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Rampton of Whitchurch Family Chart no. 10


spacer William RAMPTON spacer Sarah COOPER
born circa 1759
[bapt 15 Apr 1759 at Overton ?]
born circa 1761 [?]
m. 19 Nov 1786 at Whitchurch
[bur. 27 Feb 1825 at Whitchurch, aged 66 ?] [bur. 7 Dec 1839 at Whitchurch, aged 78 ?]

Their Children


Charlotte John Sarah Sarah William Martha Charles George James Thomas Sarah Mary
bapt. 1 Apr 1787 at Whitchurch bapt. 14 Sep 1788 at Whitchurch bapt. 13 Dec 1789 at Whitchurch bapt. 6 Mar 1791 at Whitchurch bapt. 18 May 1793 at Whitchurch born 2 Dec 1794
bapt.5 Apr 1795 at Whitchurch
born 24 Dec 1796
bapt. 22 Jan 1797 at Whitchurch
born 4 Mar 1799
bapt. 24 Mar 1799 at Whitchurch
born 27 Mar 1801
bapt. 7 Apr 1801 at Whitchurch [and again on 9 Aug 1801!]
born Apr 1803
bapt. 31 Jul 1803 at Whitchurch
bapt. 25 May 1806 at Whitchurch born 6 Aug 1808
bapt. 7 Aug 1808 at Whitchurch
m. Sarah WILLIAMS 9 Nov 1811 at Whitchurch m. Anne RUSSELL 28 Feb 1816 at Crux Easton m. Rachel PEARCE 12 Oct 1822 at Tufton [IGI] m. Hester HILL 25 Dec 1830 at Whitchurch m. Jane SHAW 23 Nov 1837 at Winchester m. Mary GREEN 2 Sep 1827 at Tufton [IGI] m. John LEWIS 6 Feb 1847 at Whitchurch [PR]
bur. 19 Nov 1863 at Whitchurch, aged 79 bur. 31 Jan 1794 at Whitchurch, aged 4


Additional Information

The only mature William I can find buried in Whitchurch after 1808 is the William aged 66, buried in 1825. The age of this William leads me to suppose that he is the William born in Overton in 1759 to George and Ann, and that William of Overton moved to Whitchurch in his youth, became a resident, and subsequently married Sarah Cooper (both he and Sarah were of this parish when they married).

The first two children listed above are based largely on speculation. Charlotte's baptism is recorded in the Whitchurch register with parents John & Sarah, and John's baptism shows his parents as William & Mary. However, no other baptisms in Whitchurch are recorded with these two sets of parents, and the date of Charlotte's baptism ties in with the date of the marriage between William and Sarah. If Charlotte and John were not children of William & Sarah, then their first child would have been recorded fully three years after their marriage; this is not completely unlikely - miscarriages could account for such a gap - but it is unusual. It is more likely that the parish clerk, recording baptisms in the register months after they were actually performed, made two mistakes, getting the father wrong on one baptism and the mother wrong on another.

Family Group Identifiers

Family: RAMOVERTON1
Family Group: whitchurch010