LOMAS

(aka - Lumas etc )

Henry Lomas, apothecary of Tideswell, 1684/86

• Will dated 20/6/1684 mentions:
• To be buried in Tideswell churchyard
• "Ann Lomas my eldest daughter"
• "Elizabeth Lomas my second daughter"
• "Mary Lomas my loving wife"
• "Robert Lomas my only son"
• "Thomas Lomas my eldest brother and Edward Lomas my second brother" (Executors)
• Witnesses: William Rodgers, Thomas Harrison & Thomas Lomas
• Probate granted 13/4/1686 to Edward Lomas, reserving a power for Thomas Lomas
• Inventory taken 9/4/1685 by William Heathcott & Robert Sutton. Besides pages and pages of apothecarial ingredients which will be of great interest to someone I'm sure, this also includes a long list of debtors, namely :
  Raworth
  Jone [staly]
  Bezeys
  M^r [Staneam]
  M^r Mefferill
  Elis Bramall up lane
  Bagsh shoomaker of taddenton
  Gras furnes
  Willaim Poynton
  Robert Nalle
  Willaim Palphreman down town
  John Bramall and his wife
  ould nant nalle
  Robert Cleaton of the forest
  ould Dorrethy palphreman down town
  Willaim Oudfild downe town
  thomas neadam of hucklay
  Humphery Cleaton douter
  thomas Bocking
  Gorge Bagsha of wormell
  Benjamin Low of forest
  Will: Peack of Whetston
  M^r Boden of Whetston
  ould [touning] wife at towne end
  Willaim Andrew carryer
  Edward [towning]
  Gorge coock
  Robert hage carryer
  Elizabeth Goodin ferefield
  mary Eare douter widdow
  Artha slack
  Grase Bagshaw
  ["lich" or "lick"] palphreman meddow
  John chessher of wardlow
  Edward kerk down towne
  John Shellon of presly
  M^r Sherred
  Bouse of hill
  Edward swan
  dyers wife
  cester a James Windmill
  rose Jackson
  Edward Barber
  Gorg Whit taddenton
  Bro: thomas [...eeth]
  Anteney att hall
  Ann cleaton
  Ellis Harrison
  the woods douter
  nickelas palphreman of meddow
  It also states that he was owed rents from both "here" (Tideswell) and Sterndale.

• Will dated 17/5/1802 mentions:
• "my son Richard Lomas"
• "my son William Lomas"
• "my daughter Hannah Lomas"
• "my daughter Mary Smith"
• "my son Henry Lomas"
• "my daughter Margaret Lomas"
• "my son Isaac Lomas" (Executor)
• Witnesses: Joseph Goodwin & Simeon Middleton
• Probate granted 16/6/1807 to Isaac Lomas