Hi
My earliest ancestors lived in Hargrave in Suffolk. Unfortunately there are no surviving parish registers pre about 1700 so I have tried to piece the families together from Wills & Bishop' transcripts and a lot of the BTs are missing. There is a 20 year gap 1640-1660 which includes the inter regnum years. There were 2 couples, the men possibly brothers, producing children in the 1570s & 1580s. Only found 2 baptisms per couple but from the wills of the 2 males & the wife of one of them in the 1600s there were a lot more children.
My question is, in their wills would they have named their children in the order they were born?
Also if a son was named as an executor would he have been at least 21 years old?
I also haven't found any wills in the inter regnum years for sons of these couples which I would have expected given that they appeared quite well off.
Moggie
My earliest ancestors lived in Hargrave in Suffolk. Unfortunately there are no surviving parish registers pre about 1700 so I have tried to piece the families together from Wills & Bishop' transcripts and a lot of the BTs are missing. There is a 20 year gap 1640-1660 which includes the inter regnum years. There were 2 couples, the men possibly brothers, producing children in the 1570s & 1580s. Only found 2 baptisms per couple but from the wills of the 2 males & the wife of one of them in the 1600s there were a lot more children.
My question is, in their wills would they have named their children in the order they were born?
Also if a son was named as an executor would he have been at least 21 years old?
I also haven't found any wills in the inter regnum years for sons of these couples which I would have expected given that they appeared quite well off.
Moggie
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