ABRAHAM FIELDEN OF KNOWLTOP, WALSDEN

died 1715/1716

Yeoman

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Partial transcript of the will. Transcribed at Chester and held in bound volumes at Touchstones, Rochdale. It is to be noted that only the main points of the will are transcribed.

I Abraham Fielden of Knowltop in Walsden in Hundersfield, yeoman, make my last will as concerning my real estate.

It is my will that the same shall descend according to law and such settlement as is formerly made and that my wife have her rights thereof.

I give to my daughter Sarah £20

Unto my daughter Mary £20

being both my daughters of my first wife, by whom I also have one son for which provision is made out of my real estate.

Unto Susan my daughter £10

Unto my son John, £10

Being my son and daughter by Mary, now my second wife.

All the residue of my personal estate I give unto the said Mary, my wife, towards the bringing up of my two younger children.

Executors my brother Nicholas Fielden and Samuel Fielden of Swineshead, County York

Witnesses:

John Clegg.

Wm. Greenwood

20th. February 1715

Abraham Fielden

Proved 3rd. August 1716 by the exors. named

Inventory 28th. February 1715-1716

Total £120. 15s. 2d.

Edmund E.H. Heward James Dearden

Anthony Crossley was another prizer and died before his hand could be taken.

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