1660
Baptised
1660
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
Thomas Cousans
1660 – 1717
Thomas Cousans was baptised in 1660. He married Mary. Thomas was buried on 19 March 1717 at Wistow.
A distillation, assembled from sourced records · 2026
- Baptism
- 1660
- Marriage
- To Mary
- Burial
- March 19th 1717, Wistow
- Siblings
- Not known
- Children
- Thomas Cossens baptised June 17th 1686, Wistow Maria Cossens baptised September 27th 1687, Wistow Izabella Cossens baptised March 6th 1689/90, Wistow Elizabeth Cossens burial May 6th 1691, Wistow John Cousins baptised May 10th 1692, Wistow Robert Cossens baptised December 25th 1693, Wistow Elizabeth Cossens baptised February 2nd 1698/9, Wistow
- c1684/5
- Marries Mary (surname not known)
- 1691
- Daughter Elizabeth dies, age unknown.
- 1717
- Death of Thomas aged about 57 years. He left a will and inventory. A PHD student, Michael Riley, made a study of four Ouse settlements, one of which was Wistow comparing Wills and Inventories left between 1660 and 1760. "Throughout the 17th and early 18th century the bulk of inventoried inhabitants from Wistow owned substantial houses of between 4 and 6 rooms. At Wistow chambers were frequently used for the storage of farm produce and a large proportion contained butteries, dairies or milk houses…….. In 1717, for example, the yeoman Thomas Cussons had fifteen milking cows and the chamber over his house contained 66 cheeses valued at £5.0.0…….. The only other example of the provisionfor house room (for widows) Is found in the Will of Thomas Cussons, a yeoman who was survived by 3 adult and a daughter when he died in 1717. Thomas's eldest son John Executor and residuary legatee and inherited the family house. Thomas Stated however that John was to "permitt or suffer the said Mary my wife (dureing her natural life) to dwell and abide with him in the messuage or Tenement without paying any rent for the same." In addition he left his wife "my best bed and other sufficient furniture for one room" and stated that the son was to pay his mother three pounds a year in quarterly Intervals. A crucial clause was retained until the end of the document, for If these arrangements did not work out, Thomas directed that his wife was ……"to be paid thirty pounds ……..within one month of my death"
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1691
In 1691
1691
Daughter Elizabeth dies, age unknown.— From Janet Brock’s research
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From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1717
In 1717
1717
Death of Thomas aged about 57 years. He left a will and inventory. A PHD student, Michael Riley, made a study of four Ouse settlements, one of which was Wistow comparing Wills and Inventories left between 1660 and 1760. "Throughout the 17th and early 18th century the bulk of inventoried inhabitants from Wistow owned substantial houses of between 4 and 6 rooms. At Wistow chambers were frequently used for the storage of farm produce and a large proportion contained butteries, dairies or milk houses…….. In 1717, for example, the yeoman Thomas Cussons had fifteen milking cows and the chamber over his house contained 66 cheeses valued at £5.0.0…….. The only other example of the provisionfor house room (for widows) Is found in the Will of Thomas Cussons, a yeoman who was survived by 3 adult and a daughter when he died in 1717. Thomas's eldest son John Executor and residuary legatee and inherited the family house. Thomas Stated however that John was to "permitt or suffer the said Mary my wife (dureing her natural life) to dwell and abide with him in the messuage or Tenement without paying any rent for the same." In addition he left his wife "my best bed and other sufficient furniture for one room" and stated that the son was to pay his mother three pounds a year in quarterly Intervals. A crucial clause was retained until the end of the document, for If these arrangements did not work out, Thomas directed that his wife was ……"to be paid thirty pounds ……..within one month of my death"
— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1717
Buried
19 March 1717 at Wistow
March 19th 1717, Wistow— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.