[Excerpts from "A Calendar of Wills proved in the consistory Court of the
Bishop of Bristol, 1541-1650, and also A Calendar of Wills in the Great Orphan
Books preserved in the Council House, Bristol, 1379-1674" by W.P.W. Phillimore 
and Leland Duncan, 1895]
[excerpted 3 Oct 2003]

Bristol Wills
p. 8
Bird, Agnes		1593
Bird, John		1600
Bird, Elizabeth		1601
Bird, John		1603
Bird, John 		1639
Bird, Robert		1639
Bird, John		1648
Bird, Israel		1680
[more Bird after 1680 not listed here]

Birde, Anne		1617
Birde, John		1620
Birde, Edward		1627
Birde, Mary		1638

p. 21
Crane, Roger		1703
Crane, John		1731
[more Crane after 1731 not listed here]

p. 22
Crew, Francis, Nunc.	1673
Crew, Francis, 		1727
Crew, Edward		1743

p. 62
Murphew, Robert		1722
Murphey, John		1730
Murphey, Patrick	1732
Murphey, John		1737
Murphy, Patrick		1741
Murphy, Henry		1753

Great Orphan Books at Bristol.
p. 118
William Birde, draper, Bristol.  Nuncupative, dated 8 Oct. 1590. 3.29

p. 120
Edward Byrde, gentleman, Bristol.  Dated 24 Sept 1596.  3.5