Peter Withers

[kiterunner]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as Peter Withers
Date and place of birth About 1732, don't know where
Names of parents Don't know
Date and place of baptism - if applicable Not found
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any 19 Jan 1761 at Stibbard, Norfolk, to Elizabeth Sawyer, witnesses Thos Hull (serial witness) and Thomas Balls. Peter single, of Stibbard.
Occupation(s) - if any Yeoman
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
1762-1779 Stibbard, Norfolk
1785 - Great Walsingham, Norfolk
1807 - Hempton, Norfolk
Date, place and cause of death Oct 1807 Hempton, Norfolk, not got cause
Date and place of burial. 20 Oct 1807 Stibbard, Norfolk, married man, age 75
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Will proved 1807 - listed in Archdeaconry of Norfolk Probate Records in NROCAT but indexed as Withors on Norfolk Sources. Says late of Stibbard but now of Hempton Norfolk, yeoman. Will signed 2 Feb 1806 and proved 26 Nov 1807, executors wife Elizabeth and Robert Watts of Bintry gentleman.
Memorial inscription - if any Not found

Link to daughter's thread:
Susannah Mary Withers

I have a note which says "Stibbard PR's on FamilySearch only start at 1733 and the AT's jump from 1731 to 1737 so Peter's baptism is probably in the missing years there." Need to check whether this is still the case.

[kiterunner]

Ooh, there are some Withers of Stibbard wills in the PCC wills on ancestry from around the right time - must look at them tomorrow!

[kiterunner]

Those wills didn't help as neither of them mentions Peter. There are quite a few public trees on ancestry which have Peter as the son of Thomas Withers who died in 1741 and his wife Mary nee Priest who died in 1771, but none of them seems to have anything to prove it.

[kiterunner]

Norfolk Record Office has the wills of a Peter Withers, oatmeal maker of Stibbard, 1728, and Thomas Withers, oatmeal maker of Stibbard, 1743, so they could possibly be my Peter's grandfather and father. Edit - as far as I can make out from FamilySearch's Norwich Consistory Court files they have not filmed any 1728 wills.

[kiterunner]

I have managed to find the will of Thomas Withers, oatmeal maker, of Stibbard, 1743, on FamilySearch! The will was signed on the 20th Apr 1736 and mentions Peter as his youngest child, and Mary as his wife, so finally I do have the names of Peter's parents!

If Mary really died in 1771, Peter and his siblings had to wait a long time for their inheritances as Thomas's will left everything to her until her death and then gave the eldest son three years after that to pay the rest of them their shares.