Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: between 21 June and 2 October 1598.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: uncertain.
Mother: uncertain.
Spouse: Joan.
Edmund’s will named his brother-in-law Thomas Willetts, indicating that Joan was possibly Thomas’s sister.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Alice Darby (buried 25 January 1615/6 in Rowley Regis, Staffordshire) married John Chambers alias Ireland the younger.
Thomas Darby
Joan Darby
Agnes Darby
Evidence
Edmund’s will:
In the name of god amen the xxj daye of June in the yere of oure lord god 1598/ I Edmonde Darby of Owldburye in the parishe of halesowen & Diocies of worcester sicke in bodie but wholle & in good and perfecte remembraunce thanks be unto god doe make my laste will & Testament in maner & forme followyng Firste I bequethe my soule to allmyghtie god my Creator and redemer trustynge to be saved by no other meanes but by the mercie of god throughe Jesus Christe and my bodie to the earthe from whence it came & to be buryed in the churche or churcheyard of halesowen/ Item I geve and bequethe unto the poore mans boxe of the churche of halesowen unto the use of poore people there iij s iiij d Item I geve unto the poore people of the parishe of Rowley regis iij s iiij d Item I geve unto the poore aaowghte the chappell of owldburye ij s Item I geve & bequeathe unto Ales Ireland my dawghter x s of lawfull englishe money Item I geve unto the seven children of John Ireland and the said Ales my dawghter and to euery of them iij s iiij d a pece to be paid by myne executors ymedyatlye afte my decease Item I geve unto the three children of Thomas Darby my sonne x s equally to be devided betweene them Item my detts beyng paid my legacies performed and all my funerall costs dyscharged onte of the wholle my will is that the reste of my goods movable Detts & Cattels shall remayne unto Jone my wyffe and my two dawghters Jone and Agnes to lyve upon together solonge as theire mother lyuethe if the same so agree and after de Decease of my wyffe to be equallie parted betwyxte my said two Dawtghters if they shall be bothe then a lyve, and if either of my said dawghters Jone & Annes cannot be contentid to lyue to gether with her mother and syster as aforesaid or els doe marrye then my will is that the same dawghter shall have the thirde parte of all my forsaid goods detts & Cattells and so to departe and goe her waye, and of this my laste will & Testamente I doe ordeyne and make my said two dawghters Joan and Annes my executors. and of the execucion of the same I make & ordeyne my welbeloved brother Thomas Willetts Thomas Darbye my sonne & Willm chambers alias Ireland oversears and doe geve unto ether of them inconsideracon of theire paynes to be taken therin iij s iiij d with theire charges to se this my laste will & Testaments truly fulfylled, my legacies performed, and I utterly revoke & adnulle all & euery other former testaments wills legacies bequests executors and ouersears by me in any wyse before this tyme made named willed & bequethed, these beyng witnes Charles Dudson clerke Thomas Darbye and William Ireland
A Invatorye taken the xviij daye of September in the xli yere of the Raigne of oure sou’aygne ladie Elizabethe by the grace of god quene of England Fraunce & Ireland defender of the faithe &c of all maner of goods and Cattells that were Edmond Darbye of the p[ar]ishe of Halesowe late dep[ar]ted truly p’sed by Thomas Willetts Willm turton Thomas Darby willm Ireland and Willm Rownd
In primis one bulle & xij kyne — xxxij li
Itm iiij wenynge Calves — iij s iiij d
Itm one mare ij Coultes — [...] li vj s vi [d]
Itm ij Swyne — xl s
Itm ij hennes one koc — xxd
Itm Rye and otes — vij li
Itm hey in the barne — vj li
Itm all maner of brasse potts & pannes — vj li xiij s iij d
Itm for flaxen cloths hempton & midyen uncutt — vli xiij s iiij d
Itm all maner shetes bord clothes pyllows beeres table napkyns & all other lynnens — xxli xs
Itm bowlsters & pyllowes — iij li xs
Itm iij fether beds — iij li
Itm for bedhyllyngs blanketts & twylies — vj li
Itm iij matteres — vj s
Itm one standynge bed iij other bedsteds and Cubbords viij Coffers — xliij s
Itm ij fatts ij kempnells withall other trene vessells — [...]
Itm bylls axes Iren wedges withall other Iron towles — xxxiij s iij d
Itm one pyke and one Corslett — xxx s
Itm Cooles Follies & plowyse beames — [...]
Itm lathers horse steades & trases hurdells forks & Rakes — [...]
Itm one hackney sadle one packsadell one gryndle stone with gyrthes & Croppers — [... s]
Itm in butter & chese & meate in the Ruffe — viij li
Itm in yarne towe & paynted clothes — xlv s
Itm sacks & bagges with wedesbury brasse — xxi s iiij d
Itm in mucke or soyle — xs
Itm one peyre of harrowes — vjs viijd
Itm ij table bord formes with sylyngs in the hall — xvijs
Itm all other bords formes benches shelves & stoles — xxx s
Itm one Wayne Rope one blocke sawe — vjs
Itm ij leasses – xli xiijs iiijd
Itm in money & gould — xx li
Itm a purse a gyrdle & his rep[ar]ell — iij li
Itm in tallowe & candels wotmeale & sawlte — xij s
Itm v spynnynge wheles ij peyre of tables — xs
Itm all other smale ymplements unforgotten and oute of remembraunce — xs
Detts owynge unto the said Edmond Darbye
Itm Thomas Andrewes gent – xx s
Soma totalis is viij score pounds & vj li v s
Exhibit wigorn secundo die mensis octobris 1598.
References
Will of Edmund Darby. Proved 1598.