Welsh Journals

aged 76, and was buried at Dudleston on 23rd March following. They left the following issue :­ (1) Edward Morrall, clerk in Holy orders. In June, 1729, he was described as Edward Morrall of Worvil, Salop, junior, clerk.1 The will of Edward Morrall of Worfield, clerk, is dated 30th November, 1730, and he bequeathed all to his sister Frances Morrall whom he appointed sole executrix.2 He was vicar of Bolton for some time and M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was buried at Dudleston 17th March, 1731-2. (2) John Morrall, died s.p. on 25th October, 1703, and was buried at Dudleston. (3) Josiah Morrall of Cilhendre was born 7th March, 1702. He married Margaret Lloyd, daughter of John Lloyd of Pontruffydd, co. Denbigh, and sister of Sir Edward Lloyd of Pengwern, Bart. He was a surgeon at Holywell, where he lived in 1742 when he mortgaged lands in Dudleston to Peter Ellames of Chester, druggist. By his will, dated 6th June, 1745, he left Plas Iollyn to his wife Margaret. On 15th October, 1748, Margaret Morrall, the widow, sold Plas Iollyn to her brother-in-law William Challnor of Cilhendre for £ 1,400.3 He left debts to the tune of more than £ 1,400, and six small children. This probably prompted his widow to sell. As he died without male issue, Kilhendre went by entail to his younger brother, William. (4) William Morrall of Kilhendre, baptised at Dudleston 18th May, 1710. He married, firstly, Margaret Lyndop of Shrewsbury, secondly on 4th March, 1735, at St. Alkmond's Church, Shrewsbury, by licence, to Suzannah Bee, daughter and heiress of John Bee of Wendlebury, co. Oxford and Greenwich, Kent, J.P. The Bee family were an old English stock which originally came from Wiltshire. Suzannah brought a considerable property to her husband, William Morrall, who sold the estates at Silveston and Wendlebury which he had in right of his wife, for a large fortune which "was preciously diminished" at a cock-fight at York--some £ 14,000.4 We shall follow the children of this marriage later. (5) Frances Morrall married William Challnor of Iscoed, co. Flint, by whom she had a son William and a daughter Elizabeth. William the son died unmarried and the Challnor property came to his sister Elizabeth who had married her cousin-german, Charles Morrall, son of the said William Morrall. (6) Mary married Edward Jones of Berghill, Salop, gent., and had issue. She died 22nd August, 1789, aged 69. 1 Ibid., No. 250. 2 Ibid., No. 263. M. Documents, Nos. 403-4 Deeds, Nos. 33-4, 326, 328, 336. 4 Note on an old Bee pedigree, Morrall MSS.