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		<title>Joane Elmes: making connections</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[There was something about Joane&#8230; Her father&#8217;s will left her £200 &#8211; twice as much as her sister Sarah, but the money was to be invested by her brother and the interest paid yearly for her maintenance as long as she remained single. If she married she was to have £150. But, if Joan shall die &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/joane-elmes-making-connections/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Joane Elmes: making connections"</span></a></p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-336 alignright" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="198" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg 270w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo.jpg 350w" sizes="(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px" />There was something about Joane&#8230;</p>
<p>Her father&#8217;s will left her £200 &#8211; twice as much as her sister Sarah, but the money was to be invested by her brother and the interest paid yearly for her maintenance as long as she remained single. If she married she was to have £150. But, <em>if Joan shall die unmarried she may dispose of the £200 amongst her brothers and sister proportionably&#8230;</em></p>
<p>He didn&#8217;t expect her to marry. And she didn&#8217;t. But she didn&#8217;t leave the money to her siblings in her will either, because she outlived them all.</p>
<p>Her sister Sarah married Thomas Hammond of Silsworth the year after the fire, and died in 1671. Her brother John died in 1678 and William in 1680. Joane lived on to 1698.</p>
<p>Her father&#8217;s will, made in 1655, included another interesting piece of information. He left to Joane&#8217;s brother John farmland that he had purchased from Richard Wills and his mother. This suggests that by the time he was facing charges of illegal shooting and drinking etc in 1657, Richard had already sold the farm (and perhaps was running wild on the proceeds).</p>
<p>Joane&#8217;s mother Mary had chosen her unmarried daughter, rather than one of her sons, to execute her will in 1669. And when her brother John came to make his will in 1678 he made the same choice. At the foot of the will is a note from the Vicar, Gregory Palmer,</p>
<p><em>I did administer the oath to Joan Elmes, executrix of John Elmes, her brother, deceased, at her house in West Haddon, 18 September 1678.</em></p>
<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-401 alignleft" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-woman-crop-221x300.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="300" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-woman-crop-221x300.jpg 221w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-woman-crop-768x1044.jpg 768w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-woman-crop-754x1024.jpg 754w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-woman-crop.jpg 822w" sizes="(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px" />So Joan was an independent woman with her own house &#8211; not living as a pitied spinster in the home of a relation.</p>
<p>Her own will shows just how independent she had become. She left land and property in both Crick and Long Buckby to her nephew John, the son of her dead brother William. Was this how she had used her £200? As well as other family bequests she left money <em>to my trusty friend Edward Burnham </em>and his wife to buy mourning rings and £10 to her servant, Francis Page. Francis had originally been her brother John&#8217;s servant, but John had only left him £5. She also left money to the poor of the village, and in addition, £5 to the apprenticing fund for West Haddon. This fund had been set up by Edward Burnham (her trusty friend), Jacob Lucas and Joan herself to provide money to pay the premiums to put poor children out as apprentices to give them a trade.</p>
<p>The fund continues to this day.</p>
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		<title>Mary Elmes: widow, mother and will-maker</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Almost all that we know about Mary Elmes comes from her will. Her late husband, Thomas, had died in January, 1657, leaving her with four grown-up children: John, Joane, Sarah and William. He had also left a will, bequeathing various parcels of land and a couple of houses to his sons, large dowries to his &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/mary-elmes-widow-mother-and-will-maker/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Mary Elmes: widow, mother and will-maker"</span></a></p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-336 alignright" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="198" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg 270w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo.jpg 350w" sizes="(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px" />Almost all that we know about Mary Elmes comes from her will. Her late husband, Thomas, had died in January, 1657, leaving her with four grown-up children: John, Joane, Sarah and William. He had also left a will, bequeathing various parcels of land and a couple of houses to his sons, large dowries to his daughters (£100 to Sarah and £200 to Joane &#8211; was Sarah the pretty one?) and household goods and  money to Mary.</p>
<p>Mary&#8217;s will is so detailed that reading it feels like taking a tour of her house as she shares things out among her family.</p>
<p><em>The desk and the chest in the further chamber to my son William.</em></p>
<p><em>The screen in the hall to my son John.</em></p>
<p><em>The box in the parlour to my daughter Sarah, with one carpet and three green cushions.</em></p>
<p><em>The other carpet and the other three green cushions to my daughter Joane.</em></p>
<p><em>The press in the chamber and the bed that I lie in and all the furniture [ie the bed hangings etc] belonging to it and the joined chair that stands at the bedside and my chest in the parlour and all the things in the chest&#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>A coverlet that is red and yellow and a pair of blankets, one new one and the other worn awhile and two pair of coarse hempen sheets and a bolster pillow&#8230;</em></p>
<p><em><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-391 alignleft" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-court-cupboard-300x260.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="260" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-court-cupboard-300x260.jpg 300w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-court-cupboard-768x665.jpg 768w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-court-cupboard-1024x887.jpg 1024w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-court-cupboard.jpg 1100w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Two cushions of a colour, one of them stands on the court cupboard in the parlour, the cupboard cloth and the wicker chair in the hall&#8230;</em></p>
<p>But life wasn&#8217;t to be all lolling about on cushions &#8211; there was work to be done too.</p>
<p><em>The salting trough and all the shelves in the buttery to my son John.</em></p>
<p><em>One linen wheel [for spinning] to my daughter Sarah.</em></p>
<p><em><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-393 alignright" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/spinner-17th-cent-203x300.jpg" alt="" width="153" height="226" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/spinner-17th-cent-203x300.jpg 203w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/spinner-17th-cent.jpg 293w" sizes="(max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px" /></em></p>
<p><em>The other, and the winding blades [for winding the yarn] to my daughter Joane.</em></p>
<p>In addition, each of the boys got a bible and ten shillings went to the poor.</p>
<p>Interestingly, she made her daughter Joane, rather than one of her sons, her executor.</p>
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