Pordage Will 1642

Will of Joseph Pordage

of Goodnestone (next Faversham), Kent


Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 16/237 P/3
Submitted by Steve Clarke
March the thirty 1642
The last will and testament of Joseph Pordage of Goodnestone (next Faversham) late deceased

Item I give to my Sistar Ane Pordage 30 pound
Item I give to my Sistar Elisabeth Tallar wife of Thomas Taillor five pound
Item I give to Joseph Pordage sone of my brother Thomas Pordage ten pounds to be paid him at the age of one and twenty yeares of age
Item I give to Robard Pordage my sistar ales Brune? sone? tene pounds to bee paide him at the age of one and twenty yeares

Item I give to John Pordage sone of my brother Jeffery Pordage tene pounds to be payde him at the age of one and twenty yeares
Item I give to Jeffery Pordage sone of my brother Jeffery Pordage tene pounds to be paide to him at the age of one and twenty yeares
if John Pordage or Jeffery Pordage sons of Jeffery Pordage my brother either of them doe die the one is to be the others aire [heir] beinge undar age

Item I give to my a[u]nte Galman forty shillings
Item I give to Elizabeth Pordage dathar [daughter] of my brother Thomas Pordage to chisters one boxt

Item I make Jeffary Pordage my brother my hole executor
Joseph Pordage
Witnesses: Saker Holte; Richard Clefard

Probatum fuit: 26th April 1642

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 3rd July 2021


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