unto Alice, my wife, my now dwellinghouse wth the appurtenances, within the said towne, in a street there called the Side, and a garden lying and being in the Hy Castle thare adjoining upon the mute hall theare for and during her natural life, and after her decease to remaine and come unto Cuthbert Ellison, Merchant, and Jane, his wife, my daughter, and their heires, according to a Deed formerly made unto them at or before their marriage. I give and bequeath unto Barbara Ile, my daughter, and the heires of her body, one burgage or tenement with the appurtences lying and being at the head of the Side within the said Towne, now in the tenour and occupation of Eleanor Turpin, widow, together with such implements and untensils therein as do belong to me, and also two little tenements and one brew house lying and being in St. Nicholas church yard near and adjoining upon the said burgage or tenament, and if the said Barbara happen to dye without issue of her Body then my will and mynde is that the same lands so formerly bequeathed unto her shall remayne and come unto Eleanor, Alice and Elizabeth Ile, my three daughters, and the survivor of them and their heires for ever equally to be divided amongst theme. I give and bequeath unto Eleanor, my daughter, and the heires of her body, one burgage or tenements with the appurtenances nowe in the tennor or occupation of John Forster, saidler situate and being in the said towne at the foote of the Side there near the Pannt, before and neare againste Mr. Barker's howse there, and if the said Elynor happen to dye withoute heires of her bodye then my will and mynd is that the same landes so formerly bequeathed unto her shall remayne and come unto the said Barbara, Alice and Elizabeth, my daughters, and the survivors of them and their heires for ever equally to be divided amongst them. I give and bequeath unto Alice Ile, my daughter, and the heirs of her body, one burgage or tenement with the appurtenances now in the several tenuers or occupacons of Mark Hutchinson, tailor, and Thomas Ewbank, feltmaker, situate and being wthin the said towne of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the Iron Markett theare adjoyning upon the said tenement nowe in the occupation of the said John Forster, and if the said Alice happen to 6 July, 1603, mar., 14 Feb., 1620/1, William Anderson; Mary, bapt., 21 Apl., 1605, bur., 10 March, 1605/6. The testator's wife was not (as suggested in Longstaffe's, Darlington, p. lxxxvii.) Alice, bapt., 5 Feb., 1575/6, dau. of Oswald Carr (for she was bur., 28 Apl., 1594), but probably Alice, dau. of William Carr, alderman, still under age at the death of her mother Joan (dau. of John Trollope), Sept., 1587 (see Raine's M.S. Prob. and Admon., i., 115), godmother, 12 Apr., 1588, to her nephew John, posthumous son of John Carr, and 5 Aug.. 1593, to a child of Robert Eden, who mar. her eldest sister Isabel. This would explain the testator's "kinship" to Robert Shafto, who mar. Jane, second of the fifteen children of Robert and Isabel Eden. For the descendants of his brother Robert Ile, see Northumberland Visitation Pedigrees (ed. Foster, p. 70), and Longstaffe's Darlington, loc. cit. of dye without heires of her body then my will and mynd is that the same lands so formerly bequeathed unto her shall remayne and come unto the said Barbara, Elynor, and Elizabeth, my three daughters, and the survivors of them and their heires for ever equally to be divided amongst them. I give and bequeath to Elizabeth Ile, my daughter, and the heires of her body, one moiety or halfe part of one burgage tenement with the appurtenances now in the tenoure or occupation of Thomas Hodgson, yeoman, situate and being within the said towne of Newcastle upon Tyne in a street there called Shodefryer Chaire, and also the moiety or half pt of a tenement with the appurtenances now in the tenure or occupation situate and being within the said towne near Newgate there which I purchased of Mr. Robert Eden, together also with the moytie or halfe pte of a meadow close and nowe in the tenure or occupacon of Thomas Cole, cordyner, situate and being in Gateside, in the County of Durham, neare Bustye borne theare, which I lately purchased of William Eden, Appothecary and grocer, and if the said Elizabeth happen to dye without heires of her bodye then my will and mynd is that the same lands so bequeathed unto her shall remayne and come unto the said Barbara, Eleanor and Alice Ile, my three daughters, and the survivors of them and their heires for ever equally to be divided amongst them. Provided alwaies and my mynd and will is that Alice, my wife, shall have and enjoy all the said landes, tenements and hereditaments so by me formerly bequeathed unto my foure dawghters, Barbara, Elynor, Alice and Elizabeth, to her owne use, profitts and comidy until they and every of them shall respectively come unto the age of one and twenty yeares or be married which shall first happen or come. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Jane, six silver spoones with knopper gildes and to either of her two sonnes an unyon peece of golde. I give and bequeath to everie of my foure daughters, Barbara, Elynore, Alice and Elizabeth, fifty poundes a piece for a porcon of my goods, chattells and debts to be paid unto them and every of them, when they shall respectively accomplish the age of one and twenty yeares or be maryed when then shall first happen or come, and if they said Barbara, Eleynor, Alice and Elizabeth, or any of them happen to dye before they shall accomplish the age of one and twentye yeares or be marryed, then my will and mynd is that the porcon of them so deceasing shall remayne and come to the survivors of them, equallie to be divided amongst them surviving, hoping if they do prove dutiful children to my said wife, that my said loveing wife will augment my said children's porcons. All the reste of my goods and chattells, and cattells and debts whatsoever my debts, legacies and funerall expences being payd and discharged. I give and bequeath unto my loveing wife, Alice Ile, whom I make and ordayne full and sole executrix of this my last Will and Testament. I make and ordayne my well beloved frends and kinsmen, Mr. Peter Riddell and Mr. Robert Shaftoe, supervisors of this my Will and Testament, and I give and bequeath to either of them one angell for a token. I give and bequeath unto my brother, Robert Ile, twenty shillings for a token. I give and bequeath unto my cozene, Clement Ile, forty shillings for a token. I give and bequeath unto my Aunte Suerties, wife to Mr. Robert Suerties, of Durham, tenn shillings for a token. I give and bequeathe unto Bowmer Ile, tene shillings for a token. I give and bequeath unto my two servantes, Ralph Pattison and Henry Watson, either of them tenn shillings for a token, and unto my servante, Mary Mills, ten shillings for a token, and to either of my two other servantes, Anne Wright and Eleynor Powell, five shillings for a token. Witnesses, Peter Riddell, Robt. Shaftoe, Ric. Baker, Francis Leighton. Proved, 1614. ROBERT ANDERSON.1 Jan. 9, 1614/15. In the name of God, Amen, in the twelfth yeare of the reign of our sovereign, Lord James, by the grace of god, King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the faithe and of Scotland. I, Robert Anderson, of the towne of Newcastell upon Tyne, Marchant and alderman. To be buried in the parish church of St. Nicholas in Newcastell aforesaid. I give to the pore people of the same towne, to be geven them at my buriall, the some of five poundes. I give to Robert Anderson, sone to Isack Anderson, who is nowe in howse with me, the sum of fiftie poundes, at his age of twenty one yeres, if he live to the said age, otherwise this bequest to be voyd, and I will he shallbe brought upp by my sonne Robert till he be fitt to be bound apprentise and then to be disposed of my said sonne and by his care ordered as shallbe fittinge. I give to my eldest servant and kinsman, Anthony Metcalf, the sume of forty shillings yearly, as Uncertainty haunts any attempt to classify Andersons of Newcastle, and the following note should be accepted with that reservation. *Registers of St. Nich., Newcastle. Robert Anderson, father of the testator, was a son of Robert Anderson of Alnwick (Visn. pedigrees, ed. Foster, p. 5), was apprenticed to George Selby, 17 Apl., 1530, mar. Lambe of Newcastle, was sheriff, 1559-60, and mayor 1567/8, joined Richard Hodgson and "Mr." Selby in a purchase of Winlaton Manor about 1573 (Welford's Newcastle, ii., 459), was brother and (with his son Robert and many others) devisee, 27 Aug., 1577. of Simon Anderson of Newcastle, clerk, and was bur., 5 June, 1593.* The testator mar., 16 Nov., 1585,* Agnes Anderson, was sheriff, 1600/1, and was bur., 13 Jan., 1614/15.* His wife Agnes (or Anne) was a dau., born later than 1560/1 (122 Surt. Soc., p. 171), of Henry Anderson (bur., 5 Feb., 1602/3,* known as "the elder to distinguish him from his nephew, Alderman Henry Anderson, son of Bertram) by Dorothy (bur. 5 Oct., 1597*) dau. of Giles Wood of Pickering; she was a godmother, 28 Aug., 1582,* as was her sister Dorothy (also born after 1560/1), 5 July, 1579,* 12 May, 1580,* 7 Oct., 1582.* Among her brothers was Francis, almost certainly the ancestor (who was sheriff, 1595-6) of a dau. of دو to be paid to him during his natural life, issuing owte of my Manor of Wynlington, in the County of Durham, and owt of all my landes, tenements and hereditaments in Wynlington payable at the feasts of Pentecost and St. Martines the Bishope in Wynter by equal porcons, and if the same shall be behinde by the space of tenn dayes after any of the said feastes, that then it shall be lawfull for the said Anthony and his assigns into the sayd Mannors and certified premises to enter and destraine, and the same distress to holde and kepe till of the sayd yerely rent with the arreaarages, if any, be fully satisfied. I give to my howshold servants the some of fiftie shillings to be distributed amongst them at the discretion of Robt. my sonne, and Anne my wife. I geve unto the said Anne, my wellbeloved wiffe, in liewe and full satisfacon of her dowre which she may challenge or demand owt of all or any my lands, tenements and hereditaments, and in liew and full satisfacon of her reasonable pt or porcon which she maye in any way challenge or demand owt of all or any my goodes, chattells, creditts and debts whatsoever, all my lands, tenements and hereditaments in Wyngate, in the Countye of Durham, and all the coales and profitts from time to time arising owt of my pt of colliery in Whickham, in the same Countye comonly called the rounde lease colliery, and all the profitts and coles from time to time arising owt of my pte of the colliery at Ravensworth, in the same countye to have and to hold the said lands, tenements and hereditaments in Wyngate, and to pserve, take and have the sayd coles and profitts from tyme to tyme arising owt of my saide collierye of Whickham and Ravensworth unto the said Anne and her assignes during her naturall lyffe, and I give unto her all my coles of the same Colleryes of Whickham and Ravensworth being alreddy wrought and which said coles remane either at pitts or stathes, and I give unto her the moytie or halfe of all my plate and utensills of howhold to her owne use absolutely, except bed دو the Andersons of Bradley ("Mr. Francis Anderson, shirefe, and his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Anderson," appear as sponsors, 15 Aug., 1596*). The testator's "worshipful kinsman," Sir George Selby, was son of William Selby, who was son of George Selby by Margaret, dau. of.. Anderson. Simon Anderson gave by will his half-quarter of "Winlington to his nephew William Selby. It would seem that Margaret was sister of Simon. The testator and his wife had two children, viz.:Robert, bapt., 26 Oct., 1592 (sureties, Robert Mitford, Robert Ellison, merchants, and the grandmother, wife of Mr. Henrie Anderson, elder),* and Dorothy, bapt., 12 Dec., 1594 (sureties, Dorothy Anderson grandmother, the wife of Robert Tempest and Isaac Anderson),* and probably bur., 27 Feb., 1594/5.* Robert, the son, mar. at St. Andrew's, Newcastle, 24 Apl., 1615, Jane (who probably survived him), dau. of Thomas Liddell, alderman, was sheriff, 1619-20, and mayor, 1630-1 died 9 and was bur., 12 May, 1640.* By his will dated 6 May, 1640 (111 Surt. Soc., p. 103n.) he named as executor and residuary legatee his " cousin " Francis (afterwards Sir Francis) Anderson, son of Roger, son of the above-mentioned Francis. steds, tables and chymnies of iron. Provided alwaies that she shall neither demand any dower owt of my lands nor any reasonable or other pt. owt of any of my goods, chattells, credits and debts as aforesaid. All the residue of my goods, chattells, creditts and debts not hereby already bequeathed, I give to Robt. Anderson, my sonne, whom I make sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, and I make my worshipful kinsman, Sir George Selbye, Knight, Francis Anderson, Alderman of Newcastle, and Robt. Ellison, mv Supervisors of the same. Witnesses, F. Anderson, Robert Ellison, William Selbye. Proved, 1614. CONAND STEVENSON.1 Sept. 28, 1615. In the name of God, Amen. I, Conand Stevenson, of the parish of St. Andrew's, in Newcastle upon Tyne. To be buried in the pish church of St. Andrew's aforesaid, I give then unto my wiffe, Elizabeth Stevenson, a brewe copper and the furniture belonging to it. I give unto my wife the houses I bought during her lifetime, and after hir life they to come to my two daughters, joyntlie, severallie, and to her heires after them (fayling her heires to come to the next of kinne of me the said Conande). I give to my wife sixe bouls of malte. I give to my two daughters either of them, 40s. The pewter dishes, dublers and also potts and pans, candlesticks and all other such implements to be devided betwixt my wife and my said two daughters by equall porcons, that is to say, to my wife a part, to Hellenor Pile a parte, and to my daughter, Agnes Stevenson, a part, and as aforesaid. I give and bequeath unto my wife all the brewing vessells, and other vessells, and other utensills, and woode, excepting to my daughters either of them, two drink stands. I give unto my two daughters, ether of them, a paire of sheets and a paire of pillowbears. I give to Hellenor a new happin, and to Agnes a coverlet and a happine of twenty four yeards of linen. I give the full halfe to my wife and the rest to be delivered betwixt my two daughters. I give to my wife two featherbedds with the appurtenances to them. I give to my wife the best Ambrie and the best cheste, and I give to my daughters ether of them a cheste. Also I give unto my daughter, Agnes, an ambrie that next to the best. I give to my wife the table in the hall and forme belonging to it and to either of my daughters a stoole. I give to Helenor Pile the table in the low howse and the forme belonging to it. I give to Willm. Pickering my haulbert staffe and my steal cape. I give He was bur. at St. Andrew's, Newcastle, 7 Oct., 1615, where his two sons were bapt., viz.:- Francis, 24 June, 1599 (bur., 21 Dec., 1600), and Robert, 13 Sept., 1601; his wife Isabel was bur. there, 27 May, 1600; he re-mar., 30 Nov., 1600, Dorothy Pickering at St. Nich., Newcastle. |