MRP: Michael Godfrey will
Michael Godfrey will
PROB 11/397 Ent 139-189 Will of Michaell Godfrey, Merchant of London of Woodford, Essex 16 December 1689
Editorial history
23/02/12, CSG: Created page
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Abstract & context
Michael Godfrey made his will on XXX. In his will he described himself as XXX.
Michael Godfrey was the son of Peter Godfrey, who had married a daughter of the lawyer and historian William Lambarde. William Lambarde’ s second wife was the widow of William Dallison, father of Sir Maximilian Dallison, and hence Sir Maximillian Dallison was the cousin of Michael Godfrey’s father and Michael Godfrey and Elizabeth Dallison were second cousins through Elizabeth’s marriage to William Dallison, son of Sir Maximilian Dalyson.
Michael Godfrey was a long term commercial colleague of Thomas Papillon as well as relative. They were both apprenticed to the same master, Thomas Chambrelan (alias Chamberlaine). Sir Thomas Chamberlan requested in his will that his sons-in-law, Sir Arthur Ingram and Mr Michael Godfrey, should have mourning at his funeral, and left money to his grandchildren Michael and Peter Godfrey.[1]
As young apprentices Michael Godfrey and Thomas Papillon went to France together.[2]
Suggested links
See 23rd March 1662/63, Letter from Michael Godfrey to Sir GO, London
To do
Trancription
Suggested primary sources
TNA
PROB 11/359 King 1-65 Will of Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey of Saint Martin in the Fields, Middlesex 14 April 1679
PROB 11/387 Foot 45-89 Will of Peter Godfrey of Sellinge, Kent 04 May 1687
PROB 11/397 Ent 139-189 Will of Michaell Godfrey, Merchant of London of Woodford, Essex 16 December 1689
PROB 11/427 Irby 125-165 Will of Michael Godfrey, Merchant of London 16 August 1695
Suggested secondary sources
- ↑ PROB 11/337 Duke 102-158 Will of Sir Thomas Chambrelan of London 07 December 1671
- ↑ XXXX; Richard Grassby, Kinship and capitalism: marriage, family, and business in the english speaking world, 1580-1720 (Cambridge, 2001), p. 229
