Genealogy Chat

Found another will on docs online,datede 1790 and for a rare name that is carried through several generations (allied to a small village location).Can i really afford not to get it?Glen

go for it... i'v just bought two that are my direct ancestors - only problem is, on the daughters baptism the mothers name is Elizabeth, but on the will its definately Ann.

I think it's for a brother to my 3xg g/f,can anyone give me a good reason NOT to get it? Her indoors thinks i'm going nuts with all these wills,especially as none left anything to me! Glen

Oh, gawd, Glen, its only 3.50! Go on! One of my recent Wills, (£3.50) confirmed ten children, the daughters married names, five grandchildren, the fact that the Solicitor was a family member (thus proving a link to another County, of which I had been unsure) and the provisions for burial, which again, were in a County I would never have thought of. Great value for money, I thought! OC

Glen, you know that little voice??? its saying 'go ON you know you want to' i would if it were me :)) Julie

Glen I would go for it too! If you dont you could regret it later. Out of interest I saw the thread the other night re Family Chest, are there any others i could look at? Thanks Claire

Now I know that you people must all be posh & rich! Oh how I wish for more than a pauper , I would happily splash out on the cost of Wills! Seriously , has anybody found lots of dosh ?? Although I suppose that raises more questions than it answers, like where has all the money gone?

its so easy saying Oh its only £3.50 - all these odd amounts soon add up! I found 2 - that's £7.00! - for father & son who were step-father & step-brother to my rellie. It was worth it though, because there was a mention of his wife & her sons 'by her former husband' So somewhere in Kent there is a set of silver teaspoons with an engraved A that I'd love to see - they could so easily have been mine!

re Ang's question about where's all the dosh... another rellie who died in 1871 left a farm that was sold, and the money was to be kept in trust and eventually to pass to several grandchildren. My rellie didn't inherit until 46 years later. No idea where the money went after that; she died before her husband & HE remarried (at the age of 73) & died before his new wife but without making a will...

I know it's only £3.50,but to my other half that is best part of a sausage supper and she feels quite partial to one tonight.! Decisions decisions........... Glen

Well she is recuperating,and the will isn't going to vanish is it,best leave it till next week.LOL Glen

get it! hang the expense, throw the cat a goldfish! (buy both)

Glen don't you dare buy it - get Mrs Knickers her sausage supper and, as she's still recouperating, buy her some mushy peas too. As you say, it will still be there next week!!

Snowdrops - Please be polite - That's Mrs. Tinsel - NOT Mrs. Knickers !!! - Sounds SSooo much better don't you think?? Tee hee, Dea x P.S. - I do agree about the mushy peas though!! Dea Xxx

Sorry - thought it was double barrelled!!! Or is that just the shotgun Glen's coming after me with?

It's credit card - does it matter if it's now or next week? Angela

Tis her credit card though (see i'm not daft) Oh well,the supper was worth the expense just to keep the peace. Catch you all tomorrow Glen (now nursing a well fed lady)

Would anyone be kind enough to link me the wills site, I cannot navigate that site if my life depended on it Thank you

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Wills up to c1858. After that, you need to get them from York, I believe. Angela

Hi Glen I chanced upon my gggg grandfathers will a few months ago and was staggered to find he left 18 houses, a pigsty & yard, 2 fields, a mortgage of £100 secured on the 'Old Mill', £85 split between 5 grandchildren, 2 shillings a week to one daughter, 1 and a half share in 'Union Mill', worktools and linen! All his 11 children were named as well as their spouses and the grandchildren. It was a gem of a find! Debby