Wills and Letters of Administration : Pre 1858
From this page, the Wills managed by the "Church Courts" are indexed. That is those that were proved on or before 11 January 1858. If you have any Wills or Admons that do not have hyperlinks shown in the table below, or if you are aware of more Wills and Admons which are not shown here, please do consider sharing them.
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The extract image above is from the Will of Thomas Hemingway, clothier of Southowram dated 1591. Thomas married Grace Fayrbanke (Fairbank) 2 December 1583 and mentioned her; his son Thomas; his daughters Susane and Grace; brothers Richard, Edward and John; nephews Abraham and Edward and some "in-laws". The opening five lines read :
In the name of God Amen the third and twenty day of August in the year of
our Lord God 1591. I Thomas Hemingwaye of the township of Southowram in
the parish of Halifax in diocese of Yorke, sicke in bodye but of a perfect
memorye the Lord be praised do constitute, ordaeyne and make this my testament
and last will in maner and forme ffollowinge.....
Date |
Name |
Abode |
Type |
Got? |
|
1526 |
Brighouse area |
Halifax |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1528 |
The Brays |
Halifax |
Yes |
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1534 |
John Hemyngway |
Ayringden bur Heptonstall |
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1537 |
Southorome |
Admon |
Yes |
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1541 |
of Brea (perhaps) |
Halifax |
Yes |
||
1542 |
Hallifax |
Yes |
|||
1545 |
Henrie Hemyngwaye |
Birkynne |
|||
1545 |
Hillom |
Monkefrieston |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1546 |
James Hemyngway |
Heptonstall |
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1549 |
John Hemmyngwae |
Northorum |
Admon |
|
|
1557 |
Hillom (bur Monkefryston) |
Testament |
Yes |
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1557 |
Richard Hemeslaie |
V of Shereburne |
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1558 |
Alice Hemmyngway |
Byrkyn |
Admon |
||
1567 |
Kirbie Overblause |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1570 |
Doffhowse in S Owrom |
Yes |
|||
1571 |
Dovehouse |
Dovehouse |
Yes |
||
1571 |
Southowrum |
Yes |
|||
1576 |
Thomas Hemynwaye |
Gatefurth (bur Brayton) |
|||
1582 |
Gateforthe Ainsty |
Yes |
|||
1583 |
John Hemingwaye |
Waterfryston |
|||
1585 |
John Hemyngwaye |
Heptonstall |
|||
1587 |
Watercloughe |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1587 |
Thomas Hemingway |
Heptonstall |
|||
1588 |
Newhouse |
Yes |
|||
1588 |
Suzanna & Sarah Hemyngeway |
of Newhowse |
Tui |
||
1589 |
Watterfriston |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1591 |
John Hemingewaie |
Lightclif, |
Yes |
||
1591 |
Thomas Hemyngwaye |
Sowthowrum |
Yes |
||
1592 |
Edmund Hemyngwaye |
Heptonstall |
|||
1593 |
John Hemmingway |
ye Mithom (bur Halifax), |
Yes |
||
1595 |
Mirfield |
Yes |
|||
1597 |
John Hemingway |
Birstall |
|||
1600 |
John Hemingway |
Overtree |
Admon |
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1601 |
Susanna Hemingwaie |
Northroides in Southoram |
Tui |
||
1601 |
William Hemyngwaie |
Hallifaxe |
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1609 |
William Hemingwray |
North Dighton |
|||
1612 |
Edward Hemingway |
Shipden Milne |
Admon |
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1614 |
Robert Hemingway |
Overbrea in Northowrom |
|||
1615 |
John Hemingwaie |
Northowrome |
Admon |
||
1615 |
Southowrome |
Admon |
Yes |
||
1616 |
Edith Hemingwaie |
Northowrome |
Admon |
||
1616 |
Smeaton Parva |
Yes |
|||
1618 |
Robert Hemingway |
Hallifax |
|||
1621 |
Abraham Hemmingway |
Lawe Halifax |
Yes |
||
1623 |
Edith Hemingway als Midgley als Gibson |
Hallifax |
Admon |
||
1623 |
Edward Hemingwaie |
Shipden Milne |
|||
1624 |
Cayton in Bradford |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1636 |
Abraham Hemingway |
Gawthorpe |
Gawthorpe near Chickenly Heath |
Testament |
Yes |
1637 |
Robert Hemingway |
Kingston upon Hull |
|||
1639 |
York |
Yes |
|||
| 1644 | Sibill Whitley (Hemingway, Smith) | Shibden Hall | Southowram | Testament |
Yes |
1645 |
Kirke Smeaton |
Yes |
|||
1647 |
John Hemingway |
Hillam |
Admon |
||
1649 |
Samuel Hemingway |
Joshua & Mary |
Dec Tui |
||
1650 |
Abraham Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
Yes |
|
1650 |
Shibden |
Admon |
Yes |
||
1651 |
Abraham Hemingway |
Yorke |
|||
| 1662 | Michael Hemingway | Claiton | Bradford | Testament |
Yes |
1665 |
Pontefract |
Admon |
Yes |
||
1666 |
Abraham Hemingway |
Lepton |
|||
1667 |
Jane Hemingway |
Hillam par Monk Fryston |
|||
1668 |
Michaell Hemingway |
Lightcliffe |
|||
1669 |
George Hemingway |
Norton |
Admon |
||
1669 |
Thomas Hemingway |
Earlsheaton |
Admon |
Yes |
|
1671 |
John Hemingway |
Sheffield |
|||
1675 |
Henry the elder Hemingway |
Lightcliffe |
|||
1683 |
Alice Hemingway |
Lightcliffe |
|||
1689 |
Claiton |
Bradford |
Will |
Yes |
|
1692 |
Abraham Hemmingway |
Ovenden |
Pontefract Deanery |
||
1693 |
Richard Hemingway |
Heckmondwike |
Pontefract Deanery |
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1693 |
Thomas Hemingway |
Aughton |
Doncaster Deanery |
Will |
Yes |
1694 |
Bradford |
Pontefract Deanery |
Will |
Yes |
|
1694 |
Heckmondwike |
Pontefract Deanery |
Admon |
||
1699 |
Dewsbury |
Pontefract Deanery |
Yes |
||
1699 |
John Hemingway |
Northowram, Halifax |
Pontefract Deanery |
||
1700 |
Heckmondwike |
Pontefract Deanery |
Tui |
||
1707 |
Daniel Hemingway |
Hipperholme |
Pontefract Deanery |
||
1711 |
Tadcaster |
Ainsty |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1713 |
Henry Hemingway |
Earlsheaton |
Pontefract Deanery |
Admon |
Yes |
1721 |
Richard Hemingway |
Earles Heaton |
Pontefract Deanery |
Testament |
Yes |
1722 |
Esther Hemingway |
Hillam |
Doncaster |
||
1723 |
Edward Hemingway |
Stainforth |
Giggleswick, Craven |
||
1726 |
John Hemingway |
Giggleswick |
Craven Deanery |
Tui |
|
1731 |
Clayton |
Bradford |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1732 |
Rebeccah Hamingway |
Over Whitely, wife of Thomas |
|||
1734 |
Samuel Hemingway |
Boldshaw End |
Bradford |
Testament |
|
1736 |
Joshua Hemingway |
Orston, Notts |
|||
1736 |
Liversedge |
Birstal |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1739 |
Thomas Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1741 |
Timothy Hemingway |
Ovenden |
Halifax |
Testament |
|
1743 |
Daniel Hemingway |
Southowram |
Halifax |
Admon |
|
1749 |
John Hemingway |
Humbleton |
Testament |
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1751 |
Squire Hemingway |
Lightcliffe |
Halifax |
Admon |
|
1752 |
William Hemingway |
Annisley Woodhouse |
Annisley (Notts) |
Testament |
|
1754 |
John Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
Yes |
1756 |
Henry Hemingway |
Earles Heaton |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
Yes |
1756 |
Joseph Hemingway |
Haigh |
Darton |
Testament |
Yes |
1756 |
Josiah and children of Henry Hemingway |
Earles Heaton |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
|
1756 |
Judith Hemingway |
Earles Heaton |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
|
1758 |
Daniel Hemingway |
? |
Bradford |
Testament |
|
1763 |
Edward Hemingway |
Bradley |
Huddersfield |
Admon |
|
1772 |
Liversedge |
Birstal |
Admon |
Yes |
|
1772 |
Elizabeth Hemingway |
Bradford |
Admon |
||
1773 |
? Hemingway |
Kirkburton |
Testament |
||
1773 |
Richard Hemmingway |
Essex |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1774 |
Joshua Hemingway |
Giles House |
Halifax |
Testament |
|
1775 |
John Hemingway |
Cleckheaton |
Birstal |
Testament |
|
1775 |
Samuel Hemingway |
Horsforth |
Guiseley |
Testament |
|
1777 |
John Hemingway |
Leeds |
Admon |
||
1778 |
Haigh |
Darton |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1779 |
Joseph Hemingway |
Earlesheaton |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
Yes |
1780 |
Elizabeth Heptinstall |
East Hardwick |
Pontefract |
Admon |
|
1784 |
Henry Hemingway |
Boldshay |
Bradford |
Testament |
|
1784 |
Middlesex |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1786 |
Liversedge Hall |
Birstal |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1786 |
Swithens |
Darton |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1788 |
Long Liversedge |
Birstal |
Admon |
Yes |
|
1788 |
Middlesex |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1789 |
Heckmondwike |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1791 |
Cawthorne |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1793 |
John Hemingway |
Havercroft |
Felkirk |
Testament |
|
1794 |
John Hemingway |
Liversedge |
Birstal |
Admon |
|
1796 |
Robert Town |
Birstal |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1797 |
James Hemingway |
Mount Pellon |
Halifax |
Testament |
|
1798 |
Benjamin Hemmingway |
Surrey |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1799 |
Abraham Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1800 |
Joseph Hemmingway |
Off Britain |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1801 |
Elizabeth Hemingway |
Leeds |
Testament |
||
1801 |
Jonathan Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1801 |
Thomas Hemingway |
Liversedge |
Birstal |
Testament |
|
1803 |
Samuel Hemingway |
Walton Bridge nr Liverpool, gentleman |
|||
1808 |
Richard Hemingway |
Ellerton |
Testament |
||
1809 |
Thomas Heptonstall |
Haddlesey |
Birkin |
Testament |
|
1810 |
George Hemingway |
Carlinghow |
Batley |
Admon |
|
1810 |
James Hemingway |
Skircoat |
Halifax |
Admon |
|
1810 |
William Hemingway |
East Ardsley |
Testament |
||
1811 |
Wakefield |
Admon |
Yes |
||
1811 |
Jonas Hemingway |
Horton |
Bradford |
Testament |
|
1812 |
Wakefield |
Admon |
|||
1813 |
Heckmondwike |
Birstal |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1814 |
David Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
||
1814 |
James Hemingway |
Leeds but at Halifax |
Testament |
||
1816 |
Thomas Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
||
1817 |
Daniel Hemingway |
North Brierley |
Bradford |
Testament |
|
1817 |
James Hemingway |
Birstal |
Admon |
||
1817 |
Dronfield |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1819 |
James Hemmingway |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
||
1821 |
Cawthorne |
Testament |
|||
1822 |
Cawthorne |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1822 |
James Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
||
1822 |
John Hemingway |
Pits Moor |
Sheffield |
Admon |
Yes |
1822 |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1822 |
Thomas Hemingway |
Manchester, coal dealer |
|||
1823 |
Sandal Magna |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1823 |
Lofthouse Gate |
Wakefield |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1824 |
Joseph Hemingway |
Earlesheaton |
Testament |
||
1824 |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1824 |
Sarah Hemingray |
Shirland Derbyshire |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1825 |
John Hemingway |
Bradford |
Testament |
||
1826 |
Rose Hemmingway |
Halifax |
Testament |
||
1827 |
William Hemingway |
Halifax |
Testament |
||
1828 |
Daw Green |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1828 |
Heckmondwike |
Birstall |
Admon |
Yes |
|
1828 |
Liversedge Park |
Birstall |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1829 |
Daniel Hemingway |
Chapel Haddlesey |
Birkin |
Testament |
Yes |
1829 |
Darlaston |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1830 |
John Hemingway |
Sheffield |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1830 |
Titus Hemingway |
New Jersey North America |
Admon |
||
1831 |
Issac Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
||
1831 |
Joseph Hemingway |
Wombwell Park |
Dronfield but at Leeds |
Admon |
|
1832 |
Thomas Hemingway |
South Emsall |
South Kirby |
Testament |
|
1832 |
William Hemingway |
Leeds |
Testament |
||
1833 |
Ellen Hemingway |
Halifax |
Admon |
||
1833 |
James Hemingway |
Halifax |
Admon |
||
1833 |
Martha Hemingway |
Halifax |
Admon |
||
1834 |
Abraham Hemingway |
Littletown |
Birstall |
Admon |
|
1835 |
Ellen Hemingway |
Leeds |
Testament |
||
1835 |
John Hemingway |
Dawgreen |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
|
1836 |
John Hemingway |
Featherstone |
Testament |
||
1837 |
George Hemingway |
Nottingham |
Admon |
||
1837 |
Thomas Hemingway |
Thurstonland |
Kirkburton |
Testament |
|
1838 |
Chester |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1839 |
Isaac Hemingway |
Earles Heaton |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
|
1840 |
Anne Hemingway |
Halifax |
Testament |
||
1840 |
Elizabeth Hemingway |
Holbeck |
Leeds |
Testament |
|
1840 |
Joseph Hemingway |
Dewsbury Moor |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
|
1841 |
Jane Hemingway |
Robert Town |
Birstall |
Admon |
|
1841 |
John Hemingway |
Lightcliffe |
Halifax |
Testament |
|
1842 |
George Hemingway |
Elland |
Halifax |
Admon |
|
1842 |
Squire Hemingway |
Drighlington |
Testament |
||
1843 |
Jane Hemingway |
Leeds |
Testament |
||
1843 |
John Hemingway |
Southowram |
Halifax |
Admon |
|
1845 |
Daniel Hemingway |
Featherstone |
Testament |
||
1845 |
Edward Hemingway |
Headingley |
Leeds |
Testament |
|
1845 |
Mary Hemingway |
Ovenden |
Halifax |
Testament |
|
1847 |
Ellen Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
||
1847 |
Reuban Hemingway |
High Town |
Birstall |
Testament |
Yes |
1849 |
Abraham Hemingway |
Sough Holme |
Southowram |
Testament |
|
1849 |
Christopher Hemingway |
Leeds |
Admon |
||
1849 |
Dan Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
||
1850 |
Hensall |
Hensall |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1851 |
Ann Hemingway |
Leeds |
Testament |
||
1851 |
Charles Hemingway |
Leeds |
Testament |
||
1851 |
Charles Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
||
1851 |
Mary Hemingway |
Dewsbury Moor |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
|
1853 |
Ann Hemingway |
Hartshead |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
|
1853 |
John Hemingway |
Dewsbury |
|||
1853 |
Cawthorne |
Silkstone |
Admon |
||
1853 |
Joseph Hemingway |
Halifax |
Testament |
||
1853 |
Sarah Hemingway |
Hartshead |
Dewsbury |
Admon |
|
1855 |
Isaac Hemingway |
Hipperholme |
Halifax |
Admon |
|
1855 |
John Hemingway |
Brow Bridge |
Elland |
Testament |
|
1855 |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1855 |
Worthing, Sussex |
Testament |
Yes |
||
1855 |
Joseph Hemingway |
Havercroft |
Felkirk |
Testament |
|
1855 |
Sarah Hemingway |
Brow Bridge |
Elland |
Testament |
|
1856 |
Stanley Lane End |
Wakefield |
Testament |
Yes |
|
1857 |
James Hemingway |
Watergate |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
|
1857 |
Joseph Hemingway |
Earls Heaton |
Dewsbury |
Testament |
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