Also, if you are a male Pike/Pyke (or you know one) who may be willing to do a genealogical DNA test, then please check out the Pike DNA Project for which I am a volunteer coordinator. There are several Pike/Pyke families that are not yet represented in the project, and for whom participants are wanted.
In the Name of God Amen I Ann Pyke in the parish of St James revoking all former Wills and Testaments by me made Doe make this my last Will and Testament as followeth first I give and bequeath unto my Sister Parry fourteen pound a yeare during her life and the Interest of Six hundred pound during her life and after her death I give and bequeath to Frances Evington Two Hundred pound of good and lawfull money of England I give and bequeath to Anne Webb two hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England I give and bequeath to Katherine Evington fifty pound of good and lawfull money of England I give and bequeath to Katherine Evington fourteen pound a year as long as she liveth unmarried and then after to Frances Evington I give and bequeath to Penelope Sturrop a Hundred and fifty pound of good and lawfull money of England I desire my sister to give Katherine Evington a Sute of Stuffe Clothes a Month after I am buried and five pound a year as long as my sister liveth I give and bequeath to Jane Price five pound of good and lawfull money of England to be paid a Month after I am buried and a Suit of mourning I give her my Table Bedstead feather Bed and Bolster and Blanketts Rugg and sheets that belong to it a little Table and four Chairs if she live with me when I dye and I give her mourning I constitute and appoint my Sister sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament and desire desiring her to pay my Debts and Legacies and see that my Body be decently buried in the parish Church where I dye to be carried in a Hearse with four mourning Coaches and all to have Gloves and Wine and what is left of my Goods that my Sister doe not care to keep for her life after debts and Legacies are paid I desire they may be sold and the money be equally divided between Frances Evington Ann Webb Katherine Evington Penelope Stirrop I desire my Sister to give the Writings I had for my Annuity to my Lady Napper or who she will send for them In witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and Seal the Two and Twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand seven Hundred and ten in the ninth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Ann Queen of Great Brittain France and Ireland Defender of the faith Anne Pyke signed sealed and Delivered as my last Will and Testament in the presence of Mary Tessin Sarah Bennett Elizabeth Mugg Probatum fuit [this paragraph continues in Latin to grant probate on 10 March 1710] Decimo die Mensis Martii Anno Domini (stylo Anglia) Millesimo septingesimo decimo [to] Penelopes Parry sororis dicta defuncta et Executricis
Last Modified: Sunday, 19-Apr-2020 15:04:11 NDT