I hope I'm not trying to go to the well more often than I should, but recently I sent off to the Borthwick Institute (at great expense!) for a 1738 "probate bundle" for Cornwall Baron, who had died in 1737. It wasn't quite the will I was expecting, seemingly a document securing some kind of financial security for and the bringing up of his 14 year old daughter Elizabeth. He also left 4 year old and 2 year old sons.
So, I'm imagining that father Cornwall died unexpectedly (in his late thirties) and intestate. What I'm wondering is if his wife Anne Cornwall (nee Roundel, or possibly another name before that as she was a widow when marrying Cornwall in 1721) had predeceased her husband or was she still around?
If there's a burial entry for an Anne Cornwall, therefore in Ulrome or Skipsea some time around or after 1735, I would very much like to know about it. Many thanks, and apologies for the longwindedness of this post!
Keith
...and at what age, in 1737, would one no longer be a minor? Oh, just spotted on this difficult to read document that the age of minority ends at 21 years old.