JAMES PRIEST/MORSE/JE(I)NKINS/KEAR (General)

by MPGriffiths , Wednesday, June 04, 2014, 08:54 (3819 days ago) @ janethowell

Janet

You will be pleased to know, that Ancestry have copy Gloucestershire Wills -

and that

James PRIEST - Coalminer, Will - dated 25 August 1827 - Will No 160 of Newland, Bream Eaves - mentions his wife and four children, one includes Maria - wife of Thomas JENKINS

This Will is two pages long and very clear and easy to read and James PRIEST leaves them inc Maria bits of land etc.

I will go through this Will - but bit pushed shopping etc -

Talks about Eldest daughter Ann - wife of Thomas MORSE
Eldest son - Joseph
Daughter Maria - wife of Thomas JINKINS 1841 census reads JINKINS
Son William

witnessed by John MORSE, Grace? Kear and James MORSE

Fod Records

James PRIEST of Newland, married Elizabeth KEAR of Newland - 17 May 1787

witness: James KEAR

and baptism at Newland 11 Jan 1795

Maria PRIEST - daughter of James & Elizabeth - residence: Forest

Memoranda: Bream Chapel

1851 Census, Moll Hill, West Dean

Maria JENKINS - W - 55 born Glos West Dean
Mesach - 11
Alice - 11