Peter Ferreira
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Is anybody researching the family of Richard JAMES and Mary ROOKE, his wife, of Dowlish Wake and Kingstone, Somerset?
Richard JAMES, the younger, (son of Richard and Anne JAMES) was baptized 1747, in Dowlish Wake. About 1780, he married Mary ROOKE, daughter of Honour SYMONDS and Abraham ROOKE, at Dowlish church in 1780. Lived in Dowlish Wake and, from about 1792 / 93 in Kingstone, Somerset. Richard JAMES, aged 68, died 1815 (M. I. Kingstone church); his widow, Mary, aged 60, died in 1818. They had issue:
1. Abraham Rooke JAMES, baptised 1781, in Dowlish Wake; Abraham married Mary CUFF; Abraham and Mary lived in Dowlish Wake and, after about 1808, they farmed in West Hatch, where they had issue; Abraham died, aged 80, in 1861 at West Hatch (M. I. Kingstone); they had issue.
2. Mary JAMES, baptised in 1783, in Dowlish Wake; married James ROPER, widower, of Chideock, Dorset, at Kingstone in 1808; they farmed in Chideock and later, c1811, in Whitehurch Canonicorum, both in Dorset. James died in Whitechurch, aged 44, and was buried in Chideock in 1816 (M.I. in Chideock); Mary died, a widow, in 1843, aged 60, buried in Chideock in 1843 (M.I. in Chideock); they had issue;
3. John JAMES, baptised in 1785, in Dowlish Wake; a farmer at Croft Farm, Crewkerne, and occasional estate valuer at Crewkerne; he died 1861 having married Susannah CUFF of West Dowlish at Kingstone in 1808; John and Susannah had issue;
4. William JAMES, baptised in 1787, in Dowlish Wake; William 26 married Mary CORAM 22 in Dowlish Wake, Somerset, in 1813; William and Mary lived in Yarcombe, Devon, and, probably, also in Kingstone, Somerset; William died, aged 53, in 1841 (M. I. Kingstone); Mary died, aged 62, on April 2, 1854 (M. I. Kingstone). William and Mary had issue;
5. Richard JAMES, baptized in 1791, in Dowlish Wake; on December 18, 1823, in Seavington St. Michael, Richard James, of Kingstone, married Anna POOLE, who had been born about 1803 in Dinnington; they farmed in Knowle St. Giles, Somerset, and lived in Knowle House (censuses of 1841, 1851 and 1861); Richard died 1861 (M. I. Knowle St. Giles); Richard and Anna had issue;
6. Honour JAMES, baptised in 1800, in Kingstone; married Thomas Jeffrey DUKE of Dowlish in 1823 in Kingstone; Thomas was a farmer in Horton, Ilminster, Somerset; Thomas died in 1871, aged 75; Honour, his widow, died in 1886, aged 86 (M.I. Kingstone); Thomas and Honour had issue;
7. Jane JAMES, baptised in 1802, in Kingstone; she married Joseph DUKE of Dowlish in 1827 in Kingstone; Joseph and Jane lived in Kingstone (1841 census); Jane died in 1844, aged 42 (M. I. Kingstone); Joseph and Jane had issue.
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ROPER of Chideock, Powerstock & Winterborne Whitchurch, Dorset
LAWRENCE of Wilts, and Berks
MAYO of Poxwell, Friar Waddon (Portesham) & Frome St. Quintin, Dorset
STONE of Piddlehinton, Dorset
CHISMAN of Castle Eaton & East Knoyle, Wilts
RUMSEY of West Knoyle & Mere, Wilts
HULL of Sutton Benger, Wilts & East Woodhay, Hants
FOWLER of Winterborne Whitchurch & Abbotsbury, Dorset, and of Cudworth, Som.
GAPPER of Winsham, Som.
PHELPS of Shepton Beauchamp, Som.
SYMONDS of Somerset & Dorset
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