I know where my family bible is - how do I get it!

[Finley 1]

pm'd a link to Banbury computers

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[Redroger]

They were certainly not always passed on to the oldest, in my family in the early 1800s it went to the youngest and he also got two shares in the will whereas the others got one share, never found the reason, perhaps his parents thought he needed it more than the others!

In a slightly earlier time heirs omitted from the will or given less than the others had usually had the benfits earlier while the testator was still living.

[Al in Vane]

I had thought that might have been the case here as four brothers left the home village and married away but a daughter stayed at home with her parents until they died as did the son who got the two shares, she only got one!
I have little evidence of what was handed on but it could not have been much as the younger was given coal from a Parish charity in his later years. Not unless he had spent it all on wine, women and song!

Incidentally of interest is the fact that in that village in 1820 101 people were inoculated for Cow Pox (Three Ells in Hellidon - Jenny Fell 2000)

[Redroger]

Did the daughter get the house or provision for other accomodation?

[Al in Vane]

No, the will was proved and left to the wife, the daughter died before she died. The youngest did not appear to get the homestead either. Ancestor was the village butcher and his wife the daughter of the miller and they were both left property in trust before they married by his Uncle who was a woolcomber.

[confused73]

Hi,         Wheatley family, I am distantly related to a  wheatley family. Our family came from London and had a goldbeating business. We were told that there were Australian relatives but know nothing more.Do you have a William Wheatley in your family?

[Nick29]

I thought our Family Bible was lost forever.  All my cousins knew that the Bible existed, but no-one seemed to know where it was.  Then, I made contact with a cousin that I never knew existed - my g. grandmother was married twice, and this lady (that I came across through Genes Reunited) was the descendant of my g. grandmother's second marriage, so her g.grandfather was my grandmother's step-father, and she got on very well with him.

After I'd known this long-lost cousin for a while, (I'd mentioned the Family Bible to her), she was helping her sister go through her late mother's effects.  When she got there, her sister had already consigned several items to the rubbish sack, including a very battered old Bible !  As soon as she saw it, she knew what it was, and she has very graciously passed it over to me for safekeeping.  It had never occurred to me that this Bible would have been passed down through this family line.

You should never give up hope in finding lost heir looms.