Précis and commentary of the Will of

mary CROMPTON

of Hounslow, Middlesex
Dated 03 April 1632

Overview

• This is a simple will distributing various rings and a quilt to named children and a sum of money to her grandchildren, servants and the poor of Hounslow.

Précis

The will lists her children, daughter-in-law and cousins as living in 1632:

• Robert Crompton, and daughters
• Mary - Dame Mary Gee;
• Frances - Frances Fenn;
• Alice - Alice Colenton(?) ¹.
• her daughter-in-law Dame Catherine, the child of her eldest son, Sir Thomas and the wife of Sir Thomas Lyttelton (Littleton/Littelton) of Wigorn, First Baron of Frankley, who died 24 June 1666 and whose memorial is in Worcester Cathedral;
• cousins Mary Wallis; and one whose name cannot be transcribed.

Specific requests, from the residue of the estate, were to be made to her grandchildren on their majority; the children of:

• the previously named Robert Crompton, Dame Mary Gee, Frances Fenn and Alice Colenton(?);
• Sir John Crompton, who is identified as deceased;
• daughters Elizabeth Hyatt, Magdalene Roger and Grace Hrobald(?), who, not being named as individual beneficiaries, are assumed to be dead;
• Grandson William Gee is the only named grandchild, also named as an Executor;
• each grandchild was to receive £10 from any residue after debts and funeral expenses on the understanding that they do not request any further cash from the estate.

Gifts of money are made to her well respected servants:

• £5 to John {Ke.fir} (equivalent to £23,090 in 2018 ²);
• £1 apiece to those who are living with her in the house of death (equivalent to £4,618 in 2018); and
• £2 to the poor of Hounslow (equivalent to £9,235 in 2018).

The will mentions many rings and a studied quilt as gifts, but does not mention any property and only mention household plate in passing.

End notes

1. Ancestry record a Colenton family in Breedon on the Hill in 1718
2. Measuring Worth (Accessed: 28 March 2020)

This page was created by Richard Crompton and maintained by Chris Glass		Version A1 Updated 25 May 2020