Jane Oats als Brew, 1734

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       Santon
Tuesday the 16th of July 1734: Jane Oats als Brew of Ballafurt
being weak in body . . . declared her last will and testament: 
Bequeathed all her effects . . . to her loving husband John 
Oates, he paying to five of her children, vis., Ann, Barbara, 
Isabel, William, and Mary, forty shillings a piece. 
She left and bequeathed [the crop] to her eldest son and heir, 
Thomas Oates, he paying to the three youngest children, vis., 
Isabel, Wm, and Mary, the sum of forty shillings, equally 
betwixt them when he becomes of age and receives the said crop. 

14 June 1737
Anne Fitzsimons als Oates acknowledges to be pain from her father 
John Oates her legacy of forty shillings. Recd from my father John 
Oates the sum of fourty shillings being in full for my mother’s 
goods lately deceased. 
Witness my hand this 10 January 17[4]3
[signed] Barbara McCooley als Oates 
Witnesses present: 
Paul Crebbin, 
John Brew 

Jane Oates (of Ballafurt) mother to the above Barbara McCooley 
als Oates was buried July 23rd, 1734. [signed] Paul Crebbin, vicar. 

The Revd Mr. P Crebbin and John Brew were sworn to the . . . 
of this before one. 
[signed] J. Cosnahan 

Lib: 2, 1734
Wm Caine husband of Isabel dau of Jane Oates owns to have 
and from his father in law John Oates of Ballafurt fourty 
shilling being in full for the said … … unto Isabel by her
mother, and acquits him of the same. 
Before me: Edw. Moore, 5 July 1748 

Eod: die Wm Oates son of said testatrix own, also to have 
him from his father the fourty shillings, legacy … unto 
him by Jane Oates his mother, and acquits his father of 
the same forever. 
Before me: Edw. Moore Lib: 2nd 1756: 

21 July 1756
Mary Oates enters a claim against the administrators of 
Dorothy Oates for the sum of . . . 

11 Sept 1756
The claimer having proved the sum of forty shillings as 
appears by her mother’s will bearing date 16 July 1734