Author Topic: Will of Isaac Anningson of Whitby 1661  (Read 503 times)

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Will of Isaac Anningson of Whitby 1661
« on: Tuesday 31 August 21 09:15 BST (UK) »
I am stuck on a few words in this Will.  Can anyone decipher them for me, please?  When I typed "mentioned" in snip 1 line 3 with square brackets around the i, the rest of my post turned into italics, that's why I have left it as ment[i)oned. Weird, as the other square brackets were OK.

snip 1

I give and Bequeath to my brothers, vizt, Joseph Anningson of Whitby and Henry Noble the younger of Lairpoole to each
of them the Some of Tenn Shillings, as a token of my true love to them, And I doe appointe them to be the Sole and Lawfull
Sus?inors of this my last will and Testament to se[e] that every p[ar]ticuler person herein ment[i)oned have their due parts paid them by
my executrix hereinafter named, (of whose faithfullness I have noe doubt) but to putt this my will in p[er/ro?]in?uall forme;

snip 2

The condition of the right edge of the document is such that some words may have to be an educated guess!

Then my will and minde is that, that Childe, Male or female, shall have a portion deducted forth of ? ?
portions aforesaid as the said ?eoffe? in Trust, and my executrix shall think most fitt and convenient, anything ? to ?
thereof in any wise notwithstanding; Also my mind and will is that if it shall please god that any of my said ?
children shall happen to dye before the severall ages or Marriages aforesaid then that such childes part or portion shall ?
be equally divided amongst the rest which shall be then living (onely on[e] third part thereof, to be to my executrix)

Thank you.



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Re: Will of Isaac Anningson of Whitby 1661
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 31 August 21 11:14 BST (UK) »
ciip 1
'sup(er)visors'

Clip 2
line 2
'ffeoffes'

As you say, the right hand side is pretty unreadable. It's a bit difficult the way you have cropped it, to see how much further the edge of the page is. Are we looking at maybe one word missing, or could there be several before you get of the edge of the page? Looks as if there may be room for more than one word to me.

By the way, on the first, second and fourth lines in clip 2, 'portions' is spelt here as 'porc(i)on' and 'porc(i)ons'.
Same with 'mentioned' in the first clip - here spelt 'menc(i)oned'. It was a very common way of spelling these endings.
Lane, Burgess: Cheshire. Finney, Rogers, Gilman:Derbys
Cochran, Nicol, Paton, Bruce:Scotland. Bertolle:London
Bainbridge, Christman, Jeffs: Staffs

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Re: Will of Isaac Anningson of Whitby 1661
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 31 August 21 11:28 BST (UK) »
"but to putt this my will in punctuall forme"

I'm not certain about "punctuall".  If it is correct, perhaps it means that he wants the supervisors to ensure that his will is executed fairly promptly.

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Re: Will of Isaac Anningson of Whitby 1661
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 31 August 21 12:56 BST (UK) »
Thank you both for your suggestions and corrections, gratefully received.

goldie61 - I was fairly sure that the word supervisors ended in nors but agree that it must be as you say, nothing else would make sense.  I did think the t in portion looked more like a c but didn't think that might be an alternative way of spelling it, thought it might just be the clerk's way of writing a t sometimes.

I am posting a snip of the relevant part of the right edge of the document.

Watson - thanks for your suggestion of punctuall, it certainly looks like that.


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Re: Will of Isaac Anningson of Whitby 1661
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 21 February 23 20:59 GMT (UK) »
I've just discovered this conversation. I'm researching my husband's ancestors and have got back to Ann Annison, daughter of Isaac. I should love to have his will in full, even though it's difficult to read. Could you send it to me, via my website https://faysampson.co.uk/, or let me know where I can obtain it? You'll find lots of Whitby ancestors on this site.