I have just been looking again at Brian Lawson's wills index, and link to transcripts [www.lawsons.ca]. What a great help this is for us all, and what a fantastic resource these wills and admins are for IOM family historians. In Ireland dozens of years of wills were completely destroyed; in England, Scotland(and the colonies) pre-1855, relatively few people left wills, but in the IOM there are thousands of records naming relatives of small crofters, children of mothers dying young, all the siblings and the siblings' children and married names when a brother/sister died intestate, etc.
In a will I am currently transcribing [John SAYLE of Andreas, died 13 Nov.1765] he left "the Boards of his Loft (wch was then unnailed to the Beams)", "A Choice Cow", and "A new Covelet" amongst many other items, and relatives named included his wife Joney Sayle alias Joughin, his daughter Margaret, his (then unborn) son John, "to Danl Sayle Senr a Pair of new Shoes, and to his Brother Danl Sayle Junr A piece of Cloth", his other brother William Sayle, and his "Brother in Law Thomas Quirk". One of the attachments to the will recorded payment by Joney's father John Joughin of Andreas for what was due to her by the decease of her mother Joney Joughin als Crenilt, and a petition following - written ten years later, giving information about the children and their lives - was by the widow's new husband John Corlet of Andreas on behalf of himself and "Joney Corlet alias Sayle alias Joughin his wife".
And this amount of information is not unusual!
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