John Neal

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1637.

Place of Death: probably Birdingbury.

John is named in a 1637 probate bond.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Catherine Priest. Married 7 May 1615 in Grandborough, Warwickshire.

Catherine is named as John’s widow in a 1637 probate bond. The marriage is recorded in the parish register ("Johannes Neale et Katherina Prest").

(probable) Children:

(John is called a miller in the inventory of his goods, and the John Neale of Birdingbury below had a son who left a windmill in his 1729 will.)

John Neale (buried 4 August 1690 in Birdingbury) married Joan.

Elizabeth Neale (baptized 10 December 1620 in Grandborough).

Evidence

An inventory of John Neal’s goods

A True Inventory of the goodes of John Neall miller of Burdingbery late deseesed taken the fifteenth daye of June in the yeare of our lord 1637 by us William Reeve and William Harbird

Imprimis two horses -- iiij l

It[em] two bease iii v l

It[em] one sow and 2 piges --- xx s

It[em] within the house two brase pots and fore kettells --- xviij s iiij d

It[em] peuter two platters two sascers --- xviij d

It[em] one cubberd --- vi s viij d

It[em] one tabell and for [...] --- ii s vi d

It[em] two bedsteds and fore feaner --- xij s

It[em] two pare of shets five blanketts one hilling fore pillows xx s xij d

It[em] two loumes[?] fore palles one koffer --- iij s iiij d

It[em] one [...] pot hanger one frame of Iron one de[...] ii s

It[em] bords over the mill --- v s

It[em] the wood in the yeard --- xx s

It[em] pottery dissise and s...ds three barrells with all other implements vi s viij d

It[em] his apparrel --- x s

It[em] Certaine debt owen by severall men --- iij l vi s viij d

The whol sum is --- xx l iiij s viij d

William Reeve

William [his mark - an ‘H’] Harbird

References

Probate bond for John Neale (1637) in the Consistory Court of Lichfield and Coventry. Digital images on Findmypast.uk [accessed 8 December 2015].