Gilbert Creer 1684

Archdeacon Will 1684A #050 Braddan will of Gilbert Creer, died 21 February 1684/5: 
Summary:  wife is alive, father [John Creer senior] is alive, uncle Paul Creer, uncle Robert Creer, uncle John Creer [junior]; also Robert Creer, 
William Kelly, witnesses: Wiliam Kelly & William Creer & Isabel Clague, pledges: William Kelly & John Kelly.
Braddan parish register: Gilbert Creer buried 22 February 1684/5.
?Dau: Braddan parish register: Elizabeth/Bessy dau of Gilbert Creer, christened 5 September 1683 in Braddan. 
   ?Dau: Braddan parish register: Issable Creer infant daughter of Gilbert Creer  buried 28 October 1683.
   Is she Elsabeth?, which sometimes morphed to Elizabeth though usually to Isabel, with the same person recorded with all 3 names at various times sometimes.
?Son: Braddan parish register: William son of Gilbert Creer christened 14 September 1684 in Braddan.
Will of uncle: ArW 1663A #92 Braddan will of William Creer, died 14 March 1663/64, intestate: wife is pregnant, brother John senior, brother John junior, brother 
Robert, brother Paul, & brother John the youngest who is out of the Isle.  NOTE: On the Isle of Man in the 1600s, it was not uncommon to find two children with 
the same given name alive at the same time; this family had 3 Johns alive at the same time.
?Father & 3 brothers: 1704 Composition Book, Braddan: William Creer was entered for/compounded for farmand in 1643, and in 1691 William Creer was tenant, 
with lives in being Robert Creer age 56 [born about 1635] and William Creer age 60 years [born about 1631] who were both dead by 1704.
?Uncle & his wife & their son, etc: 1694 Liber Vastarum, Braddan: Paul Creer & wife Christian xxxx were entered for farmland of 4s 3d yearly 
rent in Baldalrenilt treen (total rent 14s), and their son Paul passed the rent to Captain John Quilliam of KK Marown.
?Uncle & his wife & their son, etc: 1694 Liber Vastarum, Braddan: Paul Creer & wife Christian xxxx were entered for a parcel of intack land 
belonging to Baldalrenilt treen (total rent 3s), and their son Paul passed the rent to Captain John Quilliam of KK Marown.

The last will and testament of Gilbr: Creer
Itt: first he commited his soule to God, and his body 
     to Christian buryall
Itt: he left to the poore a firlet of malt a sheep and 
     what his wife pleased of oate meale 
Itt: to Robr: Creer a sheep, to Willm: Kelly his best shute 
     of cloase,   Itt: he left to his fathr:  his second shute 
Itt: he left allsoe to his fathr: too sheep, to his unckle 
     Paule 6d, to his unckle Robr:  6d, to his wife 
     a fillie Coult, and if his wife had a child by him that 
     would live to 14 yeers of adge, he was to be executr: 
     of all the rest of his goods moveable and unmoveable 
     other wise his unkle John was to be Executr: of all 
     te rest of his goods, and if any othr: relation could 
     claime any thing he left them 6d apeece 
this truth as witnes our hands this 6th of Aprill 
				    1685
The Executr: sworn in form 
    of Law                      Willm Kelly X  }
                                Willm: Creer X } jurati
                               Isabell Clauge X}
         pbatum est et solvit 12s

the whole Inventory amounts to 2£ - 9s - 0 
the names of the pricers	Jo: Kelly, Wm: Kelley, Wm: Cloage, Ro: Cloage
	Pledges according to Law Willm: Kelly & John Kelly

Last Modified 8 November 2018