HODGKINSON

(aka - Hodkinson, Hodskinson etc )

Thomas Hodgkinson, yeoman of Over Haddon, 1628

Will dated 20/6/1628 mentions:

• "to be buried in the parishe church yarde of Bakewell"
• "to my son John Hodgkinson ten pounds to be paid unto him by his brother William Hodgkinson at the end of two yeares next after the expiracon of his prentishipp"
• "unto Thomas Milnes alias Hodgkinson foure shillings"
• Everything else "unto William Hodgkinson my elder sonne" (also sole exec)
• Witnesses: Nicholas Crychlowe, Georg Broadhurst, William Lockton & Robert [?ormans]
• Debts owed by Thomas to : William Lockton, Thomas Wolley, John Guyte, John Stevenson
• Debts owed to Thomas from : Godfrey Dakine, Richard Hodgkinson & Thomas Taylor

Memorandum dated 20/6/1637 mentions:

• Dictated about a week beofre death
• "his sonne Richard Hodgkinson twelve pence in full satisfaction of his childs parte or portion"
• Everything else to "Rodger Hodgkinson his eldest sonne"
• Witnessed by Richard Taylor & Humphrey Broadhurst

• No will
• Inventory taken 4/10/1637 by James Carrington, Ralph Watson & [Henry Grove]
• Admin to Joanne Hodgkinson, widow

Memorandum dated 4/8/1641 mentions:

• "to Roger Hodgkinson my uncle twoe shillings and sixpence"
• "to Mary Hall my aunte a green pettycoat, and to every of her three children 12d"
• "to my Aunte Buxton my godmother the petticoat which I wear now and to William Buxton her sonne my middlemost pott"
• "to my coosen John Buxton 12d and to my coosen Anne Buxton one chest which was my grandmothers"
• "unto Roger Mylner my uncle five sheepe and to my Aunte Margere’s Mylner a little pott a kettle and a whyte aprons"
• "to my Aunte Maude Riddiard my green aprons"
• "to my coosen Humphrey Riddiard my great pott"
• "to George Riddiard my coosen my panns"
• "to Elizabeth Chapman 12d"
• "the remainder of all my goods I give to my uncle Francis Riddiard"

Memorandum dated 15/2/1642[/43] mentions:

• Brother John Hodgkinson
• Godson William Hodgkinson
• "unto my wife Joane Hodgkinson all my goods chattels and lands dureing her naturall life for the educating & bring up of my children ... in case my wife shall dye before my children shall come to age to get their livings that then my lands and goods shall go equally amongst them till my youngest child come to 21 years then ... I give to my twoe sonnes John & William all my lands in over haddon equally betwixt them paying to my fower daughters 5^li a peece of good and lawful money"
• Witnesses: Roger Hodgkinson, Will [Locklow] & Hugh Newton

Will dated 11/5/1717 mentions:

• "my son Roger Hodgkinson ... one barn & cowhouse ... in Upper Haddon ... also a moeity of ... a parcel of land in Upper Haddon called ye old Garden"
• "my Farme unto my said son Roger and humbly request my landlord Esq Coke ..."
• "my two sons William and Thomas Hodgkinson ... one shilling"
• Witnesses: Mary Dickens, Anne Dickens, Cornelius Dickens

Will dated 22/11/1723 mentions:

• Wife Ann Hodgkinson
• "Thomas Hodgkinson, son of my brother Roger Hodgkinson ... and his brother James Hodgkinson"
• Witnesses: Roger Taylor, William Bramwell, Elizabeth Benitt

Will dated 17/4/1734 mentions:

• Wife Sarah
• Eldest son Henery Hodgkinson
• Son William Hodgkinson
• Daughter Ellen Abell, wife of John Abell
• Daughter Jane Hodgkinson
• Son Luke Hodgkinson
• Witnesses: Thomas Grove, Thomas Longsdon & Michael Buxton

This is the last Will and Testament of me, James Hodgkinson of Rock Field House, Flagg, in the Parish of Bakewell, in the County of Derby, Farmer. I appoint my son Moses Hodgkinson now residing with me; and my son James Hodgkinson now residing at Blackley in the county of Lancaster, Farmer, to be executors and trustees of my will, and I devise to them and their heirs all real estate to which I shall be entitled at the time of my death, as trustee on mortgage but subject to the equities affecting the same respectively. I bequeath the consumable household stores and provisions of which I shall die possessed together with the rest of the household furniture and effects to my son Moses Hodgkinson. Also I bequeath to my aforesaid son Moses Hodgkinson the house in which I now reside, together with the land adjoining thereto, consisting of three fields, two of which are known and called by the name of Lime Close containing in the whole eleven and a half acres or thereabouts.
[Added later, squeezed between the lines] and which are bounded on the East side by land of John Hodgkinson, on the West by land of Evans, on the South by [?Flagg M.....ry?] and the third of the aforesaid three fields is known and called by the name of ["Swath Tall?]
And as to all my live and dead farming stock of which I shall be possessed at my death I bequeath to my aforesaid son Moses Hodgkinson for his own use absolutely. And as to all the rest of the personal estate to which I shall be entitled at my death, I bequeath to my aforesaid son Moses Hodgkinson, upon trust to get in and convert the same into money, and thereout to pay my debts and funeral and testementary expenses, and then to stand possessed of the surplus for his own use absolutely. I devise all the real estate to which I shall be entitled at the time of my death, save and except the aforesaid three fields which I have bequeathed to my son Moses Hodgkinson, in the manner following. Namely, first as to all that piece of old enclosed land, now on heretofor divided into two fields and situation the Township of Flagg, and now on heretofor called the Over Hubberdale Close on Field Head, and containing eight acres and twelve perches or thereabouts, and bounded on the one side in part by land of John Hodgkinson and in part by land of John Newton Braddock and William Bown on two other sides by land of John Hodgkinson and on the remaining side by the lands herinafter described. I devise the same to the use of my son James Hodgkinson and his heirs forever, but nevertheless subject to, and charged with the payment of a legacy of fifty pounds to be paid by my aforesaid son James Hodgkinson to Matthew Hodgkinson formerly residing with me but now living at Hubberdale.
Secondly as to all those three pieces or parcels of land situate in the said Township of Flagg and now on heretofor called and known by the names of Top Hubberdale and Middle and Nether Hubberdale and containing in the whole together ten acres or thereabouts by the same more or less. I devise the same to the use of my aforesaid Executors, subject to, and charged with an annuity of twelve pounds to be paid yearly to my son Arthur Hodgkinson for his lifetime, and in the event of my said son Arthur Hodgkinson dying and leaving issue then the aforesaid three fields or parcels of land called Top Hubberdale, Middle Hubberdale and Nether Hubberdale shall be divided equally among his children, but if my aforesaid son Arthur Hodgkinson should die having no children then I devise the aforesaid three fields Top Hubberdale, Middle Hubberdale and Nether Hubberdale to the children of my aforesaid sons Moses Hodgkinson and James Hodgkinson or their heirs, share and share alike.
Lastly I revoke and declare void all former Wills and Codicils by me at any time heretofor made and do declare this to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I the said James Hodgkinson the testator have to every sheet of this my will contains on seven sheets of paper set my hand this fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thosand eight hundred and seventy nine.
James Hodgkinson X his mark
Signed published and declared by the said James Hodgkinson the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time, who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses the same Will having been first read over by the undersigned
James Slack of Alvaston
Thomas Bunting of Wheal
Proved at Derby the fourth day of October 1880 by the oaths of Moses Hodgkinson and James Hodgkinson the sons the executors to whom Administration was granted.
The testator James Hodgkinson was was late of Rock Field House, Flagg, in the parish of Bakewell, the county of
Derby, Farmer, and died on the twentyfirst day of August 1880 at Rock Field House Flagg aforesaid.
Personal estate under £500
Extracted by the executor in person