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legacies to minors?

Legg inn av Gjest » 06 jun 2005 18:04:09

I've been working under an assumption that minors were not left
legacies, at least not without some statement clearly identifying them
as minors.

In a Will (year 1500) I'm studying, there are references to two people
who have either disappeared from the family tree or if on the tree, can
only have been minors. I know this by counting the marriages and
generations, along with brief references from other sources.

Were bequests left to minors? If so, would the Wills have made it
clear that they were minors, or not bothered?

Thanks for your assistance.

Tim Powys-Lybbe

Re: legacies to minors?

Legg inn av Tim Powys-Lybbe » 06 jun 2005 18:36:31

In message of 6 Jun, geraldrm@earthlink.net wrote:

I've been working under an assumption that minors were not left
legacies, at least not without some statement clearly identifying them
as minors.

Certainly, though this is a little out of the time-frame of this
newsgroup, in 1697 her father left a dowry for his 10-year-old daughter
(a 7g g-m of mine) and on her marriage 16 years later, this dowry was
paid by her brother. (One wonders if she was somewhat plain to have
stayed unmarried for so long? Or perhaps her brother did not have the
readies there any earlier?)

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Chris Dickinson

Re: legacies to minors?

Legg inn av Chris Dickinson » 06 jun 2005 19:51:01

geraldrm@earthlink.net wrote:

I've been working under an assumption that minors were not left
legacies, at least not without some statement clearly identifying them
as minors.
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Were bequests left to minors? If so, would the Wills have made it
clear that they were minors, or not bothered?


Bequests were certainly made to minors in late-sixteenth and
seventeenth-century wills without identifying them as such. Very commonly
done. But what usual practice was at an earlier date, I don't know.

There are various ways of spotting chidren in wills. In yeoman wills, for
instance, a standard gift for a child is a lamb. The youngest children were
often appointed co-executors with the mother.

Chris

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