Catharine Young alias White alias Cross 1650

Archdeacon Will 1650A #08 German will of Catharine Young alias White alias Cross, dated 18 May 1650:  
Summary: first husband Michael White, son William White, son Michael White, grandson Michael White, 2nd husband xxxx Young is not mentioned; son Henry 
Young, granddau Christian Crellin, dau Alice Young (married [Henry] Crellin), also: George Sharples & Mrs Sharples, witness: John Sharples & William 
Cosnahan & Charles xxxx, pledges: [brother in law] John Leece [married to Margaret Cross] & John Hutchin.
NOTE, that the surname 'White' and 'Whitehead' were interchangeable in the early through mid 1600s.
Will of son: ArW 1672A #14 German will of William White/Whitehead, died 3 December 1672: wife xxxx Crellin is alive, son Michael, dau Jane, dau Dolly/
Dorothy, grandson Thomas Fairbrother, granddau Isabel Whitehead, brother Henry Young, Richard Whitehead, son in law Randle Fairbrother.
son: German parish register: William Whithead, buried 3 December 1672.
Will of son in law: ArW 1655A #16 German will of Henry Crellin, dated 30 January 1654/5: wife Alice Young [half sister of William Whitehead] died shortly 
before Henry, eldest dau Christian Crellin, youngest sons Thomas & Henry Crellin, youngest dau Catharine (infirm), son John, brother John, brother in law 
William Whitehead, brother in law Henry Young, cousin William Huddleston, sisters Ann & Mary, brother? Sir Thomas Harrison, also: servant Marriad Clague.
See also regarding daughter Alice: See also ArWills, 1637 Censure of William Cosnahan, vicar of German: Alice Crellin alias Young, wife of Henry Young, 
was falsely accused by Sir William of sorcery and witchcraft.
?Son in law: 1662 Liber Vastarum, German: This day [16 May 1662] Mr John Crellin clerk & Mary his sister came to the records so that their names might be 
entered for their mother's part or half of the cottage houses & gardens situated in Peeltown by virtue of a bill of gift made to them by their mother, as 
appears under her hand & seal, against which entry John son of Henry who was brother of the said Mr John Crellin have an agreement dated 25 July 1662 
Castletown, between Mr John Crellin vicar of Kk Arbory & John Crellin son of Henry Crellin Cordwainer.
See also:  Michael Whitehead & John Leece & Silvester Cross & Philip Cross had a physical altercation with Sir William Cosnahan after Sir William raped 
John Leece's wife (Margaret Cross) etc, per 1637 censure of Sir William Cosnahan.
?Son: German parish register: Michal White buried 11 November 1713.
See son & son in law: 1666 Liber Vastarum, German:  Michael Whitehead had a cottage at villa de holme of 1d rent, 
and in 1666 Henry Young was in possession of it and was entered for it.
See son: 1666 Liber Vastarum, German: Gilbert Callow had farmland in Ballatersin treen of 1 1/2d rent, and William Whitehead had been in possession 
of it for several years & paid the rent and was now in 1666 for the land, per his bargain of sale.
?See son in law: 1666 Liber Vastarum, German: Henry Crellin had farmland of 2s 7d rent in Ballaterson treen, 
& he was dead so his son John was entered for it in 1666.
?See son in law: 1666 Liber Vastarum, German: Henry Crellin had several parcels of intack land (for 4d rent, & 2d, & 2d, & 1d rent 
belonging to Balladoyne treen, and he was dead so his son John Crellin was entered for them in 1666.
?See son in law: 1666 Liber Vastarum, German: Henry Crellin had several cottages in Peeltown / villa de Holme, for 6d yearly rent & 15d rent & 1d rent, 
but he was now dead by 1666, so his son John Crellin was entered for them.  
?See son in law: 1666 Liber Vastarum, German: Henry Crellin had a parcel of intack land in All Kneebe treen for 3d rent, and his son John Crellin was 
entered as heir, and John then sold land of 1 1/2d rent to Alex Young, who was entered for it, with John entered for the rest in 1670; the land bought by 
Alex was reserved by any right of the wife and children of John Crellin according to contract bargain & other conditions.
?See brother etc: 1663 Liber Vastarum, German: Michael Cross had a cottage for 4d rent, and he & his wife & their son 
Hercules sold it to William Fairbrother who was entered for it in 1663.
?See son: 1666 Liber Vastarum, German: Robert Hodgson/Hutchin had a parcel of intack belonging to Balladoyne treen of 1/2d rent, 
and William Whitehead was in possession of it and was paying the rent, so he was entered for it in 1666.
?See son: 1666 Liber Vastarum, German: Humphrey Clark had a parcel of intack belonging to Balladoyne treen of 2d rent 
and his daughters sold it to William Whitehead who was entered for it in 1666.
?See son: 1666 Liber Vastarum, German: Humphrey Clark had a parcel of intack belonging to Ballaterson treen of 10d rent and he sold it to William Whitehead 
& John Wattleworth who were entered for it in 1656 as recorded in the Chancery Book for 1656, and William & John were entered in the Liber Vastarum in 1666.
?See brother: 1696 Liber Vastarum, German: Michael Cross had farmland in Ballatesin treen for 16d rent, and Thomas Dawson had possession of it 
and was entered for it in 1696. 
   ??Are Michael & Thomas somehow related:  German parish register: Jane Cross als Dawson, Peeltown buried 1 March 1725 Dawson.
?See: 1696 Liber Vastarum, German: William Whitehead & Michael Cross jointly had farmland in Ballatesin treen, each for 18d yearly rent, 
and were each entered for it in 1696 (& before).
Brother: Michael Cross brother in law & overseer of children of Captain Thomas Taubman will 1651A #08 German.
Brother: Michael Cross brother? & witness to the will & pledge for the inventoried goods of Thomas Cross will 1657A #04 German.

The Inventory of Kathrin Crosse
alias Younge taken this 18th
June 1650

[torn]---- flaxen sheets ix payre
In rough sheets payres  ...... 7
five pilloe beers
3 smalle towels
3 course towels
one smalle table cloath
2 course table cloaths
In fledges  ........  8
In blankets eight
Too old blanckets
Too coverlets
three carpets
three payre curtains
a valens
ffower feathrbeds
ffower bolsters
three pillows
In cushins .... 7
3 chests & a truncke
a little table, 3 bedsteeds
five forms & a little
dresser at ye cubbardside
In chares fower; 1 joynt
stoolle & a little presse
& 1 Irish booard
In barrells 6;  3 firkins
2 stonds  3 water pales;
In trenchers 16; 2 tubb;
one brewinge combe
a table in ye brew house
and a frame for drinke
wth 2 churnes  3 bassons
2 woodden dishes  2 bake=
boards; woodden cans  7
one tundish; piggins 5;
Too posset cups; one
--an mugge; 1 earthen chafen
dish; 2 butter pots; summa: 
totall:  18£

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3 blacke cups; --- earthen
dishes; a brasse chaffen dish;
2 brasse s----ners; 2 brass
laddles & a baister;
one payre trippets  1 grater
1 drippinge pan tinne
tooe brasse pots; 5 brasse
panners; 2 iron pots; 2
brasse candlesticks
2 pewter candlesticks
In sawcers 6; 2 bigger
sawcers;  one flagon
1 pewter qrte & a pinte
In pewter dishes 20tie
2 doubble salts;
2 silver spoones
3 rough sheets  2 sa----
2 ringes  2 sieves  1 weight 
one wier candlestick an
Iron poille for ye oven;
2 cowe hides; 1 payre
pott hookes;
In horses one horsse; too
mayres
Tooe mayres & a colt 
and a cowe  ........ 30s 8d
In sheep staven younge
and olde;  & 2 lambes  14s
   Summa  ... 8£ 5s
Summa totallis Invent
	xxvj£ [26£]  5s:
besydes all legacies
praysers: Wm: Stevenson
Jo: Leece; & Edm: Cubbuns
Jo: Hutchen;   The 
Executrs: at lawefull yeres
have given in for pledge
to secure ye office
Jo: Leece & Jo Hutchin  pledges 
Secundum forma legis

[written on the back of the above:]
Note the curteins
and valenc were
rated to ...... 15s
wch is to bee added 
to the Inventory

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	Mrty 18 1650
In ye name of God Amen, I Kathrin Young alias Cross
sicke & weake in body, but of pfect memory prayse be
God, doe make & ordayne This my last will & Testament
In manner & fforme ffolloweing:    ffirst I bequeath my
Soulle to God my Creator & Jesus Christe my Sa-----[dark & torn]
----nd my body to ye Earth;    I leave to ye poore at all
hallowtyde one barelle malt & ye rest at discrecon    I
leave to my sonne Willim: White 3 payre fine or smalle
sheets, & 2 rough payre for his fathers pte of
sheets & myne;    Itm I leave him a course towel
a table cloath, dj dozen table napkins, 2 pillow
beers;   Itm whereas there was 3 feather beds at
his fathers death whereof care of yem was given 
mee to his brother Michaell, I leave him his fa=
thers pte & my my pte of ye same bed remayinge wth a
coverlet, a white blanket, & a gray blanket;   Itm
I leave him my sd sonne Wm: White my halfe of
pxxx of ye house to his fathers halfe;    To my grand
child Michaell White one heffer of 3 yere olde xxxx
Jo: Hutchin    Itm I leave appoynt & ordeyne my
true & lawefull executors of all ye rest of my -----=
ly goods unbequeathed my sonne Henry Young
and my grandchild Christian Crellin;    Itm I leave
to Mrs Sharples vs  1 silver syxxxx   To Mr xxxxxxxx
To George Sharples 4 yeards fine linnen foxxxxx
To Sr: Wm: a mutton sheepe;    To my maid servent Jony[?] -------[dark & torn]
a fledge, a blanket a tubbe & a crubet  -----
xxxxxx a red pettycote    Item I leave to my ------[dark & torn]
Hen: Young ye little chamber I now lye i-----[dark & torn]
bought since ye death of my first husband Mic-----[dark & torn]
White;     Itm I leave to my sd sonne Henry ye Dresser
allso wch I bought after ye decease of my sd husband
Michaell White;    Itm I leave him allso  
a fledge & a blanket, all these I leave to 
my sd sonne Hen: out of ye whole for yt w------- ------[dark & torn]
love wch I beare unto him;   Itm I leave & be-----[dark & torn]
to my good daughter Alice all my flax ---[dark & torn]
nen & woollinge unbequeathed    Itm more to my ---------[torn]
ye brewing pan & a caddow;    Itm more to my sonne H-------[torn]
wch is wth Wm: Cosnahan		  Testes	John Shap---[torn]
					Willm: Cosn----------[torn]
	Wm Cos:  Jo: Leece		Cha: ---
	Wm Qua---         more to my sone Wm: 
	         the bedsteed in the howe[?] chamber ------[dark & torn]
	         on the street side

[The following was written along the side of the paper and is partly hidden in the inside binding fold.]
Itm to my daughter I leave my --------[dark and in fold]

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Charles Ratliffe claymeth of ye execrs: or Administrs: 
of Katherin Crosse the summe of vj£ as appeareth 
by specialty and for wch hee craveth the law
pcesse is graunted and the ptyes are to appear
at a Court houlden att KK Michaell fryday
next being the 6th day of this instant Decembr
1th 1650

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