James Almond

Events


Date of Baptism: 9 November 1613.

Place of Baptism: Wigan, Lancashire, England.

Arrowsmith gives the baptism in his transcription of the parish register. It is recorded in the bishop’s transcripts under November (“James S of Willm Almond”). It is the only baptism in the FamilySearch index for a James Almond after 1600 in Wigan.


Date of Death: between 27 June and 2 July 1682.

James made his will 27 June 1682 and he was buried 2 July 1682


Date of Burial: 2 July 1682.

Place of Burial: Wigan.

The date and place are recorded in the bishop’s transcripts of the parish register.


Relationships


Father: William Almond.

James’s baptism record names his father.

Mother: unknown.


Spouse: Grace.

Grace is named as James’s wife in Court Leet Rolls. James names her in his will.


Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. All baptisms were in Wigan.)


Robert Almond (baptized 26 November 1648).


Isabell Almond (baptized 23 May 1652).


William Almond (born 4 March 1654).


Anne Almond (born 7 November 1657).


Roger Almond (born 11 September 1660).


Ralph Almond (born March 1665).


Sarah Almond.


Evidence


From the Wigan World abstracts of the Court Leet Rolls:


Roll 1 Undated (1635-41?) Presentments in Latin


Hugh Johnson & James Almond - assault.


Roll 13 Saturday 19th December 1657


John Whittle for abusing James Almond


Roll 14 Court Leet 2nd October 1658


James Wigan for abusing James Alman.


Lukes Fair 1658 Toll takers


Hallgate James Almond


Ascension Fair 12th May 1659 Toll takers


Halegate James Almond


Roll 15 1st October 1659


The gatewaters of Halegate presented:


Grace the wife of James Almond for abusing Margaret the wife of William Houghton


Roll 17 Michaelmas Leet October 5th 1661 Gaitwaiters


Hallgate James Almond


Roll 25 Michaelmas Leet 25 Oct 1666 Presentments


Grace the wife of James Almond and Anne the wife of Richard Crosse - litigation


Roll 49 April 23rd (1681) Presentments


James Almond "did sell by false measures"


Baptisms of Children (from the parish registers of All Saints, Wigan)


November 1648

26 Robt son of James Almond de hallgate


May 1652

23 Elizabeth Isabell daur of James Almond de hallgate


[Birth] March 1654

  1. Willm son of James Almond of Hallgate


[Birth] November 1657


  1. Anne daugr of James Almond of hallgate


[Birth] September 1660


11 Roger son of James Allmond de halgate


A transcription of the will of James Almond


In the name of god Amen I James Almond of Wigan in the County of Lancaster Labourer being sicke & weake in body but of sound & perfect mind & memory praised bee Almighty god of the same Doe make this my last will and testam’t in maner & forme followeing (that is to say) first my will & mind is that my just debts if any such there bee my Funerall expences & probate of this my last will & testam’t shall bee first paid & discharged forth & out of the whole of my personall estate and after my said debts shall bee soe paid & my funerall expences & probate of this my last will & testam’t shall bee soe discharged as aforesaid then I give and bequeath all thee Rest residue & remainder of all my goods & personall estate unto Grace my loving wife whereas I the said James Almond now am and doe stand lawfully possessed & interested of and in All that one Messuage or burgage & tenem’t with thappurtenances in the halgate in Wigan aforesaid now in my possession for the remainder of the tearme of Fowerscore & nynteene yeares if William Almond and Roger Almond my twoe sons or either of them shall fortune soe long to live now my mind & will is And I doe hereby will Devise give assigne & bequeath, one moity or halfe part of the said Messuage or burgage & tenem’t with thappurtenances unto the said Grace my wife during the tearme of her naturall life if the teamre & estate herein before mensoned & reported shall soe long continue & endure, And imediatly from & after the death & decease of the said Grace my wife then I give Devise assigne & bequeath the said last mentioned moiety or halfe part of the said Messuage or burgage & tenem’t with thappurtanences unto Raphe Almond my son & his assignes for & during all the rest residue & remainder of the aforesaid tearme of Fowrscores & nynteene yeares as shall bee then to come & unexpired determinable as aforesaid. And the other moiety of the said Messuage or burgage & tenem’t with thappurtenances not herein before limited assigned given or bequeathed unto the said Grace my wife imediatly from & after my decease I give devise assigne & bequeath unto Elizabeth Almond Anne Almond & Sarah Almond my three daughters for & during the tearme of the naturall life & lives of the survivour & longest liver of them if the tearme estate herein before mentioned & recorded shall soe longe Continue & endure and if the said Elizabeth Ann & Sarah shall respectively keepe themselves sole chast and unmarryed & not otherwise and imediatly from & after the death & decease marriage or miscarryage of the said Elizabeth Ann & Sarah Almond as aforesaid Then I give devise assigne & bequeath the said last mentioned moiety of the said Messuage or burgage & tenement with thappurtenances unto the aforesaid Roger Almond my son & his assignes for & during the rest residue & remainder of the afores’d tearme of fowerscore & nynteene yeares as shall bee then to come & unexpired Determinable as aforesaid, I give to my son William Almond & to my Grandson James Almond eich of them twelve pence And I doe hereby revoake & make void all former will or wills by mee heretofore made, And lastly I doe nominate & appoint my loving wife Grace Almond sole Executrix of this my last will & testam’t In witness whereof I the said James Almond have hereunto putt my hand and seale the seaven & twentieth day of June Anno RRS Car sidi sunt Augs xr xxxiiii Annoque Dm: 1682 James Almond his marke

Sealed published & declared to bee the last will & testam’t of the abovenamed James Almond In presence of Alexander Pennington Jonathan Standish Tho: Bancks

27 April 1688 Gracia Almond vidua relict et unica Executrix suat fuit [...]


A true and perfect Inventory of the goods and Chatles of James Almond late of Wigan deced Apprized by us Roger Almond John Townley and Ralph Almond the xxvi day of April Anno Regius dmi: Jacobi Sidi undie Regis Augs [...] Annoque diii 1688

Imprimis Three Jorne Groates -- 00--02--06

Itm One Standing Bedd and Two halfe headed Bedds --- 00--16--00

Itm One Caddow Two Chaffe Beddes --- 00-07--00

Itm One Fither Boulster & three Cushons -- 00-05-00

Itm Two Cubberts One Chest & three Cheares - 00-16-00

Itm One Table Two clatons -- 00-05-00

Itm One Iron Crowe One paire of Tongs - 00-00-06

Itm Two Tresss One Caddowe - 00-04-06

Itm One paire of Flaxen Sheetes - 00-02-06

Itm One Chest Three stoles - 00-01-06

Itm Two pewter Bouals two pewter Chamber potts - 00-02-00

Itm One Morter -- 00-01-00

Itm Two Ladles -- 00-00-02

One Lease

[total unclear]

Aprized by us the day abovesaid Roger Almond his marke John Townley his marke Ralph Allmond


James Almond burial (Wigan bishop’s transcripts July 1682)


2. James Almond of Halgate


References


Josiah Arrowsmith (transcriber and editor), The Registers of the Parish Church of Wigan in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, Burials and Weddings 1580 to 1625. (Wigan: the Lancashire Record Society, 1899)


Court Leet Rolls, abstracted at www.wiganworld.co.uk.


James Almond burial, Wigan bishop’s transcripts; digital image Ancestry.com (accessed 4 August 2014) citing Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers. Preston, England: Lancashire Archives.


Wigan Anglican Parish Registers. Wigan Archives Services, Wigan, England; digital images Ancestry.com (accessed 31 October 2014).