Wills

Coppull has a number of wills surviving from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Below is a list from the catalogue of wills kept at the Lancashire records office. A number of wills have been lost since they were catalogued in the late 19th century and where I am aware of this loss, I have noted it against the will.

The final columns, headed £, s and d, shows the value of their estate if their will is accompanied by a probate inventory. These inventories are often very detailed and a valuable source of information for the local historian.

Some of the wills have been transcribed and this transcription appears on the site. Where I have a transcription, the forename of the person appears in blue and is underlined. The process of transcription began in about 1992 and is ongoing. The early transcriptions retain the original 17th and 18th century spellings and abbreviations but the later transcriptions, comprising the bulk of the collection, have been made using speech recognition software and therefore appear in modern spelling. I would therefore recommend that anyone using the contents of these wills for research purposes consult the originals in Lancashire Record Office, or the Public Records Office if the exact quotation is required. A detailed reference and the location of the original can be found here.

 

First	Surname	OTHER	TYPE	DATE	£	s	d
Thomas	Abbott			1684	203	18	10
Thomas	Alker	husbandman		1677	98	14	0
Thomas	Ashurst	farmer	Adm	1792
James	Bentham	the younger, yeoman		1779
James	Bentham	yeoman	Adm	1782
Thomas	Bentham	yeoman		1753
Edward	Benton	yeoman	Inf	1756
Isabel	Bibby		LOST	1661
James	Bibbie	husbandman		1655
James	Bibby		LOST	1677
John	Bibby		Inf/Inv/Adm	1689	30	0	0
Thomas	Bibby	husbandman		1625	49	14	10
John	Bolton	husbandman		1636	144	7	8
James	Booth			1668	38	10	10
Mary	Booth		Inf LOST	1693
George	Brown			1686	4	0	6
Ellen	Bullough	spinster		1627	11	13	11
Richard	Bullough	husbandman		1625	83	18	9
Alice	Chisnall	widow		1607	76	7	0
Ann	Chisnall	widow		1694	102	11	3
Edward	Chisnall	esquire		1635
Edward	Chisnall	esquire		1654
Edward	Chisnall	husbandman		1681	283	15	3
Edward	Chisnall	knight		1727
Humphrey	Chisnall	husbandman		1610	44	6	8
James	Chisnall	yeoman		1802
Dorothy	Cooper	widow		1724
William	Cooper		Adm/ LOST	1687
Samuel	Crooke	esquire		1729
William	Crook	gentleman		1687
William	Crook			1701
Richard	Crooke			1637	329	2	5
Thomas	Day	husbandman	Adm/Inf	1733
Edward	Dicconson	gentleman		1680	93	10	4
Jennet	Dicconson	widow		1604
John	Dicconson			1557	4		4
Robert	Dicconson		LOST	1661
William	Dicconson	yeoman		1610	88	16	5
William	Dicconson	yeoman		1689
Ralph	Eastham		Adm	1762
John	Ellison	yeoman	Inf	1754
Thomas	Finch	yeoman		1668	11	17	6
Catherine	Fisher	widow		1646	34	0	0
John	Fisher	yeoman		1738
John	Fisher	yeoman		1779
Oliver	Forster			1592	36	11	10
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