Edward Geeseing of Stathern 1675 Will
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1675/40
August the 5th 1655
I Edward Geeseing of Stathorne being sick in body but in perfect memorie have maide my last will and testament in manner and forme as followeth
Item I give and bequeath my soule unto almightie god that gave it mee and my body to be buried in the Church yard of Stathorne
Item I give and bequeth to my wife Elizabeth Geeseing my house and land att Harby with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging and my house att Stathorne with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging soe long as shee liveth
I give and bequeth unto An Caunt daughter unto George Caunt my house and land att Harby with all the appurtenances there unto belonging to her att the age of one and twentie yeares or the day of her marriage if her grandmother be not then living
Item I give and bequeth unto Eling Caunt the daughter of George Caunt my house att Stathorne with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging to enter att the age of one and twentie yeares or att the day of her marriage if her grandmother be not living
Item I give and bequeth unto Elizabeth Caunt daughter to George Caunt ten pounds my trew will and meaning is that An Caunt daughter unto George shall paie unto Elizabeth Caunt six pounds out of her tenement att Harby att the age of one and twentie yeares and Ellen Caunt daughter unto George Caunt shall paie unto Elizabeth Caunt four pounds out of her tenement att Stathorne att the age of one and twentie yeares my trew will and meaning is that if any of these daughters shall die before they come to the age of one and twentie yeares that their portions shall remaine unto them that is living
Item I give unto Partris my kinswoman and her two children twelve pound a peece
Item I give out my daughter Jane twelfe pence
Edward Geesing his marke
Bartholomew Greene
Thomas Doubleday
Wittnes
Probate 2 June 1675