1597 Isabell Clay, daughter of Knyvton Clay, was baptized on October 9 at Dronfield parish, Derbyshire, England. [1] [2]
1626 Izabella Clay and Jacobus Milnes were married on June 10 at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. [3]
1629 Kniveton Claye, of Heigham [sic] parish in Shirland, Derby, dated his will on February 13, which was recorded at Shropshire, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. [4] [5] The Will of Kniveton Clay, of Higham in Shirland parish, named his wife Margaret and their son Francis, grand child William Milnes, and Kniveton's brother John Clay of Tupton and John's daughter Anne Clay, but did not mention Kniveton's other children. Witnessed by Thomas Curtis, Francis Claye, John Claye, James Millnes.
1634 The will of Francis Claye of Higham, county of Derbie [Derbyshire, England] was dated January 12, 1634. [6]
… First I give unto my daughter Mary all my ? furniture of Linnen woolen & beddinge together with all my pewter and brass ... if she live to her age of eighteen years
Item That whereas I have made an estate of all my lands tenem't & hereditamn't in the parish of Ash? to my loving brothers John Claye Thomas Curtis & Thomas Ludham, my mynd is, and I doo hereby confirme and testify the same in ? manner and forme as it ? in t? several deeds made betwixt me and them concerning the same.
And I doo hereby give and bequeath unto my said three executors hereafter named ten shillings a piece to each of them.
And also the residue of my goods & chattles & personal estate ? after my funeral charge discharged and my debts satisfied I doe bequeath the same unto my three execut's yet in trust for the good & benefit of my daughter Marye. And I doe constitute and make my said brothers John Claye Thomas Curtis & Thomas Ludlam executors of this my last will & testament in trust for the benefit & ? of my said daughter Marye. ...And my mind is that if my said daughter Marye doe dye without issue before she accomplishe the age of eighteen years that then my said execut's shall pay unto my goddaughter Elizabeth Ludlam twenty pounds, And if my said daughter Marye dye as afforsaid then ?wise to pay to soe many of the children of my sister Isabell Mylnes as shallbe living one hundred pounds out of my p'sonal estate to be equally devyded amongst them ... And the residue of my said p'sonall estate to be devyded amongst the children of Joane Curtis my sister. And my will and mynd further is that my said executors shallbe guardians to both my daughters, …
[1] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].
[2] England, Select Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1910, abstraction names Kempton Clay as the father, [AncestryRecord].
[3] England Marriages, 1538–1973, [FamilySearchRecord].
[4] UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975, [AncestryRecord].
[5] W.P.W. Phillimore, ed., Calendars of Wills and Administrations in the Consistory Court of the bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1516 to 1652 (British Record Society, 1892), 419, right column, [GoogleBooks], [FHLBook], [FHLCatalog], [FHL_Wiki_Learn].
[6] Staffordshire, Dioceses of Lichfield and Coventry wills and probate 1521-1860, Findmypast