| Description | DSCAM/2/7/2/1: Will (6 Apr. 1787) of Edward Sayer senior of Great Wyrley, parish of Cannock, Staffs., yeoman; all real estate to son, Edward Sayer of Great Wyrley, butcher, subject to mortgage debts etc.; personal estate to Edward charged with £10 to sister, Elizabeth Payne and 5/- to brothers William and Thomas; reserves life estate to wife; executors, Edward (son) and Mary (wife). |
| DSCAM/2/7/2/2: Copy of the will (dated 28 Jan. 1788) of Mary Lewis of Great Wirley, spinster; £10 each to John and Thomas Jackson, sons of George Jackson of Shareshill, Staffs., with benefit of survivorship; £5 to grand daughter, Mary Tonkiss at the age of 21; residue to daughter, Margaret Lewis, who is executrix; mentions £65 mortgage due from Edward Sayer on premises at Great Wirley. Note of probate, 26 June 1801. |
| DSCAM/2/7/2/6: Probate (8 Dec. 1824) of the will (dated 23 July 1823) of Edward Sayer of Great Wyrley, farmer; household effects and farming stock and implements, to wife Sarah for life, thence equally to children, Dorothy Smith, Edward Sayer,Elizabeth Astbury and Mary Quinton; interest on £400 to wife for life, then to sink into the residue; £200 owed by son Edwrad for farming stock and effects, forgiven; messuage at Great Wyrley purchased of John Brown, to Stephen Sayer, grandson (son of Edward); 3 copyhold messuages at Wyrley (purchased of Brown and Clewley) to grandson Edward (son of Edward); various parcels of land, inc. Rushcroft, to daughter, Dorothy Smith, for life, thence to her issue as tenants in common etc., with ultimate remainder to testator's other children and their heirs as tenants in common; messuage and lands specified at Wyrley to son, Edward, for life, thence to his issue as tenants in common etc., with ultimate remainder to testator's other childre etc., charged with £200; land at Edge Hill to daughter Elizabeth, wife of Charles Astbury of Edge Hill near Lichfield, Staffs., farmer, for life, thence to her issue by her former husband, William Smith, as tenants in common, etc., with the usual remainder; the Rail pieces at Wyrley to son Edward and grandson, William Smith of Wyrley, with the machine house etc. and all mines there and at Kell's Meadow, Wyrley, in trust for daughter, Mary Quinton, for life, thence to her children as tenants in common, etc., with the usual remainder; all minerals under the other premises so far devised, upon trust for working the minerals, under the management of son Edward as ground bailiff (remunerated at £20 p.a.), and paying rents and damages to the surface owners, with the proceeds of the mines to be divided, one quarter to son Edward, one quarter to Dororthy Smith, the income from the investment of one quarter and from the £200 charged above, to daughter Elizabeth Astbury for life, thence to her children by William Smith in manner specified, with power to advance shares or apply to maintenance and education, with the usual remainder in favour of testator's other children etc., and the income from the investment of the other quarter, to daughter, Mary Quinton, for life, thence to her children in a similar fashion to the previous provision; residue of estate to 4 childre equally as tenants in common; executors, Edward (son), Charles Quinton (son-in-law), Samuel Wright of the parish of Cannock, farmer, and William Smith (grandson). |