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I don't know, I'm only guessing. But I'd suspect that the "average wage" would be not meaningful. I'd suspect that there was a huge difference in income between the landed gentry and the tenant farmers and workers. That many generations back, I should have over 1000 ancestors. Some very...

Although there is no mention of the court case mentioned in the will, the notes I've been given do give mention: George Warmington Bewes, also mentioned in the will was the one who had to dispose of property (previous post).

I wouldn't mind! Two reasons why I wouldn't. 1. That was 10 generations back. There are a LOT of descendants. 2. No doubt a lot of that property was disposed of. One of Degory's grandsons had to dispose his property in respect of debts in excess of £4000. (And I've just found out- that...

I don't know. But he had a lot of property, which he passed onto his son, Degory (or Digory). Father and son both tarded property and goods- the appear to be very well off. The will of son Digory is quite interesting. Not only with the amount of property, but with the conditions in the...

I think it is rather much different. Degory puts the equivalent of a good faith deposit to seal the deal. He then needs to arrange £20 for the first instalment. Several things are to be noted here. One is that it is a very big sum. Some of the wills has people leaving £1 as their total...

My ancestor is Degory Bewes. Yes, I'm finding sone of these documents fascinating.

In my recent foray into my genealogy, I was sent a lot of details about legal documents from ancestors in the 1600s and 1700s. A number were wills, but there was this interesting lawsuit, which gives an insight into the way property transactions may have been done 350 years ago. "In 3 December...