Archdeacon Will, 1734, Santon: Tuesday the 16^th of July 1734: Jane Oats als Brew of Ballafurt

being weak in body . . . declared her last will and testament: Bequeathed all her effects . . . to her loving husband John Oates, he paying to five of her children, vis., Ann, Barbara, Isabel, William, and Mary, forty shillings a piece. She left and bequeathed [the crop] to her eldest son and heir, Thomas Oates, he paying to the three youngest children, vis., Isabel, Wm, and Mary, the sum of forty shillings, equally betwixt them when he becomes of age and receives the said crop. 14 June 1737: Anne Fitzsimons als Oates acknowledges to be pain from her father John Oates her legacy of forty shillings. Recd from my father John Oates the sum of fourty shillings being in full for my mother’s goods lately deceased. Witness my hand this 10 January 1713 [?, probably 1743 or some other year after 1737] [signed] Barbara McCooley als Oates Witnesses present: Paul Crebbin, John Brew Jane Oates (of Ballafurt) mother to the above Barbara McCooley als Oates was buried July 23^rd, 1734. [signed] Paul Crebbin, vicar.

The Revd Mr. P Crebbin and John Brew were sworn to the . . . of this before one. [signed] J. Cosnahan Lib: 2, 1734: Wm Caine husband of Isabel dau of Jane Oates owns to have and from his father in law John Oates of Ballafurt fourty shilling being in full for the said … … unto Isabel by her mother, and acquits him of the same. Before me: Edw. Moore, 5 July 1748 Eod die [the same day]: Wm Oates son of said testatrix own, also to have him from his father the fourty shillings, legacy … unto him by Jane Oates his mother, and acquits his father of the same forever. Before me: Edw. Moore Lib: 2^nd 1756:

21 July 1756: Mary Oates enters a claim against the administrators of Dorothy Oates for the sum of . . .

11 Sept 1756: The claimer having proved the sum of forty shillings as appears by her mother’s will bearing date 16 July 1734.