Catalogue description HALLIDAY AND TROWBRIDGE family papers

Various documents, mainly Wills, relating to the families of Halliday of Warminster (co. Wilts.) and Trowbridge of Kilmersdon.

Nuncupative Will of Edward Halliday the younger of Warminster, dyer, [giving no details], 1685, with letters of administration granted to his father Edward Halliday and father-in-law John Hippie, granted P.C.C. 1686.

Release of dower by Mary Holliday [sic], widow of Edward Holliday of Warminster, gent., to John Holliday, son of Edward, 1702.

Probate copy of Will of Edmond Trobridge of Lypeate (Lippeat) in Kilmersdon, gent., mentioning wife Margaret, with bequests (including devise of lands in Kilmersdon), to various persons, including son-in-law John Halliday and his wife Mary (only child of testator), kinsman William Trobridge (son of Edmund Trobridge of Hutton, gent.) kinsman George Trobridge (brother of William), Edith Trobridge (daughter of brother Thos. Trobridge, deceased), and Elizabeth James (daughter of late brother-in-law Chris. Penny), 1710, proved Wells 1711. Inventory of the effects of Edmond Trowbridge, 1710/11.

Probate copy of Will of Mary Halliday of Warminster, widow, with bequests to daughter Mary, son-in-law John, grandsons John, Edward and Harry, and granddaughter Katherine Higden, daughter-in-law Mary and grandsons John and Edmond Halliday, son-in-law John, daughter Susanna, grandsons John, Edward and Francis, and granddaughters Susanna, Dorothy, Margaret and Jane Bennett, granddaughter Mary Bracher, sister Chandler and her son Samuel, and to Samuel Bates of Warminster, clerk, 1720 proved Salisbury 1723/4.

Original Will of Margaret Trowbridge of Lypeate (Leapyeat) in Kilmersdon, widow, with bequests, etc., to son-in-law John Halliday nieces Ann Cox and Margaret Bishop, grandson Edmond Halliday, Jane (daughter of Edmund Trowbridge of Hutton and wife of Thomas Herse), Sarah (daughter of Edmund Trowbridge and wife of Antony Mathews), and daughter Mary Halliday, 1727. Inventory of the effects of Margaret Trowbridge, 1731.

Probate copy of Will of John Halliday of Warminster, gent., with bequests to son Edmund, 1733, proved P.C.C. 1737. Uncompleted copy of Will of John Halliday of Warminster, gent., undated.

An inventory and account of legacies referring to members of the Higden, Bennett, Bracher, and Halliday families, etc. 1740.