Elizabeth / Bessy Lawson alias Casement 1665

Submitted by: Joyce M Oates
Date: 5 December 2020
Original: 0106201

Archdeacon Will 1665A #032 Lezayre will of Elizabeth / Bessy Lawson alias Casement, dated 6 December 1664:
Summary: husband xxxx Lawson is not mentioned, son Daniel; dau Isabel Lawson (married to xxxx Teare), granddau Ann Teare; other grandchildren; cousin 
Jane Crowe; Christian Casement; witnesses: William Fayle & John Callister, pledges: William Corlett & William Fayle, also widowed sister in law Elizabeth/
Bessy Curghey [who remarried Edmund Gill] entered a claim.
Will of dau:  EpW 1677E Lezayre will of Isabel Teare alias Lawson: husband xxxx Teare is alive, son Edward Teare, dau Ann Teare, 2 other daughters.
?Will of brother: ArW 1655A #03 Lezayre will of Ewan Casement, perished at sea on 24 March 1654/5, intestate: wife Elizabeth Curghey remarried to Edmund 
Gell/Gill [his will ArW 1684A #088 Lezayre], she died 1699/1700, ArW 1699A #53 Lezayre, son Ewan (?died by Feb 1667/8 when inventory was divided in half 
between Jane & Margaret), dau Jane (married William Gell/Gill by Feb 1667/8), dau Margaret, brother John Casement, sister Elizabeth/Bessy Casement, sister 
Catharine Casement (married to Ewan Killip), pledges: Daniel Costeen & William Standish, also: Ewan Killip & wife and the executors of Ewan Casement 
entered a claim against Elizabeth/Bessy Casement alias Curghey. 
NOTE: Lezayre Parish follows the old form of female surnames, that is, a woman keeps her maiden surname after she marries, and is recorded under her maiden 
surname when married; thus, 'Casement' is the maiden surname of Bessie, and not her husband's surname. While other parishes at this time, e.g., Malew and 
Braddan, were changing to the English form of a woman being legally known under her husband's surname, several parishes, including Lezayre, continued the 
Manx form. By 1700, all parishes had changed to the English form.

(xj) KK Christ December the 6th 1664 In the name of God Amen, I Bessie Casment sicke in bodie but whole in minde and of pfect memorie praysed be God, doe make this my last will and testament in maner folloeinge: first I comitt my soule into ye hands of my Redeemer and my bodie to Christian buriall; Item I leave unto my sonn Daniel 10s; Itm: I leave unto my grandchild Anne Teare half a heffer; Itm: I leave unto my cousin Jaine Crowe a blankett and petticoat; Itm: to Christian Casment a charshiffe; Itm: to my grandchild four yeards of blew stuff to make them cloase Itm: I constitute & ordaine my daughter Issable Lawson my true and lawfull executor of all my goods movable and unmovable Item I leave due to be paid to my executr from Bessie Curghy .... 4s, from Mary Jaine 1s 9d Testes Wm: Ffayle Jo: Calister jurati Solvo tamen etc: pbatum et solvit 6d The executor sworne in Court A true Inventory of the goods movable and unmovable of the testatrix is as ffolloweth in the whole ... 12s The executor at lawfull yeer & ye goods in her owne hands & hath given in pledges secunda forman legis Will Curlett & Willm Ffayle 1665 June ye 20th Bessy Curghy entereth her claime against ye execr of Bessy Castmint forye same of 5s due dept & craveth tryall

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