Many thanks for Alan Crosby’s column in the April issue about the value of wills in family history. It reminded me how the will of my maternal 4x great grandfather, John Paul the Elder, helped me solve two brick walls in my research.
John Paul the Elder and sons were) was proved on 19 January 1860. The will was four pages long and in it he named his sons Joseph Paul, John Paul, Thomas Paul, and his daughters, Sarah wife of Gabriel Sleath, Ann wife of Robert Simms, and Mary Warner named as a widow.
