Rampton of Silchester Family Chart no. 2

	Richard RAMPTON		(1) Ann ?		(2) Elizabeth FAULKNER
	born circa 1720
			mar. circa 1744		mar. 1774 at Stratfield Mortimer [both widowed]
	bur. 6 Dec 1779 at Stratfield Mortimer [?]		bur 19 Nov 1774 at Stratfield Mortimer, BRK

Children of The First Marriage

Ann	Maria [aka Meriah]	Ann	Richard	Sarah	Thomas	Ann
bapt. 17 Feb 1744 at Stratfield Mortimer, BRK	bapt. 10 Dec 1745 at Stratfield Mortimer, BRK and at Monk Sherborne on the same date [name given as Meriah]	bapt. 24 Jan 1748 at Stratfield Mortimer, BRK	bapt. 21 Nov 1749 at Stratfield Mortimer, BRK	bapt. 24 Jan 1752 at Stratfield Mortimer, BRK [mother given as Sarah]	bapt. 25 Aug 1754 at Stratfield Mortimer, BRK	bapt. 6 Feb 1756 at Silchester
	m. John WISE 24 May 1768 at Stratfield Mortimer, BRK		m. Hannah HOLIDAY 7 Jun 1772 at Silchester
		bur. 13 Dec 1752 at Stratfield Mortimer, BRK	bur. 7 Jul 1821 at Silchester aged 71		bur. 29 Aug 1754 at Stratfield Mortimer, BRK

Children of The Second Marriage

George

bp. 19 Jul 1774 at Stratfield Mortimer, BRK

Additional Information

Richard and Ann baptised their second child, Maria, on 10 Dec 1754, and on the very same day, another Richard and Ann baptised their daughter Meriah in Monk Sherborne. It does seem very unlikely that the Stratfield couple should travel to Monk Sherborne to have their baby baptised twice, unless they had ties with Monk Sherborne. I have not discovered Richard of Stratfield's origins, only surmised that he was born around 1720. Could he be the eldest son of Richard of Monk Sherborne, returning to the family church for the baptism of this second child? Richard of Sherborne's wife's name was Hannah, and it is possible that the Monk Sherborne clerk named her mistakenly as Ann, but Meriah would have been born six years after their previous child, they did not have a very large family as some did, and the age difference of 24 years between the first and the last, given only five children in between is rather large. I am happier with the explanation that their eldest son returned for the baptism, as it explains son Richard's disappearance from Monk Sherborne, and the appearance of a Richard in Stratfield Mortimer, in the same timeframe.

Ann died sometime before 1774 and Richard appears to have remarried shortly before his death. He married the widow Elizabeth FAULKNER some time in 1774 at Stratfield Mortimer.