William Moss
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 23 May 1716.
The death is recorded in the probate inventory.
Date of Burial: 4 May 1716.
Place of Burial: Nettleham, Lincolnshire.
The burial is recorded in the parish register. There is an obvious contradiction with the date of death given in the probate inventory. My guess is that the burial entries were copied from a sheet of paper at the end of the year into the register book, and the error occurred then.
Relationships
(probable) Grandfather: Henry Moss.
(probable) Grandmother: Joan.
The 1669 will of Henry Moss mentions his wife Jonne and his son William. Since Henry's will doesn't mention a daughter Elizabeth, and the William of this page had a sister Elizabeth who was unmarried in 1674, I am guessing that the William who died in 1680 was the son of Henry and the father of the William of this page and his sister Elizabeth. However, the line may go through the William Mosse listed under Nettleham in the 1641 Protestation Returns if he is not the (probable) father mentioned below.
(probable) Father: William Moss.
William's burial is recorded in the parish register.
(probable) Mother: Margaret.
Margaret's burial is recorded in the parish register.
Sister: Elizabeth Moss (buried 4 December 1718 in Nettleham) married Robert Allis 9 May 1674 in Nettleham.
Elizabeth is named in William's will.
Spouse: Mary Blansher. Married 2 June 1681 in Nettleham.
The marriage is recorded in the parish register.
Spouse: Ann Robisson. Married 23 November 1688 in Nettleham.
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.)
John Moss (baptized 31 December 1682 in Nettleham) married Ann.
William Moss (baptized 10 January 1683/4 in Nettleham) married (1) Ann; married (2) Elizabeth.
Robert Moss (baptized 1 October 1685 in Nettleham) married (1) Mary; married (2) Elizabeth Vickers 6 June 1713 in Nettleham.
Mary Moss (baptized 29 April 1688 in Nettleham) married Joseph Chambers 3 April 1711 in Nettleham.
Evidence
From the Nettleham (All Saints’) parish register:
May: 1668
Margaret the wife of William Mossey was buried the : 25th Day of this month
March: 1669
Henry Mossey of Fiskerton was Buried the Fift day of this Month
June: 1671
John Snell and Joane Mossey was married. the foure and Twentieth day of this month.
April: 1680
Willm: Mosse was buried the: 16:th day of this month
June: 1681.
William Mosse and Mary Blansher both of this parrish was married the : 2.d day of this month
John the son of William Mosse was Baptized the 31th day of this month [Dec. 1682]
William the Son of William Mosse and of Mary his wife was Baptized the: 10:th day of this month [Jan. 1683]
Robart Mosse the son of Willyam Mosse was christned the first of this monthe [Oct. 1685]
William Moss and Ane Robisson bouthe of this parish was marryed the 23 daye of November 1688
Anne the wife of Willm Moss Husbn was Buried the 12th day of December 1708
Henry the son of Willm and Mary Moss Labr was Born the 18th and Baptizd the 20th of Febry 1708
Willm Moss Husb’man was Buried the 4th Day of May -- 1716
Mary Moss widow was Buryd the 15 Day of March --- 1736
William's will:
[...] of Lincoln Husbandm.n being weak and Decay’d in Body but of sound and p[er]fect Mind and Memory but call’g to mind the Mortality of my Body and Knowing it is appointed for all men once to Dye I do make and ordain this my last will and testament (vizt) Principally and first of all I give and Recom[m]end my Soul into the hands of God who gave it and my Body I Recom[m]end to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian Like and Decent Man’r at the Discretion of my Executor hereafter Menc’on’d and as for such worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me withall in this world I give and dispose of in the follow’g form and Manner. Imprimis I give and bequeath to my Sister Elizabeth Allis Twenty Shill’gs of Good and Lawfull Money of England to be p’d to her w’thin Nine Months after my Decease Item I give and bequeath to my Son Will’m Moss and Elizbeth his wife One Shill’g a piece. Item I give to my Son Rob’t Moss and Elizabeth his wife one shill’g a piece Item I give to my Grand=Children Rob’t Moss Eliz Moss and Ann Moss Childrn of my Son John Moss to each of them one Sheep and to my Grand:Daughter Eliz Moss Daughtr of my Son John Moss the Bed whereon I Lye and the Furnits thereunto belong’g Item I give to my Grand Childrn Will’m Moss and Rob’t Moss Sons of my Son Will’m Moss to each of them one Sheep Item I give to my Grand Childrn Rob’t Moss and Elizabeth Moss Son and Daughtr of my Son Rob’t Moss to each of them a Sheep Item I give to my Son Josep Chamb’r of Hackthorn one Shill’g And to his wife one Sheep and to his two Childrn Will’m & Joseph Chambers each of them one Sheep Item Further I give to my Grand son Will’m Moss Three pounds of good and Lawfull English Money which is in his Fathers hands and I ordain it shalll go forward for him and to be pd to him at fourteen eyars of age And I ordain my son Will’m Moss shall give Fourty Shill’gs towards my Burial being Money that he owes me Item all the Rest of my Good and Chattels I give to my son John Moss whom I make and ordain my only sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testam.t wholly Ratifying and Confirm’g this and no other to be my Last Will and Testamt the Day and year first above written. In witness whereoff I have herunto set my hand & Seal Will’m [his + mark] Moss senr [seal]
Probate inventory:
A True and p[er]fect Inventory of all the Goods and Chattels of Will’m Moss sen’r of Nettlam in the County of Lincoln who Departed this Life on Wednesday the three=and=twentieth Day of May Annoque Domini 1716
Imprimis his Purse and Apparel -- 00[£] 15[s] 00[d]
Item one Bed and the Furniture---00 - 13- 00
Item one Little Bay Colt-----------01 - 00 - 00
Item Seven Sheep young and old---02 - 07 - 00
Item Five Pounds in Willm Moss Hands --05 - 00 - 00
Appraised p[ar] us 09 - 15 - 00
John Proktor
Robart Allis
Geo: Spencer
Exhibuit fuit lunnio[?] Jn’ 26.o Maij [?] pd Ex’tor
The will of Henry Moss:
In the name of god Amen I Hennery Moess being Sick in body but in perfect mynd and memory blesed be god doe make and adorne this my last will and testament in maner and Forme as Fowleth--
Item I give unto god my Soule hoo gave me it and to my lord Christ Jesse howe redimed it and my body to the ground from whence it came to be berried in the Parish Church yard of Nettlam
Itm I give unto my Sonn William Moss Ten Shillng to bye him a eue and a lamb to be payd within a year Itm after my debts and Leggisies and Fanerall Chargis payd all the rest of my goods undisposed of I give unto Jonne my wif and doe make her Sooll executor of this my Last will and testament wherunto I sett my hand this nynteenth day of February in the yeare of our Lord god one Thousand six hundred sixty nyne
Hennery [his marke xx] Moss
Wittnes
John [his mark (a sideways pitchfork)] Barker
Joseph Wells
[proved 11 March 1669]
1669
A true and perfit Inmetevry of all the goods and Chatteles of Henneriry Mosse of Fiskerton lattly desesed Faed and praysed by us hose names ar under subskriebed this Tenth day of march in the yeare of our lord god 1669
Itm his purse and aparrill ----00-13-4
Itm in the hall one linern Cuberd - one Long tabble with a Frame Ten Joynd Frames --- 01-06-08
Itm one ostier table with three Joynd Stoolles: Seven Chares one standing Stoulle -00-14-0
Itm three pugles with other millke refill -00-05-0
Itm Svne pesis of pewter three Flagans one pynt Cane one Chamber potte one sullt one bayson tow poringers - -1-00-
Itm three brase panns one brase potte one brassen mortter - 00-10-0
Itm one payre of parles Five spitts one Land Jovan with and a Jovans one gallay house all other voning houses one payr of tonges one Fier Shouell with all other implements -- 00-15-0
Itm in the parler one halfe treded bed with the Furnetuer ther unto belonging three Joynd Chists one Cimlin one barill one Soo one wellinwheel 02-0-0
Itm one pannill onepill in Soutt one Fryin pan three Furdell plantts--00-06-8
Itm three linin Sheets one dussen of napkins Fouer hempn pillowbers tow towelles one well of Cloth with all other implements - 02-00-0
Commentary
The 1688 baptism for Mary Moss is from the FamilySearch index of the bishop’s transcripts. It does not appear in the parish register. I am not sure if Mary Blansher died and William then married Ann Robisson, or if this is another couple.
References
Lincolnshire parish registers. Digital images available on Findmypast.co.uk, accessed 3 January 2018.
Protestation Returns 1641/2: Lincolnshire. W.F. Webster transcriber (Nottingham, 1984).
Will of Henry Moss of Fiskerton. 1669. Archdeaconry of Stow. Digital images on FamilySearch, accessed 13 January 2018.
William Moss senior probate inventory. 1716. Digital image on Lincs to the Past, accessed 3 January 2018.
Will of Will Moss senior. 1716. Archdeaconry of Stow. Digital images on FamilySearch, accessed 11 January 2018.