NLW Ref: LL/1631/17

Christain Herbert Goytrey – 1631

Inventory

A true inventory of & singular the goods and cattels of Christian Herbert widdowe of the pishe of Goytrey in the County of Monmouth, deceased taken the xxiiith Daye in the seaventh yere of the raigne of o’r Sovraigne Lorde Charles by the grace of God Kinge of England. Scotland France & Ireland defender of the faith &c.

Imprimis one cow and a yeerely bull xxxiiis

Itm fowre sheepe viiis

Itm one feather bed & twoe boulsters xs

Itme sixe sheets one coverhall & a case of a bedd xs

Itm one brasse pott two bottles one pewter dish & one frying pan xs

Itm twoe and irons iis

Itm two coffers iis

Itm fowre pounds of woole iis vid

Itm three little stands & two payles is iiid

Some total£iiixixsiid

Praysers

Roger Morgan

William Richlley?

Roger Morgan by mark

Exhibited xxvi January 1631

NLW Ref: LL/1624/22

Cissell Watkin – Goytre

In the name of God Amen the xth daie of June 1624 I Cissell Watkin of the pishe of Goitre wthin the Counte of Monmothe and diocesse of Landaffe beinge sicke in bodie and yt of good and pfecte remembrannce laude and praise be unto God therefore dow make and ordaine my laste will and testament in maner and forme foloinge.

Firste and principallie I geve and bequethe my sowlle to the allmightie God my onllie maker and redemer and my bodi to be buried wthin the pishe churche of Goitre. Item I geve to the Cathedrall Churche of Landaffe iid

Item I geve and bequethe unto my tow chilldren viz that ys to saie Mary an Cissell and it cauled by the name of Morgan Harri and unto my doghter Gwenllian Cissell? and yt knowen by the name of Gwenllian John Morgan all and singular my moveablles and howshoulld stuffe wth one lease the wch I howllde by the graunte of the Righte Honorablle the Lorde of Abergavenni for certen yeres it to come and whereof? my brother William Watkin decesed and my sellfe have bargened and soulld one tenement and certaine landes thereunto adioning containge by estimacion thirtie akers or there aboutes unto Mr Water Jones pson of Lanvaire unto him and his hereis for ever for the entire sum of fortie poundes the wch said rematinthe? in moste parte in the handes of the seid Mr Jones and unpaied and of the fore seid sum of fortie poundes and everi parte and parcell thereof I dow by thes p’sens I dow geve and bequethe all my righte titell and intereste unto my tow chilldren aforenamed to be equallie and indisserentllie? parted betwine them by the divecion of to howse … and of this my last will I dow nominate and a poinnte Morgan Cissell there wise Morgan Harri to be sole executor of this my laste will

Sealed and delivered in the p’senes of us

Water Moris;

Richard John;

Margaret Thomas;

David Watkins

(Latin) Proved at Usk 16 June 1624 before … Jones, Surrogate

NLW Ref: LL/1771/34

Charles Lewis 16th April 1771

In the name of God Amen I Charles Lewis of the parish of Goytre in the County of Monmouth and Diocess of Landaff yeo being this twenty fift day of February one thousand seven hundred and seventy one, sick in body but of sound mind and memory and understanding praised be God for the same, do make and ordain this my last will and Testament in manner following. That is to say. I commend my soul to Allmighty God who gave it me hopeing to be eternally saved in and throught the meritts of Jesus Christ our redeemer and as for my body I commend it to be buried in a Christian like manner, decently at the discression of my executors hereafter named. And as for my worldly estate I give and dispose as followeth.

First I give and bequeath to my youngest son William Lewis those two lease holds in the hamlet of Glascoed and Manor of Usk in the County of Monmouth, wch lands and premises are now rented by me to one Herbert Jenkins, to the said Wm Lewis his heirs executors or assigns dureing the tearm of the leases.

Also I give and bequeath to my four daughters, Mary Lewis, Margaret Lewis, Amy Lewis & Elizabeth Lewis to each of them the sum of thirty pounds to be paid them and every of them at the year’s end after my discease

All the rest of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever I do give to my wife Mary Lewis and my eldest son John Lewis whome I do nominate joyntly my executrix and executor to this my last will and Testament and I do disanul and make void all former wills by me made whatsoever. As witness my hand and seal the day month and year above written. The mark of Charles (X) Lewis

Signed sealed published pronounced and declared in the presence of us Edmund Morgan of Mamhilad; William Jenkins of Mongswood; Wm Jenkins of Glascoed

April 16^th 1771. Mary Lewis widow the relict one of the executors in this Will named was sworn well and faithfully to execute the same to exhibit an inventory &c and to render an acct &c (power being first reserved &c) before me Nath’l Wells, Surrogate

This Will was proved at Abergavenny on the sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy one before the Reverend Nathaniel Wells, Clerk, Master of Arts, the Chancellor’s Surrogate by Mary Lewis widow the relict one of the executors in this Will named who was first on the holy Evangelists personally sworn well and faithfully to execute the same, to exhibit an inventory &c and to render a just account of her administration thereof when thereunto lawfully required (power being first reserved to John Lewis the other executor in this Will named when he applys for the same)

Noverint universi per presents nos Thomas Morgan     pochi de Goytre   in Comitatu   Glamorgan & Diocese of Llandaff yeoman and William Evans of the parish of Goytre aforesaid     teneri et firmiter obligari  centum libris   bone et Legalis monete Anglie solvendis eidem  aut certo attornato executorbus administrators vel assign suis ad quam quidem solutionem bene et fideliter faciendam obligamus nos et utrumque nostrum per se pro toto et in solidum heredes, executors et administrators nostros firmiter per presents per presentes sigillis nostris sigillatas Date 7 Feb 1710/11

The condition of this obligation is such that whereas Letters of admon? Of the body and goods of Gwenllian Evans the n’rall and lawfull daughter of David Evans of the parish of Goytre aforesaid are granted to the above bounden Thomas Morgan if therefore the said Thomas Morgan according to the trust in him reposed will take care of the person and goods of the said minor in manageing the same to her best pfitt and advantage and will likewise give a true and just account of his receipts and disbursements for and to the use of the said minor then this obligation to be void or else to remain in full force and vertue. Thomas (X) Morgan; William Evans

Sealed and delivered in the presence of Robt Griffiths

NLW Ref: LL/1710/49

David Evans – Goytre

Noverint universi per presents nos Thomas Morgan  pochi de Goytre   in Comitatu   Glamorgan & Diocese of Llandaff yeoman and William Evans of the parish of Goytre aforesaid teneri et firmiter obligari centum libris bone et Legalis monete Anglie solvendis eidem  aut certo attornato executorbus administrators vel assign suis ad quam quidem solutionem bene et fideliter faciendam obligamus nos et utrumque nostrum per se pro toto et in solidum heredes, executors et administrators nostros firmiter per presents per presentes sigillis nostris sigillatas Date 7 Feb 1710/11

The condition of this obligation is such that whereas Letters of admon? Of the body and goods of Gwenllian Evans the n’rall and lawfull daughter of David Evans of the parish of Goytre aforesaid are granted to the above bounden Thomas Morgan if therefore the said Thomas Morgan according to the trust in him reposed will take care of the person and goods of the said minor in manageing the same to her best pfitt and advantage and will likewise give a true and just account of his receipts and disbursements for and to the use of the said minor then this obligation to be void or else to remain in full force and vertue. Thomas (X) Morgan; William Evans

Sealed and delivered in the presence of Robt Griffiths

NLW Ref: LL/1840/53

Know all me by these presents that we Rachael James  of the parish of Lanover   in the County Monmouth widow, James James of the parish of Trevethin in the said County Gentleman and William James of Trevethin aforesaid publican of  are held and firmly bound unto the Right Reverend Father in God Edward  by divine permission Lord Bishop of Llandaff  in the sum of   four hundred  pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain to be paid unto the said Lord Bishop or to his certain attorney his executors administrators or assigns to which payment well and truly to be made. We oblige ourselves and each of us by himself for the whole our and each of our heirs executors and administrators firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals dated …   day of …   in the third   year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland  Defender of the Faith &c and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty

The Condition of this obligation is such that if Rachael James widow the relict and administratrix  of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of Edward James late of the parish of Goytrey in the County aforesaid farmer  deceased do make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of her   the said   Rachael James     or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for her   and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited in the Registry of the Consistory Court of Llandaff   on or before the last day of August next ensuing and the same goods chattels and credits and all other the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased do well and faithfully administer according to law, that is to say, do pay the debts of the said deceased which he   did owe at his     death and then the legacies contained and specified in the said Will annexed to the said Letters of Administration so to be committed as far as     his     goods chattels and credits will thereto extend and the law charge   and further do make or cause to be made a true and just accompt of her   said administration when   she   shall be thereunto lawfully required. And all the rest and reside of the said goods chattels and credits which shall be found remaining upon the said administrat accompt and not otherwise disposed of in the said Will the same being first examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges of the said Court for the time being shall distribute and pay in such manner and form as shall be limited by the direction of the said Judge. And lastly do at all times hereafter clearly acquit discharge and save harmless the within named Lord Bishop the said Judge and all other officers of the said Court against all persons having or pretending to have any right title or interest in the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased then this obligation to be void or else to remain in full force ant virtue.   The mark of Rachael (X) James; James James; William James

Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of John Probert, Commissioner

NLW Ref: LL/1676/24

Ffortune Morgan – Goytrey

In the name of God Amen the tenth day of Februarye in the eight & twentith yeare of the raigne of our Sovraigne Lord & King Charles the second, King of England &c Anno Domini 1675 I Fortune Morgan of the pish of Goyterye in the Countye of Monmoth and wthin the Dioces of Landaph widdowe being sicke in boddy but of good & pfecte memorye & remembrance praysed be God for the same doe hereby make & ordeyne this my last will and Testament in manner & forme following (that is to say) First & principallye I comend my soule into the hands of God my maker to Jesus Christ my Redeemer & to the Holly Ghost my santefier by whose meritts mercie & pressious death & passion I hope to saved & to enioy that everlasting kingdom prepared for the faithfull & for my boddye I bequeath it unto the earth from whence it came thence to remayne untill that greate day of the resurrection of the dead & to be buried in decent manner in the pish church of Mamhilad, as for the goods & psonall estate the Lord hath pleased to lend mee I give and bequeath them in manner & forme following.

Item I give & bequeath to Jenkin Rosser my sonn in lawe & Elizabeth my daughter being his wife on kowe collered redd wth a white starr in his forehead & a white tayle towards the dischardging of fiftye shillings wch I owe in smale depts togeather wth eleaven shillings more wch I doe give & bequeath unto the sd Jenkin Rosser & Elizabeth my daughter to be payed unto them by William Thomas Watkin my son wthin the space of three months next after my decease towards the making of a full payment of my whole & due depts.

Item I give & bequeath to my sonn William Thomas on standing cubbard wch standeth in the chamber in my howse being the chamber next unto the high way.

Item I give & bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth one brasse pann one wooden tubb towards bruing two pewter platters & one payre of sheets of flax & one sheet of dowlas & one brasse crocke.

Item I give & bequeath to my grandchild Ann the daughter of George my sonn one brasse crocke.

Item I give & bequeath to Gwenllian Thomas my daughter on lardge chest wch standeth in the roome by the fyer two pewter platters & one payer of hempen sheets.

Item I give & bequeath to George Thomas my sonn on baking iron & one wooden barrell.

Item I give & bequeath to Mary Thomas my grandchild one standing bedsteede of kervers worke & one feather pillober.

Item I give & bequeath to my grandchild Rachell Thomas one pewter platter & one brasse candlesticke

Item I give & bequeath to Cicill William my mayde servant one truckle bedsteede one sheete one bedd case to howlde doust on little barrell or ferkin to hould drinke & one coffer of oken timber.

Item I give & bequeath to my daughter Gwenllian the some of tenn shilling pte & pcell of five pownds wch my sonn William is to pay unto such psons as I shall appoynt them to be payed wthin the space of three months next after my decease to be paid to her accordingly.

Item I give & bequeath to Jenkin Rosser & Elizabeth his wife the full some of three pownds & ninteene shillings being the full remaynder & residue of the fore sayed some of five pownds being due & payable by my sonn William Thomas his bond of tenn pownds for payment there as above said wthin the space of three months next after my decease to be payed unto the said Jenkin & Elizabeth according to the tenure of the sayed bond.

As for any other goods or psonall estate that remayneth in my possession being unbequeathed as afforesaid if any bee, I give & bequeath them to my sonn in lawe Jenkin Rosser & Elizabeth his wife whome I make & ordeyne my whole & joynt executors of this my last will & testament nulling & revoking all former wills & testaments, to see my depts & legacies payed & my funerall expences discharged.

In wittnes whereof I have hereunto put my hand & seale the day, month & yeare first above written. Anno Domi 1675.

The mke of Fortune Morgan

Sealed & deliv’ed in the psence of us the mke of Richard Phe Rosser?; the mke of William Watkin; Derricke Williams

(Latin) Proved 1^st April 76 by Jenkin Rosser.   Dd Price, Surrogate

NLW Ref: LL/1834/30

James Morgan – Goytrey

This is the last will and testament of me, James Morgan of the parish of Goytrey in the county of Monmouth, cooper.

I give and devise all that my messuage or dwelling house with the outhouses farm and lands thereto belonging and held therewith situate and lying in the said parish of Goytrey, unto my dear wife Ann Morgan and her assigns for her life, and in case of the determination of that estate by any means in her life time I give and devise the same unto my loving friends James Gwatkin of the said parish of Goytrey farmer, and Abraham Williams of the hamlet of Glascoed in the said county, farmer and their heirs during the natural life of my said wife upon trust for her and her assigns and by the usual ways and means to support, contingent remainders.

And after the decease of my said wife Ann Morgan I give and devise the said messuage and premises unto my natural son James Morgan who now lives with me and to the heirs of his body, but in case the said James Morgan shall happen to depart this life leaving no child or children or remoter issue of his body living at the time of his decease or born in due time afterwards or being any child or children or remoter issue of my said son James Morgan living at such the time of his decease or born in due time afterwards if all of them shall die under the age of twenty one years and without leaving lawful issue if his her or their body or respective bodies, then I give and devise my said messuage farm lands and premises to Mary Davies, wife of Owen Davies of Goytrey aforesaid, labourer and her assigns for her life for her own sole and separate use and in case of the determination of that estate by any means in the life time of the said Mary Davies then I give and devise the same farm lands messuage and premises unto the said James Gwatkin and Abraham Williams and their heirs during the natural life of the said Mary Davies upon trust for her and her assigns and by the usual and means to support, contingent, remainders.

And after the decease of the said Mary Davies I give and devise my said messuage farm lands and premises unto the eldest son of the said Mary Davies who shall be living at the time of her decease his heirs and assigns for ever but if there shall be no son of the said Mary Davies living at the time of her decease then unto the eldest daughter of the said Mary Davies living at such the time of her decease her heirs and assigns for ever and if there shall be no such daughter of the said Mary Davies then unto my own right heirs for ever I give and bequeath all my monies, securities for money, household furniture and personal estate of what nature or kind soever unto my said dear wife Ann Morgan her executors, administrators and assigns absolutely subject nevertheless to the payment of my just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses with the payment whereof I also charge my said real estate in aid of my personal estate if necessary.

I hereby appoint my said wife sole executrix of this my will and hereby revoking all former and other will by me at any time heretofore made and declare this only to be my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.

James Morgan ~ by mark

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said testator James Morgan as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto:

Joseph Griffiths

Philip Williams ~ his mark

Mary Williams

Proved 14^th day of 1834 by Ann Morgan the relict.

James Rosser 1746/7

In the name of God Amen. I James Rosser of the parish of Goytre in the County of Monmouth and in the diocese of Landaff; Being in perfect health, mind and memory do make and ordain my last Will and Testament in the following maner.

First of all I recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body to the grave to be buried in a Christian burial at the discretion of my executors hereinafter named and as for what wordly goods that God has been pleased to bestow upon me I give and bequeath in manner following.

First I give and bequeath to my son John Rosser the sume of one shilling to be paid by my executors at the end of twelve months after my decease.

I also give and bequeath to my daughter Ann, the wife of James Watkin the sume of one shilling to be paid at the end of twelve months after my decease and also all the rest of my goods, cattle and chattles.

I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth during her natural life and after her decease to my daughter Margaret whom I nominate and appoint my executors and administrators jointly, revoking and disannulling all former wills and testaments by me made; ratifying and confirming this to be my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal this second day of January in the year of our Lord 1746/7.

Signed, sealed and published and declared by the above written testator in the presence of us whose names are underwritten.

Ffrancis Morgan

Ffrancis Morgan the younger

John Price