Kingsford Will 1664

Will of Andrew Kingsford

of Northbourne, Kent


Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 17/72/73
Submitted by Margaret Wills
In the name of God Amen the seaventeenth day of September in the fourteenth yeare of the raigne of o[u]r Soveraigne Lord Charles the second by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, &c.
I Andrew Kingsford of Northborne being of sound and perfect health and memory (praised be God therefore) knowing the frailty of this prsent life doe make & ordaine this my last will and testament in manner & forme following
Inpr[imis] I comend my soule into the hands of allmighty God mu maker hoping assuredly for salvacon for ye only meritts, death and passion of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ my only savior And my bodie to the earth from whence it came to be decently buried att the discrecon of my executor heereafter named

Item I give and bequeath unto my sonne Andrew Kingsford the sume of ten pounds of lawfull English money to be paid unto him wthin six monethes after my decease by mine executor heereafter named
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Rebecca the wife of Steven Stonard one shilling
and five pound unto John Stonard her sonne att his age of sixteene yeares or wthin six yeares after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my youngest daughter Sarah Kingsford the sume of five pounds to be payed unto her wthin twelve moneths after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Margaret Kingsford the sume of five pounds to be payed unto her att her daye of marriage by mine executor heereafter named
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Joane Kingsford five pounds to be payed unto her by mine executors
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth one shilling
and to Thomas Bunce her sonne five pounds to be payed wthin six yeares after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Susanna Kingsford five pounds to be payed unto her by twenty shillings a yeare after my decease by mine executor
Item I give unto my daughter Marie the wife of John Read five pounds to be payed within one yeare after my decease

And if any Legacies before bequeathed should be unpayed as before bequeathed, the partie dying to whome such legacies are due my meaning is the legacy or legacies of the party deceased shall remaine to the benefit of mine executor

Item all the rest and remainder of all my personall estate, my debts, legacies and funerall expenses being payd
I give and bequeath unto William Kingsland my sonne whome I doe constitute and appoynt sole Executor of this my last will and testament

Item I will and bequeath unto my sonne William Kingsford his heires and assignes forever my orchard and all my lands lying in Northborne conteyning by estimacon five acres more or lesse to enable him to satisfy and pay my legacies above bequeathed And I desire Allmighty God to give a blessing to al my children

In witnes whereof I the said Andrew Kingsford to this prsent writing being my last will and testament my hand and seale have sett the day and yeare first above written
Andrew Kingsford
Sealed subscribed and published the day and yeare above written in the prsence of
Richard Bonner his marke; Rich: Feild

Probatum fuit: 22nd December 1664

Notes:
Andrewe Kingsford was baptised 20 Mar 1584, s. of John and Joane, at St. George, Ham, Kent.
Andrew Kingsforth son of Andrew was baptised at Northbourne 16 Jan 1613/4
Andrew Kingsford, husbandman of Northbourne, married Alice Fagge of the same parish, spinster, on 7 Jan 1618/19.
Andrew Kingsford was buried 29 Dec 1664 at St. Augustine, Northbourne, Kent.
Their children (all bap. at Northbourne): Rebecca 6 Jan 1618/19; Elizabeth 19 Nov 1620; Joane 17 Apr 1625; William 31 Aug 1628; Margaret 3 Jul 1631; Sarah 1 Dec 1633.
Daughter Rebecca Kingsford married Stephen Stonnard, both of Northbourne, on 30 Oct 1649 at St. Augustine, Northbourne.
Daughter Elizabeth Kingsland married Thomas Bunce 9 Jun 1648 at St. Paul, Canterbury.
Daughter Marie (Mary) Kingsford and John Read, both of Northbourne, married 21 Sep 1643 at St. Augustine, Northbourne.

Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh A. Mason, 24th April 2023


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