Wills of Francois Moulins and of John Chipp
2nd July 2025Will of François Moulins. No. 80 of Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies (Staff), and John Chipp (No. 107).
Au nom, etc. I, François Moulins, native of England, but at present living in the Island of Guernsey, finding myself very sick in body ... Firstly, to the Poor of the Town: 5 livres tournois ... and as for my remaining goods and chattels: I make over and give them in their entirety to my beloved wife Cécile Childe¹ (Cecily Child), and to my brother-in-law Thomas Cotton in right of his wife, my sisiter Alix Moulins (Alice Meulens), for them to share them between them in equal parts. And I appoint Advocate Pierre Gosselin as Executor. Drawn up in St Peter Port on 23 November 1675.
Signed: Ffranc Meulens. Pierre Jannon. Pierre Gosselin. Richard Warmes.
¹ Cecily Child was presumably related to Alice Childe, the wife of John Chipp (Will no. 107 [1680].) John Chipp (occasionally, Shipp), was married to Alice Childe in Milton Abbas on 19 May 1670. He was probably the son of the John Chipp, 'Sergent', husband of Osyth Hutchins, who was buried in St Peter Port on 25 December 1679. His sister was probably the Marie Chipp who married William Mansell on 19 October 1674. Alice Child was a widow by 1682. Father John and son John must have died very close toether. In 1686 John Chipp owned the House and Brewery that formerly belonged to Jean Girard son of Thomas, in the Contrée Mancel (sic). The heirs of John Chipp Junr. were seized of a house in Vauvert that had belonged the late Thomas de France. John Chipp owned a house formerly belonging to Jean Brock near the Mill Pond in St Peter Port. See the will below.
I, John Chipp, of England, at present residing in St Peter Port, being sick and weak in body ... Firstly, to the Poor of this Town: 12 livres tournois. Item. To each of the children of my sons and daughters, 3 livres tournois. Item. To my beloved wife Osyth (?) Hutchins (Izatt Hutchins), one third of my chattels etc. ... And the rest I leave to the children of my eldest son ... Having well and honestly provided for my son Thomas from my goods, as best I could ... in the same way also I have given and give by this present order [quittance of] what has been spent by her husband and herself and her children while living with me since their marriage; desiring that they be in no way worried about it, and also for the time that the will spend with me in future. And I appoint my wife executor. Drawn up this 2nd December 1679.
Signed John Chipp. Josué Tramalier. Jean Mauger.
Registered 17th May 1680.