Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 251 A brief remembrance of such things as I have disposed in my lifetime, to be given at my death. To my sisters
- Joan Marker and f Katherine Sampson. To my niece
Mary Bussell los., if she restore ' the silver whishull with the currell which do belong to John and Francis Gibbons.' To my niece | Katherine Hitchcocke dwelling in Colyton and to her children : To my nephew I Nicholas Salter of Colyton and his children : To my nephew Richard Marker and his children : To my niece Margaret Mercer of Exeter, the daughter of my cousin Nicholas Mercer : To my godson Richard Isaacke : To my godson § Richard Pratt : To my nephew and godson IT Thomas Sampson : To my niece il Margaret Eveleigh : To my brother Thomas Mercer and to my cousin William Mercer and my sister Marker. Proved 9 Feby., 163I, by Katherine Mercer (P.C.C. 26, Audley). Katherine Mercer of Chard, widow : 28 March 1639: To my niece Elizabeth wife of Samuel Izacke, gent, whom I make my executrix, desiring her to dispose some part amongst the children of her husband : (Witnesses) Margaret Walrond, Katheryn Yelverton, Christian Burges. Proved, 29 June 1639, by Elizabeth wife of Samuel Izacke, gen: (P.C.C. 115, Harvey.") A. J. P. S.
- She married Henry Marker, gent., of Woodford, Ottery St. Mary ;
his Will, dated 18 Jany., 1621 ; proved i June, 1622. (P.C.C. 57, Sackville). Ottery St. Mary Reg. : — 1640, Mrs. Johane Marker, widow, buried 4 March. Her Will, dated 19 Feb., 1640 ; proved 17 May, 1641. (P.C.C, 65, Evelyn). t Probably wife of John Sampson (1572-1639), of Colyton, gent. J Colyton Registers : — 1618, John Hitchcock and Katherine Salter married i May. 1614, Nicholas Salter, of Colyton towne, and Edith Birde married 3 Oct. She was daughter of Robart Birde. They had a son Nicholas, bapt. 18 Aug., 1615. § Henry Marker, in his Will, names his daughter " Frances Marker " and his widow Joan, in hers, names " Frances Pratt." ^ Thomas Sampson, son of John Sampson, was bapt. at Colyton 30 April, 1609, He married at Shute, 1639, Anne, widow of Ralph Huchenson, Vicar of Colyton, and daughter of William Walrond, of Bovey. II Ottery St. Mary Reg. :— 1604, Margaret, daughter of Henrie Marker, gent., bapt. 6 May. Joan Marker, in her Will, names her daughter " Margaret Eveleigh."
