Christopher BETTERTON

                   Fairford Parish Records, Gloucestershire, England.

Abstract of the will of Alexander Betterton, Fairford, Gloucestershire, 1693.
i, ALEXANDER BETTERTON,  of ffaireford in the County of Gloucr., Inneholder, weake in Body, etc., make this my last will and testament.  I give to my sonne CHRISTOPHER BETTERTON one shilling and all those my two closes or peaices of pasture ground lying in Milton end in ffaireford, called Bettertons poeices lyeing on the west side of the Lane leading to Horcutt, but my wife shall hold the said peices for fforty yeares if she soe long live.  I give and devise to my second sonne ALEXANDER BETTERTON my New House & the peice or ground wherein it stands but my wife shall hold the said peice for ffifty yeares if shee soe long live. I give and devise unto my two younger sonnes CHARLES & ROBERT my ground lyeing next Masons peice but my wife ALICE shall hold & enjoye the saom for Twenty yeares.  I give and devise unto my two daughter KATHERINE & ALICE fiffty pounds apeice (when 22) and to each of them a feather Bedd wth Bedsteed & all things belonging thereunto.  I give and devise unto my Loveing Wife ALICE all my land lyeing in Milton end feild which I bought of ALBERT SAVERY.  All the rest of my goods, chattels, cattle, household stuffe, etc., I give and bequeath unto my Lveing Wife ALICE BETTERTON whom I make sole executrix of this my last Will and Testament.  Dated this 27th day of July 1693.
Signed: ALEX. BETTERTON
Witnesses: JNO. CHAUNLER, LAURENCE COMLEY, ANE HAINES.
Proved: at Cirencester 6th Nov 1693.
Note: A son, Charles had died in 1674 so this shows that the family named a second son Charles who is alive in 1693.

Not mentioned in his grandmother, Alice Betterton's will which was written in 1617 and proved in 1624/25.  It looks like he may have been born after the grandmother died.

There is an Alexander Betterton who married Ann Watkins on Nov 6, 1644 in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England.  Parish records.  Do not know which Alexander it may be as there are several by that name at this time.
                  

                   Parish records of the Fairford Parish, Gloucestershire, England
                  

                   Fairford Parish records, Gloucestershire, England
                  

                   Fairford, Gloucestershire, England Parish records.  Birth and death dates.

Parish records: Married to two wives.  #1 is unknown and #2 is Susanna.  Records show Christopher Betterton was a widower when he married Susanna.
                  

                   Fairford Parish records, Gloucestershire, England.  Seems to almost be 8 years old.