Glamorgan Baptisms: 5 Oct 1736 Welsh St Donats: Janes, dau. of Thomas Leyson.
Glamorgan Marriage CD: 14 Nov. 1758 Welsh St Donats: Thomas Bassett of Cowbridge & Jane Leyson or Welsh St Donats.
1777 Will of Thomas Leyson of Welsh St Donats (written in 1768): (PM-585)
“subject to pay out of the said profits the yearly sum of £6 to my daughter Jane (wife of Thomas Bassett officer of Excise) ...”
Oct 1790 Will of Mary Leyson: left 10 ac. in Olymarch (Welsh St Donats) to sisters: Catherine Jones & Jane Bassett for their natural lives and after to the 10 children of Thomas & Jane Bassett. (PM-639)
Oct 1790 Will of Mary Leyson: left a house in Prisk (Welsh St Donats) to Jane Bassett the daughter of the said Thomas & Jane Bassett, except that part of the house now inhabited by her Mother Jane Bassett. (PM-639)
Oct 1790 Will of Mary Leyson: mentions a Dairy in Prisk (Welsh St Donats) “to be enjoyed by Elizabeth & Catherine Bassett sisters of the above named Jane Bassett, & their Heirs forever. (PM-639)
Jane Bassett Will: written 25 July 1814, proved 1817. (PM-362)
Jane Bassett of the parish of Welsh St Donats in the county of Glamorgan, widow. I give unto my three sons Richard Bassett, John Bassett and Robert Bassett one acre of land in the parish of Welsh St Donats to be divided equally being holden of the manor of Talyvan. I give unto my son Charles Bassett of St Mary Hill the sum of 2 pounds; to my daughter Jane Bassett Spinster 10 pounds. I give to Mary the wife of Lewis David of Welsh St Donats 10 pounds and all my household furniture (except one bed which I give to Mary David her mother). I give to Catherine the wife of Morgan John of Welsh St Donats the sum of 5 pounds. I give to Elizabeth the wife of William Williams of Treos in the parish of Langan 2 pounds. Executors: sons: Richard Bassett, John Bassett and Robert Bassett. The Mark of Jane Bassett 25 March 1817. Witnesses: Wm Howell of Cowbridge, Ann Mathew of Ystradowen and Richard Thomas, Prisk. Richard Bassett the lawful son and one of the Executors swears that the personal estate does not amount to more than 10 pounds. (PM-362) What happened to the 10 ac. in Olymarch?
Glamorgan Burial Index (1569-1841) CD: Jane Bassett, 14 Feb 1817, aged 81, Welsh St Donats.
Welsh St Donat Burials: 14 Feb 1817 Jane Bassett of Prisk, aged 81 yrs. (Glamorgan Burial Index CD (1569-1837). (PM-388.7)