William SKINNER of Braintree ESS [2783]

  General Notes:

Will
WILLIAM SKINNER of Braintree (Essex) yeoman,
14 August 1616, proved 26-7-1616.
The poor of Braintree twenty six shillings eight pence.
To wife Margery my freehold lands, messuages, tenements, shops &c. in Braintree for life ; afterwards to second son John.
To John copyhold lands &c in Braintree he to secure his mother the rent it now goeth for &c.
To John twenty pounds and to his son John, my grandson (silver).
To eldest son William one hundred and sixty pounds.
To his daughters Rebecca and Francis Skinner (silver) and thirty pounds apiece at eighteen years of age, and to his son Richard forty pounds.
To my youngest son Richard (inter alia) my book of my brother Allyn's works.
To John and Mary Skinner children of said son Richard (household stuff).
To son Richard ten pounds for use and benefit of Mary, Ellyn and Richard, his children, at ages of eighteen.
To eldest daughter An, wife of Moyses Wall, forty pounds.
To John Taylcoate, Sara Taylcoate and Rachell Taylcoate Moyses Wall Lidia Wall and Mary Wall, the children of my said daughter An, five marks apiece, to he paid to the said Moyses Wall my son in law to their use &c.
To my son in law Moyses Wall ten pounds to be employed about a building which he did intend to do within the house wherein he now dwelleth.
To Sara Taylcoate my bible.
To John Gill my son in law twenty pounds to the use of Mary Gill and An Gill, children of my daughter Margery.
To my said daughter Margery Gill two silver spoons.
To my son in law Edmund Allstonne ten pounds.
To Rachel Skinner my daughter, the wife of Edmund Allstonne (household stuff).
To my brother Allin my new hatt turft with velvett."
To Mr. Collen ten pounds for a sermon to be preached at my burial.
To Edmund, Rachel and Mary AIlstone children of my said daughter Rachel five marks apiece.
To my said daughter Rachel my book of Mr. Perkins works after wifes decease.
Susan wife of Joseph Man and her daughter Susan.
Godson William Skinner son of William Skinner of Bocking
Godson William Winterflood
Godson William Skinner son of Martin Skinner.
Cousin Martin Skinner.
To Mr. Daniel Rogers ten shillings.
To Cousin Richard Barnard ten shillings
Wife Margery to he executrix and friends Martin Skynner, sons in law Moyses Wall and Edmund Allstone, and Richard Barnard to be supervisors.
Com. Court of London for Essex and Herts.
Unnumbered will, File for 1616.
Genealogical Gleanings in England Vol II
Ancestry

  Research Notes:

No Bishops Transcripts or Registers available for Braintree before 1660.
Suggested death date 1616.
Susan Perrett, 13 Feb 2007 Essex.

R Woodbridge-Smith writes 2013.
I've been doing some research on Rachel Skinner abt 1586-1660 who was married to Edmund Alston, Alstoniana (Pg 63) has her father as Richard but in fact it should be William Skinner abt 1542-1616 and his wife was Margery Trotter 1550-1620. They lived in Braintree Essex, I also have found a will for William Skinner and his wife, it all seems to fit.

William spouse unknown Margery TROTTER [16945] [MRIN: 911]. (Margery TROTTER [16945] was born in 1550 and died in 1620.)