Margerie Skynner 1617/8 Will

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Contents 1 WikiTree Pages of Interest 2 Bibliographic Notes 3 Margerie Skynner 1617/8 Will 4 Research Notes

WikiTree Pages of Interest

• Margery (Trotter) Skinner (1546-1620)
• William Skinner (abt.1542-bef.1616)

• William Skinner 1616 Will

Bibliographic Notes

Henry F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England 2 vols. (Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1901), 2:1206 (Margerie Skynner of Braintree, widow, 1617[/?8]); digital images, InternetArchive.

Margerie Skynner 1617/8 Will

MARGERIE SKYNNER of Brainctree, Essex, widow, 2 March 1617, proved at Brainctree 16 December 1620. To my daughter Margerie five pounds (and other goods) and to her son John Gill a bullock. To my son William Skynner five pounds. To my son John Skynner twenty pounds. To my daughter Rachell five pounds. I do give and bequeath further to my daughter Rachell three pewter platters of the greater sort and three of the best cushions in the great chamber and my warming pan. To Sara Taylcoat a flock bed and a flock bolster, a coverlet and a pair of blankets (and other effects). To Rachell Taylcoate a little kettle of a gallon, a brass pot, a posnet (&c.). And I will that the pewter which I had of my son in law John Taylecoat I will the same to Sara and Rachell to be equally parted and divided between them; and I give more to Sara my kneading trough. If my son John Skynner's son do die before he be of age to receive bis gift which my husband gave him, which is a silver bowl and two silver spoons; then I give the same to my son John. To my son John Skynner's wife two silver spoons. The residue of my pewter I will shall be equally parted and divided between my daughter Ann her two daughters she had by my son in law Moses Wall, my son Richard's wife and my son John his wife, by even portions, and I give more to my son John his wife a kettle next the biggest. And I give to my son Richard twenty pounds and the residue of my household stuff unbequeathed. I give more to my daughter Anne a two and twenty shillings piece in gold and to her husband Moyses Wall a two and twenty shillings piece in gold. I make my son Richard sole executor. I give to Mr. Collen ten shillings to preach at my funeral. To the poor of Brainctree six shillings eight pence. I nominate and appoint my son John Skynner overseer. Christopher Taylor, scr. a witness.
Com. of London for Essex and Herts.
File for 1620-1621, Nº. 121.

[See wills of John Tailecot and Moses Wall in last January Gleanings (pp. 134 and 139; ante, pp. 1125 and 1130) and pedigree of Talcot (p. 135; ante, p. 1126) in the same Gleanings.-H. F. W.]

Research Notes

This could be improved upon by obtaining full, original will.