Joan
Sex: F
Individual Information
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Death: 1613 - Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England
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Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas Doolittle (1550 - 12 Dec 1597)
Marriage: Abt 1571
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Children:
1. John Doolittle (Abt 1571-1629)
2. Elizabeth Doolittle ( - )
3. Humphrey Doolittle ( - )
4. Thomas Doolittle ( - )
5. Margery Doolittle ( - )
Notes
General:
There were many Thomas - Joan pairs among Doolittle's in Kidderminster, and the details of this will sound familiar. I wonder if it could be that Van Kempen put the families together differently.
Dollittle says that Joan may have been of the Clymer family, which sounds like speculation.
Joan outlived her husband, and left a will. She left one sheep each to her daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Ayborowe, and to sons John, Humphrey and Thomas. Humphrey's wife Mary was to distribute her wearing apparel and hte rest of her sheep at her own discretion. Her sister in law Anne, wife of Simon Chapman, got a bed adn hemp and hempen yarn and noggen yarn. John's wife Joan was to have two strikes of rye (64 gallons). Thomas was given "teh table-boarde that standeth on the bench in the hall also I give unto him the same bench adn the black chair". Everything else beyond some small bequests went to her son Humphrey.
It is evident that this family helpd supply the weavers in town with wool, and maybe with flax or hemp as well. Despite being divided like silver spoons, the sheep weren't pets, and there was a decent number of them for a small peasant farmer. The other main resource of the family appears to have been yarn.