North East Inheritance database (pre-1858 Durham Probate Records)
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Josias DOCKWRAY, vicar of Newburn, clerk, of Newburne (Newbourne) in Northumberland [Newburn, Northumberland]
Date of probate: 1683
- will, 11 October 1681 (DPR/I/1/1683/D9/1)
will includes endowment of an educational charity at Newburn - renunciation, 31 August 1683 (DPR/I/1/1683/D9/2)
renunciation of Mary Dockwray, relict and joint executor, nominating John Pickering senior of Hedley Hope West House yeoman, [co-]executor, to administer - letter, 20 December 1683 (DPR/I/1/1683/D9/3)
letter from K Dockwray of Wakefeild, Yorks, to John Rowell at Durham, enquiring for a Cosin (university) scholarship for KD's son who was born at Whitbourne; subscribed with [?Rowell's] notes on 8 scholarships (with values per annum) to Peterhouse and Caius; letter latterly used as a wrapper for the inventory of Ursula Bard (DPRI/1/1683/B3), but then filed with this Dockwray will - the relationship between these Dockwrays is not certain - wrapper (DPR/I/1/1683/D9/4)
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