Catharine Karran alias Carran 1667

Submitted by: Joyce M Oates
Date: 12 February 2021
Original: 0106201

Archdeacon Will 1667A #42 German will of Catharine Karran alias Carran, died 25 March 1668:  
Summary: husband Thomas Karran/Kerron, no children are mentioned, sister Ann Carran, sister Alice Carran, niece Jane Carran, nephew Thomas Carran, niece 
Margaret Carran (their parents are John Karran/Carran [ArW 1659A #10 German] & Alice Quirk [ArW 1658A #020 German]), also: Jane Cowin [?dau of Robert Cowin, 
the brother in law of the testator's deceased brother John], witnesses: William Ellison & Mary Crellin & John Woods, pledges: John Quirk & Patrick Corlett.
?German parish register: Thomas Kerran, Peeltown, buried 10 November 1707.
Will of brother:   ArW 1659A #10 German will of John Karran/Carran, died 18 January 1658/9: wife [Alice Quirk] is not mentioned [died 1657/8, ArW 1658A #020 
German], youngest son John [died about 1660], son Thomas (incapacitated), dau Jane, dau Margaret, sister Ann Karran, sister Catharine Karran, sister Alice 
Karran, ?brother in law Robert Cowin (had custody of the children's goods by 1668, ?married to Ann or Alice Karran), John Finch/Vinch & son John, witnesses: 
Hugh Rancroft & John Finch/Vinch, pledges: Captain Robert Stevenson & William Dawson.  
Will of sister in law:  ArW 1658A #020 German will of Alice Karran/Carran alias Quirk, died 17 March 1657/8, intestate: husband [John] Karran/Carran is 
alive [died 1658/9, ArW 1659A #10 German], 5 children: dau Margaret the elder (?off the Island), dau Jane, son Thomas (the eldest on the Island), dau 
Margaret the younger, and son John Karran, brother Patrick Quirk, brother William Quirk, pledges: Richard Halsall & John Gell of KK German.
Will of nephew: ArW 1660A #09 German will of John Carran/Karran, orphan, died about 1660 intestate: not married, inventory is included in the father's 
inventory, bro Thomas Carran, sisters Jane & Margaret Carran.

German the 20th 1668 The last will and testament of Kaithren Carran who departed this life the 25th of March 1668: first she bequeathed her soule to God and her body to Christian buriall; It: she left to her sister Ann Carran sixe pence and one suite of cloase It: to her sister Alice Carran six pence and one suite of cloathes and all her wearing linens betwixt them both; It: shee left to Jane Cowne one sheep one lambe and the coate that she did weare every day and her shoese and stokens; It: she left to Jane Carran six pence; It: she left to Thomas Carran six pence; It: she left to Margrett Carran 1s that was due to her by the death of her father and mother and six pence legasie And did constitute and ordaine her husband Thomas Kerron her true and lawfull exec: of all her goods moveable and unmoveable testes William Ellisson} pbatum et solvit xijd Mary Crellin } jurati John Woods } Invent: of the goods of Kaithren Carran priced by William Ellesson Wm Cotch John Kneale and Robt Quilliam be sworne s d It: one cowe ........................... 10 - It: 8 sheepe ........................... 10 - It: halfe a swine and pigs ............. 2 - 06 It: one sheet one blankett ........... 4 - 0 It: her part of the houshold stuffe .... 4 - 6 It: due from Thomas Ratclife ........... 15 - 0 It: due from Thomas Quirke ............. 4 - 0 It: in monney .......................... 24 - 0 pledges John Quirk, Patrick Curlett

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