Marriage is not found in Glamorgan Marriage Index CD.
Will of Robert Bassett, Yeoman of Welsh St Donats; 1749 “I desire my Friend and Neighbor Thomas Lyson to assist my Executrix in managing this my will.” (PM-534)
Will of Thomas Leyson of Welsh St Donats 1777 PM-585
Proved Oct. 10, 1777
In the Name of God Amen. I Thomas Leyson of the Parish of Welsh St Donats in the County of Glamorgan Yeoman, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in Manner and form following
First I give and bequeath a Lease for the Term of ninety nine Years determinated for three lives nominated in the said Lease, purchased by one of the Honorable Sir Edmond Thomas Bart. [baronet] of Wenvoe Castle, containing one messuage ... together with thirty acres of Land (more or less) called and known by the name of Greave farm, set, lying and being in the Parish of Wenvoe within the said County of Glamorgan.
I do give devise and bequeath the rents and profits issuing out of the rented ____ and every partt and parcel ... my Daughter Elizabeth ... subject to pay out of the said profits the yearly sum of £6 to my Daughter Jane, (wife of Thomas Bassett officer of Excise) one of the lives nominated in the said Lease during the term of her natural life; and after the Death of the said Jane to be divided between her sons then living during the Term of the said Lease.
And I do give devise and bequeath twelve acres of customary Lands ten acres of the said land lying at Olymarch within the Parish of Welsh St Donnats and Lordship of Taylfan, and two acres of the said Land (be it more or less) near Caescady in the said parish and Lordship, between my two Daughter Mary and Ann Leyson and their customary Heirs forever;
I also give devise & bequeath one dwelling House where I now do dwell at present in the said parish of Welsh St Donnats between my aforesaid three Daughters, Elizabeth, Mary and Ann Leyson ... I also give and devise eight acres of Freehold Lands in the Parish of Ystradowen and Lordship aforesad to my son Richard Leyson & his Heirs for ever.
I also give, devise & bequeath one dwelling House ... belonging with four acres and one half acre of customary hold Lands, one acre thereof adjoining the said house & three acres itself called and known by the name of Kaerd Kefen... situate lying & being at present in the parish & Lordship aforesaid to the use & beheaf of my son Richard Leyson aforesd and his customary heirs for even, nevertheless subject to pay out of the said premises the yearly sum of £3 in quarterly payments to my son Robert Leyson during the term of his natural life.
I also give and bequeath the rest & residue of my goods and personal Estate to my Son Richard Leyson and my two Daughters Mary & Ann Leyson, to be equally divided between them, whom I nominate and appoint joint Executors of this my last Will & Testament residuary Legatees, making void all other Wills by me formerly made: In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this thirteenth Day of February one Thousand seven Hundred and Sixty eight 1768
Signed, Sealed, published and declared signed Thomas Leyson
By the Testator in the presence of
George Williams Clerk
Ether Williams
Eustance Miles

10th October 1777
Richard Leyson and Mary Leyson Spinster the Son and Daughter and surviving Executors named in the within written Will were sworn to the Truth ...
Proved at Landaff on the Tenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand severn hundred and seventy seven before the Reverend Benjamin Hall Clerk M. D. the Chancellors Surrogate by Richard Leyson and Mary Leyson Spinster the son and Daughter of the said decd the surviving Executors in this Will named ...
Burial: 31 Sep 1777 Welsh St Donats: Thomas Leyson. Glamorgan Burial Index CD.