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Wills & Inventories of the Watts Family of Yateley
Of the total 271 wills and inventories for Yateley people recorded before 1700 in the CALM database of The Hampshire Record Office 38 (1 in 7) are for members of the Watts Family of Yateley parish. Probate records for other frequently occuring sunames before 1700, such as Clarke, Heather, May and Thayer, do not reach double figures. The Watts mostly lived in the Outer Tithing of Hawley and Cove.
The Yateley History Project was a tutorial group run by the Yateley Branch of the Workers Educational Asssociation (WEA) in 1982-5, and sponsored by the Yateley Society. The first group of probate records for 48 Yateley men and women who died in Elizabeth‘s reign from 1558 to 1603 was published in book form in December 1983. More wills were transcribed during 1984 and 1985. This second batch included a further tranch for Elizabeth‘s reign, plus all those found dated before 1700. The second group of wills was computerised on an early home computer, but not published on paper.
There were no electronic databases in the Record Office in Winchester in those days so the group had to trawl arduously through several books and indices for references, and wind there way through many rolls of microfilm. Finally they believed that they had transcribed every Yateley probate record between 1558 and 1700. Today we have the great benefit of being able to search on-line databases from our homes, revealing that several key Watts wills were missed in the 1980s. Yateley probate records are still being added to the electronic database, a recent example being:
- Nicholas Watts of Yateley, part of an inventory with probate granted to Alice widow, 1591, 202M85/2/198
This list of probate records for the Watts family of Yateley has been compiled from the CALM on-line database of the Hampshire Records Office. The wills and inventories transcribed by the YHP team (Don and Alison Ridgers, Caroline Powell, Agnes Stephenson and Jill Wilbrahim under the tutorlege of Dr John Porter) can be accessed from the links. The YHP wills group managed to transcribe wills and inventories for 26 members of the Watts family living before 1700 -- leaving 12 still to be transcribed. More transcriptions will be added in due course.
No. | Probate Records | Year | HRO ref | Click for Will | Click for Inventory | 1 | Will of Thomas Watts 'of Bromell' Broomhill, Yateley, Hampshire, husbandman | 1537 | 1537B/61 | | | 2 | Will of Alice Watts of Yateley, Hampshire, widow | 1544 | 1544B/098 | | | 3 | Will and inventory of Thomas Watts (Wattes) of Southwood, Yateley, Hampshire | 1551 | 1551B/62 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 4 | Will and inventory of Stephen Watts (Wattes) of Hawley, Yateley, Hampshire | 1554 | 1554U/37 | | | 5 | Will and inventory of Agnes Waites (Wates) of Southwood, Yateley, Hampshire, widow | 1558 | 1558B/263 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 6 | Will and inventory of Henry Waites (Wates) of Bramshott, Yateley, Hampshire | 1558 | 1558B/264 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 7 | Will and inventory of Henry Waites (Wates) of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire | 1558 | 1558B/265 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 8 | Will and inventory of William Watts (Watese) of Hawley, Yateley, Hampshire | 1558 | 1558B/266 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 9 | Will and inventory of Margaret Watts (Wattes) of Yateley, Hampshire, widow | 1558 | 1558B/269 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 10 | Will and inventory of Henry Watts (Watese) of Southwood, Yateley, Hampshire | 1559 | 1559B/095 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 11 | Will and inventory of John Watts (Wats) of Brook, Cove, Yateley, Hampshire | 1561 | 1561A/73 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 12 | Will, inventory, and letter of proxy relating to Robert Waites (Wates) of Yateley, Hampshire | 1566 | 1566A/55 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 13 | Will and inventory of Richard Watts (Wats) of Bramshott, Yateley, Hampshire | 1571 | 1571B/294 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 14 | Inventory of Elinor Watts of Yateley, Hampshire | 1574 | 1574AD/29 | | Read Inventory | 15 | Will and inventory of Simon Waites (Wates) of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire | 1574 | 1574B/178 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 16 | Will and inventory of Henry Watts (Wats) of Hawley, Yateley, Hampshire | 1578 | 1578B/098 | | | 17 | Will and inventory of Thomas Watts (Wattes) of Cove?, Eversley sic, Hampshire | 1586 | 1586A/87 | | | 18 | Will and inventory of John Watts (Wattes) of Hawley, Yateley, Hampshire | 1591 | 1591A/144 | | | 19 | Will and inventory of John Watts of Southwood, Yateley, Hampshire | 1591 | 1591A/145 | | | 20 | Will and inventory of Henry Watts of Bramshott, Yateley, Hampshire | 1592 | 1592A/127 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 21 | Will and inventory of Robert Watts of Brook, Cove, Yateley, Hampshire | 1599 | 1599B/44 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 22 | Will and inventory of John Watts of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire | 1600 | 1600A/61 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 23 | Will and inventory of Stephen Watts of Yateley, Hampshire | 1600 | 1600A/62 | Read Will | | 24 | Will and inventory of Nicholas Watts (Wattes) of Southwood, Yateley, Hampshire, yeoman | 1603 | 1603B/58 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 25 | Will and inventory of John Watts (Wattes), bachelor, of Hawley Bridge, Yateley, Hampshire | 1605 | 1605B/77 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 26 | Will and inventory of Thomas Watts (Wattes) of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire, husbandman | 1606 | 1606B/52 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 27 | Will and inventory of George Watts of Hawley, Yateley, Hampshire | 1612 | 1612A/101 | | | 28 | Will and inventory of Joan Watts of Hawley, Yateley, Hampshire, widow | 1613 | 1613A/74 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 29 | Will and inventory of William Watts (Wattes) of Pale?, Yateley, Hampshire, husbandman | 1614 | 1614A/115 | | | 30 | Will, inventory and renunciation of Alice Watts of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire, widow | 1625 | 1625B/72 | | | 31 | Will and inventory of Edmond Watts of Hawley, Yateley, Hampshire, carpenter | 1632 | 1632A/093 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 32 | Will and inventory of Nicholas Watts of Bramshott, Yateley, Hampshire, yeoman | 1635 | 1635A/50 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 33 | Will and inventory of Alice Watts (Wattes) of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire, widow | 1635 | 1635B/119 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 34 | Will and inventory of George Watts of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire, bricklayer | 1640 | 1640A/181 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 35 | Will and inventory of Robert Watts of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire, yeoman | 1640 | 1640A/182 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 36 | Inventory of John Watts of Hawley, Yateley, Hampshire | 1662 | 1662AD/113 | | Read Inventory | 37 | Inventory of Elizabeth Watts of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire | 1691 | 1691AD/105 | | | 38 | Will of William Watts of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire, yeoman | 1728 | 1728A/127 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 39 | Inventory and probate administration of John Watts of Yateley, Hampshire | 1728 | 1728AD/211 | | | 40 | Renunciation of John Watts of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire, yeoman | 1737 | 1737AD/130 | | | 41 | Probate administration of Robert Watts of Yateley, Hampshire | 1737 | 1737AD/131 | | | 42 | Will and inventory of Nicholas Watts of Bramshott, Yateley, Hampshire, yeoman | 1741 | 1741A/146 | Read Will | Read Inventory | 43 | Administration of William Watts of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire, yeoman | 1804 | 1804AD/37 | | | 44 | Will of William Watts of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire, yeoman | 1805 | 1805A/087 | | | 45 | Will, and further probate document relating to William Watts of Cove, Yateley, Hampshire, yeoman | 1849 | 1849B/095 | | |
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