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Ninth
Generation - Isabella Petyt
Francys
Catterson, father of Stephen Catterson, married Isabella Petyt on
30 January 1654 in Skipton
[1]
. Initial research found only one Isabella Pettie
of the right age to marry Francys Catterson in Skipton. This was
a certain Isabella, daughter of John and Anne Pettie of ‘Embsay
Kirk’, who was born in Skipton in 1630
[2]
. It appeared that this Isabella was therefore
our ancestor
[3]
.
However,
a cursory glance through Dawson’s History of Skipton changed my
opinion dramatically
[4]
. Although there was an Isabella Pettie born to
John Pettie ‘of Embsay Kirk’, she did not marry our Francys Catterson.
The Isabella that married Francys Catterson was in fact the daughter
of a William Petyt of Storithes near Bolton Abbey
[5]
. This Isabella was the youngest daughter of William
Petyt of Storithes and Maria Petty, daughter of Thomas Petty
of Embsay
[6]
. It is possible that Isabella’s mother Maria
was closely related to John Petty of ‘Embsay Kirk’, and the two
Isabellas may have been cousins. However, this is yet to be proven
[7]
. Isabella was born in 1633 in Storithes, Bolton Abbey and was twenty-one years old when she married Francys Catterson [8] . As her mother Mary Petty had married her first husband at the age of sixteen this would appear to be a late age to be married in the context of the seventeenth century. It may be possible to find papers recording the marriage, the dowry, and any goods or lands that changed hands as a result of the marriage. It is highly probable that Isabella’s father William, and Francys Catterson’s father Thomas, had mutual business or land interests and the marriage may have united these interests [9] . Isabella
bore Francys eleven children of whom only five survived
[10]
. Ann had been buried before she had reached
the age of two in 1661, Sylvester had been buried within three months
of his birth in 1664, and an unnamed and unbaptised child had been
buried in February 1665/6
[11]
. Baby
William did not reach his first birthday, and Isabel was christened
and buried on the same day
[12]
. Isabella
gave birth to her eleventh and last child, in 1673, a daughter named
Frances
[13]
. Isabella
was buried on 22 June 1681 in Holy Trinity Church, Skipton
[14]
. Isabella Petyt had one sister and five brothers, and four half sisters and a half-brother. Her mother Mary Petty had been married twice and intended to marry a third time [15] . Her father William Petyt had also married twice and had one daughter Elizabeth by a previous marriage. He also had a daughter Jane Coates from an earlier relationship [76] . Of her sisters, most married. Her half-sister by her father, Elizabeth, married twice firstly to Thomas Child and secondly to Richard Mitchell [67] . Elizabeth Child nee Petyt had two sons William Child and Robert Child and a daughter Mary Child before her husband Thomas Child died [68] . Elizabeth then married Richard Mitchell and they had four children [69] . Elizabeth was widowed in 1719 and was well provided for in her brother Sylvester's will [70] .
Isabella's half sister, by her mother, Margaret Catterson, married
Thomas Cookson and tenanted the Red Lion until her death in 1660
[16]
. Isabella’s eldest half-sister, by her mother,
Mariana, married a Thomas Battersby and it is possible that both
Mariana and Thomas Battersby were buried in Bolton Abbey in the
late seventeenth century
[17]
. Isabella’s half-sister Anne Petty,
alias Dodsworth, married George Robinson on 26 July 1650 in Skipton
[71]
. Isabella's half-brother Thomas Catterson, by her mother did have a daughter Susanna [73] . Of Isabella’s four youngest brothers, one William died young, one Henry died young, Christopher married a Susanna Pepper, daughter of Alexander Pepper of Kent, and a second Henry married a Briscoe [18] . Christopher Petyt may have moved to Kent on his marriage to Susanna, but the name Christopher remains popular in the Petyt families that remained in the Bolton Abbey area. Henry moved to London with his brothers, married and had one daughter Elizabeth [19] .
Henry Petyt was the second eldest surviving brother and in 1658
petitioned and was granted a coat of Arms by William Ryley, the
Norroy King of Arms. His arms were the same as had been granted
to his brother William, but with a ‘crescent for a second difference’
[20]
.
It is interesting to note that Henry and his family were described
as ‘descendinge from the auntient family of Petties alias Petits
of Yorkshire’. Henry Petyt moved to London and was a vintner
in Drury Lane, London
[21]
. He
left his daughter Elizabeth to the care of his brothers, William
and Sylvester and he left a ring to his sister Isabel Catterson. William Petyt was born about 1637 in Storithes near Bolton Abbey, and may have been christened on 13 April 1637 at Bolton Abbey [24] . He was educated at Ermystead’s Free Grammar School under Mr. Doughty and was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, under Mr. Abney on 26 April 1660, at the age of 19, as a ‘lesser pensioner’ [25] . In 1658, William was granted his first coat of arms by William Ryley, Norroy King of Arms and is described as ‘of the society of Barnard’s Inn, London, gent.’ and ‘hath spent much of his tyme and youth in the study of the Common Laws of England, and is hopeful in his waeis and indeavours within’ [26] . This would indicate that William had already studied law at Barnard Inn for sometime before he was admitted to Corpus Christi College in 1660 [27] . By
1662, at the age of 21, he was already settled in London in Chambers
at the Middle Temple and continued his legal studies. He studied
Common Law and was called to the bar as a barrister in 1670, aged
29. On 2 February 1668-9 William Pettye leased
Eshton Hall from John Wilson of Eshton and is described as a victualler, which may mean that William has a small business on
the side
[28]
. In 1663, William was involved
in a dispute over lands in manors of Gisburn
and Newsholme
[29]
. In
1671, he was Receiver-General to the Duke of Somerset, and in 1680,
he published three books
[31]
. On 9 June 1689, William was called to the bench,
which I think means that he became a judge. He became Autumn Reader
at the Middle Temple in 1694 and Treasurer in 1701. In
1689, the House of Lords petitioned the King William III to methodise
the records in the Tower of London, which had become badly disorganized
and were rotting. William, was therefore, appointed Keeper of the
Records at the Tower of London and spent many years cataloguing
various Medieval, Tudor and Stuart manuscripts. This was a post
at first probably unpaid, but soon worth five hundred pounds a year
[32]
. In this task, he was assisted by George Holmes
of Skipton Parish who worked with William at the Tower in 1690 as
a clerk
[33]
. William must have valued George’s work as he
left him the princely sum of 200 pounds in his will
[34]
. Petyt’s work at the Tower must have been very
important and skilled. A report of a special Committee, consisting
of Petyt and Sir Christopher Wren and others details the problems
he faced with ‘multitudes of records of several reigns lying confusedly
in danger of utterly perishing’
[35]
. William was also
a founder member of the Royal Society
[36]
. William
also wrote many learned papers on matters of constitutional and
political importance and was known by his contemporaries as a controversialist
and as a great debater
[37]
. He also moved in celebrated circles and certainly
knew Sir Christopher Wren and may have socialized with him
[38]
. He also collected many manuscripts of his own,
especially on matters of seventeenth century political debate, including
the English Civil wars. His manuscripts were left in trust to friends,
with an injunction that they should be preserved and deposited in
a library. William bequeathed 150 pounds to buy or build a library
to house his manuscript collection, and an additional one hundred
pounds was left to one of the trustees to take care of them
[39]
. An additional four hundred pounds was left by
William to be spent by his brother Sylvester in printing and publication.
However, the manuscripts found their way to the Library of the Inner
Temple where they remain today.
In
his later years, William lived at Chelsea in London where he built
a vestry, and a school with apartments for a teacher
[40]
. He died at Chelsea on 3 October 1707, aged about
seventy, and was buried in the west part of the Temple Church in
the Courts of Law. His brother Sylvester set up a monument to his
memory in the Temple Church in London, paid for by a 100 pound bequest
in William’s will. The monument is still there today. In
his will, dated 12 July 1705, William left 20 pounds for the support
of two poor scholars at Christ Church Cambridge, fifty pounds each
to the Society of the Inner Temple and Middle Temple, fifty pounds
to Ermystead’s Grammar school, and five pounds to be distributed
to the poor of Skipton and Bolton Abbey parishes. The scholarships
to Corpus Christi, Cambridge built connections between the Free
School in Skipton and Cambridge.
Sylvester
also left most of his personal possession and about two and a half
thousand pounds to his near relatives. Among those who are mentioned
are his niece, Mary Ferrand, wife of Timothy Ferrand, the headmaster
of Skipton Grammar, and her daughter, son and grandson
[55]
. It is of especial interest to us that Sylvester
leaves a ‘long swing clock’ and portraits of him and his brother
William to ‘my nephew’ Stephen Catterson in Skipton
[56]
. All these grants amounted to relatively little
and over thirty thousand pounds of Sylvester’s legacy was left.
Sylvester left this to his Trustees to administer
[57]
. Among the gifts left by Sylvester, a messuage
in Skipton bought from a Timothy Coopethan was left to his nephew
Stephen Catterson
[58]
. It is probably no surprise, that perhaps because of his benefices, or because of his family links with Skipton that there is a plaque dedicated to Sylvester in Skipton Parish Church today, and once there was also a portrait of Sylvester, and a shield of his arms ‘arg. a lion ramp. Gules on a canton…a pheon…a crescent for difference’ in the church as well [59] . Sylvester’s armorial bearings are also depicted on a window in the hall of Barnards Inn [60] . His brother William’s coat of arms is also described as ‘argent a lyon rampart gules in the dexter chief a Pheon sable’ [61] . This is also the coat armour of the Petyt family of Cornwall and Yorkshire [62] . Although William and his brother Sylvester had been granted arms in 1658, these were very different to the arms displayed in Skipton and in Barnards Inn. In 1658 William had been granted ‘ Quarterly or and azure on a bend gules, three pheons of the first; and for his crest, On healme and wreath of his colours a crane argent, holdinge in his sinister foote a rundle, checqued or and azure, mantled gules, doubled argent’ [63] . This is very different from the arms displayed which had been awarded to both William and his brother Sylvester by the College of Heralds on 29 May 1690 viz, ‘Argent, a lion rampant gules, on a canton azure a pheon or. Crest: A crane proper, holding with the dexter foot a pebble stone’ [64] .
It is difficult at present to understand the difference between
the arms or why the lion rampant was suddenly added in 1690. It
is also difficult to understand why these two alone were awarded
these arms with the rampant lion. I have not as yet found any reference
to Henry Petyt who was also granted arms in 1658, changing his arms
to a rampant lion. William and Sylvester may have been granted these
arms for their work at the Inns of Court, but the matter is at present
unclear.On the assumption that Christopher Petyt may have moved
to Kent with his wife I have found at least three lines of Petits
in Kent, but their arms are very different, being based on variants
of three leopard’s or lions face, and do not seem to be related
[65]
. Recent
correspondence has indicated that the arms granted in 1658 were
granted by William Ryley, Norroy King of Arms. After the restoration
Ryley was discredited and many of the arms he had granted were quietly
forgotten
[66]
.
[1]
Skipton
Parish Registers.
[2]
Isabella Pettie was christened on 6 March
1630, as was her twin sister Ellin Pettie. Skipton Parish Registers.
[3]
John Petty married Ann. Her body was interred 23/12/1664 in Skipton,
North Yorkshire. John Petty and Ann had five children. Isabel Pettie was baptized in Embsay, 6/03/1631.
Thomas Petty was baptized in Embsay, North Yorkshire, 7/03/1628.
William Petty was baptized in Embsay, North Yorkshire, 5/05/1633.
Ellin Petty was baptized in Embsay, North Yorkshire, 6/03/1630.
She married Samuel Smythe in Skipton, North Yorkshire, 17/10/1654.
Robert Petty was baptized in Skipton, North Yorkshire, 2/04/1635.
John Petty also had a child Mary, by Elizabeth Howden.
Mary Howden was baptized in Embsay, North Yorkshire,
29/01/1637.
[4]
See
Dawson pp247 for the following.
[5]
Dawson
Bases his account on Dugdale's seventeenth century visitation.
As the Bolton Abbey Parish Registers do not begin until 1689,
there is no way to verify this by reference to this source.
I have searched Dugdale's visitation of Yorkshire in 1662, and
have also looked at the first two volumes of Dugdale's Baronetage
of 1667, but have yet to locate volume three which might verify
this claim.
[6]
This
is based on the Rowley archive. Dawson, History, has another
William Petty as the father of Mary, but I have found no evidence
to support this.
[7]
See below on Mary Petty.
[8]
Isabella Petty daughter of William Pettyes
was christened 11 August 1633. See Bolton Abbey Parish Records
to 1689.
[9]
See
Stephen Catterson [10] Mary Catterson was christened on 15 April 1655, Skipton. Margaret was christened on 20 October 1657, Skipton. Francys Catterson was christened on 24 November 1667, Skipton. Thomas Catterson was christened on 16 November 1662, Skipton. Stephen Catterson, was christened on 15 November 1667 in Skipton Skipton Parish Registers.
[11]
Ann Catterson
was christened on 7 April 1659, and buried on 28 April 1661,
Skipton. Sylvester
was christened on 26 December 1664, and buried on 10 March 1664,
Skipton. The unbaptised child was buried on 18 February 1665/6.
Skipton Parish Registers.
[12]
William Catterson was christened on 23 July 1669,
and buried on 26 April 1670. Isabel was christened and buried
on 16 May 1671. Skipton Parish registers.
[13]
Frances Catterson was christened on 25 June 1673,
Skipton. Skipton Parish registers.
[14]
Skipton
Parish Registers.
[15]
He had married mary Holmes in 1626. Pavers marriage Licenses.
[16]
See Rowley archive.
[17]
A Mary Batorsbe was buried in Bolton Abbey
on 30 August 1694, Thomas Battersby was buried on 27 March 1728,
and a Mary Battersby was buried on 16 March 1728, Bolton Abbey
Parish Registers .Margaret
[18]
Henry Petyt was born about 1638 in
Storiths. He moved to London with his brothers William and Sylvester
but does not seem to have studied law. He does appear to have
been involved with William and Silvester’s money lending
enterprises. Amongst Silvester’s papers was a bond dated
1667 showing that Henry had lent £40 to Ambrose Pudsey
on which no interest appears to have been paid. Information
form Angela Petyt's website.
[19]
Henry had at least one child, a daughter
Elizabeth who married Richard Wright on 24 July 1696 in St Nicholas
Cole Abbey, London. IGI. It is not known when Henry died. Elizabeth
Wright nee Petyt's husband Richard Wright was a joiner of Rotherhythe,
Surrey. In 1705 William Petyt had left his 'niece Mrs. Betty
Wright the sum of two hundred pounds and a ring.' in his will.
In 1717 Sylvester Petyt had loaned Elizabeth and Richard Wright
£300 as part of a down payment on a mortgage. In his will
of 1719 Sylvester Petyt left his niece £300 and £10
each to her and her husband to buy mourning. He also left £600
to be divided amongst Elizabeth's children. A further £100
was also bequeathed to Elizabeth. In 1725 Elizabeth 'the Testator’s
niece and Heir –at- Law' was given £20 by Sylvester's
charity ' for her own use being very ill'. Richard Wright, was
given 'a years interest of £300 due on his mortgage to
the Testator due on the 24th March And also the interest of
his additional mortgage of £200 lent by the Trustees since
the Testator’s death from the 16th August 1722 to 16th
August 1725. ---£65'. Elizabeth and Richard Wright had
two children. Their son William Wright was bequeathed all 'my
printed books of Law Presidents and Entries wherein are written
or entered Declarations or other Pleadings at Law also all Tables
and in manuscripts of Declarations and Pleadings.' by Sylvester
Petyt in 1719. In 1725 William Wright was given £30 by
Sylvester's Charity. His sister Adriana Wright had married John
Oakley. Adriana Oakley was given £10 by Sylvester's charity
in 1725. A 'John Pettyt, son-in-law to the said Rich. and Eliz.'
was also given £10 towards the charge of burying his wife.
[20]
Henry Petty alias petit was granted
the arms on 13 August 1658. See YAJ Vol.18 p. 350-351.
[21]
For the following information I am
indebted to Anthony Petyt.
[24]
For the following, see National Biographical
Dictionary and Dawson’s History of Skipton. Also, see Whitakers
History of the deanery of Craven ed. Morant, p. 436. Dawson
says he was born in 1637, but the National Biographical Dictionary
prefers 1641. See also The Ancient and Free grammar School of Skipton
in Craven, by A.M.Gibbon, Hodder and Stoughton, 1947, pp. 47-57.
For date of birth see IGI William was christened
on 20 March 1632/3 in Storithes, the son of William Petty of
Storithes. There is another William Petty son of William Petty
christened 30 September 1635. Bolton Abbey Parish Registers
previous to 1689.
[25]
At
this date, Skipton Grammar was a free school and there would
have been no need for anyone to support him. Gibbon p. 53. See
also Dawson.
[26]
See YAJ Vol. 18 p.349-150.
[27]
Gibbon,
p.47. [28] William Pettye of the parish of St Andrews Holborn and Edmund Jones of Gray’s Inn leased Eshton Hall in the manor of Eshton, the water corn mill, demesne lands and other premises in Eshton. 8 february 1668/9. Raistrick MSS, Skipton Library. [29] Lister Family, Barons Ribblesdale, Family and Estate Records Title Deeds Gisburn - ref. MD335/1/1/12 Rectory, manor, Lower Hall (later Gisburn Park), closes FILE - Exemplification of recovery - ref. MD335/1/1/12/1/116 - date: 17 Feb 1663 [from Scope and Content] 1. William Petyt, demandant 2. Thomas Bannester, tenant 3. John Lister, vouchee 4. John Assheton and wife Katherine, and John Lister, deforciants Relating to the manors of Gisburn and Newsholme, with appurtenances Seal broken [Former ref: Box 72 G125]
[31]
Gibbon,
p.48.
[32]
Gibbon p. 48 states the salary of 500 pounds.
The Lord Treasurer Godolphin’s warrant to William Pettyt awarded
an ‘additional’ annuity of two hundred and fifty pounds a year
in 1702.
[33]
This George Holmes was the son of George
Holmes and Margaret Petty and was born in Skipton about 1662.
See Dawson’s Loose leaves of Craven History P. 253. George Holmes
may have been related to William Petyt through his mother Margaret.
[34]
George
Holmes also attended Skipton Grammar School. Gibbon p. 50.
[35]
Gibbon
p.49. [36] Journal Books of Scientific Meetings, 1660-1800; Council Minutes, 1660-1800; Miscellaneous Manuscripts Catalogue Ref. RS2 [from Administrative History] On November 28, 1660, following a lecture by Christopher Wren at Gresham College, the group "withdrew to Mr. Rooke's apartments for mutuall converse. Where, amongst other matters that were discoursed of, something was offered about the designe of founding a college for Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experiments of Learning." Those present at that meeting, the first to be recorded in the Society's Journal Books of Scientific Meetings, were Wren, Boyle, Wilkins, Lawrence Rooke, Lord Brouncker, Robert Bruce, Sir Robert Moray, Sir Paul Neile, Jonathan Goddard, William Petty, William Balle, and Abraham Hill. These scholare were thus the Original Founder Fellows of the Royal Society, which was formally constituted in 1660. Two years later King Charles II, himself much interested in scientific developments, granted the Society its first charter. A second royal charter was granted in 1663, when the Society was given its official name and coat of arms. By virtue of the labors of the far-sighted founders of the Royal Society, the future of British science was secured.
[37]
See
the national Biographical Dictionary for a comprehensive list
of his tracts.
[38]
See
Dawson’s History p. 249.
[39]
Gibbon,
p.50.
[40]
Gibbon,
p.50.
[41]
Dawson
and IGI. Gibbon, p.51 states that he was born about 1640 and
was three years younger than his brother William. This is verified by Bolton Abbey parish Registers
Previous to 1689.
[42]
Gibbon,
p.50.
[43]
He
was granted the coat of arms on 1 September 1658. See YAJ Vol.18
p.3512, n.1.
[44]
Dawson
pp 247-252. Gibbon p. 51.
[45]
Dawson.
[46]
Gibbon,
p.52
[47]
Dawson.
[48]
Dawson.
[49]
Whittaker [50] Whitehead miscellaneous FILE [no title] - ref. D239 M/T 1659 - date: 1716 [from Scope and Content] Deed to lead the uses of a fine between William Whitehead of Lincoln's Inn gent. and Silvester Petyt of Barnards Inn gent. whereby Whitehead will levy a fine on a freehold estate in Warsop to bar and extinguish all estates tail and to secure £250 on a mortgage term of 1000 years. Dated 12 June FILE [no title] - ref. D239 M/T 1660 - date: 1716 [from Scope and Content] Final concord between Silvester Petyt plaintiff and William Whitehead deforciant of one messuage, one cottage, 50 acres land, 10 acres meadow, 10 acres pasture, and common of pasture in Warsop. Consideration £100. Dated 25 June FILE [no title] - ref. D239 M/T 1661 - date: 1723 [from Scope and Content] Assignment of mortgage by Peniston Lamb of Lincoln's Inn gent., executor of Richard Vallance to whom Silvester Petyt assigned the term, to Rev. James Bernard of Selling (co. Kent). Dated 17 October Endorsed with reassignment to Lamb (17 October 1731) and surrender to Whitehead (21 October 1732).
[51]
Gibbon,
p. 54.
[52]
See Gibbon pp52 , 55 & 56. Five pounds
a year was paid to the librarian, and twelve pounds for the
Schoolmaster.
[53]
See Gibbon p.52, also Whittaker and Dawson
on Skipton Parish.
[54]
See
Gibbon p.52.
[55]
Gibbon,
p.52.
[56]
Dawson.
[57]
See
Gibbon pp. 54-6 for further discussion of the work, or not,
of the trustees.
[58]
Sylvester
bought the messuage on 17 March 1713.
[59]
See
Whittaker p. 436.
[60]
Or
at least they were in the early 1900s. See The Guide to the
Inns of Court.
[61]
See
Whittaker p.136. The crest described in Gibbon, is ‘a crane
proper, in the dexter claw a stone sable’.
[62]
See
below
[63]
See
YAJ Vol.18 p.349.
[64]
See p. 198 in Grantees of Arms named in Docquest
and patents to the end of the seventeenth century.…. Ed. By
W.Harry Rylands, Published London 1915. Harleain Society. William
is described as ‘of the inner Temple’, and Sylvester, ‘of Barnard’s
Inn, gent.’.
[65]
See The Visitations of Kent, ed. By W.Bruce
Bannerman, Vols 1 &
2, Published by the Harleain Society, London 1924. These arms
are based on leopards heads, not lions and seem to derive from
a completely different source. I have looked at the visitations
of 1575, and 1620 and have not been able to find a family with
the same arms. [67] Elizabeth Petyt married Thomas Child on 10 September 1648 in Hartshead, near Dewsbury in Yorkshire. Hartshead Parish Registers. [68] Elizabeth Petyt and Thomas Child had two children christened in Hartshead Parish William Child christened on 15 May 1653, and Robert Child christened on 29 November. Hartshead Parish Registers. Mary Child is described as ,'Mary Child, aged 60, her mother half-sister to the Testator' and 'Mary, daughter of the said Tho. Child has 5 children'. in the 1725' accounts of the Petyt Charity set up by Sylvester Petyt. Mary Child, senior was given £10 and her daughter Mary, 'now Popplewell' was also given £10 by the charity. Mary Child married Thomas Popplewell on 27 September 1704 in Hartshead. Hartshead Parish Registers. [69] Thomas Mitchell was christened on 1 May 1664. Richard Mitchell was christened on 13 April 1662. Alice Mitchell was buried 15 March 1665. Elizabeth Mitchell was christened on 29 July 1666. Sarah Mitchell was christened on 12 December 1668. Hartshead Parish Registers. 'Tho. Mitchel, senior,aged 60, his mother half-sister to the Testator' and his children Thomas, Mary and Martha were recommended to the Trustees of Sylvester Petyt's charity in 1725. Richard Mitchell was also recommended. Thomas and his brother Richard were each given £10 each as were Thomas's son Thomas. Thomas Mitchell's daughters Mary (now Willoughby) and Martha (now Drake) were given £5 each. Thomas Mitchell's children James, Elizabeth and Samuel were put out as apprentices and given £7 each. Richard Mitchell's children Richard and Martha were also put out as apprentices. Thomas and Richard's sister Sarah Mitchell, wife of John Booth, was given £10. Her son James Booth, Blacksmith, was put out as an apprentice with John Moorhouse son of William Moorhouse. Sylvester Petyt's charity in 1725. The Childs and Mitchells were also mentioned in Sylvester Petyt's will. 'ITEM, I do forgive unto Wm. Child, Richard Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell and John Booth all such sum and sums of money which is and are due and owing by them or any of them unto me and which shall be due and owing by them or any of them at the time of my death. I do order and direct that the Bond entered into by the said William Child Richd. Mitchell and Thos. Mitchell unto me, shall be delivered unto them some or one of them to be cancelled.' Will of Sylvester Petyt 1719. [70] I Give unto my sister Eliz. Mitchell during her life the yearly sum of £6 to be paid unto her on the Quarterly days following (viz.) on Midsummer, Michaelmas, Christmas and Lady day by equall portions'. 'And to each of the Children and Grandchildren of my Sister Eliz. Mitchell, who shall be living on the day of the date hereof £10'. Will of Sylvester Petyt 23 May 1719. [71] Skipton Parish Registers. Ann Robinson was buried on 13 September 1699 in Bolton Abbey. Bolton Abbey Registers. Ann and George Robinson had five children, Mary, born in 1650, William, who was buried in 1660, Isabel, christened 28 April 1667 in Carleton in Craven, George born in 1651 in Hazlewood, and Ann christened on 14 March 1662 in Carleton in Craven. IGI. Sylvester Petyt left his half sister Anne Robinson's children and grandchildren £10 each in his will of 1719. Anne's son George Robinson married Jane Winterburn on 8 May 1688 in Bolton Abbey. He had at least two children William, christened 4 October 1688, and Mary, christened 25 October 1689. IGI. Anne's grandson George Robinson and her grand-daughter Ann wife of Richard Gibson were both given £10 each by Sylvester's charity in 1725. Agnes Robinson married Richard Gibson on 23 May 1718. Skipton Parish Registers. It is not certain how they are connected, but they could be the children of George Robinson of Hazlewood. [72] Ann Robinson married Henry Petty on 15 February 1673. Ilkley Parish registers. Henry Petty was a Linen Weaver of Nestfield near Ilkley. Anne and Henry had at least two children George Petty, christened on 11 August 1688, and Ann Petty, christened on 22 August 1686. Ann Petty wife of Henry Petty of Nesfield was buried on 29 August 1699. Her husband Henry Petty was buried on 15 April 1722.Ilkley Parish registers. Ann and Henry's daughter Ann Petty married Henry Spencer on 27 November 1711. Ilkley Parish Registers. Their daughter Mary was christened on 15 February 1712. Henry Spencer of Langbar was buried on 3 November 1712. Ilkley Parish Registers. [73] This Susanna became the wife of Francis Cashford.Susanna was left £20 in 1725. Petyt trust 1725. [74] George Petty married Anne Joule 23 January 1721 Arncliffe. John was christened 25 October 1722, Christopher was christened 21 October 1724, Margaret was christened 25 June 1727, Thomas was christened 24 June 1731, William was christened 9 June 1734, George was christened 22 January 1738, Silvester was christened 14 February 1742. Arncliffe IGI. [75] 1737 George Burton, Butcher, with John son of George Petyt. 1746 Farsley John Child, Clothmaker, with William the son of George. Petyt Trust. [76] Jane Coates was christened on 25 April 1615, daughter of Anne Coates and William Petty. Kildwick Parish Registers. It is possible that her daughter Elizabeth Coates married William Lund on 25 May 1679 in Addingham. William Laund was buried in Addingham on 5 October 1725. Addingham Parish registers. In 1725 'Anne, wife of Wm. Lund, very old, her mother half-sister to the Testator.' and their children James, William, John, Ellen and Anne, now Pawson, were given monies by Sylvester Petyt's Charity. Ann Laund, widow, was given £10 and her children were given £5 each. Three other children are recorded, Robert, Richard and Mary Lund, to whom no payment was made. William and Elizabeth Laund had the following children. Ann was christened on 24 April 1698, Jno was christened on 5 June 1696, Margret was christened on 12 January 1696, William was christened on 16 January 1692,Elizabeth was christened in 1691,Anne was christened on 24 June 1688,James was christened on 25 July 1687, Agnus was christened on 27 February 1687,Robart & John were christened on 20 September 1683,Richard was christened on 15 Oct 1682, Mary was christened on 26 June 1681. Addingham Parish Registers. Mary, daughter of Mary Laund was apprenticed to James Lund and given £7 in 1725. James Lund had three sons apprenticed by the Petyt Trust. 1731 Richard Braishaw, Mason, with James son of James Laund.1732 John Hammond, Clothmaker, with William son of James Laund a poor relation. 1739 Joseph Kilner, Clothier, with Thomas son of James Laund. James, brothers, William, Richard Robert and John also had their sons apprenticed as part of the Petyt Trust. 1735 James Barnes, Weaver, with Richard son of Richard Lund.1735 Ellen Brayshaw, Shopkeeper, with Mary daughter of William Laund. 1741 Kildwick Robert Spencer, Husbandman, with Robert the son of Robert Lund. 1743 Joseph Farmer, Mason, with William son of Mary Lund. (William was christened on 19 march 1737 son of John Laund. Addingham Parish registers). 1744 Addingham Thomas Forrest, Whitesmith, with John the son of John Laund.
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