Steventon probate material, 1601-20
Two wills and four inventories survive for this period, of which the Ansell and Crook families were copyholders of the manor of Steventon. Crook was also a freeholder with 60 acres. The farming is mixed with mainly sheep and corn but Crook also possessed 10 cows and seven bullocks.
These transcriptions have been made from copies of original probate documents supplied by HRO and TNA. Words have been modernized and punctuation added to make reading easier but names have been transcribed as written. Words in italics indicate omissions in the original document which have been added to make sense of the text. Words in square brackets indicate that they have been transcribed as seen but where the meaning is unclear. Basingstoke is described as being in the county of Southampton, the old name for Hampshire.
A glossary is attached of unusual words.
Content derived from research undertaken as part of the Victoria County History project
