| Submitted by: | Joyce M Oates |
| Date: | 12 January 2021 |
| Original: | 0106201 |
Archdeacon Will 1666A #34 German will of Hugh Rancroft / Ranscroft / Ravenscroft, died 13 March 1666/7:
Summary: he & 1st wife had children, 2nd wife is alive, dau Mary, son Robert, son Edward, son Hugh, son & heir Richard in Ireland, also: Mr. John Knight,
John Clucas, Henry Young (left 1s), Mr Edward Christian (left 3s), Michaell Christian (left 2s 6d), Robert Stevenson (left 3s), witnesses: Thomas Corlett
& [maternal half brother] Mungo Hartley, appraisors: Henry Dawson & Thomas Corlett & Silvester Clark & William Dawson.
German parish register: Hugh Ranscroft buried 13 March 1666/7.
?Son of 1st wife: German parish register: John Ranscraft buried 30 July 1688 Episcopal will.
Dau: German parish register: Mary Ranscrofts buried in the churchyard 28 Februray 1668/9.
Will of dau: ArW 1668A #48 German will of Mary Watterson als Rancroft/Ranscroft/Ravenscroft, died February 1668/9: husband xxxx Watterson is not mentioned,
son Thomas Watterson, dau Ann Watterson, son Robert Watterson, witnesses: William Callister & Mary Callister alias Crellin his wife, pledges William
Calliaster & Henry Cha-----.
Son & dau & granddau of Mary: ArW 1686A #17 German will of Thomas Watterson of Peeltown, per 2 June 1686 Deed of Gift of him and his sister Ann to
Christian Watterson, daughter of Thomas, and her husband Henry Gick/Juke: wife of Thomas is not mentioned, dau Christian married to Henry Gick/Juke/Duke
[they were dead by 1702 per 1702 Manorial Rolls of Peel cottages], sister of Thomas is Ann Watterson.
Dau of Mary: German parish register: Ann Waterson buried 25 December 1686.
Will of dau Mary: ArW 1686A #18 German will of Ann Watterson of Peel, died 24 December 1686, not married: niece Christian Watterson, brother Thomas
Watterson died before Ann, also: Margaret Cottier, Mrs Ellinor Radcliffe, Ellin Radcliffe, Mrs Margaret Radcliffe.
Son: Liber Canc 1676 German #124: Richard Ravenscroft sold to Christopher Cotch a parcel of farmland in Ballatersin of 2d rent.
?Son: Old German Bundle 1, #48, German: Robert Ravenscroft, now of Douglas & his wife Ann Ravenscroft alias Baker sold for £5 10s to Thomas Fairbrother
& William Fairbrother a small parcel of quarterland formerly part of Ballaterson near Peel known as Knock Bane, adjacent to William Cooper on the southside
& Caesar Wattleworth on the north, 6d Lord's rent; witnesses Thomas Mylchreest & William Craine & Nicholas Kewley & William Flexney, Court May 1714.
Father & mother who remarried to [Peter?] Hartley: 1654 Liber Vastarum, German: John Ravenscroft & Margaret Hunter had a kiln & garden of 3d yearly rent,
& John Ravenscroft was dead and Margaret his wife in her poverty & need sold it to Charles Radcliffe with the consent of her son Mungo Hartley, QUESTION,
did Margaret Hunter marry 1st John Ravenscroft /Rancroft & 2nd xxxx (?Peter) Hartley?
See: EpW 1609E #008 German will of John Rancroft/Ravenscroft, drowned ('perished by water'), died between July & October 1609.
See: Episcopal will books 1627-1630 German, will of Peter Hartley.
Self &c: 1654 Liber Vastarum, German: Mungo Hartley was entered for farmland of 4d yearly rent in Ballatersin treen (total rent 25s 4d)
and he sold 1 1/2d single rent to Hugh Ravenscroft for the sum of £3, & Hugh was entered for the 1 1/2d rent in 1654.
Self &c: 1654 Liber Vastarum, German: Hugh Ravenscroft had a parcel of intack land of 2d yearly rent & sold it to John Corris, who gave this land to Mungo
Hartly in exchange for other ground, who was entered for the land of 2d rent, as well as another parcel for 1d rent from Hugh Ravenscroft, in 1654.
Self & half brother Mungo &c: 1660 Liber Vastarum, German: Mungo Hartley had farmland of 1 1/2d rent in Ballatersin treen and sold 1/2d rent to Isabel
Sherlock who was now dead and her executors sold it to Hugh Ranscroft who was entered for the 1/2d rent in 1660.
1660 Liber Vastarum, German: Mungo Hartley had two parcels of intack land, one of 2d rent & another of 4d rent, & he sold the 2d rent to William Callister
which Mungo acknowledged in court in 1669, and sold 3d rent of the 4d rent also to William Callister, who was entered for the said rents.
Mother & halfbrother: 1668 Liber Vastarum, German: Margaret [Hartley alias Ranscroft alias] Hunter had a parcel of intack of 1d yearly rent belonging to
Sarsdall treen, and she was dead, so her only son Mungo Hartley was entered for it in 1668. NOTE, Margaret's eldest son Hugh Rancroft died in March 1666/7.
Halfbrother & son Robert 1696 Liber Vastarum, German: Mungo Hartley had a parcel of farmland of 3d yearly rent in Ballatersin treen (total rent 25s 4d), &
he was dead, so that Robert Ravenscroft was entered for the rent by virtue of a recovery at law as appears in the Common Law book anno 1694, reserving the
right of the heirs of Mungo Hartley as mentioned in the Jury's verdict.
See: 1616 Manorial Roll, German, cottages in Peel: entry #48: Thomas Ranscroft had 3d rent in cottages in Peel.
1620 Manorial Roll, German, cottages in Peel: entry #48: Richard Cottier & Mary Ranscroft had 3d rent in cottages in Peel.
1633 Manorial Roll, German, cottages in Peel: entry #48: Richard Cottier & Mary Ranscroft had 3d rent in cottages in Peel.
1640 Manorial Roll, German, cottages in Peel: entry #48: Richard Cottier & Mary Ranscroft & Sir John Harrison (for 1 1/2d)
had 3d rent in cottages in Peel
1642 Manorial Roll, German, cottages in Peel: entry #48: Richard Cottier & Mary Ranscroft & Sir John Harrison (for 1 1/2d)
had 3d rent in cottages in Peel
1644 Manorial Roll, German, cottages in Peel: entry #48: Thomas Watterson & Sir John Harrison (for 1 1/2d) had 3d rent in cottages.
1654 Manorial Roll, German, cottages in Peel: entry #48: Thomas Watterson & Sir John Harrison (for 1 1/2d) had 3d rent in cottages.
1654 Manorial Roll, German, cottages in Peel: entry #48: Thomas Watterson had 1 1/2d rent & Sir John Harrison had 1 1/2d for cottages
(total rent 3d).
1673 Manorial Roll, German, cottages in Peel: entry #48: Thomas Watterson had 1 1/2d rent & Sir John Harrison had 1 1/2d for cottages
in Peel (total rent 3d).
1702 Manorial Roll, German, cottages in Peel: entry #48: The executors of Christian Watterson [daughter of Thomas Watterson] &
her husband Henry Gick had 1 1/2d rent & Sir John Harrison had 1 1/2d for cottages in Peel (total rent 3d).
NOTE, that the surname Rancroft is the same as Ranscroft and appears to have morphed from Ravenscroft.
German the
The last will and testament of Hugh Ranchroft who departed this life the 13th
of March 1666/7; first he committed his Soule to God and his body to Christian buriall;
It: he left to Mr John Knight twentie shillings eight pence that was due to him;
It: he did acknowledge that he was indepted to John Clucas twentie shillings but
that he was payd for it seaven firletts of barley; It: he left to his daughter Mary 5s;
It: to his son Robert one shillinge; It: to his first wives children six pence apeece;
It: Henry Younge one shilling; It: to Mr Edward Christian three shillings; It: to
Michaell Christian two shillings sixe pence; It: to Robert Stevenson three shillings
and did constitute and ordaine his wife and his two sonnes viz: Edward and Hugh
Ranchroft his true and lawfull execr of all his goods moveable & unmoveable;
It: further the witnesses saith that the houses and the lands was left to the wife
dureinge her life and after her decease to returne to his son Richard now
testes dwelling in Ireland
Tho: Corlett
Mungo Hartley jurati
pbat et Solvit 6d
The invent: priced by Henry Dozen, Tho: Corlett, Silvester Clarke & William Dozen beinge
sworne: The wiffe hath sworne that there is not a peny worth of any
goods after the debts pd, but only the house, croft & garden
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