Isabel Kneen alias Goldsmith 1663

Submitted by: Joyce M Oates
Date: 10 September 2020
Original: 0106200

Archdeacon Will 1661A #098 Lezayre will of Isabel Kneen alias Goldsmith, dated 14 September 1663:
Summary: husband [Pattoon Kneen] is alive [died 2 February 1663/4, ArW 1663A #021 Lezayre]; son William; dau Carter; dau Catharine, son Edmund (married 
to Joney Quayle); dau Alice, grandchildren Ewan Kneen & Margaret; also dau in law Joney Quayle; witnesses: John Kenney & Elizabeth Corkill, pledges: Daniel 
Garrett & Daniel Garrett.   
Will of husband: ArW 1663A #021 Lezayre will of Pattoon Kneen died 2 February 1663/4: wife [Isabel Goldsmith] is dead [ArW 1661A #098 Lezayre, but dated 
September 1663], son William (sick in bed) & daus Carter & Alice are execs, dau in law, son Edmund (married), grandson Ewan Kneen, witnesses: John Kenney & 
John Kneen, pledges: John Kenney & John Kneen & William Fayle.    
Will of son: ArW 1697A #39 Lezayre will of Edmund Kneen, died 24 November 1697: wife [Joney Quayle] is alive [died 1700, ArW 1700A #73 Lezayre], eldest son 
Ewan, son John, son William, witnesses: William Curgey & James Quayle; pledges William Corlett & William Knickle.
Will of daughter in law: ArW 1700A #73 Lezayre will of Joney Kneen alias Quayle, died 2 May 1700: Husband [Edmund] Kneen is not mentioned [his will ArW 
1697A #39 Lezayre], son John Kneen, son William, son Ewan executor, sister Ann Quayle, sister in law Alice Kneen, witnesses: Simmon Costeen & Ewan Curghey.
Husband & son: 1675 Liber Vastarum, Lezayre: Pattoon Kneen had farmland of 6d rent in Alkest treen and he was now dead and his son Edmund Kneen was entered 
for it.
Husband & son: 1677 Liber Vastarum, Lezayre: Pattoon Kneen had farmland in Alia Sulby treen and he was now dead and his son Edmund Kneen was entered for it.
NOTE: In the body of the will, the Testator is named as 'Isabel', and in the Inventory she is called 'Elizabeth/Elezebeath'.

7ber the 14th 1663 (25) The last will and testamt: of Issable Gouldmith is as follow eth; first shee committed her soule to her Creator and Redeemer and her body to Christian buriall, It: shee left to her husband her part of the ridinge horse, It: her part of a cowe & heffer to her son William; It: her part of a colt to her daughter Charter, It: to her daught: Kathern a rede pettycotte & 6d; It to Jony Quaile a yellow pettycotte, It: to her daughter Eleze 2 grandchider Ewan & Margarett a lambe & to be kept in ye tenemt: until it would come to be pffitke, to to either to her son Edmand her part of the tyth corne paying the duty belonging to it & entering upon the same harvest in anno: 64, It shee leaves her part of the flaxe to Charter & Alice, It: her part of the croppe of corne to her husband during his life, And it to come and fall to her sonn William, Charter & Alice after the decease of the sd husband; It: to Issable her dau ghter 6d; It: shee constituted & ordained her 3 children William, Charter & Alice her true and lawfull executer of all her goods moveable & unmoveable, It: to the poore a ferlett of mault and the rest at the discretion of the executors Testes The executor sworne in Cort & Ales to be sworne John Kenney before ye first Court day sub pena 20s Elezebeath Corkell jurati solvo tamen vincuig suo jure pbatu et solvit 8d The true and whole inventory of the a-----[torn] Elezebeath is and amounts to 56s - 4-----[torn] Donnll Carret } Donnell Carrett} pledges secunda forman legis

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