| Submitted by: | Joyce M Oates |
| Date: | 22 August 2021 |
| Original: | Manorial rolls (not filmed) |
ManxWill 1634M #21 Braddan will of Catharine Lewin alias Creer, died 21 March 1634/5: Summary: husband Daniel/Donold Lewin is alive [he remarried to widow Margaret Corkill alias Callow, widow of John Corkill, will of Daniel ArW 1647A #28 Braddan] eldest son Daniel/Donold Lewin (of age), dau Bahie Lewin (not married, of age), dau Catharine Lewin (not married, underage), son John Lewin (of age), pledge John Christian, witnesses: Sir Patrick Thompson & John xxxx, NOTE that the inventory includes 2 hives of bees. Braddan parish register: Katherin Lewn als Creer buried 21 March 1634/5. Husband: Braddan parish register: Donold Lewne buried 6 February 1649. Will of husband: ArW 1647A #28 Braddan will of Daniel Lewin, dated 6 February 1647/8: 1st wife [Catharine Creer died 21 March 1634/5, MmW 1634M #21 Braddan], 2nd wife Margaret Corkill alias Callow who was previously married to John Corkill, dau Catharine & son John (their mother is dead), dau Bahie (left a hive of bees), grandson John Lewin, stepson John, stepson Robert Corkill & stepdau Mary Corkill (their father is John Corkill, Mary is to marry grandson John Lewin), brother Richard Lewin; witnesses: John Christian, John Lewin, & Richard Lewin. Will of father: ArW 1630A #23 Braddan will of John Creer, dated 22 November 1629, has sheep at Rheast Mooar and at Carraghan mountain: wife Margaret Stevenson is alive, son & heir William Creer, dau Catharine, dau Ellin, dau Elizabeth/Bessy, dau Averick, dau Joney (& husband), dau Ann (not married), son Nicholas Creer (his sons John senior & John junior Creer & William Creer), granddau Bahie Lewin, grandson Donold/Daniel Lewin, grandson John Quay, grandson Robert Quay, grandson William Cowin, supervisors of children: Robert Quayle senior, Philip Moore, Robert Craine, and Paul Crebbin; witnesses: John Thompson vicar & John Harrison, pledges: Robert Craine & Edmund Quine. Husband & son [or grandson?]: 1691 Composition Book, Braddan: Daniel/Donold Lewin was entered for farmland in 1643, and in 1691, John Lewin [his son, or grandson?] was tenant of it, with lives in being determined.
--- Braddan the 21th of March 1634 --- --- ----- of God amen, I Katheren Leaine sick in ----- ---d, and of good and pfect memorie, praysed be God ---- last will and Testament in maner and forme followinge, ---- mitte my soule to God, and my bodie to Christian buriell, Itm --- the poore 1 boule malt, 1 firlet wheat and oate meale at ---- the exec, and iiij betwixt muttons and sheep, Itm to my daug------ the raw cloth wch is at Thomas Joyners, Itm to my daughter Kath---- yeards of read cloth, and ij blankets, Itm to either of my s---- viz: Bahie and Katheren 4 boules of corne apeece betwixt ----- wheat at or before ther mariadge, Itm to my sone Jo: ij b---- mault and wheat, Itm my pt of the ryding horse to my husband ---- ---anie [or ---aine] Itm to my eldest son Danold halfe the teame, wth halfe ---- --- corne, paying the foresaid portions of corne, to my other child ----- Patricke Thompson a mutton, Itm constituted and ordained my ----- --- Jo:, Bahie and Katheren Leaine executors of all the ----- ---ds moveable and unmoveable Pa---- pbatum est et solvit xijd testes Jo: ---- iurati Inventory before the next Chaptr sub paena Juris [previous page, a small piece of paper:] Inventorie of the goods of Katheren Creer alias Leanie due to her children as followeth Inprmis ix betwixt oxen, kyne and heffers 6£ 15s ---[edge] Itm 1 horse iij maires & afollowercoult.. iij£ iijs Itm betwixt muttons & sheep 12 ............ 18s Itm in household stuffe ................... 12s Itm iij sheetes ........................... 12s Itm in bed clothes ........................ 12s Itm in fetherbeds beds .................... 15s Itm in pewter dishes ...................... 3s Itm ij pures .............................. 3s 4d Itm 1 silver spoone ....................... Itm more husbandrie geare ................. 6s Itm more two hives of bees, Itm due of these goods to Katheren Leanie being under yeares 1 oxe 1 cowe, 1heffersteare ij yeares old ---- ---- iiij betwixt muttons & sheep 6s Itm 1 maire 21s Itm her pt of the household stuffe 4s Itm her pt of the sheets 4s, her pt of the bed clothes 4s her pt of the fether beds 5s, her pt of the pewter ---es 1s, her pt of the purs 1s 1d, & her pt of the silver spoone; Itm more her pt of the goates 2s, Itm her pt of two hives of bees [next page, the reverse side of the above:] Note that two of the exec are at lawfull yeares and hath taken deliverie of ther owne pt of f--- and Danold Leaine the father is ansewerable --- the port due to the child under yeares viz Katheren Leanie, and hee hath putt in Jo: Christian pledge for the fourth com--- of the same, and to keep the office harmles
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