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    Axford, Jonathon

    Male Abt 1610 - 1687  (~ 77 years)


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    • Name Axford, Jonathon 
      Born Abt 1610  Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 1687  Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I02417  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 4 Feb 2015 

      Father Axford 
      Family ID F03303  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Baker, Grace,   b. Abt 1615, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1686, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 71 years) 
      Married Abt 1633  Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
      +1. Axford, Catherine,   c. 1 Nov 1633, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
      +2. Axford, Mary,   b. Abt 1640, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1716, Of Bratton, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 76 years)
      +3. Axford, John,   b. Abt 1640, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 17 May 1704, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years)  [Birth]
      +4. Axford, Issac,   b. Abt 1647, Of Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 17 Nov 1729, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years)
      +5. Axford, Sarah,   b. Abt 1649, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 27 Apr 1699, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years)
      +6. Axford, Grace,   b. Abt 1649, Of Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 23 Mar 1721, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years)
      Family ID F00905  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Wiltshire Wills
        P2/A/311
        Inventory, will
        [1687]
        Axford, Jonathan
        Yeoman, Erlestoke

        Transcription of Jonathan Axford?s Will ? 1686
        In the name of God Amen I Jonathan Axford of Earlestoke in the County of Wilts yeoman being in good health of body and of sound perfect mind and memory praise be therefore given to God almighty doe make and ordaine this my present Last Will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say) first and principally I give my soule into the hands of Almighty God hevering through this mereritts deathe and passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgivenesse of all my sins and to inherit everlasting Life and my body I commend to the Earth to be decently buried att the discretion of my Executors here after named And as to concerning the disposition of all such temporall estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me I give and dispose thereof as followeth: revoking all former and other wills by me formerly made: Imprimis I give devise and bequeath unto my Loveing sonne John Axford and his heires for ever All that helfe yard Lands with their appurtenances Situate Lyeninge being in EarleStoke aforesaid which I Lately purchased of John Trimnell and Joane Trimnell to have and to hold the said halfe yard Lands and premises unto the said John Axford his heirs and assignes forevermore Item I give devise and bequeath unto my Loveing sonne Isaac Axford and his heires for ever All those two Closes or gardens with their appurtenances lyeing and being in Marston in the parish of Potterne in the said County of Wilts which I lately also so purchased of the said John Trimnell and Joane Trimnell and all estates right by them and Interest as well in law as equity of mands to the Same to have and to hold the said Closes or grounds with their appurtenances unto the said Isaac Axford his heirs and Assignes for ever
        Item I give devise and bequeath unto my Grandchildren Jonathan Aldridge and William Aldridge Sonnes of my daughter Katherine Aldridge and their heires forever
        All my messuages Lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever situate lyeing and being in Rowde in the said County of Wilts and the rendrond and Inheritance thereof
        with the appurtenances to have and to hold the said messuages Lands tenements and hereditaments with their appurtenances unto the said Jonathan Aldridge and William
        Aldridge and their heires and Assignes for ever Item I give devise and bequeath unto my Grandchild Leah Aldridge daughter of my said daughter Katherine Aldridge and her
        heires forever All that messuage or Cottage garden and orchard theire unto belonging with their appurtenances Situate Situate lyeing and being in Earlestoke aforesaid and
        now in the possession tenure use or comparoid(?) of Hizrah Fishlock to have and to hold the said messuage or Cottage unto my Grandchildren Leah Aldridge Sarah Aldridge and Mary Aldridge daughters Of my said daughter Katherine Aldridge the sume of two hundred pounds of lawfull
        money of England to be equally divided betweene and to be paid within one yeare after my decease and in case any or either of my said grandchildren Leah Sarah and Mary
        shall happen to die before their respective ages of one and twenty yeares or be married then the said two hundred pounds to be divided between the Survivor and Survivors of
        them And my will and intending is that my said daughter Katherine Aldridge shall have the use interest and Jururaste of the said two hundred pounds during her Naturall
        Life Item I give devise and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Aldridge the Sume of two hundred pounds of Lawfull money of England to be paid unto her within one yeare after my decease Item I give devise and bequeath unto my daughter Grace Aldridge two hundred pounds of Lawfull money of England to be paid unto her within one yeare after my decease Item I give devise and bequeath unto my Grandchildren Sarah Tily and Charity Tily the sume of one [overwritten] hundred pounds of Lawfull money of
        England to be equally divided between them and to be paid within one yeare of my decease and in case either of my said Grandchildren Sarah Tily and Charity Tily shall
        happen to die before her age of one and twenty yeares or be married then the said one [overwritten] hundred pounds to go to the Survivor then And my will and intending is
        that my daughter Sarah Tily shall have the use interest and ..... of the said one [overwritten] hundred pounds during her Naturall Life Item all the rest and residue of my
        goods Chatells and personall estate not herein before given or bequeathed I give and bequeath the Same unto my Said Sonnes John Axford and Isaac Axford And I constitute nominate and appoint them the said John Axford and Isaac Axford Executors of this my last will and Testament In Witnesse whereof I have herewith Sett my hand
        and Seale the ffifteenth day of September In the yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the second by the grace of God of England Scotland ffraune and Ireland
        King defendor of the ffouthier (faith?) the two and thirtieth Anno since 1650
        Signed Sealed published and doctored and the words ppus Jona Axford
        Being first interlined in the personne of Tho: Beach
        Tho: Brimsdon
        his
        Samuell Compton
        Mark
        his
        John O Bonsson
        Mark



        ...Appears to have been a Baptist and a yeoman of substantial means. He owned land in Marston(inherited by his grandson, also Jonathon), Potterne, Rowde, Erlestoke ("Trimnells") and Seende "Henmarsh", bought from John and Alice Stokes. The lists of 'Feet of Fines' for Wiltshire has references to transactions involving property in 1651, 1662, 1669 and 1680, all in Erlestoke. His will, proved 6/1/1686 involved the sum of £73110 shillings and 6 pence and named his children and some of his grandchildren. The later children were not baptised....

        Brother??
        Ref No. P1/A/106 Alt Ref No P1/A/106 Title Commission, inventory, will Date 1664 Person Axford, Henry Occupation Yeoman Place Key /Erlestoke/Wiltshire Community Melksham

        ....The complicated interrelationships among these people results from the small population of the villages around Erlestoke and the fact that they were Non-Conformists (Dissenters, mainly Baptists) and tended to stick together. Thus in a list of Wiltshire Dissenters Meeting House Certificates and Registers for 1689-1852 we have typically: "12 July 1698, Erlestoke, a dwelling house now vacant of Mr. Henry Axford (Baptist),John Axford, John Alldredge, Wiliam Ball." Other names apearing at later dates include Edwarde Froude, Thomas Axford, John George, Isaac Axford the Younger (Quaker - following his marriage), Isac Aford Junior, Edward Gye, Thomas Beavor, Stephen Jones, William Axford, John Alldredge, Ballard, John Blatch, Henry Whitaker,Jeffrey Whitaker, John Gauntlett, John Eales, , ... etc.

        The certificates seem to have been neessary because the Established Church was very keen to get its tithes. Thus we find Isaac Axford (the above Quaker) complaining in the Great Book of Quaker Complaints that Isaac Axford,his father would come with his servants and take away wheat, etc. which was presumably given over to the Church as tithes so that he satisfied both the Quakers and the Church of England.

        THE DECLARATION OF INDULGENCE 1672
        A STUDY IN THE RISE OF ORGANISED DISSENT
        BY
        FRANK BATE M.A. B.Litt.
        WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
        C. H. FIRTH M.A.
        REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HIS-
        TORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
        PUBLISHED FOR THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF LIVERPOOL
        BY ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. LTD., 10 ORANGE
        STREET, LONDON, W.C. 1908
        ...WILTSHIRE

        1. William Ads House of William Lewse, Weeke ...Anabap.
        2. John Alchurch House of Widow Blake, Stowford, parish of South Newton Anabap.
        3. William Aldridge House of Thomas George, Earl Stoke Baptist.
        4. John Axford, of Earl Stoke General


        The first surname recording in Wiltshire may be that of Robert Axford, who married Maragaret Aldridge, at Bratton, Wiltshire, on January 18th 1584.