Home     The Corker Family of Huntwick Grange, Wragby, Yorkshire Transcribed wills from Major-General Thomas Martin Corker, "Corker, An Old Northumbrian Family", Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 28, 1925, pp. 91–92. James Corker, of Huntwick, in the parish of Wragby, Yorkshire Will dated: 9 July 1573 Probate date: 22 February 1573/4; Prerogative Court of York. Note: The spelling of some names has been modernised. To my sons, Leonard Corker, Lionel Corker, William Corker, and Cotton Corker, the Lease of the Hall and Mill of Ackworth and the corn and fulling mills in Castleford, Yorkshire, and also the Parsonage of Pennington, Lancashire. To John Corker, my eldest son, my lands and tenements in Furness, Lancashire. To my son Thomas Corker, the lease of a close called "Nourode" in the parish of Guiseley and a moiety of the parsonage of Whitkirk. To Elizabeth Corker, my wife, the Lease of Little Southwode for life and after her decease to my son, Francis Corker. To my son, Francis Corker, the corn mill in Sharlston, and on his decease to his heirs male, and for default of such issue to my son Cotton, then to my son William, then to Lionel and then to my son Thomas. To my son, John Corker, my lands at Ulverston, Lancashire, which I had of the grant of William Heaton and John Bolde, also all my goods and chattels at Ulverston. To the repair of Castleford Brige 26s. 8d. To the Common Box of the Parish of Wragby 10s. To Mr. Cotton Gargrave one white mare. To Thomas Holgate, the younger, son of Henry Holgate, one silver spoon. To James Leversege and James Sterling a wether [a castrated male sheep]. To my daughter Ann over and besides 20 marks I owe her, £6 13s. 4d. To my son-in-law, Thomas Crosbie, one gold ring. The rest of my goods to be into three parts, one part I give to my wife, another to my children, Leonard, Lionel, William, Cotton, Francis, Thomas, Mary, and Jane Corker. Guardians of my son Francis to be Mr. Cotton Gargrave, of sons William and Cotton Xpofer Mather and Cuthbert Flemynge, of son Thomas and daughters Mary and Jane my wife and Thomas Crosbie. To my son, John Corker, £20 to be paid out of a debt owing by Xpofer Anderton. Executrix: Elizabeth my wife. Supervisors: John Flemyng, Thomas Holgate, Henry Holgate. Witnesses: Richard Pollard, Thomas Crosbie, Robert Dobson, clerk, Thomas John Whitaker. Elizabeth Corker, widow, of Huntwick, in the parish of Wragby, Yorkshire Will dated: 20 March 1590/1 Probate date: 11 June 1592; Prerogative Court of York. To the poor men’s box of Wragby 3s. 4d. To Thomas Crosbie, my son[-in-law], £10. To my son-in-law Alan Austwick, £3 6s. 8d. To my son-in-law Robert Lovell, £3 6s. 8d. To Thomas Hollings, 12s. To Isabell, wife of Richard Okes, 10s. To Thomas Fell, 12s. The sum of £20 to be bestowed upon my funeral and the poor people in Wragby and Whitkirk, of which £20 I give £3 to the poor of Wragby and 40s. to the poor of Whitkirk. The residue to my son Thomas Corker, whom I make my sole executor. Witnesses: Henry Scolye, clerk, Thomas Fell. WhistlerHistory 2018.