Individual Details
Phillip Torrey
(Abt 1530 - Aft 31 Aug 1604)
Events
Birth | Abt 1530 | Combe St Nicholas, Somerset, England, United Kingdom | |||
Will | 31 Aug 1604 | ||||
Death | Aft 31 Aug 1604 | ||||
Probate | 23 Feb 1605 |
Families
Spouse | Margaret (1535 - ) |
Child | Dorothy Torrey (1560 - ) |
Child | William Torrey ( - ) |
Father | William Torrey (1500 - 1556) |
Mother | Thomasyne (1504 - ) |
Sibling | William Torrey (1547 - 1601) |
Notes
Will
The last day of August 1604 Phillip Torry late of Wadbrook in the parish of Hawkechurch, Dorset, husbandman &c. did make his last will and testament nuncupative in this manner and form following, or the like in effect, viz, To his son William Torry he did bequeath ten young sheep and not any other chattel or goods whatsoever. He bequeathed all the rest of his goods to Margaret his wife and Dorothy his daughter. And last of all he appointed his forenamed son William Torry the sole executor of his last will and testament. Witnessed by henry Holcombe and John Cookeney with others.Probate
actually, the book says "proved Feb. 23, 1604", but Feb is before Aug, when the will was written.Endnotes
1. Torrey, Frederic Crosby., The Torrey families in America. (Lakehurst, N.J.: unknown, 1924-1929, 914 pgs.), p. 2-3.
2. Torrey, D., A contribution toward a genealogy of all Torreys in America : being genealogical notes showing the paternal line of descent from William Torrey, of Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset County, England, A.D. 1557, to Abner Torrey, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, with all descendants of Abner Torrey : with an appendix (Detroit: J.F. Eby & Co., printers, 1890, 209 pgs.), p. 5.
3. Torrey, Frederic Crosby., The Torrey families in America. (Lakehurst, N.J.: unknown, 1924-1929, 914 pgs.), p. 2.