Considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being (blessed be God) in tolerably good health of body and of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding I **Robert Nurse** of Hanham Green in the hamlet of Hanham within the parish of Bitton in the County of Glouceter do make ordain and publish this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following

This is the Last Will and Testament of me Jonathan Couch Nurse of Hanham Green, Gloucestershire, Maltster.

This is the Last Will and Testament of me Robert Nurse of the Parish of Bitton in the County of Gloucester, Maltster.

I, Robert Willis of the Hamlet of Hanham in the Parish of Bitton in the County of Gloucester, Yeoman, being of sound mind, memory and understanding, thanks be to God for the same and knowing the frailty of this mortal life and the certainty of death and being therefore desirous to settle my worldly affairs do make and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say.

The first reference to a Nurse family living in the Hanham Abbots area of Hanham was the baptism of William Dolman (Nors) son of Samuel Nors on 12th April 1778 at St. George's Hanham, a chapelry of the Parish of St Mary, Bitton.

As mentioned in the previous article, Samuel and his wife Rachel (nee Dolman) were married in the neighboring parish of Keynsham on the 11th October 1772. It has not been completely proven that this Samuel was the same Samuel that was baptised in Compton Dando, but a review of the evidence indicates that it was very likely.