The revd. Metyer Reynolds was c48 when he married. There were no children. The wife was buried in her home village of Forncett. She leaves all her substantial property to a naval officer resident Norwich: a presumed relation not investigated. Metyer Reynolds, buried Gisleham, left £50 pa to an assumed housekeeper(?) when he died. Perhaps its fanciful to wonder if there was some pressure for him to marry in a vain attempt to perpetuate his adoptive family, although I can't see how this could have worked. After founding the school for 6 poor boys at Gisleham, the remainder of his estate was to be shared amongst his nephews/nieces and their children. One of these great nephews, Metyer Reynolds Allen, is transported for theft of an Ass but has an estate of £50 which eventually (1894) passes to HIS great niece. I suspect this is his share of Metyer's estate which came his way after his transportation. He would have been 100 in 1894, so evidently presumed deceased.
It seems Metyer Reynolds was baptised John Reynolds, Hethersett 1712. In 1725 Edward, the last male of the Metyer family died at Salhouse. He left a widow and a married Metyer Aunt, Mary Appleton. Presumably it was one of these who sponsored John Reynolds as organist scholar at Emanuel from 1733. When Revd. Metyer Reynold's nephew, Metyer Reynolds, grocer of Norwich, died in 1790 there is a notice in the IPSWICH Journal which wrongly names him as John Metyer Reynolds whereas the Norwich notice correctly names him as Metyer Reynolds. Someone in Ipswich got their wires crossed.
