Help with Nova Scotia Place Name in Will & Family in Nova Scotia, please?

[BushInn1746]

Hello

I can't get anywhere with this place name or family in Nova Scotia on the main two subscription sites and I am struggling with Rebecca's marriage/s too?

Mary Cook of Selby, Widow, buried 23rd Day of the fourth Month 1790 in the Friends Burying Ground at Selby, Yorkshire, England, aged 76 years.

PCC Copy of Will, written and Proved 1790

 ... of my personal Estate pay and discharge all my just debts
legacies funeral expences and the charges of proving
and Registering this my Will and other incidental expences
relating thereto and my will and Mind is and I do
hereby Give and Bequeath the surplus money of my
said Personal Estates to the several persons and in
the proportions and manner following that is to say the
sum of Fifty pounds part thereof to my Daughter Mary
the wife of Francis Parker of Mincio in the Province
of Nova Scotia in North America ...

Mary Cook's Grandson was Thomas the son of the aforesaid Francis Parker

There are other people in England mentioned by this Mary Cook of Selby in her Will:-

unto Samuel Cook of Selby Shoe Maker £10

to Frances the wife of George Lowther £5

1761 Marriage at Selby
George Lowther = Frances Cook
Wits: Richard Moxon ; Thomas Moxon

to Rebecca the wife of [forename missing] Gell [or Coll? ], but likely Gell of Doncaster Shoemaker £3

Struggling with Rebecca?


Watson and Procter are only benefitting because she has great esteem for them, but they are Executors too

Thank you, Mark

Other attachment in Reply 2

[BushInn1746]

Rebecca the wife of [ missing forename ] Gell [?] of Doncaster Shoemaker

Added: the Will was Proved by a Sincere Declaration and Affirmation (rather than an Oath) so Mary Cook, Widow, did appear to be a Quaker Member.

Will witnesses were Jane Spencer ; John Bennitt

Burial Note TNA, in RG 6/745

I have removed the Burial Note as it makes it harder to slide over the wording and read the writing of the Will extract at the same

Thank you Mark

[horselydown86]

Mincio looks to be the correct reading.  A river of that name is mentioned here:

https://www.electriccanadian.com/history/novascotia/historyofnovasco03murdiala.pdf

See p.23, middle.

I agree with Gell.

[BushInn1746]

Thank you H.D., and for the link too. I saw the first capital letter character in the word "Mind" a few lines above, but could only find a river by that name in Italy.

The link on p.23 says They wished land on the Kennetcook, Mincio, and Meander rivers, (county Hants.)


I found these 1746 & 1761 records today and vaguely recalled what a Rootschatter had told me, that the BOX family were linked.


So Mary who married Francis Parker must have been born Mary Box, before her Mother, Mary Box, Widow, married William Cooke, of Selby, Yorkshire.


Ninth Month 1746
William Cooke Jun'r of Selby in ye County of York Taylor & Mary Box of ye same Place Widow took each other in Marriage ye 9th Day of 9th Mo 1746 in a Publick Assembly of the People called Quakers in their Meeting House at Selby afores'd


Third Month 1761
Francis Parker of Knaresborough Son of John Parker of Cold-Cam in the Parish of Kilbourne, Husbandman married Mary Box Daughter of John Box late of London, deceased says (minus the named attendees etc.) TNA, Kew, RG 6/1120


Don't ask me where Cold-Cam is  , I am just repeating places and other words as spelt, from some of the record, minus the names of those present.

Thank Mark

[AlanBoyd]

Third Month 1761
Francis Parker of Knaresborough Son of John Parker of Cold-Cam in the Parish of Kilbourne, Husbandman married Mary Box Daughter of John Box late of London, deceased says (minus the named attendees etc.) TNA, Kew, RG 6/1120


Don't ask me where Cold-Cam is  , I am just repeating places and other words as spelt, from some of the record, minus the names of those present.

I realise this is peripheral to your interests, but here is Cold Cam on the 1853 6in map overlaid on the modern map:
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.7&lat=54.22638&lon=-1.17178&layers=257&b=osm&o=94

and here on the 1910 25in map:
https://maps.nls.uk/view/125629690#zoom=5.0&lat=6828&lon=7164&layers=BT

It is labelled as Cam Farm on the modern OS map, about 30 miles NE of Knaresborough.

Sutton Bank (if you have driven in this area you will know this landmark) is just a mile or so to the west of Cold Cam.

[BushInn1746]

Thank you Alan, now got "Cold Cam", NE of High Kilburn and Oldstead, on an old 1" 19th Century Edition

Mark

[hanes teulu]

I check out Nova Scotia BDMs here -
https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/

FamilySearch covers Nova Scotia but I noticed images might not be available with FS which can be viewed on above site.