| Submitted by: | Joyce M Oates |
| Date: | 15 December 2018 |
| Original: | 0106205 |
Archdeacon Will 1686A #09 Malew will of Jane Redfern alias Robinson, died December 1686:
Summary: husband [Edward] Redfern (blacksmith) is not mentioned [died October 1683, Episcopal Will], 3 sons John (left the smithy) & Thomas & George Redfern,
niece Frances Ore/Oar [dau of Ann Redfern & xxxx Oar/Orr], also: William Fox, witnesses: John Wattleworth & John Kencough[?], NOTE, that the testator divided her
estate 4 ways: between her only sister's daughter Frances Oar and Jane's 3 sons.
Malew parish register: Jaine Redfearn als Robinson buried 5 Dec 1686.
Husband: Malew parish register: Edward Redfearn buried 7 October 1683, Episcopal Will.
?Son: Malew parish register: Edward Redfearn infant buried 28 July 1658.
Son: Episcopal Will 1703 Malew, decree of George Redfern.
Son: Malew parish register: John Redfern buried 27 Oct 1703, EpW 1703 Malew will.
Son: Malew parish register: Mr Thomas Redfern, Castle Rushen Lieut, buried 20 May 1749.
Dau in law: Malew parish register: Jane Redfern als Harley, buried 1 March 1741/2, ArW 1742A #14 Malew.
Will of dau in law: ArW 1742A #14 Malew will of Jane Redfern alias Harley, died February 1741/2: husband lieutenant Thomas Redfern, son Thomas Redfern, son John
Redfern, dau Leonora Redfern married Richard Quirk (their dau Catharine Quirk), dau & exec Jane Redfern, also: Mrs Elizabeth Harley, witnesses: brother in law
David Hutchin & William Stowell, pledges: Mr William Stowell & Charles Cosnahan, NOTE, that her brother in law John Redfern married Catharine Taylor who remarried
David Hutchin when John died in 1703.
Granddau: Santan parish register: Leonora Redfern married Richard Quirk on 16 December 1729 in Santan.
Granddau: God's Acre by John Feltham: Malew: Richd Quirk, 24th June 1778, age 75. Leonora his wife 5th January 1762, age 60.
With their three children Eliz., Thomas, and Leonora.
?Grandson: Malew parish register: Thomas Redfern orphan buried 22 Apr 1705, EpW 1705 Malew decree.
?Sister in law of Jane: Malew parish register: Elizabeth Redfearn als Hignett buried 01 February 1692/3.
?Father of Elizabeth: Malew parish register: Robert Hignet soldier buried 8 August 1660.
Sister: Malew parish register: Ann Oare als Robinson buried buried 10 April 1675, Episcopal Will 1674/5 Malew decree.
Niece: Malew parish register: Frances Bell als Oar Castletown buried 03 February 1740.
Will of niece: ArW 1741A #39 Malew will of Frances Bell als Moore als Oar/Ore, per 1737 deed
of gift: son Thomas Moore (dau Elizabeth, Frances), witnesses: Ellinor Woods & Thomas Harley.
Malew parish register: Frances Oar married Hugh Moore 19 April 1691 Malew.
Malew parish register: Hugh Moore buried 22 Nov 1701 Malew, EpW 1701 Malew decree.
Children: Thomas born about 1692, John born 1695, William born 1698 all in Malew.
Malew parish register: Frances Moore alias Oar remarried to Thomas Bell on 7 May 1706 Malew.
Malew parish register: Thomas Moore married Jane Quay 22 Sep 1716 Malew.
Malew parish register: Jane Moor als Quay Castletown buried 30 January 1740, EpW 1741 Malew decree.
Malew parish register: children: Elizabeth born about 1717, Edward born 1719, Hugh b.1721, John b.1723, & Frances b.1725.
Husband: 1664 Liber Vastarum, Malew: William Stoale/Stowell had rent of a pan of 2d rent (total for firma brass 3s 2d) & he was long since dead
and the pan gone to decay, & therefore to preserve the Lord's rent income, the 2d rent was given to Edward Redfern who had an unrented pan.
Self & husband & sister & father: 1669 Liber Vastarum, Malew: John Griffith had cottages in Castletown of 4s 4d yearly rent (total rent 9s 6d [or 8d]), the right
of these houses belonging to Margaret Griffith alias Carr late deceased, & she left it by her last will to her son John Griffith who was living then in London,
if the said John Griffith or his children should come for the rent, otherwise Peter Robinson & Alice Sumpter should be executors of the will, &c, and since John
Griffith did not come to the Island, nor had anyone heard from him, the said houses remained in the possession of the said Peter Robinson since the death of Margaret
Griffith alias Carr, & Peter had given them in contraction bargain to his daughter Jane Robinson & her husband Edward Redfern and to Ann Robinson his other daughter
equally between them, who were now entered for the 4s 4d yearly rent.
1669 Liber Vastarum, Malew: John Griffith had a parcel of intack land of 1d yearly rent, the right of the intack land belonging to Margaret Griffith alias Carr late
deceased, & she left it by her last will to her son John Griffith who was living then in Londan, if the said John Griffith or his children should come for the rent,
otherwise Peter Robinson & Alice Sumpter should be executors of the will, &c, and since John Griffith did not come to the Island, nor had anyone heard from him, the
said intack land remained in the possession of the said Peter Robinson since the death of Margaret Griffith alias Carr, & Peter had given it in contraction bargain
to his daughter Jane Robinson & her husband Edward Redfern and to Ann Robinson his other daughter equally between them, who were now entered for the 4s 4d yearly rent.
1680 Liber Vastarum., Malew: Peter Robinson had cottages of 2s yearly rent, and he was dead, so that the right to the said rent fell to his daughter Jane Redfern
alias Robinson & her husband Edward Redfern with Frank/Frances Orr/Oar his grandchild & others, & they sold the rent on the cottages to William Fox.
1704 Composition Book, Malew: In 1643, Mary Lucas/Clucas was entered for / compounded for cottages in Castletown, that is, house & garden of 17 1/2d rent,
and in 1691, John Redfern & Thomas Redfern were entered for it, fine in 1643 was 8s, lives expired in 1691, so to pay now in proportion 8s.
1704 Compostion Books, Malew, cottages #52: Thomas Redfern & John Redfern had rent of cottages on West Market Square.
Dau in law (wife of son John) & her 2nd husband: Southside Sales, Old Malew Deeds, bundle 1 #16: David Hutchin
gave to Catharine Redfern by marriage contract certain rents.
Southside Sales, Old Malew Deeds, bundle 2 #47: date 12 May 1711: A dispute occurred between Thomas Redfern and David Hutchin/Hudgeon the 2nd husband of Catharine
Redfern alias Taylor (widow of John Redfern, the brother of Thomas), both of Castletown regarding the division of certain houses formerly belonging to Edward Redfern
& wife Jane Robinson (their parents), of 4s 7d rent; They agreed as follows: Thomas Redfern & wife would quit any title in the smithy, & were to have liberty in David
Hutchin's garden to carry water from the well, & Redfern for his own convenience was to keep a door on the passage to the well and the water in the backside to run in
its usual place through the south corner of the Brewhouse into the common street, witnesses: William Thompson & Silvester Huddlestone & Robert Maddrell; the setting
quest split the rent as follows: David Hutchin 2s 11.5d, & Thomas Redfern 1s 5.5d rent. Court June 1713. NOTE, that David Hutchin married widow Catharine Redfern
alias Taylor on 1 July 1704.
Granddau Leonora & her husband: South Side Sales Malew, May 1739, #89: dated 25 January 1738/9: Richard Quirk (cordwainer, of Castletown) & his wife Leonora Redfern
sold for £6 to Robert Bridson (Ballavane, Malew) their cottage house or broken walls in Church Street, rent 19d, adjacent to John Clark on one side & Robert Fayle
on the other, lately purchased from Alice Ledwick, an executrix of John Norris, witnesses: John Clark & Robert Brown.
Great Coates Rectory, Lincolnshire: Captain Thomas Redfern of Castletown married Miss Jane Harley. The former died in 1749, the latter in 1742. They had issue Thomas
Redfern, Leonora Redfern, John Redfern. Thomas Redfern eldest son of Jane & nephew of Robert, Earl of Oxford, married Miss Alice Maddrell said to be a considerable
heiress of the time from whom is descended the late Leonora Cannell, mother of the Miss Cannell's of Malew Street & who now live in the house built by Mr. Harley.
Leonora Redfern daughter of the said Jane & niece of Robert, 1st Earl of Oxford, married Richard Quirk of Castletown, grandfather of Leonora, Elisa, Margaret, &
Richard & James Quirk. John Redfern, youngest son of Jane & nephew of Robert, Earl of Oxford, married Martha, daughter of Sir Joshua Woods of xxxx, Lancashire, from
whom Frederic Jellet, Mrs John Quayle & Mr Holmes are descended. --J.F.Q. [James Francis Quirk], Nov 20,1902.
November 25th 1686
The last will and testament of Jane Redfern (als
Robinson) who committed her soul to God, and body to Christian
buriall, and disposed of her goods as followeth; ffirst she
left to her Neece Ffrances Oare all her clothing, both
linnen and woollen, and the flax after made into
linnen, the sd Ffrances to have a fourth part thereof, & the
other three parts to her three sons; Itm: to her sd Neece
Ffrances (besides her right in the Garden & houses by her mother)
she left a quarter of the house (she lived in) wth a quarter of
the garden, in liew & consideracon of her right of the house
sold to Wm Ffox; And left the rest of the housinge, with
halfe the garden to her three souns John, Thomas & George
Redfern, exceptinge the smithy, which she wholly left
to her sd son John Redfern; To the sd John she willed
a new feather bed and boulster, Itm: further to her Neece
Ffrances a cow as formerly allotted & promised her, in liew
of a cow due to her by her mother, Itm: she willed that her
son John would be carefull to put George to a traide
And left to her sons Tho: and George (after all debts
pd) twenty shilling to each of them (or proportionably
wt: might be remaining if it extended not thereto) And
lastly willed & ordained her foresd sons John, Thomas
and George Redferne wth her foresd Neece Ffrances
joynt executor of all the rest of her goods moveable
and immoveable whatsoever
wittnesses John Thomas & George are
John Wattleworth} sworne Execrs: according to Law & ye
John Kencough }jurat other Francis Oare having ----[dark]
quished her Interest
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The Inventory of the goods of Jane Redfearne alis Robinson view'd and
[dark]----- sworne men to witt: John Woods Jo: Boorman, Ro: Shimin & John
[dark]----- as followeth
Imprms: dj: 3 Ca--- 25s, dj: 28lb of pewder 8s, dj: 19lb of brass ---- 4s 9d ..... 01 - 14 ---[fold]
It: dj: pewder quart, tankerd and panns 2s, dj: brass candlestick 1s ............. 00 - 03 ---[fold]
It: dj: 5 ---- 5d, dj: an iron pott 2s 6d, dj: earthen vessals 1s ................ 00 - ---[fold]
It: dj: more earthen vessals 1s, dj: smal wooden vessalls 8d, dj: tub & pots 6d .. 00 - 02 ---[fold]
It: dj: 2 barrels & tub 9d, dj: more barrell, tu---, & a little table 3s ......... 00 - 03 ---[fold]
It: dj: 6 chests 12s, dj: 3 bores 6d, dj: great & little whelle 6d ............... 00 - 13 ---[fold]
It: dj: 2 buckett stools 6d, dj: 2 feather beds 4 boulsters & 2 pillow 16s ....... 00 - 16 ---[fold]
It: dj old fledges and blankets 7s, dj: pewder quart 4d .......................... 00 - 04 ---[fold]
It: dj: 3 sheets, 4 table clothes, 8 napkins 2 pillow bear 8s .................... 00 - 08 ---[fold]
It: dj: 3 paire of old curtains and vallans 4s ................................... 00 - 04 ---[fold]
It: dj: coverlet, silk fringe dj: shute of curtaines 6s, dj: 3 sheets 16d ........ 00 - 07 ---[fold]
It: dj: bedstids 3s, dj: churne and churne staff 1s, dj: barrel & firkin 1s ...... 00 - 05 ---[fold]
It: dj firlet 4d, dj: table and frame 2s 6d, dj: little cupboord 21d ............. 00 - 04 ---[fold]
It: dj: trippetts 6d, dj: brewing pan 30s, dj: ye horse 15s 6d ................... 02 - 06 ---[fold]
It: dj: an ox 13s 6d, dj: 3 young beast --s ...................................... 01 - 07---[fold]
It: dj ye plow gear, harrows, and cars 3s 7d; dj: a pige and quarter 1s ......... 00 - 04 ---[fold]
The goods in ye Exrs: hands who hath given pledges John
Watleworth & John Corrin
Last Modified 15 December 2018