In researching family history I have found Wills a wonderful source of information, not just about family relationships but also the details of peoples possessions and their hopes and beliefs.
I have transcribed many of these documents and added them to family trees on ancestry.com. This blog will make them available to anyone and I hope will be of use to people with an interest in social or family history.
For me the documents themselves and the amazing handwriting are a source of fascination and part of the picture of the time. Some of the images are freely available online and where this is the case I have provided links. Others require subscription or purchase and for them I provide reference details.
Court cases are a further rich source of information and I will be adding transcripts and links for some of these in the future.
Rose G.
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Hi James
I’m glad you’ve found them interesting. I’ve done Randall Snelgar 1598 and Thomas 1607 and put them on ‘ancestry’ (ROSEG22 Eyre Family Tree) but haven’t yet loaded them here. I can email them to you if you like. I’m happy to share anything I’ve found and would be interested in what you have discovered.
Rose
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Thank you Rose – yes please I’d be really interested in the Wills from Randall and Thomas – they really contain such interesting insights from the times. I’ve only spent a few hours on the research so far – but will share with you via email what I have found out about the family as well.
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Hi – than you for sharing your research, it is a wonderful resource – I am researching my family history name which is Snelgrove and I believe this goes back to William Snelgar b.1502 in Fisherton De La Mare which is the first records of the name I can find, with family then moving to Redlynch and Downton.
It is amazing to read the actual words of members of this family and the relations I have just been finding dates for – in a sense this brings them back to life and is such an interesting connection to the past – Thank you!
I would love to share further information on this family and research as well. James
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