Edmund Garrett 1695

Submitted by: Joyce M Oates
Date: 12 June 2016
Original: 0106207

Archdeacon Will 1695A #34 Lezayre will of Edmund Garrett weaver / webster, died 28 December 1695:
Summary: wife Isabel Garrett alias Garrett, only child Margaret Garrett died before probate of will, brother William Garrett,
sister Marriad Garrett, sister Isabel Garrett, witnesses: William Goldsmith & John Cottier, pledges: William Goldsmith
& John Cottier for the wife, and John Kneen & Philip Goldsmith for the brother William
NOTE: The scribe in Lezayre, per wills written before and after this will, used the older Manx tradition of recording a married
woman's name. Isabel is recorded as 'Isabel Garrett', with Garrett being her maiden name per Manx Custom.
See: Archdeacon Wills Memorandum dated 1724/5 Lezarye, [see ArW 1692A #43 Lezayre] regarding Daniel Garrett the deceased father of
William Garrett (the executor) & his sister Marriad Garrett [her will ArW 1735A #63 Lezayre] who was the wife of Ewan Kneen [his will ArW
1732A #50 Lezayre]:
Memdum: How Willm: Garrett who is his fathers Execrs: paid Ewan Kneene the summ of 4£ - 6d will'd to ye sd Ewan Kneens wife by her
father £ s d
Imp: Paid to him in several accts:.................................... 1 - 14 - 0
Itt: Paid to in Ramsey by Edm: Curlett on wch acct ................... 1 - 00 - 0
Itt: Given to him on St Andrews ffaire day ........................... 0 - 12 - 0
Itt: Paid in ye Ld: Rent the year I was Moar, in his behalfe.......... 0 - 06 - 0
Itt: Given to his wife a new white fridz’d Blanket ................... 0 - 06 - 0
Itt: The grassing of a heifer ........................................ 0 - 02 - 0
Itt: The grassing of another heifer................................... 0 - 01 - 8
                                                                       4 - 01 - 8
ffeb: 9 - 1724/5: This day the above Wm: Garret offerd to depose ye truth of this Bill: wch Ewan Kneen refuted till Garret would make good the
same by Endorces, upon which Wm Garret offer'd to Ewan Kneen in Disprove the above Bill or any particular of it, by sui ---- oath; which also
Kneen deny to do. So that there was a sinisdor design in Kneen, to evade ye oath of Wm Garret touching ye truth of the above Bill, And this
before me Cha:Watleworth 15th ffebry: 1724: This Day Wm Garrett hath payd unto Ew: Kneen the summe nine shill: in full of all
Debt Dues & Demands claimed of each other from ye beginning of the world to this Date which is to be finall Discharge to the said Wm Garrett
his heyrs & Exrs: upon all accounts whatsoever And this before me, Nicho: Christian
will of father: ArW 1692A #43 Lezayre will of Daniel Garrett, died 24 November 1692: wife is alive, son William, son John,
son Edmund, dau Isabel (married to John Kneen), dau Marriad (married to Ewan Kneen), witnesses: Hugh Crowe & John
Cowley, pledges son in law John Kneen & son William Garrett
will of brother: ArW 1693A #56 Lezayre will of John Garrett, died 20 December 1693: not married, mother Catharine Garrett
alias Stevenson, brother Edmund Garrett, sister Isabel, brother William, sister Marriad, witnesses: John Garrett & Patrick
Casement, pledges: John Christian & John -----
will of sister: ArW 1725A #79 Lezayre will of Isabel Kneen alias Garrett of Ballacowle, died 28 January1724/5: husband John
Kneen is alive, no children were mentioned, brother William Garrett, sister Marriad Kneen alias Garrett, witnesses: Ewan Corkill & William Cottier

Lezayre Thes is affirmed to be ye last will & testament of E----[dark & torn] Garrett being of pfect memory who departed this life the 28th of desember 1695 first he committed his soul to his Creator, and his body to Christian buriall etc Item: he left that Edm: Crowe did owe him nine shills: bait a graat 2ly he left upon Ellin Cowle to pay his Exers: as debt due unot him .......1s - 6d 3dly he left upon Jon: Kneen as debt due unto him 7s and from his wife 1s - 6d 3ly he left Dan: Garrett to pay his Exers: 2s 4ly he left upon Patt: Killey as debt due to him . 5s baita 1d 5ly he left upon Wm Martin as debt due to him .....2s - 6d 6ly he let upon Anne Callowe as debt t ohim .......1s - 3d 7ly he left upon Jony Callowe as debt to him ......00s - 8d 8ly he left upon Will: Killey as debt to him ......00s - 10d Item he left to his brother Wm Garrett six shills: and that his sd brother should sell his loomes and be paid out of the mony of them as a legasie Item he bequeathed to his wife Issable Garrett his share of a linnen wheell Item he bequeathed to his sister Marriad Garratt six pence legasie and a shilling to her daughter Jane Item he bequeathed to his sister Isable Garrett six pence legasy and that his brother Wm should take up 1s - 7d that Jony Curghey owed him, and pay it to his said sister Issable Item he left to his owne Childe a sheep of two years old Item he declared that he had ten pound of mony in Custody Lastly he constituted & appointed his only childe Margett Garrett sole Executrix of all the rest of his goods moveable and un= moveable whatsoever and he left his sd brother Willm supervisor of his sd childe with ye goods belonging unto her and that he should maintaine her untill she came to age -----e he willed that if his said childe dyed under age that her goods should be equally devided betwixt his wife Issable Garrett and his brother Wm: Garrett, alsoe he left to his said brother all his cloase, he alsoe left to the wittn eses videt: Wm Goldsmith& John Cotter six pence a peece legacy his said wife Issable Garrett consented according to her husband request to give the said childe if she came to years of discreti on forty shills: o her own pper goods, he left his sd bro ther his shoes, and two waistcoats he had he left to the poor Wittnesses Willm: Goldsmith his mrk X} Jon: Cotter his mrk X .........}jurati The child being Dead before the pbate of this will, the wife and brother is sworn in Court according to Law probatum est et solvit 1s Deductions The Inventory within a month £ s ffunerall charges which amts to ......................03 - 05 - --- laid out by the wife 9s 6d besides what is included in the will which is to be added when pfected pledges by the wife according to Law William Goldsmith & John Cotter pledges by the brother John Kneen & Philip Goldsmith according to Law

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