Gyn Connell / Cannell / Conilt alias Leice / Leece 1600

Submitted by: Joyce M Oates
Date: 16 April 2019
Original: 0991433

Episcopal Will 1600E #066 Patrick will of Gyn Connell / Cannell / Conilt alias Leice / Leece, died 30 January 1600/1:   
summary: husband xxxx Connell / Cannell / Conilt is not mentioned, dau Isabel Connell married to John Quilliam, brother? John Leece also: Joney --shen, 
Alice Shollan?, Ellin Boddaugh,  Alice Mylchreest, John Coole owed the testator 3s, & Duncan Ameihe owed 2s, witnesses: Thomas Clark & Wiliam Quine.
QUESTION, is 'Gyn' short for 'Ginnett' which morphed into Joney?
AW Moore in Manx Names, 1906, indicates that Conilt / Conill / Coonill / Connell, etc, 'are probably merely forms of Cannell.'  

Sncti Pat-----[crumbled top] The testament of Gyn Leice wch depted the 30 of J----[edge] Left and bequeathed to the poore 1 boule meale dj firl---[edge] wheate one firlott ote meale and flesh at the discret---[edge] of the executor Itm bequeathed to Jonie eni --shen one heffer of ij yeare olde, Itm: to Ales Shollan[?] 1 sheepe one goate and one cartcheffe To Ellyn Bodaighe 1 coate 1 sheepe and one cartchheffe To Ales eni lechriste one cartcheffe Itm the woorke of an oxe one yeare to John Leece th-----[dark] of certeyne Irishe boords wch was in the house To Thomas ----- to Doncan Ameihe [?] one manta oweinge to the exec ijs wch he oweth me Itm constituted and ordeyned her sonne in lawe John Quyllam and her daughter Essabell Conyll wife unto ye sd John her true and Lawfull executors more unto the poore 1 blankett pbatu est et solvit xijd debtes oweing unto the sayed testatrix John Coole .............. iijs testes Thomas Clerke Doncan Ameihe ........... ijs iurati Wyllm Quyne The executr: at Lawfull yeares

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