Will of Thomas Christopher Senior of Shapwick Dorset - 1719
Transcribed
by Michael Russell April 2005
Ref
DRO W1719/17 Film MIC/R/195
This is the last Will and Testament of Thomas CHRISTOPHER Snr [Senior] of Shapwick in the County of Dorset First I bequeath my soul into the hands of the Almighty God and my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried and as touching what goods and Chattels it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I give and bequeath as followeth first I will that my debts and funeral expenses be payd and discharged Item I give unto my daughter Mary GAME the summe of Five Pounds, Item I give unto my Daughter KERLY All my Goods within door except the Malt Mill and the table board in the Hall and the bedstead and Feather Bed after the decease of my loving wife Margaret CHRISTOPHER to whom I give all my Sd [said] goods and Chattels during her natural life and after her decease I give unto my son Thomas CHRISTOPHER all the residue of my goods and Chattels not before given whom I do make my full and sole executor of this my last Will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal the seventeenth day of December Anno Domini 1719
Signed Sealed published and declared
to be the Last Will and Testament of
Thomas CHRISTOPHER Senr [Senior]in the presence the marke of
of T C
Nich: [Nicholas] WIARE Thomas Christopher Senr
Tho: [Thomas] ROGERS
1 January 1719 jude
Jucat sunt execute
Tho [Thomas] Riley Sher
Note: A Mary GAME was buried in Shapwick from Tarrant Keynston in 1732