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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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