Abraham Clemens
Events
Date of Birth: 2 September 1667.
Date of Baptism: 3 September 1667.
Place of Baptism: St Mary, Warwick, Warwickshire.
The birth and baptism are recorded in the parish register.
Date of Burial: 8 October 1710.
Place of Burial: St Mary, Warwick, Warwickshire.
The burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: William Clemens.
Abraham’s baptism record names his father.
Mother: Mary Gibbons.
This relationship is record in Mary's marriage record.
Spouse: Mary Gibbons. Married 23 June 1689 in St Nicholas, Warwick.
The marriage is recorded in the parish register.
Spouse: Sarah Hunt. Married 7 October 1702 in St Mary, Warwick.
The marriage is recorded in the parish register.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Joseph Clemens (baptized 13 August 1690 in St Mary, Warwick - buried 19 July 1761 in St Mary, Warwick) married Mary Young 2 May 1731 in Warwick.
Thomas Clemens (buried 2 June 1754 in St Mary, Warwick) married Elizabeth.
William Clemens (buried 7 September 1697 in Warwick)
Samuel Clemens (buried 12 September 1703 in Warwick)
Mary Clemens
Sarah Clemens
Hannah Clemens
Evidence
from the St Mary, Warwick, parish registers:
September 1667
Abraham Clemens sonne of William Clemens Borne the 2:d baptized the --- 3d
Matrimonies in the yeare 1689
June the. 23o Abraham Clemens and Mary Gibbins
August 1690
Joseph Clemings son of Abraham Clemings baptiz’d -- 13
September 1697
William Clemings son of Abraham Clemings was buried -- 7
Aprill: 1702
Mary Clemens wife of Abraham Clemens: was buried: 6.
October 1702
7. Abraham Clemens of this Parish, & Sarah Hunt, of Chadshunt in this County.
Sept. 1703.
Samuell Clemens Son of Abraham Clemens was buried. -- 12
1710 October Burials
Abraham Clements 8.th
In 1700 and 1702 levies, Abraham and his brother Samuel are listed in the Saltisford ward of Warwick.
Abraham was an overseer of the poor in 1707.
Abraham’s will:
In the name of God Amen March the tenth one Thousand seven Hundred and nine or ten ----
I Abraham Clemens of the Borough of Warwick in the County of Warwick Flax dresser being weake of body but of sound and perfect memory I make this my last will and testament in manner and form Following That is to say --
First I commend my soull to God my Creator hoping in his mercy as for the pardon of all my sinns and to be saved by the precious Death and merritts of my Blessed saviour and redeemour Jesus Christ and my body to the Earth -----
Imprimis my will is and doe give and bequeath unto my sone Joseph Clemens that hous that John Wall liveth in and Garden and the Pingle that now Rich’ Hancox now Rents of me and the pair of hatchells that he now works upon Item I Give unto my sonne Tho: Clemens Ten: pounds to be paid to him when He shall Attaine the age of twenty one yeares and For my Executrix to take care and sett him out till he Cometh to that age: and my will is that my sonne Joseph and sonne Tho: shall have all my wearing Apparrell betwixt them two left to the Discresion of my Executrix in giving them As For all the rest of my personal Estate I give and Bequeathe to my Loving wife Sarah Clemens my soull Executrix and if shee should alter her condition to Marry againe then my will is that shee shall pay unto my three Daughters Mary Sarah and Hannah the sume of tenn pounds a peice at the age of one and twenty yeares or to be paid them if they marry before ----
Item I make and ordaine my said wife Sarah Clemens my soull Executrix and doe hereby revoke all Former wills by me made In Witness Whereof I have sett my hand and seale the day and yeare aboue Written
Abraham Clemens [seal]
sealed and delivered in the presence of
Thomas Hands
Thomas Gregory[?]
William White
[Proved 18 July 1711]
A True and Perfect Inventory of all and Singular the Goods Chattles & Credits of Abraham Clements late the borough of Warwick in the County of Warwick and Diocese of Worc’ Dec’d taken & aprized the 27th of October 1710 by us whose names are hereunto subscribed
Imp’s waring Apparrell & money in purse 03:10:00
pewter and brass--4:1:00
Grate handirons fender & spitts dripingpan & other things in Kitchin & bookes -- 01:02:06
The Chamber over the Kitchen one bedstead Curtaines and Vallians a featherbed and bolster blanketts Coverlid Six Red Leather Chaires A Trukle bedstead and bed blanketts and sheets a Chest of Drawers handirons a Looking Glass table 05:00:00
Linnen 10 pr of sheetes napkins table cloth and Smaller Linnen -- 03:00:00
The Room over the Shop a 1 bedstead curtins and vallians Flockbed blanketts Chaires table Coffer trunk & Chest 01:17:06
In a Leanto Room truckle bedsteads blankets & bed -- 00:12:00
Flax hemphurds in one Garrott a Saddle 08:12:00
In the other Garrot a beam Scales & Weight Hurds and hemp parck Clothes & till Cloth -- 01:02:06
Ten Doz and ½ of Six penny Flax -- 03:03:00
twenty pound of penny flax -- 00:08:04
Nine pound of ten penny flax -- 00:07:06
Two Doz 9 pound 7 penny flax -- 00:19:03
Ten pound Eight penny hemp -- 00:06:08
A Little parcell of hurds -- 00:04:00
Four barrells & a cheese press powdering tubb and formes -- 00:15:00
Three pairr of Hatchells Scales Weights and formes -- 02:09:06
Four tubs -- 00:12:03
The hay -- 02:07:06
The Coales -- 00:08:06
Debts Good and bad -- 03:00:09
And the Lumber -- 00:05:00
Total -- 64:06:03
William Wilson
Tho: Leek
References
Parish registers of St Mary, Warwick. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 11 December 2020.
St Mary Warwick Poor Law Papers 1693-1837. D.R. 26/ Box 1. Digital images on FamilySearch.org.
Will of Abraham Clemens. Proved 1711 in the Consistory Court of Worcester.