Does anyone know what happened to William LACE bapt. Andreas 19 June 1714, the son of Stephen Lace, and which family they came from? William was the only child of Alice Radcliffe als Brew from her second marriage (1713) to Stephen Lace, after the death of her first husband John RADCLIFFE of Ballakelly, Andreas, who died 12 Dec.1712.
"Stephen Lace (Ballakelly) buryd 5 October 1723." His will mentions Alice's Radcliffe children: Philip the Ballakelly heir, Catherine, and Margaret, as well as his wife, and his son William Lace to whom he left a parcel of land and other goods. “Dan: Lace brother to yr testator has refused to be sworn supervisor and John Lace the other brother being a long time sick, the goods of child are therefore committed to the mother, who hath given pledge her brother John Brew….”
William received his inheritance by June 1741 (quite a lot for those days - about £7). The " ?orn Land" was "still forthcoming".
This will has the three LACE names: http://www3.telus.net/lawson/twill/1710_003.html but may not mean anything because there were so many John and Daniel Laces in Andreas. However I wondered whether "some torn ground called the Coney’s Hill" could be the same ?orn land referred to in Stephen Lace's will.
Does anyone know what ?orn/torn land/ground refers to? And where Coney’s Hill was?
Alice Lace als Brew's 1744 will mentions all four of her children, so still alive then.
When Alice's brother William Brew died without children in 1768 his beneficiaries were various nephews and nieces, including Alice's daughters Catherine, wife of Daniel TEARE, and Margaret, wife of Wm. KENNEEN. - Her sons were not mentioned (Philip Radcliffe had died in 1753).
There was an Andreas William Lace burial and will in 1758, but I couldn't find him in the 1757 Visitation. Did he change parishes?
In the 1757 Andreas Visitation there was a record of a Wm & Anne Lace with 3 children aged over 16, and one under 16, but the only two marriages I can find to an Anne don't fit William's age.
The 1783 will of William Lace's half-sister Margaret Kanneen of the Parish of KK Andreas mentions "the wife of William Lace of Ramsey", which could have been him?
I thought possibly married to Isabel CURLET (in Bride, also recorded 1736 in the Andreas par reg.) with children bapt Andreas and Maughold.
Thanks for any help.
Sue