William White(head) 1672

Submitted by: Joyce M Oates
Date: 9 April 2018
Original: 0106202

Archdeacon Will 1672A #14 German will of William White / Whitehead, died 3 December 1672:
Summary:  wife xxx Crellin is alive, son Michael [born about 1641], dau Jane, dau Dolly/Dorothy (married Randle Fairbrother], son in law Randle Fairbrother, 
grandson Thomas Fairbrother, granddau Isabel Whitehead, brother [halfbrother] Henry Young, son Richard Whitehead, witnesses: William Cooper & Charles Garrett
German parish register: William Whithead    buried  3 December 1672
self:  1666 Liber Vastarum, German:  Humphrey Clark had a parcel of intack of 2d yearly rent 
belonging to Balladoyne treen, and his daughters sold it to William Whitehead
self:  1666 Liber Vastarum, German:  Robert Hodgson / Hutchin had a parcel of intack of 1/2d rent belonging to Balladoyne treen, 
and William Whitehead was in possession of it and was paying the rent & so was entered for it in 1666
self & halfbrother: 1666 Liber Vastarum, German: Michael Whitehead had cottages in Villa de Holme/Peel of 1d rent, 
and by 1666 Henry Young was in possess of it and paid the rent so was entered for it in 1666
self: 1668 Liber Vastarum, German: Gilbert Callow had two parcels of intack land of 4d rent & 1d rent belonging to Sarsdall treen, and he 
sold them to William Whitehead who had been in possession of the land for several years and paid the rent, so was entered for them in 1668
self: 1668 Liber Vastarum, German: Gilbert Callow had two cottages of or 2d rent & 6d yearly rent, and he sold them to William 
Whitehead who had been in possession of the land for several years and paid the rent, so was entered for them in 1668
self & brother &c: 1672 Liber Vastarum, German: John Cross had a parcel of intack of 6d rent belonging to Sandall[?] treen, and the 6d 
rent should be charged to Michael Whitehead, therefore Michael Cross & William Whitehead were charged with the rent for the future
self: 1656 Chancery Book / 1666 Liber Vastarum, German: Humphrey Clark had farmland of 10d rent in Ballaterson treen (total rent 25s 4d),
 and John Wattleworth & William Whitehead were entered for it in 1666, as recorded in the 1656 Chancery Book
self?:   1668 Liber Vastarum, German:  Gilbert Callow had two parcels of farmland of 1 1/2d rent and the second of 1 1/2d yearly rent in Ballaterson treen (total 
rent 25s 4d), and he sold them to William Whitehead who had been in possession of the land for several years and paid the rent, so was entered for them in 1668
?grandson &c: 1696 Liber Vastarum, German: William Whitehead & Michael Cross were entered for farmland in Ballatersin treen 
(total rent 25s 4d), and the setting quest affirmed that William Whitehead and Michael Cross ought to be charged for 18d apiece, 
though formerly they were charged only 9d apiece, and so it was changed to 18d apiece for the future
will of mother: ArW 1650A #08 German will of Catharine Young alias White alias Cross, dated 18 May 1650: first husband Michael White, 
2nd husband xxxx Young, son William White, son Michael White, grandson Michael White, son Henry Young, granddau Christian Crellin, 
dau Alice Young, also: George Sharples & Mrs Sharples, witness: John Sharples
halfsister: ArWills, 1637 Censure of William Cosnahan, vicar of German: Alice Crellin alias Young, 
wife of Henry Young, was falsely accused by Sir William of sorcery and witchcraft.
half brother: German parish register:  Hen: Younge  buried 7 February 1681/2
will of half bro in law: ArW 1655A #16 German will of Henry Crellin, dated 30 January 1654/5, married to Alice Young [half sister of William Whitehead]: eldest 
dau Christian Crellin, youngest sons Thomas & Henry Crellin, youngest dau Catharine (infirm), son John, brother John, brother in law William Whitehead, brother 
in law Henry Young, cousin William Huddleston, sisters Ann & Mary, brother? Sir Thomas Harrison,   also: servant Marriad Clague
dau: German parish register: Dorothy Christian buried 28 August 1699 see EpW 1699 German: Dorothy married 1st Randle Fairbrother & 2nd Daniel Christian
      son in law: German parish register:  Randle Fairebrother   buried  11 June 1677
      will of son in law: ArW 1677A #062 German will of Randle Fairbrother, died 11 June 1677: wife [Dorothy/Dolly White/Whitehead] is alive (remarried Daniel 
	Christian), 3 children Thomas (underage, married Catharine Callister) & William (underage, never married) & Dorothy Fairbrother 
	(underage, married Silvester Ellison), brother Silvester Fairbrother, sister Elizabeth Fairbrother, pledge for wife is Michael White 
	(wife's brother), sister Isabel [?sic, Elizth: often 'Isabel' would be written instead of Elizabeth, with the recorder apparently 
	hearing 'Elsabeth' and thinking it is Isabel; there is no other record of an Isabel in this family]       
      will of son in law (2nd husband of Dorothy): ArW 1700 #30 Peel, German will of Daniel Christian, died about 28 Feb 1700/1, 1st wife Mary Christian [d.1684, 
	ArW 1683A #48 German], 2nd wife Dorothy/Dolly Fairbrother alias White [d.1699, EpW]: dau Ann (youngest dau, married Thomas Curry by 1717) & dau Jane & dau 
	Joney Christian, son John Christian (went to Ireland in 1699), son William (dead), dau Elizabeth/Bessy (dead), stepson William Fairbrother, stepson Thomas 
	Fairbrother (they have a blind aunt), stepdau Dorothy Fairbrother (married Silvester Ellison); cousin Patrick Quark of Bride, overseers Charles Cowle & 
	William Fairbrother, pledges: Silvester Fairbrother & Charles Cowle,  also: Captain Christian of KK Bride
dau: German parish register: Dorothy Fairebrother buried  22 September 1673
      will of granddau: ArW 1748A #55 German will of Dorothy Ellison als Fairbrother, made 27 February 1747:  dau Dorothy (married xxxx Colvin), granddau 
		Dorothy Colvin, dau Catharine, son Richard (has a dau), son John, husband Silvester Ellison, also: Catharine Shimmin
dau: German parish register:  Jane White   buried  6 November 1721
      will of dau: ArW 1722A #18, German will of Jane White, died 6 Nov 1721: niece Ann Curry alias Christian, niece Dorothy Ellison alias Fairbrother (married 
	Silvester Ellison), niece Jane Ellison, brother William White (his children Billy, 2 daus), cousin Thomas Fairbrother, cousin Dorothy Fairbrother, sister? 
	Isabel White, nephew William Fairbrother, also related: Silvester Fairbrother, John Crellin, goddau Jane White
son: German parish register:  Michael White  buried 11 November 1713
      will of son : ArW 1713A Peel, German will of Michael White, died 9 Nov 1713: dau Isabel Crellin, son Michael White, 
		granddau Jane White (died in 1713 about), son Wm White
      son: Libri Irrotulamentorum: Michael Whitehead received a commission 22 March 1674, for working as a blacksmith & assisting Matthew Travers gunsmith
      granddau: German parish register:  Isabel White married Thomas Crellin on  19 Jan 1697 in German 
      will of granddau: ArW 1725A #35 German will of Isabel Crellin als White, died 25 Jan 1724/5: husband [Thomas] Crellin is not mentioned, 
		youngest son Wm, eldest son Jn; sis in law Ann White; sister's 2 daus; three sons John & Thomas & William
      German parish register:  Isabel White married Thomas Crellin  on  19 Jan 1697 in German 
      grandson & wife and granddau & husband: South Side Sales & Old German Deeds Bundle 1 #58:  William White/Whitehead sold to Thomas Crellin: Date 24 Feb 1713/4 
		Peel: recites that William White (Peel) is indebted to brother in law Thomas Crellin for £4 being an obligation imposed by late father Michael White 
		(Peel) as a portion unto Isabella Crellin als White (wife of Thomas); William White & wife Jane to discharge the payment give a parcel of land already 
		in his possession adjacent to the houses & garden wherein said Crellin now lives, besides the sd house & garden formerly settled on Crellin & wife by 
		William [sic] White his father-in-law; witnesses Patt Crellin x, Jon Dawson x, Wm Dawson , Matth Curghey; Court Oct 1715
      grandson & greatgranddau:  German parish register: Dorothy White fil Willm: White buried 5 Sep 1726
      son Michael &c including Richard Whitehead: 1691 Composition Book, German:  Gilbert Callow was entered in 1643 for farmland for which Richard Whitehead was 
	  	tenant of in 1691, with lives in being Michael Whitehead aged 50 years [born about 1641] and Thomas Mylchreest aged 25 [born about 1666]
      grandson & dau & dau in law Catharine: 1691 Composition Book, German: William White and Catharine his mother were entered in 1643 for farmland for which 
		  Dorothy White and partners were tenants of in 1691, with lives in being Michael White aged 50 years [born about 1641]
      son & dau in law & grandson:  1691 Composition Book, German:   William White and Catharine his mother were entered in 1643 for farmland for which Michael 
			White was tenant of in 1691, with lives in being Michael White aged 50 years [born about 1641]
NOTE:  William's original surname was 'White'.  Some of the family continued with that name, some switched to Whitehead, some went back and forth between the two.

Germane the 14th of feb: 72 The last will and testament of William Whitehead who depa-----[fold] this life the 3th of December 1672, first he comitted his soule to God and his body to Christian buriall, It: he left to his son Michaell the copper pann halfe the cubbert halfe a bedsteede halfe daymoth of hay and after his wife deceasse his daughter Jane is to have the whole daymoth dureinge her life which daymoth of hay is excepted in the Contract bargaine and after Jane decease the s-----[fold] halfe a daymoth is to returne to my son Michaell; It: he left his daughter Dolly 6d, It: he left ot his grandchild Tho: Farebr-----[fold] a sheep and lambe, It: he left to his grandchild Issable Whithead a sheepe and lambe; It: he also left to his son Michaell fiftie sh-----[fold] that was due from him in the Contract bargaine, and the other fiftie shillinges his wife hath given her consent that Michaell shall be quit -----[fold] ever payinge them because Michaell Whitheade doth forgoe the --------[fold] of goods that was promissed him in Contract bargaine; It: he sayd -----[fold] he was owinge to his brother Henry Younge six pound which was payd to h-----[fold] in this manner thre pound in Michell Crosse land and three pond in a new boate and ten shillings more in his hand that is not payd -----[fold] from his sayd brother; It: he constituted and ordained his son Micha-----[fold] and Jane Whitheade his true and lawfull exec: of all his go-----[fold] moveable and unmoveable testes William Cooper juratus Charles Charratt juratus June 20th 73 The wife hath confessed in the face of the Court, that shee willingly consented to all the abovesaid will as fare as shee was concerned therin 1673 June 25 Ro: Stevenson & Willm Cooper offerd to depose yt they boath being prsent at Randle Ffairebrothers Contract: yt hee the said Randle then said in their hearinge to Willm Whitehead, wtsoever hee would give him, to give it him their, for hee would never looke for more; further they declare yt they were prsent at a second agreement, & yt the said Randle delivered up all his right in the said Willm Whitehead contract; & received in consideracone thereof a daymoath of hay for 4 yeeres, & a tubb & halfe the house, & to enjoy them till Ricd: Whitehead should have his owne [next page] The Invent: of the goods of William Whithead praised by William Copper, Tho: Knakill, Mungo Hartley and Steven Cross being sworne: s d It: eight pound and halfe of new pewder .................................. 8 - 6 It: seaven pound and quarter of old pewder ............................... 6 - 0 It: one flaggon of pewder candlesticke and other old pewder .............. 4 - 0 It: half a still and halfe a pott ........................................ 7 - 0 It: two pound and halfe of brasse ........................................ 1 - 3 It: halfe a brasse pott .................................................. 4 - 0 It: halfe a little brasse pott halfe brasse candlesticke halfe moorter ... 2 - 6 It: halfe two iron potts ................................................. 5 - 0 It: halfe the tren vessels ............................................... 4 - 0 It: halfe combe one barrell and two firkins .............................. 7 - 6 It: in sheep yonge and old tenn ......................................... 13 - 4 It: the halfe of two oxen ............................................... 15 - 0 It: halfe two old cowes ................................................. 12 - 0 It: halfe two heffers halfe a steer ..................................... 15 - 0 It: halfe and old cowe ................................................... 5 - 0 It: halfe the ridding horse ............................................. 13 - 0 It: halfe a horse halfe a coult and quarter coult ........................ 6 - 6 It: halfe of five feather beds & five boulster ....................... 3 - 0 - 0 It: halfe two bedsteeds .................................................. 5 - 0 It: halfe the curtaines and valtens of two bed .......................... 2 - 0 It: halfe and old carpett ................................................ 2 - 0 It: halfe two caddowes halfe coverlett halfe two blanketts .............. 14 - 0 It: halfe three old caddowes halfe foure old blanketts ................... 6 - 3 It: halfe a caddow ....................................................... 2 - 0 It: halfe five cussins two pillowes ...................................... 3 - 0 It: four sheets and a halfe ............................................. 16 - 0 It: halfe thre pillowbeers halfe thre towells halfe two table cloth and halfe six napkins .............................................. 7 - 0 It: halfe two litle wheeles .............................................. 2 - 3 It: halfe fryinge pann halfe drippinge pan ............................... 1 - 0 It: halfe three course sheetes ........................................... 1 - 6 It: halfe a broach and rackes ............................................ 0 - 6 It: halfe a cubbort halfe a trunck ...................................... 10 - 10 It: halfe a chest ........................................................ 4 - 0 It: halfe a cart and cart wheeles ........................................ 4 - 0 It: halfe three old carres and thre old stradles ......................... 1 - 0 It: halfe three roppes ................................................... 0 - 5 It: halfe the car geeres ................................................. - 3 It: halfe three old chaires .............................................. 1 - 3 It: halfe a paire heaurden cards halfe old stocke card ................... 0 - --- It: halfe cheist ......................................................... 1 - 0 [next page] It: two barrowes ............................................................ 6d It: the halfe of three sackes ............ It: half a gird iron ......................... It: halfe an old pott with hookes Octo: ye 20th 1673 Henry Yonge enters his claime against the executors of Willm Whitehead for ye sume of 3£ xs[10s] due debt as hee will make to appeare & other pticulers heareafter to be menconed & craveth prosses wch amounts to in all 5£ - 0s - 0d see ArW 1672A #14 German will of William White / Whitehead, died 3 December 1672: June ----- ------ 1673 Tho: Stevenson & Willm Cooper are readie to depose that they boath being prsent at Randle Ffarebrother contract: hee the said Randle then said in yr heareing to Willm Whitehead wtsoever he would give him to give it him ---[fold] for he would never looke for more: Againe they declare yt they were prsent at a second agreement, wherein the said Randle delivered up all his right in the said Willm Whiteheads Contract, & received in consideratione thereof a daymoth of hay for 4 yeeres & a tubb & halfe of the house till Ric----[fold] Whitehead should have his owne ad ys to Will Whitehead will its soe done

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