Below is a chronological list of wills of Takeley inhabitants.
The wills are in the process of being transcribed. Those that are available can be found by using the alphabetical links below. We will be adding new summaries of the wills as they become available. The contents of the wills have been made available here with the permission of the Essex Record Office.
1558 Clerke, John , husbandman.
1558 Phyllyppes, alias Saunders, Thomas, paleman.
1559 Bearman, Hugh.
1560 Cavell, William, husbandman.
1563/4 Myller, Thomas, husbandman.
1564 Harvey, Richard, husbandman.
1565 Myller, Thomas, yeoman.
1567 Cawbecke, Edward, husbandman.
1567/7 Pake, William the younger, husbandman.
1567/8 Snowe, Elizabeth, widow.
1568 Freshwater, William, husbandman.
1568 Pake,William, husbandman.
1568 Pane, John, yeoman.
1568/9 Howe, Robert, shoemaker.
1568/9 Whyte, James
1571/2 Clerke, John, husbandman.
1580/1 Brewer, Thomas, husbandman.
1582 Batyford, Robert, shoemaker.
1583 Deane, Thomas, husbandman.
1583 Laver, John the elder.
1586/7 King, Thomas.
1588 Marden, John the elder.
1589 Crecke, Florence, widow.
1590 Burlynge, Michael the elder.
1591 Seale, John.
1601 Pamphlyn, John.
1602 Clarke, John, husbandman.
1620 Barnarde, John.
1620 Morrell, Thomas, fletcher.
1622 Bush, Margaret, widow.
1624 Cawbeck, Michael, yeoman.
1624 Norton, Thomas, palemaker.
1625 Clarke, John, senior, husbandman.
1625 Haddesly, Edwin, single man.
1625 Stanes, Jane, widow.
1626 Wryt, Elizabeth, widow.
1627 Elliet, Robert, husbandman.
1629 Brewer, Robert, weaver.
1631 Clake, Thomas, yeoman.
1631 Meller, George, yeoman.
1632 Laver, George, yeoman.
1633 Brown, Elizabeth, widow.
1633 Norton, John, palemaker.
1633 White, Thomas, victualler.
1634 Brown, John, senior, husbandman.
1634 Flood, Flude, Joan, widow.
1635 Thurgood, William, husbandman.
1637 Gainsford, Gaynsford, Samuel, gent.
1637 Laver, John, senior, husbandman.
1639 Campion, John, carrier.
1640 Phillipes, John,senior, husbandman.
1644 Parsly, William, yeoman.
1645 Lukin, Edwin.
1645 White, Joan, widow.
1648 Judd, Agnes, widow.
1650 Cawbeck, John, yeoman.
1656 Lane, Richard, tailor.
1661 Burling, Robert.
1661 Stanes, Elizabeth, widow.
1662 Lukin, Robert, yeoman.
1662 Mountford, John.
1666 Prestland, Henry, fanwright.
1667 Mead, William, yeoman.
1668 Collyn, William, gent.
1671 Laver, John, senior, yeoman.
1672 Campe, John, miller.
1672 Parsley, William, innholder.
1675 Grene, George, carpenter.
1675 Morris, Rebecca.
1677 Gardiner, William, yeoman.
1677 Lukin, John, yeoman.
1680 Brewer, Philip, yeoman.
1680 Poole, John, husbandman.
1681 Banks, Thomas, yeoman.
1681 Gobbons, John, butcher.
1681 Smith, John, yeoman.
1681 Stracey, Daniel, husbandman.
1684 Stanes, John, yeoman.
1687 Bickner, John, yeoman.
1688 Cramphorn, John, carpenter.
1692 Bull, James.
1692 Bull, Thomas.
1692 Taylor, Samuel, grocer.
1692 Brown, Mary, widow.
1694 White, Simon, husbandman.
1695 White, Thomas, yeoman.
1700 Campe, Mary.
1695 White, John, yeoman.
1702 Russell, Mary, widow.
1707 Brewer, Philip, yeoman.
1711 Brown, Thomas, yeoman.
1712 Banks, Mary,spinster.
1716 English, John, clerk.
1719 Judd, Luke, yeoman
1719 Judd, Philip,senior.
1720 Bull, James, malster.
1723 Bad, Robert, yeoman.
1723 Beard, Jerhemiah.
1723 Brown, Thomas, butcher.
1723 Lammas, John, blacksmith.
1728 Eve, Adam, farmer.
1729 Baysey, William, yeoman.
1730 Clark, Rebecca, widow.
1730 Ives, Elizabeth, widow.
1734 White, Anne, widow.
1738 Humphr(e)y, Nathaniel, yeoman.
1740 Gibbons, John, butcher.
1740 Lambert, Thomas, tailor.
1740 Tumbridge, John, blacksmith.
1742 Sach, William, husbandman
1746 Mountford, (?Mumford) Philip, shopkeeper.
1750 Eve, James, yeoman, late Takeley, now Tilty.
1750 Pool(e), Jeffery, single man.
1750 Tucker, John, carpenter.
1752 Parsons, John, senior, collarmaker.
1756 Rayner, Elizabeth, widow.
1757 King, John, miller, late Romford, now Takeley.
1757 Skingle, Baldwin, yeoman.
1761 Pigram, Joshua, turnpike gatekeeper.
1763 Stock, Thomas, yeoman.
1766 Hardcastle, William, carpenter.
1766 Pool(e), Jeffery, butcher.
1767 Marshall, John, yeoman.
1767 White, John, yeoman.
1770 Brown, Mary, widow.
1770 Judd, Philip, yeoman.
1773 Coote, Robson, farmer.
1775 Nichol(l)s,John, yeoman.
1775 Nicholson, Mary, wife of William Nicholson, clerk.
1777 Sa(u)nders, John, yeoman.
1778 Parson, Nash.
1781 Gibbons, Mary, widow.
1785 Pigram, Richard, yeoman.
1786 Green, John, carpenter.
1790 Eve, John, farmer
1792 Speller, Robert, victualler.
1797 Coote, Thomas, yeoman, Colchester Hall.
1798 Stock, John, labourer.
1799 Sar., widow.
1800 Heard, Daniel.
1801 Nicol(l)s, Ann, widow.
1802 Garrett, Robert, farmer.
1803 Clark, Henry, senior, gent.
1803 Marshal(l), Daniel.
1804 Barker, John, farmer.
1804 Sa(u)nders, Dorothy, widow.
1813 Marshal(l), Daniel, farmer.
1814 Ramsey, jos,., cordwainer, Takeley Street.
1824 Salmon, Edmund, senior, yeoman.
1827 Hampton, Henry, farmer, Takeley Grange.
1830 White, James, yeoman.
1831 Knight, John, farmer, Bambers Green.
1832 Speller, John, shoemaker.
1834 Clark, Susannah, spinster.
1834 Mumford, John, gent., Waltham Hall.
1840 Savil(l)e, George, labourer, Gorefield House.
1847 Hall, Clement, yeoman.
1847 Hall, Benjamin, batchelor.
1848 Lin(d)sell, Elizabeth, widow.
1848 Staines, farmer and publican, Morrel Green.
1849 Garrett, Robert, yeoman.
1850 Patmore,Nicholas, farmer.
1850 Rous, John, gent.