Go to Documents Index    

To return to a citation on a family page, use the 'Back' button on your browser .

Transcript of....

Will of Robert Oatridge 1695 

Source: w1: Archdeaconry of Wilts Wills. 

(643) Archdeaconry of Wilts Will Transcript: 

In the name of God Amen the sixteenth day of July one thousand and six hundred ninty and five.  I Robt Oatridge of Oaksey in the County of Wilts being in sound and perfect memory and ways  and thanks be given to the almighty God for the same - and ?ruling? to mind the certainty of 

death and the uncertainty of the time when ......... this to be my Last Will and Testament in  manner and form ffollowing that is to say first and principally I commit my soul in to the hands of  my Good and Gracious God my forsaker hopeing by and through the ???? of Jesus Christ my 

only Saviour to have affordd pardon of all my sinns and a joyful ressurection in the great day of  the Lord Jesus Christ  my body I committ to the soil from whence it came to be buried decently  and in Christian like manner according to the direction of my Executor herein after named  and  as for my wordly Goods the Lord have given me I do give and dispose of thereof as ffolloweth. 

Imprimis I give unto my wife the one half of my houshold goods within my house to do what she  pleases with it and six of the best of my cow beasts if Joy? ???? of so many to do ??? wife 

I give unto my eldest daughter Mary KIGHT one shilling. 

I give unto my younger daughter Sarah KIGHT one shilling. 

I give unto my Loving Sister Elizabeth CLEEVE five pounds if she be then living. 

I do give unto my Sonn John Oatridge all the rest of my goods and chattells which do ???? or  belong unto me whatsoever. And do I constitute and appoint the said John Oatridge my Sonn to  be my Lawful executor of this my Last Will and Testament. 

Signed: In witness whereof I have putt my hand and faith in the presence of: (signed Robt  Oatridge + seal) 

Signed sealed published and declared to be my last Will and Testament in the presence of John 

Turner junior  Robert Medd?w  Eaw? Kingston 

Updated on 16 Mar 2006