memorie and remembrance” |
| Property: | “all this my Tenem[en]t in which I now dwell and Inhabite situate lyinge and beeinge in Waters Upton aforesaid with all houses buildings barnes wayes waters meadowes leassowes pastures and appurtenances withall Tallants and lofts belonginge to the same” |
| Beneficiaries: | Elizabeth Houmphreys (daughter) (property at Waters Upton; “the best Joyned bedd and all that belonges unto it and the best Coffer and one Kneadinge Tubb and halfe the Corne yt shall bee either in the barne or growinge in the fields and to enter upon the same within Twentie Fowre houres affter my decease” subject to payment of £10 to Robert Houmphreys and Richard Steeventon – see next); Robert Houmfreys of Little Bolas (cousin) and Richard Steeventon of Rowton (cousin) (£10 to be paid by Elizabeth Houmfreys within 3 years after the testator’s death, this to be given by them to either of the testator’s daughters or to the testator’s granddaughter “as they shall think most convenient” within one month of them receiving it); Mary Houmphreys (granddaughter, daughter of Joane) (£10); Joane Houmphreys (daughter) (“all the rest of my estate in money either with Specialtie or without all my Cattell and Sheepe with all my husbandrie Implem[en]ts and houshould stuff brass pewter beddinge Corne and graine but what is before expressed and bequeathed”). |
| Executor: | “my daughter Joane” |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 1 Nov 1662 |
| Witnesses: | Robert Wood, Richard Steventon, Margrett Steeventon (X) |
| Inventory: | Moneys by Specialtie (£42), Fowre Cowes two oxen one twinter bullocke and one yearlinge heifer (£18 5s 6d), Forty Sheepe (£4 6s 8d), one mare and Coult (£2 10s), Corne an hay (£6), one waine one Tumbrell two Harrowes one plow with all husbandrie Implem[en]ts (£3 10s), One websters loome with with Implem[en]ts thereunto belong[ing] (£1 3s 4d), Three Beds with all thinges belongeinge thereunto (£10), Brass and pewter (£3), Trinin ware (£1), Naperie ware (£2 13s 4d), one Table board one Dishboard with Chaires benches and stooles (13s 4d), one Cubbart fowre Coffers (15s), Broaches and Cobbarts grate tongues brandart and all Iron ware (7s), Bacon Butter Cheese and all howshould provission (£1 2s 6d), wooll and yarne (10s), Coales and Fuell (5s), Moneys in his purse and his weareinge apparell (£2 6s 8d), Omitted and Forgotten (13s 4d) (“Summa Totalis” £101 1s 8d) Appraisers Robert Houmphreys of little Bolas, Thomas Holland of Sleape, Richard Steventon of Rowton Dated 25 Nov 1664 |
| Probate to: | Joanne Humphreys (daughter) |
| Note: | Probate statement, on the back of the will and in Latin, concluded with (if I read it correctly): “Comi~ssio Mr~ Guilielmus Humphryes Chr~ Vicario de Waters Upton” = William Humphryes, Vicar of Waters Upton? |
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Thomas Garmeston
Admon granted (L&C) 27 Feb 1664/5, place not known
| Occupation / status, etc.: | Thomas Garmston farmer of Upton Parva (from bond, in Latin) |
| Administrator: | Elizabeth Garmston (widow and relict) |
| Additional bondsman: | William James; William signed, Elizabeth made her mark |
| Value of bond: | £60(?) |
| Inventory: | 2 oxen (£7), Cowes (£10), yong cattle and Sheepe (£5), 2 little horses (£3 3s 4d), 2 Pigges (6s 8d), pullen (2s), a Waine and all other Implements of husbandry (£1 10s), beds and bedding (£3 6s 8d), Linnens of all sorts (£2), 2 Chests (13s 4d), Coffers (6s 8d), a Table board (8s), benches and Formes (2s), chaires and Stooles (4s), Pailes and barrells (8s), a Turnell (5s), 2 brasse pottes and one Candlesticke and two small kettles (£1), Pewter (£13 4s), Corne in ye Barne or upon the Ground (£2), his wearing apparrell (£1), For things forgotten and unnominated (5s) (total £39 14s) Appraisers John Griffies, Fra: Garmson, Wm Barkley Dated 7 Mar 1664/5 |
| Notes: | In the inventory, the surname is written as Garmston. One of the documents accompanying the inventory and the handwritten bond includes the text of the oath that Elizabeth Garmston was required to swear; in a different hand beneath it is a short (four word) statement followed by the date (4 March) and “Gul: James [rectoro?] de Upton Parva” – William James, rector of Waters Upton? This appears to be the earliest surviving admon for a Waters Upton resident. |
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Francis Garmston
Will proved (L&C) 16 Oct 1667, place not known
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “Francis Garmston the yonger of Watersupton in the County of Salop Clerke (“being in health and of good and perfect memorie” |
| Property: | “all ye Tenement Messuage and Land in Watersupton now in my possession and sole occupation with all buildings houses barnes meadowes leasowes pastures feedings commons wayes waters woods underwoods easements profits and commodities thereunto belonging” |
| Beneficiaries: | Jane (wife) (property at Waters Upton to her sole use for her life, or, if she was with child at the testator’s decease, then until that child reached the age of 21 at which point one half of the property would go to the child; plus the rest of the testator’s real and personal estate); the parishes of Waters Upton and Bolas (“Twelve penny wheat loaves to be distributed in each parish Church upon ye feast of Christs nativity yearly out of my Land to ye end of ye world”). |
| Executors: | “my said wife” |
| Signed and dated: | 2 Mar 1666/7 |
| Witnesses: | Walter Pigott, Thomas Hasledine (his mark: ‘H’), Rich: Birch (his mark: ‘RB’) |
| Probate to: | Not known |
| Note: | No inventory. No probate statement found. |
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Margaret Daintith
Will proved (L&C) 28 Feb 1667/8, place not known
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “Margarett Daintith of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Widow: being in good & p[er]fect myde & memory butt being admonished of my mortallity by reason of ould age” |
| Beneficiaries: | Mary Spendlove (granddaughter, daughter of Thomas Spendlove) (to be given the “Nagg or Gelding” lent by the testator to Thomas Spendlove, and “one Cowe, one newe Bed Tick, one Boulster, and one paire of Flaxen Sheetes, All w[hi]ch (as I conceave) are well worth the Some of Eight powndes” to be used by Thomas Spendlove “for the best benifitt & behoof” of Mary – they “may raise her a considerable porcon” [= marriage portion]), Joane Upton (granddaughter) (residuary legatee). |
| Executors: | Joane Upton (granddaughter) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 15 May 1667 |
| Witnesses: | John Leighton, Francis Garmson, Elizabeth Willckes (X) |
| Inventory: | 3 Cowes (£6), one yeareling (15s), 15 Sheepe (£3 15s), 2 Horses (£2), 2 Small Swine (8s), Corne in the Barne & Fodder (£2), Provision in the Howse (£2), Beding (£5), Nappery Ware (£2), her waringe Apparrell (£2 10s), Wodden Ware of all Sorts (£1), Implam[en]ts of husbandry (5s), Corne on the ground (£1), Bedstids & Table bords (£2 10s), All Sorts of Lumber in & about the Howse (10s) (total £35 13s) Appraisers William Bartley (X), Thomas Spenlove, Richard [Jenings?] Dated 27 Feb 1667 |
| Probate to: | Not known |
| Notes: | No probate statement found. In the inventory it is stated that Margaret died on 2 Feb 1667, and her abode is written as Walters Upton. |
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Andrew Hilton / Hylton
Admon granted (L&C) 31 Jul 1668 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “Andrew Hillton late of Waters Upton in the County of Sallop Husbandman” (from the inventory) |
| Administrators: | Joanna Hylton / Hilton of the parish of Waters Upton, widow, relict, and William Wood of Waters Upton, yeoman (from probate statement, and from the bond – William signed, Joanna made her mark) |
| Additional bondsmen: | None |
| Value of bond: | £140 |
| Inventory: | Moneys by Specialltie and without (£24), Three Cowes two oxen one twinter bullocke (£15), Thirtie and one Sheepe and lambes (£4 2s 6d), Two mares one Coulte (£3), Two Piggs (£1 6s 8d), Corne and Maulte & Corne growinge upon the grownd (£5 12s), one waine one Dunge Carte one Harrow with all husbandrie Implemts (£3 10s), Three bedds with all thinges thereunto belonginge (£10), Brass and pewter of all Sorts (£4 10), Trinnin ware of all Sorts (£1), Naperie ware of all Sortes (£2 6s 8d), Tables Dishboards Chaires & Stooles (13s 8d), Broaches Cobborts Grate tongues (10s), Beefe Bacon and all houshould provision (£1), wooll & yarne (£1 10s), his weareinge apparell (£2), Omitted and left out (10s) (total £80 2s 4d) Appraisers William Bartley, Robert Houmphreys, Rich: Steventon, John Hillton Dated: 14 Jul 1668 |
| Notes: | Monetary values in the inventory were given in Roman numerals. Probate statement, in Latin, added to the inventory. |
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1670s: 1671 (x3) | 1674 | 1676
Elizabeth Garmson
Will proved (L&C) 20 Apr 1671 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Watersupton in the County of Sallop: Spinster: being weake in body but of good and perfecte memory” |
| Beneficiaries: | Francis Garmson (“my Loveing Father”) (£10); Eliner Barkley (aunt) (30s); Thomas Smith (cousin) (10s); Mary Smith (cousin) (10s); Thomas, Francis, Richard and Elizabeth Garmson (cousins – children of the testator’s “unkle Thomas Garmson”) (20s each); “my most deare and Tender mother” (unnamed) (“at her disposeing all my Weareing Apparell and my Chestt and Linnins which soever”); Thomas Garmson and John Garmson (“my tooe Brothers”) (residuary legatees). In addition, “my Brother Francis Garmsons sonne” (“Tenn Shillings to buy him a Byble”) may have been a brother named Francis, or the son of that brother? |
| Executors: | Thomas Garmson and John (“my tooe Loveing brothers”) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 28 Feb 1670/1 |
| Witnesses: | Francis Garmson senier, William Barkley, Jane Hinstock (X) |
| Inventory: | her wearing Apparrell (£4), one Chest (6s 8d), her linnen (6s 8d), one Boxe (2s 6d), one pewter dish (2s 6d), one Bible (5s), Specialties & Debts owing to her (£75), for any thing omitted or forgotten (1s) (total £80 4s 4d) Appraisers Francis Smith, Francis Garmson Dated 15 Apr 1671 |
| Probate to: | Thomas Garmson and John Garmson |
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Alice Hitchin
Will proved (L&C) 20 Apr 1671 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “Alis Hitchin of Watersupton widdow in the County of Sallop being Afflicted siknesse but of good and perfecte memory”; the inventory states “Ales Hitchin Widdow late of Waters Upton” |
| Beneficiaries: | Elizabeth Wood (eldest daughter) (“the bedd shee now lies upon and all things thereunto belonging and the best Chaire the warming pann and the screene”), Joan Wood (granddaughter) (one cow), Margery Hitchin (daughter) (“the bedd standing in the parler and all things belonging thereunto whatsoever”), Alis Hitchin (daughter) (residuary legatee). |
| Executors: | Richard Hitchin (“my trusty and well beloved freind and Kinsman”), Margery Hitchin and Alis (“my too Loveing daughters”) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 31 Mar 1671 |
| Witnesses: | Francis Garmson, William Johnson (X), William Barkley Junior |
| Inventory: | Three Kine and Three Calves (£9 15s), one Cowe and one heifer (£5), one Mare (£2 15s), Too swine (£2 5s), Corne in the howse and on the ground (£1 10s), one Carte one Harrow and all other Implements of Husbandry Whatsoever belonging thereunto (£3), The Mucke (16s), Brasse and pewter (£3 6s 8d), one Wainscott Bed the best Chaire the warming pann and the screen standing in the seller next the Shop (£6), five other beds and Bedstocks with all things belonging therunto (£10), Napery Ware of all sorts (£4), one Chest and Coffers (13s 4d), Howsehould provision (£1 6s 8d), Barrells and stands and all kind of Trinnin Ware (£3), Hempe and Flax (10s), one Table board on hanging presse With other Benches Chaires stooles and Chusshions (£1 3s 4d), Racks and broches and all Iron Ware (15s), one Anvile and other Tooles belonging to the Smith shop (£1 13s 4d), fireshovell and Tongs and other Implements belonging to the fire (6s 8d), Her Wareing Aparell and a peice of Wollen Cloth (£4), for things unknowne unseene or forgotten (5s), Illumber [=lumber?] (total £62 3s) Appraisers Thomas Holland, Francis Garmson, John Garmson Dated 14 Apr 1671 |
| Probate to: | Richd Hitchin (power for Margery and ‘Alis’ Hitchin reserved?) |
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Thomas Garmson
Will proved (L&C) 13 Oct 1671, place unknown
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters-Upton in the County of Salop yeoman being in p[er]fect health & memory” |
| Beneficiaries: | Elizabeth Wright (grandchild) (£20), John Garmson (eldest son) (40s), Mary Wright (daughter) (40s), Alice Francis (daughter) (40s), Thomas Garmson (youngest son) (residuary legatee). |
| Executors: | Thomas Garmson (son) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 2 Sep 1668 |
| Witnesses: | Edward Bury, Roger Church “Sinior” (X), Perigrine Brooke (X), Roger Church Junior |
| Inventory: | One Bedd and Beding (£3), Nappery Ware (£3 6s), pewter (£1 6s), one Wayne and a Bar of Iron (£3), Moneys owing to the Intestate =Testator, his Wearing Apparell (£1 10s), for things unknowne unseene or forgotten (3s 4d) (total £32 5s 4d) Appraisers Francis Garmson, Richard Francis Dated 3 Oct 1671 |
| Probate to: | Not known |
| Note: | No probate statement found. |
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John Garmson
Will proved (L&C) 10 Apr 1674 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Sallop Yeaman: being visited with sicknesse but of good and perfect memory” |
| Property: | “this Tenement wherein I now dwell” with its appurtenances |
| Beneficiaries: | Mary Garmson (daughter) (£25, and one cow); Margaret, Elizabeth, Thomas, Alis (children) (each to receive £25 at age 21); Margaret (“my most Loveing Wife”) (£5, half the corn in the barn and on the ground, “one joyne bed standing over the new house” with the rest of the household goods “to her disposeing except what is hereafter mentioned”); John Garmson (son) (the tenement described above, also “the bed standing in the parlor and all things belonging thereunto with all the rest of the bedstockes; and all the Table boards, Cobards, Chaires, Coffers, Mault Mill, Whitch, Morter and brasse pan”, “all the rest of my goods and moneys, Cattell and Chattels which are not formerlly by this my Last Will and testament disposed of; upon Condition that hee shall well and sufficiently maintaine and keepe my Wife Margaret with meat drinke and Apparrell Washing and Lodging befitting her Condition during the time of her naturall life: And if in Case shee shall thinke good to Leave the house and goe Away then hee shall pay her foure pounds a yeare”). |
| Executor: | John Garmson (son) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 8 Feb 1673/4 |
| Witnesses: | William Barkley, Jane Garmsoon, Simon Edwards |
| Inventory: | Foure Cowes and too Bullockes (£14), Too Mares (£4), Six Swine (£1 13s 4d), Corne and hay in the house and in the Barne and on the Ground (£20), The Implements of Husbandry (£1 10s), Husbandry timber (13s 4d), A paire of Bellowes and Anvile and hammers and other Shop Tools Relateing to a blacksmith (£4 10s), Bedstockes and Beding (£16), All kind of Napery ware (£5), Brasse and Pewter (£3 13s 4d), Coffers Truncke and Boxes (£1 3s 4d), Too Iron pots too dreeping pans and other Iron Ware Within the house (£1 10s), Barrells and Stands and all other Trinnin Ware (£1 13s 4d), Tables Boards Chaires and Benches (£4), The Whitch and Mault Mill (£3), Hemp and Flax (£2 13s 4d), one Cisterne (6s 8d), His Wareing Aparrell and money in his Purse (£5), money upon Specialty (£10), Desperate Debpts (£7), Things unseene or forgotten (£1) (£108 6s 8d) Appraisers Thomas Holland, Richard Wood Dated 6 Mar 1673 |
| Probate to: | John Garmson of Upton Parva (signed) |
| Note: | When the will was proved, John Garmson, son of John Garmson late of Upton Parva, entered into a bond (value £200) which required him to “well & faithfully educate foster & bring up” the children of the deceased (Mary, Margarett, Elizabeth, Thomas and Alise) “with sufficient & convenient Meat Drinke Lodging & Apparell meet & decent for their estate & calling dureing their Minority”. |
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Isabell Haseldine
Will proved (L&C) 16 Jun 1676 at Ercall Magna
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “Iszabell Haseldine of Waters Upton in the County of Salop widdow being sicke and weake in body But of perfect minde and memory” |
| Property: | “my house Lease of buildinges” (presumably in Waters Upton) |
| Beneficiaries: | Richard Haseldine (son) (1s); Anne Felton (daughter) (1s); Margaret Wall (daughter) (1s); Mary Haseldine (daughter) (1s); Iszabell Haseldine (grandchild) (5s); “John Nevell Junier” (grandchild) (“one Joyne Chest”); Richard Nevell (grandchild) (“one Cowe”); Elizabeth Nevell (“my Well beloved Daughter”) (remainder of goods and estate, and “right and tytle of all that belonges unto mee”). |
| Other wishes: | “my Sonne Richard Haseldine shall have noe tytle nor Interest nor possession of in my house Lease of buildinges or any of my Goodes but only his Legacy which is one shilling but if it happen by any meanes that my Sonne Richard Get any tytle or Interest in the house Lease of living that then he shall pay unto my daughter Elizabeth Nevell the full Sume of Twenty poundes” |
| Executor: | John Nevell (son-in-law) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 21 Feb 1675/6 |
| Witnesses: | Richard Barker, Thomas Humphreyson (X), John Nevell (X) |
| Inventory: | one leece of her tenement (£10), One cow (£3 10s), One beed and one blankit and three pare of sheets (£10 12s), too pare of bed steds (2s), One table boord & frame & one form (2s), One standing cubbert (5s), three pewter dishes (3s), One grate one mortor one pestell one pare of pottrackes (5s), One pot and cettell (2s), One barrell one stund one churn (3s), One cheire (6d), Her waring apperrell (£1) (total £16 4s 6d). Noted “the parti desesed one pound in deet” [= the party deceased £1 in debt] Appraisers Richard Barker, Thomas Jefryes (X), John Newell Dated 13 Jun 1676 |
| Probate to: | John Nevell / Nevill |
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Richard Hazeldine
Admon granted (L&C) 30 Mar 1683 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “Milwright late of Waters Upton” (from the inventory) |
| Administrator: | Catherine Hazeldine of the parish of Upton Parva (relict) |
| Additional bondsmen: | William Wood of Upton Parva; William signed, Catherine made her mark (a large +) |
| Value of bond: | £40 |
| Inventory: | One Cow and two Heifers (£4), one Mare and two Coults (£4 2s 6d), one Swine ([10?]s 6d), Corne and Hay of all sorts (£2 11s), Beding and Bedsteads (£2 3s 4d), Brasse and pewter (4s 4d), one Table Board Stooles and Benches (5s 6d), Trinnin Ware (6s), Iron Ware (4s 6d), His Wearing Apparell (13s 4d), His Working Tooles (9s 10d), The Reversion of A Lease of a Cottage in Watersupton now in the possession of John Nevell (£3 17s), for things unseene or forgotten (2s) (total £18 19s) Appraisers William [Bortley?], William Wood Date 17 Nov 1682 |
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Thomas Garmson
Will proved (L&C) 19 Sep 1690 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters upton in the County of Salop Yeoman being of good and perfect memory and of sound mind” |
| Beneficiaries: | John Garmson (brother) (40s apiece to any child of his); Thomas Garmson of Sleape (uncle) (40 s, and 40s apiece to any child of his); Elizabeth Humpherys (sister of uncle Thomas Garmson) (40s); Richard [Humpherys] (son of Elizabeth Humpherys) (40s); Robert Roe of Arleston (cousin) (40s apiece to any child of his “borne before ye date hereof”); Thomas Smith of Cottall [= Cotwall] (40s apiece to any child of his “borne before ye date hereof”); Mary Clarke of High Ercall (40s apiece to any child of hers “borne before ye date hereof”); John Garmson (brother) (residuary legatee) |
| Executors: | Robert Roe (cousin), Thomas Smith (cousin) and John Garmson (brother) |
| Signed and dated: | 24 Feb 1689 |
| Witnesses: | Francis Baxter, Brigatt Hayward (her mark: ‘H’), Catherin Martin (her mark: ‘W’) |
| Inventory: | One Mare (£1 10s), Twelve Sheepe (£1 4s), One Coffer (2s), One Box (1s), his Linnins (10s), his waring Apparrill (10s), his monneys (£63) (total £66 17s) Appraisers Thomas Davis (X?), Ralph Humphries Dated 18 Sep 1690 |
| Probate to: | Robt Roe and John Garmson |
| Note: | Thomas is described as a Husbandman in the inventory. |
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John Garmston
Will proved (L&C) 17 Mar 1691/2 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop yeom[an] being sicke in body butt of p[er]fect minde and memory” |
| Property: | “my Free Holt estate in Upton” |
| Beneficiaries: | Thomas Garmston (son) (freehold estate at Waters Upton at age 21), Dorothy (wife) (aforesaid freehold estate, during son Thomas’s minority, “for the Education & bringeing upp of my two Children”, and all his personal estate, with £4 a year to be paid by son Thomas if he should inherit at age 21, if “She contynues Sole & Unmarried” but if she “happen to Marry againe my will is that she Shall have Onely the Some of three pownds a yeare out of the estate and noe more”); Anne (daughter) (“the Some of threescore pownds to be paid her att the age of three & twenty by my Said Sonne Thomas”), Joyce Smith (aunt) (40 shillings), Mary Clarke (cousin) (40 shillings). |
| Other wishes: | “to be interred in Ercall Church yard” |
| Executors: | Dorothy (“my said wief”) and Thomas Smith of Cotwall (“Cozen”) |
| Signed and dated: | 10 May 1691 (signs as Garmson) |
| Witnesses: | Judith Davyes (X), Richd Davyes (X), Robt Clarke |
| Inventory: | Debts due Uppon Speciallties (£24), Cattle and Sheepe (£11 10s), Bedsteads and Bedinge (£3), One Chest one Coffer & three Boxes (15s), Brasse & pewter (13s), Linnen (£1 10s), all other household goods (£1 5s), Corne & mault in the house and on the grownd growinge (£2), Ymplemts of husbandrie (£2 10s), Wareinge apparrell and things nott Seene (£1 10) (total £48 13s) Appraisers Will: Barkley, Rowland Leigh, Robt Clarke Dated 28 May 1691 |
| Probate to: | Dorothy Garmson, Tho: Smith |
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William James
Will proved (L&C) 17 Mar 1691/2 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters=upton in the county of Salop clearke […] being in health and of good and perfect memory and right understanding” |
| Property: | Lands in unspecified location(s) |
| Beneficiaries: | Judith Peake Junior (£5); Anne Jenings (30s); Anne James (“my deare wife”) (“all the rest of my estate lands goods cattel and chatel both real and personal”). |
| Executors: | Anne James (wife) |
| Signed and dated: | 3 Oct 1683 |
| Witnesses: | Anne Humfries, Thomas Jones (X), John Hughes, Mary Groom (X), Anne [Holier?] |
| Probate to: | Anne James |
| Note: | Upton Magna written in error on the summary used for filing the folded will. The Act Book in which this grant of probate is recorded correctly shows the testator’s parish as Waters Upton. |
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Thomas Jones
Admon granted (L&C) 2 Oct 1696 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | of Waters Upton |
| Administrator: | Elinora Jones (widow and relict) |
| Inventory: | Three Cowes and Calves (£10), Three Heifers and one Bull (£8 10s), Two yeare old Heifers (£3), Two Mares and one Horse (£6), Sheepe of all Sorts (£5), All Implement of Husbandry (£2), Brass and Pewter and Iron Ware (£2), Bedds Bedsteads and Beding of all Sorts (£8), Chests Coffers and Boxes (£1), Woodden ware of all Sorts (£1), Houshold provisions (£1 5s), Corne in the house and on the ground (£4), Lininns of all Sorts (£1), His Weareing Apparrell (£1 10s), Things Unseene Unknowne or forgotten (5s) (total £54 10s) Appraisers Richard Rycroft, Andrew Bibbye, Will: Barkley Dated 1 May 1695 |
| Note: | No bond. |
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Thomas Davies
Will proved (L&C) 5 Oct 1699 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Sallop yeo: beeinge but weake in bodie but of a sounde and p[er]ffeckte Memorie” |
| Beneficiaries: | William Babbington (son) (1s); Thomas Davies (son) and “my Deare and Lovinge Wife” (“all my goodes Cattells and Chattels, corne and graine implements of Husbandrie and all whatever effects” jointly between them, with Thomas to “enjoy all after his mothers Decease” if he should survive her). |
| Other wishes: | “my Bodie to bee Buried in Waters Upton Church yard” |
| Executors: | “my wiffe and my sonne Thomas” |
| Signed and dated: | 14 Feb 1690 |
| Witnesses: | Richard Steventon, Thomas Parrocke, Ann James |
| Inventory: | Foure Cowes (£11), five two yeare old Beastes (£9 6s 8d), Three yeare old Beastes (£4 5s), Tow Calves (£1 13s 4d), Two Meares and two horses (£11 10s), One Swine (£1 3s 4d), Twelve Sheep (£2 14s), All Corn and hay in ye Barn & on ye ground (£32 13s 4d), All sortes of implements of Husbandtry (£4 3s 4d), Bedsteedse nd Beding (£5 3s 4d), All sorts of Linings (£2), Cubbertes Chestes and cuffers (£2), Tables Barrilles Benches and Stooles and all sorte of wooden weare (£1 10s), Brass and Pewter and all sort of Iron wear (£2 3s 4d), Houshould Provision (£2), His wearing apparell (£2), For things unseen unknown or for Gotten (3s 4d) (total £95 9s) Appraisers Thomas Meeson, Will Barkley, James Leigh (X) Dated 7 Sep 1699 |
| Probate to: | Judith Davies and Tho: Davies |
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Mary Hitchin
Will proved (L&C) 7 May 1702 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Spinster beeinge but weake of bodie but of a sound and p’fect memorie” |
| Beneficiaries: | Sarah Worrall, wife of William Worrall of Garmston (£20); “Ralph Dickstons three Children which hee had by his first wife” (£13 – £4 each to two boys and £5 to the girl); Margery Joanson, wife of Willian Joanson (sister) (£14 “which the sd. William Joanson doth owe mee”); William Ferrington (brother-in-law) (to “have the Disposeing” of Sarah Worrall’s bequest if she should die within a year of Anne’s death, and the £14 due to Margery Joanson if William Joanson her husband should “overlive” her). |
| Other wishes: | “my bodie to bee buried in the Church yard of great Bolas” |
| Executor: | William Ferrington (brother-in-law) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 25 Jan 1701 |
| Witnesses: | Alice Vaughan (X), Richard Stevnton |
| Inventory: | Moneys with Specialty (£66 6s), Moneys Without Specialty (£6 17s), Beds and Bedinge bedstids & Coverings (£4 13s 4d), one Table (13s 4d), Napery Ware (£1 10s), Pewter & Iron Ware (10s), 1 Chest 1 Boxe 1 Safe (15s), one Press (13s 4d), one smale Table one ould payre of Bedstids wth some Shelves (11s), her weareinge apparrell (£3), out of sight (1s) (total £90 10s) Appraisers William Joanson (X), Richard Steventon Dated 17 Mar 1701/2 |
| Probate to: | William Ferrington |
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Anne James
Admon (L&C) 15 Oct 1702 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | widow, late of Waters Upton |
| Administrator: | Margaret Gould wife of Humphrey Gould (sister) |
| Bondsmen: | Humphrey Gould of Compton in the parish of Tettenhall, Staffordshire (farmer?), William Barkley of the parish of Waters Upton, farmer, and John Hodgkin of the parish of Market Drayton, gentleman; all signed. |
| Value of bond: | £1,000 |
| Inventory: | Aparrell of bookes (£9 10s), some household goods (£6 10s), her wearing Apparell (£4 5s), debts oweing upon specialty (£70), debts without specialty desperatt (£21 8s) (total £111 13s) Dated: 30 Jul 1702 |
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William Barkley
Will proved (L&C) 29 Apr 1703 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Watersupton in the County of Salop yeoman being weake in body but of sound & disposeing memory” |
| Property: | “ye Messuage or Tenemt wherein I now live& all the Lands thereunto belonging” (leasehold, and presumably in Waters Upton) and other, unspecified, freehold lands. |
| Beneficiaries: | William Gold (nephew) (all freehold lands, and the property described above for the remainder of the lease; all household goods, implements of husbandry and “stock of quick Cattell”); George Felton of Great Bolas (brother-in-law) (all debts due and owing remitted and forgiven except the sum of £6); Francis Beardmore of Bishops Offley (50s); Richard Francis (kinsman) (50s); Humphrey Gold and Jane his sister (nephew and niece) (£40 each); Humphrey Gold and his children (brother-in-law and nephews, nieces) (remainder of goods, chattells and personal estate, to be equally divided between them); John Taylor of “the Dayry House” (all debts due and owing remitted except the sum of 50s). |
| Executors: | Humphrey Gold (“Brotherinlaw”) and William Gold (nephew) |
| Signed and dated: | 20 Mar 1702 |
| Witnesses: | Benjamin Clemson, Wm Birch, Wm [?] |
| Inventory: | Seaven Cowes & three Calfes (£24 10s), Six Two yeare old Beastes (£13), Six yeare olde (£7 10s), ffourty Seaven Sheepe (£12), One hund’d & 40 measures of Rye (£12), Tenn Tunnes of Hay (£7), One [W___ie = Waine?] & one Tumbrill (£4), Harrows Ploughs & other Implem’ts of Husbandry (£1), Two store piggs (£1), Corne upon the Ground (£12), Malt in the House (£3 15s), Brass and Pewter in ye House (£7), Iron ware within Doores (£2 10s), One Table (£1), ffurniture in the parlor (£7 10s), In his owne Lodgeing Roome one Bed and other ffurniture (£4), In the Store Chamber and Napery Beding & other ffurniture (£30 15s), In the Parlor Chamber (£4), In the Chamber at ye Stairehead (£1), Wooden ware of all Sorts (£3 10s), Bookes (£2), One Chattell Lease of ye Tenem’t in Watersupton (£60), Wareing Apparrell money in his pockett and money oweing (£220), One Malt Mill and other Lumber (£1 10s), A debt oweing by George Felton as Apeareth by will (£6), Alsoe A debt oweing by John Taylor as Apeareth by will (£2 10s) (total £411). Appraisers Sam’ll Roycroft, Thomas Palin, Godfrey Cooper. Dated 2 Apr 1703 |
| Probate to: | Humphrey Gold (power reserved for William Gold?) |
| Note: | It appears that the grant of probate on 29 Apr 1703 was followed by another, to William Gold, on 17 May 1709. |
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Thomas Garmson
Admon granted (L&C) 20 Feb 1704/5 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | of Waters Upton |
| Administrator: | Elizabeth Humphreys wife of Thomas Humphreys of Eyton, yeoman (daughter) |
| Bondsmen: | Thomas Humphreys of Eyton on the “Wild moores”, yeoman, Richard Humphries, and Edward Moore of Wellington; Richard and Edward signed. |
| Value of bond: | £300 |
| Note: | Letters of administration granted for Elizabeth Humphreys to administer the “goods and Chattells unadministered by Elizabeth his Relict” and to pay Thomas’s debts “soe far as the Inventory of his goods and Chattles will extend and the Law shall charge”. No inventory with the admon documents, Elizabeth was to make one “and a just accompt thereon” and to show them at the Registry at Lichfield when required. |
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Ralph Humphreys
Admon granted (L&C) 30 Apr 1705 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “late of Watersupton” (from inventory) |
| Administrator: | Anne Massey (daughter) |
| Inventory: | Two tables one forme (10s), Two Coffers (1s), one Screen (2s), one Dozen of Trenchers (6d), Four pipkins & 5 spoones & one pewter dish (1s 6d), Two Fether beds & boulsters two pair of sheets two table cloaths two Ruggs & two blanketts (£1), A pair of Goblerts & a dreeping pan & spitt (3s 6d), a long Gunn (15s), Two Straw whisketts (2s), A malte mill (12s), one Harrow (4s), one Suck & coulter (2s 2d), one pitching pickerill (6d), the Deceased his wearing apparell (5s) (total £3 19s 2d). Appraisers Joseph Yong, Tho: Nicholls Dated 29 Apr 1705 |
| Note: | No bond; admon statement written below the inventory. |
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John Bolas
Will proved (L&C) 1 Dec 1710 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Yeoman being weak in body, but sound & pfect memory” |
| Beneficiaries: | Ann (“my loveing wife”) (“my entire estate” real and personal for her life, to be disposed to the couple’s children on her death but with no more than 5s to be left to their son Robert Bolas, Robert’s wife, or that couple’s child or children). |
| Executors: | Ann Bolas (wife) |
| Signed and dated: | 13 Dec 1705 |
| Witnesses: | James Lee, Tho: Cooper |
| Inventory: | Brass & Pewter of all Sorts (£3), One Feather bed & one Bolster, two Pillows Three Blankets & a pair of Joyn’d Bedsteads (£3 5s), Two more Feather-beds & Two pairs of Bedsteads & hangings belonging to them, and Three Blankets (£2 6d), One Joyn’d Press (15s), Two Iron-dripping-Pans, one Pot, one Kettle and other Iron Ware (£1), Three Barrells One Tub one Joyn’d Stool & Three Chairs (12s), One Joyn’d Skreen (5s), One Grate and a pair of Higgards (6s), One Long Table, Two Forms & one short Table (14s), One Joyn’d Chest & Two Coffers (13s), Two Boxes & Three Stools (5s), Seven Pair of Sheets, and other Table Linnen (£3 4s 6d), Things out of Sight & not valued (5s), Money at Interest (£10), Wearing Apparrell (£3 5s) (total £29 15s 6d). Appraisers Richd: Hodgkin, Tho Garmson Dated 20 Aug 1710 |
| Probate to: | Anne Bolas |
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Thomas Davison
Admon granted (L&C) 7 Oct 1713 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | late of Waters Upton |
| Administrator: | Alice Davison of the parish of Waters Upton (widow and relict) |
| Additional bondsmen: | Wm Hazledine of the same, “Millright”, and Thomas Bolas of Hinstock [yeoman?]; Bolas signed. |
| Value of bond: | £100 |
| Note: | No inventory. |
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Dorothy Garmston
Admon granted (L&C) 21 Oct 1715 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “late of the [parish] of Waters Upton” |
| Administrator: | Thomas Garmston, yeoman, of Upton Parva, (son) |
| Additional bondsmen: | James Lee, yeoman, of the same, and Michael Doody, of the same; all but James (whose forename name was written as Jacobum) signed. |
| Inventory: | five cows tow Bullocks & ten youn [=young] beas [=beasts] (£30 10s), one nagg one mare one colt (£8), Eighteen sheep (£3), two swine (£1), gees & Poultrey (5s), corne In the Barne (£10), one carte & wheels & all other Implemts of husbandry (£2), a mault mill (10s), Bedsteds & Beding (£3), Brass & Pewter (£1 10s), Dreeping Pans Spills & other & other [words repeated] Iron Instrumts (5s), Butter Chees bacon & other Provision In the House (£2 10s), all manner of milke vessels Bruing [=brewing] vessels & other vesels (10s), all maner of Linnens (15s), tables chaires & Screen (£1), one Press one chest & two Coffers (6s), her wearing Apparell (£2 10s), for anything omited or forgoten (5s) (total £67 11s). Appraisers John Walker, Timothy Mathews Dated 9 Sep 1715 |
| Value of bond: | £200 |
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John Wase
Will proved (L&C) 17 Apr 1715
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Shrewsbury Esqr” |
| Property: | Houses, messuages, lands and tenements at Waters Upton, including a new house (with gardens, court, orchard, backside and pump; pictures, maps, furnace, boiler, jack and dressers and other things fixed therein to continue as heirlooms for as long as the house remains in the family); an ancient messuage plus houses or cottages (one in Pepper Street) at Hunsterton [parish of Wybunbury], Cheshire; a tenement and lands at Adderley held by a lease from Sir Robert Corbett; lands and houses at Coleham, a suburb of Shrewsbury. |
| Beneficiaries: | Dorothy (wife), John Wase (eldest son), Henry Wase (son), Benjamin Wase (youngest son), Rebecca (daughter), Dorothy (daughter), Elizabeth / Betty (daughter) (bequests not fixed but dependant on whether or not Dorothy “will be so kind to her Children as to release her Right and Title to all her Joynture Lands and Estates” and accept an annuity in lieu; also portions for daughters dependent on them marrying with consent either of their father or, after his decease, the consent of their mother and their father’s executors); “the Poore of St Chadds Almeshouses in Shrewsbury” (26s in two instalments yearly, charged on a croft by Sutton Lane in Coleham); “the Poore of Waters upton Parish forever” (the remainder of the clear yearly rent on the croft at Coleham after a rent payment of 5s a year to the Company of Drapers at Shrewsbury); [Mrs] Shaw (sister) (£5); Samuel [Wase] (brother) (1 guinea); Joseph Hodgson of Chester (cousin) (1 guinea). |
| Other wishes: | “to be intered in the Chancell which I built at Waters Upton, and that in a becomeing and yet frugall manner” |
| Executors: | Richard Price of Drayton (Clerk and Minister) and Francis Butter the elder of Drayton (“my kinsman”) |
| Signed and dated: | 6 Apr 1715 |
| Witnesses: | John Taylor, Corbett Price, William Cotton |
| Probate to: | Richard Price, clerk, and Francis Butter, gentleman. |
| Note: | Copy of will with probate statement in Latin, written in volume C of the “Bishop’s Register Book” (covering 1697-1718 according to the spine but actually appears to start at 1700). |
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Thomas Parrock
Will proved (L&C) 17 Apr 1719 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Watersupton in the County of Salop Yeoman: being very sick and weak in Body but of perfect mind and Memory” |
| Property: | House and land, location not specified but presumably at Waters Upton. |
| Beneficiaries: | John [Parrock] “at seas or beyond seas” (son) (“half my House and Land paying Equal with his Brother Andrew”); Andrew [Parrock] (son) (“the other half of my House and Land and all other things whatsoever Household goods Corn Cattles Implements of Husbandry and everything wherewith I am possessed with and all my House and Land If provided my Son John Cometh not again”); James [Parrock] (son) (£10); Elizabeth Parrock (Granddaughter – “my Sone Jonathans Daughter”) (£7 at age 18). |
| Executor: | Andrew Parrock (son) |
| Signed and dated: | 29 Mar 1716 |
| Witnesses: | Robt Wood, Tho: Garmson, Timo [= Timothy] Matthews |
| Inventory: | one Heifer (£1), 2 Beds and 3 pare of Bedstids (£2), Three Coffers one Chest and one Box (15s), Two pair of Sheets & other Bed Cloaths (5s), one Tablecloath four napkins and one pillow coat (2s), one Table one Bench two Chairs two barrils and other wooden vessels (10s), one Brass Pan and Cettle three puter dishes two puter plates and other small puter vessels (£1), Two Iron Potts one frying pan one spitt one paire of Gobbots one Dripping Pan and other Iron ware (10s), Cheese in the House and Corne in ye Barne (£1), His Weareing Apparrel and Money (10s), Small Things omitted and forgotten (5s) (total £7 17s). Appraisers Robert Wood, Timothy Mathews Dated 23 Sep 1718 |
| Probate to: | Andrew Parrock |
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Alice Davison
Will proved (L&C) 2 Oct 1722 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters=Upton in the County of Salop widdow being Sound in mind Tho weak in body” |
| Beneficiaries: | Sarah Davison (daughter) (“all & singular my Goods Cattle Chattles houshold Goods money & other my personall estate whatsoever & wheresoever”), Richard Davison (son) (40s). |
| Executors: | Thomas Garmson and Thomas Ibb of Waters Upton, yeomen (“recomending to them the Care of my Daughter Sarah”) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 28 Aug 1722 |
| Witnesses: | John Wase, Hen. Wase |
| Inventory: | one cow and one swine (£3 2s), Bedsteads & Beding (£3), Sheep (10s), Cheese (15s), hemp Dressed (10s), hay & Clover (15s), Brass & Pewter (£1), al Maner of wooden Vessels (5s), a table & a Cuboard & three Chairs (6s), Iron Instruments (10s), Linens (£1), A Chest & a Coffer & a Box (5s), flax undressed (2s), a cestern & some Mucke (4s), money (£8), her wearing Apparell (10s) (total £20 15s). Appraisers John Hughes, Robert Gearey Dated 7 Sep 1722 |
| Probate to: | Thomas Garmson and Thomas Ibb |
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Elizabeth Dawes
Admon granted (L&C) 21 Oct 1725 at Salop (Shrewsbury)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | of Waters Upton, widow |
| Administrator: | John Ward of the parish of Waters Upton, farmer (relationship to Elizabeth may be given, but in a document written in Latin in which the name Eliza Hughes is also written) |
| Additional bondsmen: | John Hughs (X) of Waters Upton, farmer, and Joshua Griffiths of Ercall Magna, farmer; all but Hughs signed (Griffiths as Griffies). |
| Inventory: | Two pare of Bed Steads and beding belonging to them (£4 8s 6d), Linens (18s 6d), a table and benches and usefull things in the house (£1), Wooden ware of all sorts and things in the loer house (£1), pots and ketels and pewter of all sorts (£1 3s), things in two Roomes upstairs (£1 5s), The Barels and the things that are in the Buterey (17s), Elizabeth Dawes her Wareing Aparel (12s) (total £11 4s). Appraisers Thomas Stackhall (X), Robert Gearey (X) Witness Thomas Garmson Dated 28 Apr 1725 |
| Value of bond: | £20 |
| Note: | Names of bondsmen – but not occupations – translated from Latinised versions. |
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Thomas Stockall
Admon granted (L&C) 15 Oct 1728 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “late of Waters Upton” |
| Administrator: | Elizabeth Stockall (widow and relict) |
| Additional bondsmen: | John Hitchin of Bolas Magna, farmer, and Richard [Fryer?] of Ercall |
| Inventory: | 3 Cows 4 heifers and 3 weaning calves (£20), 1 horse and 2 mares (£10), brass and pewter of all Sorts (£2 5s 6d), wooden ware of all Sorts (£2), one table and form (5s), four boxes and three Wheels (15s), Cheese (£3 12s), Corn and hay in the barn (£13), Cart and Wheels (£4), Implements of husbandry (£2 10s), his wearing apparell (£1) (total £58 17s 6d) Appraisers not named Undated |
| Value of bond: | £80 |
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Alice Upton
Will proved (L&C) 31 Oct 1729 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “in the Parish of Watters Upton […] beinge in perfecte minde & Memorye” |
| Beneficiaries: | George Arna (nephew – “my Sister Son”) (“ten pounds And a bed And all that belongs to it And a paire of Sheets” [at age 21?]), Joane Arna (niece – “my Sisters dauter”) (“All my warringe Apparill & All my goods & to have the Remainge part of the five pounds After my ffunerall is [?]”); Mary [Hand?] (sister) (1s); Margrat Davis (sister) (1s). |
| Executor: | Thomas Garmson |
| Signed and dated: | 6 Aug 1729 |
| Witnesses: | William Slater, Joshua Griffies, Richard Wall |
| Inventory: | A bed & bed steds (£1 10s), the Pewter (5s), a Press (5s), a little wheel & a Little stund (2s 6d), a Chest (7s), tow Pair of Sheets (12s), all her wearing apparell (£1), any thing omitted or forgotten (5s), Her money (£15) (total £19 6s 6d). Appraisers John Manwaring, Richard Wall Dated 17 Aug 1729 |
| Probate to: | Thomas Garmson |
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John Hughes Senior
Will proved (L&C) 31 Oct 1729 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in ye County of Salop, Yeoman being sick and weak in Body but of perfect mind and Memory” |
| Beneficiaries: | Mary [Hughes?] (daughter) (5s); John Hughes (son) (£5); Elizabeth (wife) and Joseph (son) (“all ye remainder of my Goods and Wordly Estate whatsoever by me posses’d to be Equally Divided between them” subject to payment of funeral charges and debts owing “and after ye Death of my Loveing Wife Elizabeth Hughes all her substance shall wholy become my Son Joseph’s”). |
| Executors: | The above Elizabeth Hughes (wife) and Joseph Hughes (son) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 22 Jul 1728 |
| Witnesses: | Richd Wood Junior, Morris Davies (X), Elizabeth Picken |
| Inventory: | Rye & wheat (£18), Barly Peas fitches & oats (£14 10s), french wheat Hay & clover (£13), Beanes (£1), the Cows & young Beasts (£33 10s), the mares & Colte (£16), the sheep (£2 15s), the swine (£3), the carts & plows & implem’ts of Husbandry (£6), the mucke (£2 10s), Brass & Pewter (£2 2s), Iron pots & other Iron things (£1 2s), wooden vessels (£2 5s), a chest & Linens (£5 10s), bed & bedsteds below stairs (£3), A press & a chees press (£1), two beds & bedsteads up stairs (£5), Cofers & boxes (10s), Chees & bacon (£8 5s), wool (7s), His wearing apparell (£1) (total £140 6s). Appraisers Joseph Corfeild, James Lee Dated 16 Sep 1729 |
| Probate to: | Joseph Hughes |
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William Haseldine
Admon granted (L&C) 28 Apr 1730 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of waters upton Mill Right” (from inventory heading; elsewhere the occupation appears to have been written as ‘adquatuorderim’) |
| Administrator: | Ann Haseldine of the parish of Waters Upton (X) |
| Additional bondsmen: | Robert Humpherson of Ercall Magna, yeoman, and Robert Hatfield (X) of [the same?], farmer |
| Inventory: | one Cow and one Colt (£5 2s 6d), Corne in the Barne (£3 5s), Hay in the Barne (15s), Cheese in the House (15s 6d), the Bedding of all Sorts (£4 2s 6d), the Pewter (5s), a Cheesepress (5s), His working tooles (7s 6d), one Chest and one Box (5s), two Iron Potts (5s), His warring apparell (£1), any thing unseen or forgotten (2s 6d). “Here is Likewise an account of what Debts were owing by the said Willm Haseldine deceased”: Mr Lummis (£4 for arrears of Rent), Thomas Garmson (15s for Rent), George Adney (16s for Summering the Colt), Joseph Hughes (10s for a Loade of Hay), Jonathan Poole (8s for Shooes), Robt Geary (7s for plowing), Joseph Palin (6s for Grass), John Hayward (3s), to Joseph Owen (2s), Tho: Edge (2s), John Morris (10s), Mr Loyd (10s), Sampson Pickin (5s 6d), Wm: Jackson (3s 6d), Tho: Christian (4s 6d), Andrew Peplow (4s 6d), John Vaughan (5s) widdow Russell (2s), the funerall Expences (£1 10s). “So that the Remainder of the Inventorie when the debts and Considered and deducted amounts to” (total £5 6s 6d) Dated 28 Oct 1729 |
| Value of bond: | £40 |
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William Smith
Admon granted (L&C) 13 Nov 1733, place not known
| Occupation / status, etc.: | of Waters Upton |
| Note: | Entry in Probate Act book records an administration, but the documents bearing the details seem to be missing. |
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John Corfield
Will proved (L&C) 27 Oct 1736 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Gent, being of sound and perfect Mind and Memory” |
| Property: | “my Estate at Hinstock in the County of Salop in the Possession of William Griffiths” |
| Beneficiaries: | John Corfield (son), (£50); Richard Corfield (son), (£200); William Corfield (son), (£200); Mary Orme (daughter) (£50); Elizabeth Hitchin (daughter) (£120 – “six score pounds, for the Use of her and her Children only); Margaret Corfield (daughter-in-law) (1 guinea); Joseph Corfield (son) (the estate at Hinstock, and residuary legatee). |
| Executor: | The above Joseph Corfield (son) |
| Signed and dated: | 6 Sep 1735 |
| Witnesses: | Thomas Christian, Anne Harper (X), Richard Tourneor |
| Probate to: | Joseph Corfield |
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Thomas Garmson
Will proved (L&C) 2 Dec 1741 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the Parish of Salop Yeoman being at this time of Sound and perfect Mind and Understanding” |
| Property: | “Two pieces of Ground Situate and being in the Township of Waters Upton known by the Names of the Lower Leasow and the Birch” |
| Beneficiaries: | Mrs Mary Barnett of Waters Upton (two pieces of land in Waters Upton as above, and their rents and profits, for her use during her life); John Mainwaring of the parish of Waters Upton, and Mary Webb (testator’s servant) (residuary legatees, in equal shares, in respect of other land, houses, buildings, money and effects; also, as executors, entitled to take any corn growing or cut on the pieces of land at Waters Upton); John Garmson of the parish of Market Drayton “(and at present a Servant to Mr Mackworth)” and his heirs forever (the land bequeathed to Mary Barnett, after her death, and the land bequeathed to Mainwaring and Webb, after their deaths). |
| Executors: | The above John Mainwaring and Mary Webb |
| Signed and dated: | 6 Apr 1741 |
| Witnesses: | Richard Tourneor, Thomas Davies, Samuel Edge |
| Probate to: | Mary Webb (John Mainwaring having renounced) |
| Note: | This is a copy of the will, with ‘signatures’ all in the same handwriting. Appended to the will and probate statement is a statement signed (X) by Mary Cooper otherwise Webb, wife of John Cooper and one of the executors of the will of Thomas Garmson, confirming receipt of the original will. |
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John Randles
Admon granted (L&C) 8 May 1754 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “John Randles late of Waters Upton Yeoman” |
| Administrator: | Mary Tudor otherwise Randles (no signature or mark), widow and relict |
| Additional bondsmen: | Thomas Thomas of High Ercall, yeoman, Robert [Bennett?] of Shrewsbury, currier, and John Doe |
| Value of bond: | £200 |
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Thomas Christian
Will proved (L&C) 21 Oct 1761 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Yeoman” |
| Property: | “all that my Messuage Tenement and Lands with the Appurtenances Situate lying and being in the Township of Buerton in the Parish of Aulam in the County of Chester on the possession of William Dooler And all that my leasehold Messuage Tenement and Lands with the Appurtenances Situate and being in Markett Drayton in the County of Salop in the possession of William Wilkes” |
| Beneficiaries: | Elizabeth Christian (“my dear Wife”) (the use of the properties at Buerton and Market Drayton, and interest on the testator’s personal estate, both held in trust by the trustee named below, for her life); William Matthews (son-in-law) (after Elizabeth Christian’s death: 1 shilling from the testator’s personal estate); Elizabeth Matthews (daughter) and her children (after Elizabeth Christian’s death: the rents and profits from the properties at Buerton and Market Drayton, 1 shilling for Elizabeth from the testator’s personal estate, and the residue of the personal estate for the use of Elizabeth and her children). |
| Trustee and Executor: | Edward Blakeway of Shrewsbury, Draper |
| Signed and dated: | 3 Oct 1753 |
| Witnesses: | John Peat, Jo: Nixon |
| Probate to: | Edward Blakeway |
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John Groom
Will proved (L&C) 17 Apr 1765 at Wellington
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Yeoman”. |
| Beneficiaries: | Catharine Groom (“my dear Wife”) (the interest on John’s ready money and securities for money, and the use and enjoyment of his “Household Goods, Furniture Linen Implements of Husbandry” and all other personal estate, held in trust by the appointed trustee, for her life); Frances Stubbs (daughter) (after the decease of Catharine, the interest of £100, part of John’s personal estate, for her life, then divided between all her children except John Shelton, at age 21 or on marriage); Richard Groom (son) (residuary legatee, and if Frances should have no children besides John Shelton, the aforementioned £100 to be divided between all his children, at age 21 or on marriage, share and share alike). |
| Trustee: | Thomas Roe of Wellington, innholder |
| Executors: | The above Thomas Roe, and Richard Groom (son) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 9 Nov 1764 |
| Witnesses: | Martha Onions (X), Benjn: Ord |
| Probate to: | Richard Groom (“a power being reserved for the Other to act at pleasure”); no mark or signature |
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Henry Wase
Will proved (L&C) 27 Nov 1777 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Watters upton in the County of Salop Gentilman” |
| Property: | “all my New erected House in Watters upton aforesaid with the Garden and Apportiances Where unto Belonging” |
| Beneficiaries: | Timothy Jones and Mary Jones (referred to as Son and Daughter; ‘Son’ = son-in-law]) (the remainder of a sum of £400 raised for Henry’s use under the settlement made before the marriage of Henry’s son John in 1763, from which several sums had been paid by Henry; “all the Coales and Mines Remaining ungotten and being in and under all that Piece of Land called the Woonay Head in the parish of [Brosley] in this County”; all other real estate [but see property devised to Sarah alone]; “my [B___?] Bedsteads and Beding with their Apportiances Chest of Drawers tables Chest and Looking Glass and all my other Goods Chattles and Personall estate”; property at Waters Upton described above to Mary for her life; “all my Wearing Apparell” to Timothy); John Wase Jones (“Granson”) (after the death of Mary Jones, the property at Waters Upton devised to her for her life, subject to payment to his siblings – see next); “Bettey ann Jones” and Cathrine Jones (“Gran Chilldren”) (£10 each to be paid by John Wase Jones); John Wase (son) (“three Pewter Dishes and all the Picktures and Map and three elbow Chairs and allso all my Books and allso my Writeing Desk”); “Ann maria and Eliszabeth Sarah Mary and Margett” (“my five Gran Children” [daughters of son John Wase]) (“hafe a guinea apiece”); Isabella Laybourne Lloyd (“my Friend”) (5 guineas). |
| Other wishes: | “I Desire there [may?] be a Desant flat Gravestone [with] proper Inscription hereon placed over me and my Wife within Tweell Months after my Decease” |
| Executors: | John Wase (son) and Isabella Laybourne Lloyd (friend) |
| Signed and dated: | 12 Dec 1770 |
| Witnesses: | Thos Tudor, William Blakemore, Mary Blakemore |
| Probate to: | John Wase the surviving executor (no mark or signature) |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £20 |
| Notes: | (1) The will appears to have been written on pages in a bound book which were afterwards torn out, leaving a small piece – and parts of some words – missing from the edge of each page. (2) A copy of this will is held by Shropshire Archives (item 6000/12807) 🡕. (3) The marriage settlement referred to in the will is also held by Shropshire Archives (item 6000/12752) 🡕. |
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Edward Fowke
Admon granted (L&C) 21 Apr 1784 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “Edward Fowke [the elder of the Parish of?] Waters Upton in the County of Salop […] Yeoman” |
| Administrator: | Hannah Fowke (who “appeared personally”), or possibly Edward Fowke the younger (see Note) |
| Bondsmen: | Edward Fowke the younger of Waters Upton, Egerton Leeks of the [?], gentleman, and Richard Emery of Wellington, [?]; all three signed (Edward as “Edward Foulk Jounour”). |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £300 |
| Note: | Extremely poor handwriting, with many crossings out, on both of the documents relating to this grant, making it difficult to read and understand. |
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Robert Allen
Admon granted (L&C) 18 Apr 1798 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “Robert Allen late of Waters Upton in the County of Salop […] Yeoman” |
| Administrator: | Sarah Allen of Waters Upton, widow (relict of the deceased) |
| Additional bondsmen: | “Richard Allen of Watling street in the County of Salop Gentleman and Thomas Blakemore of the Close of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield Yeoman” – but note that while two of the three signatures at the bottom of the bond matched the names given at the top, one did not: instead of Richard Allen there was “Richd Emery”. (Also, Sarah signed with the surname “Aallen”!) |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £300 |
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1800s: 1802 | 1804 | 1807 (x2)
Sarah Allen
Will proved (L&C) 28 Apr 1802 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Widow being weak of Body but of perfect mind and memory” |
| Beneficiaries: | Mary Haycocks (niece) (the interest of £100 for her life); Mary Davies, Thomas Davies, Sarah Davies, Ann Haycocks, David Roberts, Sarah Humphreys, and John and Ann Lewis (children of Mary Haycocks’ sisters) (after the death of Mary Haycocks, the sum of £100 to divided equally between them); Mary Harris (sister) (1 shilling); Sarah Humphreyson (niece) (£100); Triphosa Haycock (niece) (£50); Jane Griffith of Wellington, daughter of Charles and Ann Swift (the interest of £40 for her life; after her decease the £40 to be divided equally between her children); Jane Haycocks (sister) (£10 “to be paid to her a Little at a time at the deserction of my Executors”); Joseph Barnfield of Edgmond and Elizabeth James (Godchildren) (£5 each); “Thos Allen Son of Sarah Allen {Shoe maker)” (£10); William Thomas (£10); Thomas Young (uncle) (£10 “to be paid to him a Little at a time at the descetion of my Executors”); Robt Allen, son of Thos Allen (“my late Husband Robt Allens Watch”); Ann Barnfield daughter of John Barnfield (£5). |
| Other wishes: | To be buried at High Ercall “and a flatt Grave stone placed over me”; “I will that all my Household Goods, furniture and Implements of Husbandry be Appraised and if William Humphreys thinks proper to keep the farm that I now live upon (if Mr. Richard Emmory Esqr is willing) then I will that he pay all the above Leggcies, and past my Linnen and Wearing Apparel Eaqually amongst the Legaties at his descetion”. |
| Executors: | William Humphreys and John Barnfield |
| Signed and dated: | 14 Nov 1801 |
| Witnesses: | Elizabeth Dicken, Joseph James and Thomas Shuker |
| Probate to: | The above-named executors; no marks or signatures. |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £100 |
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John Mancell
Will proved (L&C) 24 Oct 1804 at Newport
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “John Mancell of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Carpenter” |
| Property: | “my Dwelling House and the two Gardens belonging thereto situate lying and being in Watling Street in the Parish of Wellington […] (now in the Occupation of Thos Swift)” |
| Beneficiaries: | Thomas Mancell (brother) (1 shilling); William Mancell (brother) (1 shilling); Francis Mancell (brother) (1 shilling); Mary wife of Thomas Swift (sister) (1 shilling); Elizabeth Mancell (“my Loving Wife”) (the property at Watling Street described above for her life, and “all my Household Goods & Chattles live Stock and Wearing Apparel”); Jane Pidgeon (daughter) (after Elizabeth’s death, the property at Watling Street); Jane and Ann Pidgeon (granddaughters, daughter of Jane) (after their mother’s death, the property at Watling Street; with provisions made in case of the deaths of either or both before their mother). |
| Executors: | William Pidgeon (son-in-law) and Thomas Shuker |
| Signed and dated: | 25 Nov 1798 |
| Witnesses: | Thos Shuker, Matthew Icke, Sarah Parton |
| Probate to: | The above-named executors; no marks or signatures |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £100 |
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Thomas Hatton
Admon granted (L&C) 11 Sep 1807 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “late of Waters Upton in the County of Salop […] Clerk” |
| Administrator: | Leonora Hatton of Shrewsbury (widow, relict) |
| Additional bondsmen: | Stephen Jennins of Wrockwardine, esquire and John Doe, gent (Leonora and Stephen signed). |
| Date of death: | 15 May 1807 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £600 |
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John Dickin
Will proved (L&C) 22 Oct 1807 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Gentleman” |
| Property: | “All that Messuage Farm or Tenement with the Buildings Lands and Hereditaments thereto belonging situate lying and being in Waters Upton foresaid and which I some time ago purchased from Mr William Sherratt” and other property in places not specified. |
| Beneficiaries: | William Dickin (son) (£400, the property at Waters Upton described above, and, with his siblings, an equal share of the residue of the personal estate); John Dickin (son) (“All and every other my freehold Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever situate” and, with his siblings, an equal share of the residue of the personal estate); Mary Harper and Eleanor Venables (daughters) (with their brothers, each to receive an equal share of the residue of the personal estate). |
| Executors: | John Dickin and William Dickin (sons) |
| Signed and dated: | 13 Apr 1797 |
| Witnesses: | Egerton Leeke, Peter Machin, Wm: Machin |
| Codicil: | The £400 to son William Dickin revoked (sum already paid to him). The payment of equal shares of the residue of the personal estate to all four children revoked; to be paid instead in equal shares to sons John and William. Daughters Mary Harper and Eleanor Venables to receive equal shares of the £1,150 due to the testator from his son-in-law John Venables. Signed and dated 12 Aug 1803 Witnesses Mary Bayley, Benjn. Colley, Edward Bayley. |
| Probate to: | The above named executors |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £2,000 |
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1810s: 1812 | 1814 (x2) | 1815 | 1818 | 1819
George Jones
Admon granted (L&C) 27 May 1812 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “late of Waters Upton in the County of Salop […] a Widower […] without parent or Child” |
| Administrator: | Richard Jones of Mill Street, Shrewsbury, hostler (brother) |
| Additional bondsmen: | John Oliver of Coleham, victualler, and Samuel Perkes of the Abbey Foregate, shoemaker; all three signed. |
| Date of death: | 28 Apr 1812 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £200 |
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John Pidgeon
Will proved (L&C) 20 Apr 1814 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Gentleman” |
| Property: | “my Messuage or dwelling House with the Garden Hereditaments and Appurtenances thereto belong situate at Waters Upton aforesaid now in my possession” |
| Beneficiaries: | Ann Gough, Abigail Harris and Jane [Binnell?] (“Sisters of my late Wife”) (£33 6s 8d each over and above the sums due to them under the testator’s marriage settlement); John Harris (nephew) (£20); Henry Harris (nephew) (£20); Rosanna [Pidgeon] “now or late of Manchester” (“the now Wife of my Brother Thomas Pidgeon”) (the proceeds of £300 placed out at interest by the testator’s trustees, for her life); Rosanna [Pidgeon] (daughter of brother Thomas Pidgeon) (after the death of her mother, the proceeds of the £300, reinvested by the testator’s trustees); Margaret Betton (sister) (the proceeds of £300 placed out at interest by the testator’s trustees, for her life); Mary, Henrietta, Ann and Martha [Betton] (daughters of sister Margaret Betton) (after the death of their mother, the proceeds of the £200, reinvested by the testator’s trustees, share and share alike); Orlando Pidgeon (nephew) (£100 for his own use); William Pidgeon (nephew) (£20); James Pidgeon (brother) (1 shilling); Mary Ebrey (“my Servant”) (£70 over and above what she may be due in wages at the time of the testator’s death, and “the Bed on which she usually sleeps with the Bedstead and Hangings thereto belonging together with such two pair of Sheets one pair of Blankets and one Coverlid as she shall make choice of”, and “one Cow in case I shall be possessed of one at the time of my decease but not otherwise”); John Pidgeon (nephew) (property and Waters Upton described above and all other real estate subject to the various bequests charged upon it; household and goods and furniture not otherwise bequeathed; debts due; and the remainder of the personal estate. |
| Trustees and Executors: | John Pidgeon of Harecutt, Miller, and Orlando Pidgeon of Shrewsbury, tobacconist (nephews) |
| Signed and dated: | 10 Jan 1814 |
| Witnesses: | Tho Dickin, Richd Allen, Edwd Austin |
| Probate to: | The above-named executors |
| Date of death: | 19 Jan 1814 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £2,000 |
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Martha Austin
Will proved (L&C) 29 Sep 1814 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Widow”. |
| Property: | “the Lease Possession and Tenant Right of the several Messuages or Tenements Farl Lands and Hereditaments situate in Waters Upton aforesaid and now in the possession of myself and of John Matthews Thomas Bates John Meadows and Charles Evans as my Undertenants” |
| Beneficiaries: | Edward Austin (son) (the property described above and “all my stock thereupon as well quick as dead Emblements Household Goods Furniture Plate Linen and China ready money Securities for Money Credits and all other my personal Estate” subject to payment of bequests to his siblings and “in full satisfaction of his distributive share of the Estate and Effects of James Austin my late Husband and his late father”); John Austin of Longden upon Tern, miller (son) (£50); Mary wife of Thomas Hiles of Shrewsbury, miller (daughter) (£50); Martha wife of William Hanmer “of the Island of Aldernay Barrack Master” (daughter) (£50); Mary Austin widow of the testator’s late son Thomas Austin of Liverpool, innholder (daughter-in-law) (£50). |
| Trustees and Executors: | Alexander Keate of Shrewsbury, grocer, and Thomas Skitt of Longswood, farmer |
| Signed and dated: | 16 Aug 1814 |
| Witnesses: | Richd Allen, Waters Upton; Saml Shepherd, Newport; Thos Thurstans, Newport, Shropshire |
| Probate to: | Alexander Keate of Shrewsbury, grocer, and Thomas Skitt of Longs Wood, farmer |
| Date of death: | 20 Aug 1814 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £1,500 |
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Robert Wilbraham Bromhall Hill
Will proved (L&C) 17 Apr 1815 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “the Reverend Robert Wilbraham Bromhall Hill of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Clerk” |
| Property: | “my Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their and every of their Appurtenances situate in Waters Upton aforesaid” |
| Beneficiaries: | Elizabeth Hill (“my dear Wife”) (“all and singular my Household Goods Furniture Plate Linen China Carriages Horses Sheep Pigs Cows Farming Stock Corn Grain Hay Fodder Ready Money Securities for Money Credits and all other my Personal Estate” […] “for her own absolute Use and Benefit and to be by her disposed of as to her shall seem meet”) |
| Trustees and Executors: | The Reverend Robert Hill of Hough, Cheshire, Clerk (“my honored Father”) and John Hill of Dee Grove in in the City of Chester, esquire (“my beloved Brother”) |
| Signed and dated: | 29 Dec 1814 |
| Witnesses: | Lavinia Hankins, Ambrose Brookes Sol [= Solicitor] of Newport, Salop, Richard Maddox [Groom to / Servant ?] [W?] Hill |
| Probate to: | Robert Hill of the Hough in the parish of Wybunbury, Cheshire, clerk, and John Hill of St John’s in the city of Chester, esquire (no signatures or marks). |
| Date of death: | 13 Jan 1815 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £1,500 |
| Notes: | (1) The will deals at length with the sale of Hill’s real estate after his death by his trustees, and the payment from the monies raised to discharge expenses and debts, but seemingly not for payments of any legacies? (2) At the bottom of the last page of the will, writing has been added regarding what appears to have been a Chancery case in 1820 (Sarah [Webb?] Widow complainant, Robert Hill and others defendants); examination of witnesses involved showing the signature of Robert Maddox to the others who witnesses this will. (3) One of the printed forms accompanying the will was for grants of administration, but was adapted for to use for the grant of probate. |
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Thomas Hobson
Will proved (L&C) 22 Oct 1818 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Farmer being weak in Body but of perfect mind and Memory” |
| Beneficiaries: | Mary Hobson (“my loveing Wife”) (“all my Household Goods and Chattels Live Stock and Implements of Husbandry, for and during the term of her natural life”); Thomas Hobson, George Hobson, Mary Meadowes wife of John Meadows and Martha James wife of Francis James (children) (after the death of the testator’s wife, “what shall be remaining” [of the testator’s personal estate] “to be equally divided”. |
| Executor: | John Atcherley |
| Signed and dated: | 28 Sep 1807 |
| Witnesses: | Joseph James and William Pidgeon |
| Probate to: | John Atcherley of Waters Upton, yeoman (signed) |
| Date of death: | Feb 1818 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £100 |
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Joseph James
Will proved (L&C) 21 Oct 1819 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Farmer” |
| Property: | “my freehold Messuage, Lands, Tenements Hereditaments and Premises whereof I am seised in fee situate lying and being at Waters Upton […] now or late in the occupation of myself and Mary Matthews” |
| Beneficiaries: | Sarah James (“my dear Wife”) (property described above, and “the Use Interest and Enjoyment of All my Household Goods and Furniture Farming Stock and Implements in Husbandry, money in the Funds, Securities for money and all other my Goods, Chattels, Credits and Personal Estate” for her life); Joseph James (son) (after the death of the testator’s wife, the property described); Sarah James, Mary James, and Elizabeth Freeman wife of William Freeman of Meeson, tailor (daughters) (after the death of the testator’s wife, £50 each to Sarah and Mary, and equal shares of the remainder of the personal estate to all, share and share alike). |
| Executors: | John Webb of Cold Hatton, farmer, and Thomas Rider of Crudgington, Farmer |
| Signed and dated: | 3 Aug 1805 |
| Witnesses: | Elizabeth Newark, Jno. Small, [?] Newark |
| Probate to: | John Webb of Cold Hatton, farmer, the surviving executor (signed) |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £200 |
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Richard Nicklin
Will proved (L&C) 12 Apr 1820 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “Richard Nicklin the elder of the Heath Lane in the Township of Rowton in the Parish of High Ercall in the County of Salop Wheelwright” |
| Property: | “All that Messuage or Tenement wherein I now reside with the Hempbutt Garden Lands and other Appurtenances thereunto belonging situate in the Township of Rowton aforesaid And all that piece of Land lately inclosed from Ellerdine Heath allocated to me containing about three Quarters of an acre with the House and other Buildings erected by me thereon” |
| Beneficiaries: | Mary Nicklin (“my dear Wife”) (the property described above, all other real estate, and “all my household goods Furniture and Implements of Household Stock in trade Cattle Debts Credits ready Money and Securities for money and all other my personal Estate” for her life); Thomas Nicklin (son) (after the death of Mary Nicklin, the Ellerdine Heath property); Richard Nicklin (son) (after the death of Mary Nicklin, all real estate not devised to Thomas, subject to £105 being paid to the executor to add to the testator’s personal estate for payment of bequests as follows); John Nicklin, William Nicklin, Benjamin Nicklin, Elizabeth wife of William Corfield of Hadley, yeoman, Mary wife of William Morgan of Ellerdine, labourer, and Sarah wife of William Buttery of Rowton cordwainer (sons and daughters) (equal shares of the aforementioned £105, and of the remainder of the testator’s personal estate, share and share alike, but with an additional £3 each to be paid to all except John and Benjamin). |
| Trustee and Executor: | John Dicken of Waters Upton, gentleman (“my Friend”) |
| Signed and dated: | 11 Aug 1810 |
| Witnesses: | [Wid: ?] Morris, Chas Morris, Thos: Thurstans |
| Probate to: | John Dicken of Waters Upton, gentleman (signed, as Dickin) |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £100 |
| Note: | John Dicken described Richard as being of Waters Upton when he proved this will, hence its inclusion here. However this appears to have been an error on John’s part, or on the part of the clerk completing the form recording the information given when the will was proved. When his will was made in 1810, Richard said he was of Rowton Township. His son Samuel was baptised at Waters Upton in 1813, but the family’s abode was then recorded as being ‘Eath Lane’ (Heath Lanes, on the West side of Cold Hatton village), and although he was buried at Waters Upton, the burial register entry recorded that his abode was Cold Hatton. |
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Charles Evans
Will proved (L&C) 19 Oct 1820 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Victualler” |
| Beneficiaries: | Jane Evans (wife) (“all my household Goods and Furniture, Plate, Line, China, ready money securities for money and all the rest residue and remainder of personal Estate”). |
| Executors: | Jane Evans (wife) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 18 Nov 1813 |
| Witnesses: | John Acton, Mary Webb |
| Probate to: | Jane Evans of the parish of High Ercall, widow (X) |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £200 |
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Thomas Titley
Will proved (L&C) 2 May 1821 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the Parish of Waters Upton, and County of Salop Butcher: Being infirm in Body, But of Sound and disposing Mind & Memory” |
| Beneficiaries: | Jane Titley (daughter) (£20); Lidea Titley (daughter) (£10); Robert Titley (son) (£10); Elizabeth Titley (daughter) (£5). Remainder of property “to be equally divided amongst the whole of my Children, and every one to have an equal Share”. |
| Executors: | John Titley (son) and Elizabeth Titley (daughter) |
| Signed (X) and dated: | 2 Dec 1820 |
| Witnesses: | William Icke, William Dickin |
| Probate to: | John Titley of the parish of Waters Upton, butcher (signed); Elizabeth Titley’s power reserved. |
| Date of death: | 7 Dec 1820 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £100 |
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Richard Hill
Admon granted (L&C) 27 Nov 1821 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “late of the Parish of Waters Upton in the county of Salop […] Clerk” |
| Administrator: | “the Right Honourable Rowland Lord Hill Baron Hill Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military order of the Bath the natural and lawful Brother” |
| Additional bondsmen: | Richard Fox of the [?], gentleman, and Jonathan Nickson of Wem, gentleman; all three signed (Lord Hill simply as ‘Hill’) |
| Date of death: | 3 Sep 1821 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £1,000 |
| Note: | Died “a Bachelor leaving Sir John Hill Baronet his natural and lawful Father him surviving who hath under his hand and seal duly renounced his right to the same”. Letter from Sir John Hill of Hawkstone, Baronet, renouncing his “Right Title and Interest in and to Letters of Administration” and consenting to the same being granted to Rowland Lord Hill. |
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John Dickin
Will proved (L&C) 2 May 1821 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Gentleman” |
| Property: | “Freehold Messuages Lands tenements and Hereditaments situate lying and being in Waters Upton aforesaid and in Clive” |
| Beneficiaries: | John Dickin (son) (the property described above, subject to it being devised for a term of 1,000 years to the appointed trustees and their successors for purposes set out by the testator; residuary legatee); Elizabeth Dickin (“my dear Wife”) (the interest, dividends and proceeds of a sum of £3,000, raised by demise or mortgage of part of the testator’s property by the appointed trustees, for her life, plus the sum of £500); Sarah the wife of John Rider of Crudgington, Elizabeth Dickin, and Ann Dickin (daughters) (after the death of their mother, the aforementioned sum of £3,000 “share and share alike as tenants in common”, plus, in the case of Elizabeth and Ann, an additional £1,000 each, raised along with the aforementioned £3,000 by demise or mortgage of part of the testator’s property by the appointed trustees). |
| Trustees: | William Dickin of Waters Upton (brother) and Robert Venables of Losford (nephew), gentlemen. |
| Executors: | “my said Wife and Son” |
| Signed and dated: | 16 May 1820 |
| Witnesses: | Edward Austin, John Madeley, Wm: Nock |
| Probate to: | John Dickin of Waters Upton, farmer (signed) |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £2,000 |
| Note: | In the probate document accompanying the will, John was described as a farmer. |
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William Dickin
Will proved (L&C) 15 Jan 1831 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Gentleman” |
| Property: | “Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as well Freehold as Copyhold which are vested in me”; “my Messuage or Dwelling house with the Buildings Garden Land and Appurtenances thereto belonging or usually occupied therewith situate at Waters Upton aforesaid now or late in the holding of John Titley, Butcher or his undertenants”; “my Messuage or Dwelling house with the Buildings Garden Farm Lands and Hereditaments thereto belong or now occupied therewith situate at Waters Upton aforesaid now in my own Possession” |
| Beneficiaries: | John Cartwright of Peplow (son-in-law) (a mortgage debt or sum of £300); Elizabeth Dickin (“my dear Wife”) (property at Waters Upton held by John Titley for the use of her and her heirs and assigns forever; “All my Household Goods and Furniture Plate Linen China Books Pictures Beds Bedding and Household Provisions […] in […] the Dwelling House wherein I now reside situate at Waters Upton”; dividends, interest and proceeds of investments made with the testator’s money plus money generated by the sale of all real and personal estate not already disposed of, for her life); Margaret, Robert, Sarah, Thomas and Elizabeth (children – eldest son John excluded as already provided for) (after the death of the testator’s wife Elizabeth, the aforementioned monies invested by the trustees, divided so that Robert and Thomas receive equal shares that amount to £100 each more than received by Sarah and Elizabeth, and so that Sarah and Elizabeth receive equal shares that amount to £300 each more than received by Margaret, wife of John Cartwright; provisions made for children of any sons or daughter dying during the testator’s lifetime, for reallocation of the shares of any children dying without issue). |
| Trustees: | John Dickin of Waters Upton, gentleman (nephew), and Thomas Groucock of Meeson, gentleman |
| Executors: | Wife, and son John Dickin |
| Signed and dated: | 6 Dec 1828 |
| Witnesses: | Edward Anslow, Charles Fowler, Wm: Nock |
| Probate to: | Elizabeth Dickin of Waters Upton, widow, and John Dickin of the parish of Ashley, Staffordshire, farmer (before Wright Willett, Commissioner); both signed. |
| Date of death: | 5 Sep 1830 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £600 |
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Richard Jones
Will proved (L&C) 20 Apr 1837 at Salop (Shrewsbury)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop, being in good health and of perfect mind and memory”; gardener (occupation provided by executors) |
| Property: | “the over House Garden, Warehouse, Shop and the use of the pump, now in the occupation of John Griffiths” and “the lower House Workshop, Stable Garden and use of the Pump |
| Beneficiaries: | George Jones (son) (the ‘above House’ property, with the first year’s rent after the testator’s death “to be applied to cover the said House with Tile”); Elizabeth [Jones] (“the present Wife of my Son George Jones”) (the rent of the aforementioned property for her life, “providing she lives longer than her husband”); Rachel Humphreys (the same Estate, after the deaths of George and Elizabeth Jones); John Humphreys (the ‘lower House’ property, with the first eight years’ rent after the testator’s death “to be put out to Interest to the best advantage to clear off the Mortgage and keep the Houses in good repair”); Richard Jones of Minsterley (Godson) (“my silver buttons”). |
| Other wishes: | “no second wife or Issue [of son George] shall have claim on the [above House]”; “I also will that they neither sell nor Mortgage the above Estates, but their lawful Heirs enjoy them for ever” |
| Executors: | John Humphreys and George Jones |
| Signed and dated: | 24 Jan 1835 |
| Witnesses: | Richard Jones, Ann Jones, Thomas Taylor |
| Probate to: | John Humphreys of Crudgington, blacksmith, and George Jones of Shrewsbury, tailor; both signed. |
| Date of death: | 26 Sep 1836 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £5 |
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Sarah Allen
Will proved (PCC) 6 Jul 1837 at London
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Widow” |
| Beneficiaries: | Charles Allen (son) (“all my money securities for money and all other my personal estate” |
| Executor: | Charles Allen (son) |
| Signed and dated: | 9 Feb 1833 |
| Witnesses: | Edward Anslow, Wm Nock |
| Probate to: | The above Charles Allen |
| Note: | Proving this will may have prompted Charles to apply for letters of administration in respect of his sister Sarah (see next). |
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Sarah Allen
Admon granted (L&C) 1 Dec 1837 at Lichfield; second grant Mar 1843
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “late of Waters Upton in the County of Salop […] Spinster […] who died intestate without Father” [*] |
| Administrator: | Charles Allen of Waters Upton (brother), gentleman / farmer |
| Additional bondsmen: | Edward Anslow of Waters Upton, farmer, and Henry Morris of Wellington, saddler [bond dated 30 Nov 1837]; Jonathan [Scarth?] of Shrewsbury, gentleman, and George [Ch__e?] of Shrewsbury, timber merchant [bond dated 4 Mar 1843]; all parties signed. |
| Date of death: | 26 Apr 1819 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £300 (sworn on 30 Nov 1837) / £600 (sworn on 4 Mar 1843) |
| Note: | * “leaving Sarah Allen Widow her natural and lawful Mother surviving who is since dead without having taken out Letters of administration of her Goods and Personal Estate”. |
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William Icke
Will proved (L&C) 22 Oct 1851 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Victualler” |
| Beneficiaries: | Eleanor Icke (wife) (interest, dividends and produce of investments made with money generated by the sale of all real and personal estate, for her life); Robert Icke and Elizabeth Atcherley (son and daughter) (after Eleanor Icke’s death, equal shares, as tenants in common, of the aforementioned trust monies, investments, and the interest and produce from them, with provision made for Elizabeth’s children in the event of her death during the testator’s life). |
| Trustees and Executors: | Eleanor Icke (wife), Robert Icke (son), Robert Atcherley of the Moortown, gentleman (son-in-law) |
| Signed and dated: | 16 Jun 1849 |
| Witnesses: | Richard Palin, solicitor, Salop [= Shrewsbury], Edwin Evans, his clerk |
| Probate to: | Eleanor Icke of Waters Upton, widow; Robert Icke of Waters Upton, farmer; Robert Atcherley of the Moortown, gentleman |
| Date of death: | 6 Jul 1851 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £200 |
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Mary Corfield
Admon granted (L&C) 1 Jul 1852 at Lichfield
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “late of Waters Upton in the County of Salop […] Spinster […] who died intestate without parent” |
| Administrator: | John Corfield of Rudge in the parish of Pattingham, Staffordshire, labourer (brother and only next of kin) |
| Additional bondsmen: | John Heatley of Eaton upon Tern, miller, and John Alltree of Wellington, attorney’s clerk; all three signed. |
| Date of death: | 24 May 1852 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £200 |
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Thomas Whitfield
Will proved (L&C) 20 Apr 1853 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Farmer” |
| Beneficiaries: | Ann Whitfield (“my dear Wife”) (household goods and furniture to the value of £100, to be chosen by her; interest, dividends and annual proceeds of trust moneys raised by sale of testator’s real and personal estate, for her life or until her remarriage, “she maintaining and educating thereout all my children” until they reach the age of 24); unnamed children, five or more in number (after the death or remarriage of Ann Whitfield, each to receive an equal share of the aforementioned trust moneys on reaching the age of 24; legacies of £500 each on reaching the age of 24, with larger sums specified in the event of any of them dying without issue, up to £800 apiece if fewer than four of them so surviving). |
| Trustees and Executors: | Richard Whitfield of Stoke upon Tern, farmer, and John Whitfield of Wellington, grocer (brothers). |
| Guardians of children: | The above, plus Ann Whitfield (wife) |
| Signed and dated: | 12 Nov 1852 |
| Witnesses: | Walter Minor, Wollerton; Mary Minor, Wollerton |
| Probate to: | Executors named; both signed. |
| Date of death: | 18 Feb 1853 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £800 |
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Matthew Davies
Will proved (L&C) 26 Apr 1855 at Salop (Shrewsbury)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “of Waters Upton in the County of Salop Tailor” |
| Property: | “Messuage and Dwelling House and all appurtenances thereto belonging and […] Lands situate in the Parish of Waters Upton” |
| Beneficiaries: | Elizabeth Davies (“my beloved Wife”) (property described above, “and also all my Household furniture Plate Linen and all other my Estate and effects”; executors also to pay rents, interests, profits and produce for her life); William Davies of Waters Upton, tailor (son) (after the death of Elizabeth Davies, the testator’s messuage and lands in Waters Upton as previously described, his household furniture, live and dead stock, money, securities for money and all other property for his life subject to payment of legacies to his sister; residue of real and personal estate); Emma Harper, wife of John Harper of the Lion Inn, Edgmond (daughter) (£50 and a feather bed); Sarah Wilson wife of David Wilson of the Black Lion Inn, Wem (daughter) (£50 and a feather bed); unnamed grandchildren (children of son and daughters already named) (after death of William Davies, proceeds of the sale of the testator’s house and land, to be equally divided between them). |
| Executors: | William Davies (son), David Wilson of the Black Lion, Wem, innkeeper (son-in-law) |
| Signed and dated: | 7 Nov 1854 |
| Witnesses: | Saml Edge, Charles Weever |
| Probate to: | Executors named; both signed |
| Date of death: | 10 Mar 1855 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £100 |
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John Titley
Admon granted (L&C) 16 Apr 1856 at Watling Street (Wellington)
| Occupation / status, etc.: | “late of Waters Upton in the County of Salop […] Butcher […] & a Widower” |
| Administrator: | Thomas Titley of Waters Upton, butcher (son) |
| Additional bondsmen: | Robert Icke of Ercall Magna, gentleman, and Edward Vickers of Ketley, gentleman; all three signed. |
| Date of death: | 5 Mar 1856 |
| Personal estate: | Valued at no more than £800 |
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Waters Upton One-Place Study 