If anyone has five minutes

[Asa]

and Ancestry, I'd be grateful if someone could have a look at the will indexed as Robert Copper 26 Jan 1681 Enfield Middlesex in London Wills. I'm sure it's Robert Tapper and that the will was written in 1658. Also - and I think this is clear in the last paragraph to save anyone reading it all - doesn't he say 'my oldest sonne John Tapper' and 'my youngest sonne John Tapper'

[Oakum Picker]

I agree that it is Robert TAPPER, Asa.

[Asa]

Thanks, Glen :-)

[Merry]

Also - and I think this is clear in the last paragraph to save anyone reading it all - doesn't he say 'my oldest sonne John Tapper' and 'my youngest sonne John Tapper'


I agree that is seems to say that!

I have spent longer than five minutes looking for the date though! I couldn't be bothered to read every word, but have looked up and down and up and down it several times, and missed it every time! lol

[Asa]

Lol! Thanks Merry - I'll have a look and see where the date was when I'm online :-)

I wish I could work out which John married which wife but I don't suppose there's any way of sorting that :-)

[Asa]

The date is at the end of the first line :-)

[Merry]

Lol I kept cutting in after the part about him being of sound mind etc! 5th Aug 1658.

[kiterunner]

He also says "my sonne John the younger" in one place, so he must have had two surviving sons called John.

[Asa]

Thanks both of you - that makes sense of things. The two Johns make wills in 1678 and 1683 but unfortunately don't refer to themselves as the elder and younger :s