Will Book of Old Yorkshire > Voices of the Past

Thanks to Voices of the Past transcriptions

• Credit: Voices from the past - inventories and wills from the parish of Ingleton 1548 - 1700 by: Carol Howard & Sheila Gordon; Ingleborough Archaeology Group; Pub. 2015.
  

" In (this)Tudor period .. Ingleton lay within the parish of Bentham in the deanery of Lonsdale. " North Yorkshire. (snip)(also from the text)

• * Please read the bibliography on page 9.

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The Parish of Ingleton

"The parish lies in the western extremity of North Yorkshire. Covering over fourteen thousand acres, with land rising from approximately 209 metres in the river valley to the peak of Whernside at 736 metres, to the west and the summit of Ingleborough at 723 metres, to the east, it is essentially high moorland, sheep grazing country, with cattle on the lower pastures. The population of the township of Ingleton has been estimated at c.450 in 1530 and c.650 in 1623. By 1700 it had risen to c.750."

Process

• Individual wills are linked to profiles on Geni.
• Family members mentioned in these will provide pedigrees that are, in turn, the information that helps build the trees around each of these individuals.
• In many cases these can be cross-referenced with christening, marriage and burial records available from multiple other sources.
• Here on Geni, there are other sub-projects where some of these records have been tabulated and/or referenced for ease of use.
  • The Master Project includes a list of all sub projects.
• The initial focus centered on the <Wildman> surname. Consequentially you will see many references to that name but do add others here.
  • The wills cover many surnames. These are listed in what is called: The Glossary of Surnames, to keep things simple.
• The eventual prospect would be to handle each of the wills fund in Voices of the Past with an entry in the list below. This task is left for anyone wishing to become involved.

Your Options

• Please add the profiles of anyone mentioned in these wills but, please, no one else.

Alpha List of Makers Wills of by surname, organized within the surname by year of document

~• Only add names here that are in the title of each document. Others, those mentioned in these documents, can be added to this project but please do not list them below.

• BALDERSTONE Emma of the Moregarth Will and inventory (1645)
  • She had a dau. Mary who married William Atkinson
• BURROW Alice Burrow of Yealsber. spinster (1664)
  • nephew = Leonard Wildman; father = Edward Burrow

WILDMANS ONLY

~• in order by year of execution

• 1603 Leonard Wildman of Ingleton Inventory (1603)
• 1624 WILDMAN Alice of Cold Cotes Nuncupative will and inventory 1624
• 1629 Robert Wildman of Caldcots (1629)
  • wife Ann, brother John
• 1646Jennet Wildman of Coldcotes, Nuncupative will 1646
• 1648 John Wildman of Caldcoates (1648)
  • named as brother in Robert Wildman of Caldcots' will of 1629 (above)
  • named as brother in Jennet Wildman of Caldcot's non-cupative will of 1646
  • is perhaps the same man as : Marriage in Ingleton = 1626 Sep 04 ; John Wildman et Jennet Knipe, per license ; p. 227
• 1687 WILDMAN John of Cauldcoates; Will and inventory (1687)

The Glossary of Surnames

~• Please √ Check off each surname after all will of each surname is completed. This must include three things: 1) adding the individual in the Alpha List 2) Making certain a profile for that person is added on Geni and 3) cross-referencing is back to the Alpha list so that is shows up high-lighted in blue.
~• The list which follows represents hundreds of wills. It is merely a surname list for all of us to determine what surnames are covered in titles alone.

• ALLEN
• ARMITSTEAD
• ATKINSON
• BABTHROP
• BAINES Elizabeth Baynes ; Richard Baynes of Caudcoates (Elizabeth's son {he predeceased her}) ;
• BALDERSTONE = Emma Balderstone (formerly Hirde) of the Moregarth
• BANKS
• BATTERSBY
• BATTY
• BEAUMOND
• BECKETT
• BEESLEY
• BENTHAM
• BLACKAMORE
• BLAND
• BLAND
• BOOTH
• BOUCH
• BRAITHWAITE
• BRINNAN
• BROGDEN
• BROWN
• BURROW
  • Alice Burrow of Yealsber. spinster and family including Edward Burrow of Yarlsber
• BURTON
• BUTTERFIELD < Wildman connection
• CALVERT
• CANSFIELD
• CARTER
• CHAPMAN
• CHARNLEY
• CLARK
• COMMINGE ~• COMMINGE John of Ingleton Will and inventory 1610 mentions a wife of John Tatham
• CONDER
• COOK
• COOP
• COSSING
• COURT
• CRAVEN <
  • many wills
• DAY
• DENNY
• DICKONSON
• DOWBIGGIN
• DUGDALE
• FARTHWAITE
• FAWCETT
• FIRBANK
• FOSTER
• FOXCROFT < Redmayne
  • many wills
  • The are sewmi-modern Foxcroft burials at St. Oswald's church in Thornton-in-Lonsdale

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162023700/jane-foxcroft
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192339755/thomas-hammond-foxcroft

• FRANKLAND
• FRECLETON
• GIBSON
  • many wills
  • some of the Gibson line lived at Masongill for many centuries.
    • GIBSON Margaret of Ingleton : Will 1626 and inventory 1627 names sons: Thomas and WIlliam
• GREENBANK
  • many wills
• GREGSON
• GUY < Balderston
• HALL
• HARLING
  • many wills
• HARRISON
• HIRD
  • many wills
• HODGSON
• HOLMES
• HORSNAILE
• HOWSON
• IVESON
• JACKSON
• JENSON
• JOHNSON
• KNOWLES
• LAMBE
• LANGTON
• LAWKLAND
• LAYFIELD
• LOWTHER
• LUPTON
• MOORE
• NODALE
• OLDFIELD
• PALEY
• PARKER
• PEARSON
• PROCTER
  • many wills, perhaps the most of any surname in this work
  • <Proctor> is another surname common to the cemetery of St. Oswald's
    • (1619) John of Caldcotes Will 1619 ~• WILDMAN and REDMAYNE
    • (1626) Robert Proctor of Winterscale ~• married a Wildman
    • (1636) James of Bruntscar Will and inventory 1636 ~•relative of BLAND
    • to be researched: Issabell Proctor , a Wildman/Proctor
• REDMAN also REDMAYNE incl. Leonard Redman
  • many wills John Redman of Coldcoats
  • the Redmayne tenure goes back for 1,000 years
  • one particularly notable <Redman> family member: Major General John Lambert (his paternal aunt was of Ireby)
• REMINGTON
• ROBINSON
• ROBSON
• ROOKIN
• SANDERS
• SEALBANK
• SEDGWICK
• SIMPSON
• SLINGER
• SMITH
• SPROTT
• STEVENSON
• TATHAM ( TATHAM, John of Ingleton : Inventory and declaration 1638; is one)
  • Wildman/Tatham union in marriage? = Elizabeth Tatham m. Matthew Wildman
  • Mary Redmayne married John Redman of Coldcotes who had a will.
  • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162023632/william-tatham at St. Oswald's, Thornton-in-Lonsdale
• TAYLOR
• THIRNBECK
• THOMPSON
• THORNTON <
  • Jane Thornton (Redman) of Ingleton
• TOWNLEY
• TURNBULL
• TURNER
• URRIN
• WALKER
• WALLER
  • some lived at Masongill in the 19th century
  • "The Wallers were originally Procters who in order to inherit the estate had to change their name "
    • WALLER John : Inventory 1587
    • WALLER William of Ingleton : Will and inventory 1598
    • WALLER Thomas : Will and inventory 1614
    • WALLER William of Ingleton : Inventory 1621
    • WALKER William of Ingleton : Inventory 1624
    • WALLER Thomas of Yarlesber : Will and inventory 1659
• WARDEN
• WEBSTER
• WETHERALL
• WETHERHEAD
  • many-many wills
• WHITHAM
• WHITTINGDALE
• WILCOCK
• WILDMAN <
• WILLIAMSON
• WILSON
• WITTON
• WOOD

sources

• http://www.ingleborougharchaeologygroup.org.uk/pdfs/Voices%20from%2...
• https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/80249/1/Ingleton_Historical_O...