Richard ABERLEY lived in Admaston, Staffordshire as did his children and some of his grandchildren.Admaston is the nearesr village to Blithfield Hall, the county seat of the Sir Walter BAGOT 3rd Baronet and location of St Leonard's Church.
No baptismal record can be found, but his father might possibly be the Richard ABERLEY of Admaston who died in 1686 and whose inventory of 'Goods Cattell & Chattells' are given below and give a clear picture of the life being lived by the ABERLEY family in the 17th century. His wife and executrix Margaret is referred to in probate papers, and his profession is listed as "shoomaker". The other executor is Samuel ABERLEY.
Even earlier in 1647, a Richard ABERLEY and Joan ABERLEY both of Blithfield had wills go through probate suggesting that the family was in Blithfield/Admaston since the 16th century.
August 16 1686
An Inventory of the Goods Cattell & Chattells of Richard Aberly of Admaston lately deceased
In the dwelling house
One Table Frame & leaf
One form
One joyn'd cupboard
In ye kitchen
1 little table, 1 form, 4 little stools, 2 chairs
In a little room by the kitchen
1 little kynmill, 1 little tub, 1 little cupboard, 2 peals, 1 little loom
3 little brass kettles 2 little brass pots
2 iron kettles, 1 iron posnet [a pan with legs that could be placed into the embers of a fire]
1 brass chafing dish, 1 brass candlestick
6 pewter dishes, 3 porringers [little dishes] 1 cup 1 salt
In the Dairy
1 churn, 3 wooden bowls, 1 cheespress, 2 forms, 1 loom, 1 barrell
In the parlor
1 cof[f]er, 1 box, 1 chair, 5 cusshions
1 joynd nedsted
2 feather beds, 2 bolsters, 5 pillowss
4 blankets, 1 coverlid, one pair curtains
In upper rooms
1 old chasse bed with 2 blankets and old bedsteds
1 strike, 1 half strik,e 1 shaw tub, 1 pilian
Cheese
Flax
3 pair of hempen sheets
His wearing apparel
Hemp in the rough
2 day work & half of barly
Hay in the narn
1 little horse
1 swine
1 shovell, 1 matlock, 4 forks
1 little cart with cartsaddle & holmes
Prized 26=18=08 [£.s.d]