Description:

Documents:
1. Will dated 26 May 1729 .
Beneficiaries: To wife, Mary and daughter, Mary, jointly, the dwelling house and garden etc. for the lifetime of the wife thereafter to the daughter and her heirs, provided wife does not re-marry. If she does marry again then the property goes to the daughter. Also to the both, all the household goods, cattle and chattels to be divided between them.
To son, John, 2/6d 
 
Executors: The two Marys.

Marked by the testator

Witnesses: Phillip James, James Davies and Thomas Price.

Date of Probate: 3 March 1759 .

2. Inventory: [plus copy] dated 10 June 1755 , value £4 4 5d. Appraisers Thomas Gronow and Edward Farr.

Observations:

This is an unusual set of documents in that the will was made 30 years before the date of probate. Not only that, but the inventory was made in 1755, 4 years before probate. It seems that the deaths of the two executrices may have created some of the difficulties. The inventory lists unusually, potatoes and loaves of bread. Documents include a bond, incomplete with page 2 missing, a registration instruction, an Admon and a coversheet; 7 sheets in all.