Abstract of Original Will: Owen Williams of Penmynydd, gent.

This material is held atArchifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 221 WM313
  • Alternative Id.
      GB 221 WM/313
  • Dates of Creation
    • [20th cent.]
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item

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Copy Catalogue of records held at Suffolk Record Office deposited by Spencer Loch, esq. which includes:

ABSTRACT OF ORIGINAL WILL of Owen Williams of Penmynydd, Gent. He gives small sums of money for the upkeep of the parish churches of Llanbadricke, Llanvechell, and Penmynydd, and to Bangor Cathedral. He leaves his property called the Mote or Halmeston and Fowell Halstwell in Berbrooke [?Essex] in trust to his cousin William Arthur of Maynoll [Vaynol?], Bangor until his nephew Owen Williams attains the age of 24, and his property in Llanbadricke and Llanvechell called Groes vechan, 'r Allt Gam also in trust to William Arthur until his nephew Richard Griffith attains the age of 24. He gives the rectory and glebe lands of Llanbadricke to William Arthur. 1s worth of bread is to be given to the poor of Llanbadrig, Llanvechell and Bangor every Sunday and 6s.8d. p. a. to the churchwardens of Llanbadrig, Lanvechell and Bangor for an annual sermon. There are numerous other monetary bequests to relatives but he declines to give an annuity to his nephew William Pritchard Arthur because he tried to " sett a difference between me and my wife", and only left £5 to his " gracelesse and untoward sonne" who had been "very Abusive and unnaturall towards me in my decrepit old age" and also he had led "a most lewd and wicked life".

Executors: William Arthur and nephew Owen Williams

1657 Apr. 14

Administrative / Biographical History

A will or testament is a legal document by which a person, the testator, expresses their wishes as to how their property is to be distributed at death, and names one or more persons, the executor, to manage the estate until its final distribution. For the devolution of property not disposed of by will, see inheritance and intestacy.

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Compiled by Helen Lewis for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

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Copy Catalogue of records held at Suffolk Record Office deposited in 1977 by Spencer Loch Esq re the Elwes family

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