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Westmorland Completed Look up Requests / William Shepherd & Mary Gilpin married 27 Apr 1616, Kendal - residence?
« on: Tuesday 22 December 15 21:25 GMT (UK) »
Hello,
[SHORTER QUESTION:]
Would anyone with access to full transcriptions/images for the Kendal parish registers from 1607-1616 possibly be able to check whether a spouse's place of residence (e.g. Patton, Strickland Roger or Strickland Ketel) is included for any of the following marriages? I've only managed to find baptism records for these years online. Thank you!
William Shepherd married Marie Gilpin, 27 April 1616
William Sheperd married Ellen Birkett, 29 May 1608
William Shipperd married Elizabeth Jininges, 14 Jun 1607
[FULL QUERY(!):]
I'm descended from a William Shepherd, yeoman of Field End, Patton, who had four children christened at Kendal in the early 1600s: Arthur bap. 15 Mar 1616/7, Elizabeth 1619, Martin 1626/7 and Lancelot 1631. He may also have had a son Anthony and daughter Katherine - but Arthur was the oldest surviving son, and inherited William's property.
William's father Arthur (probably bap.1561/2) had bought Field End from an Allan Gilpin in 1612/3, and the property seems to have been mortgaged in 1608/9 by a Bernard Gilpin, yeoman of Strickland Roger.
I suspect that my William Shepherd married Mary/Marie Gilpin (bap.1592/3), daughter of Martin Gilpin and Katherine Newby of Strickland Roger whose eldest son was a Bernard Gilpin (bap.1583/4). The marriage was 10-11 months before the baptism of William's first child; another of his sons was apparently named after Mary's father Martin; and he lived on land previously belonging to the Gilpin family.
I have a few doubts, though. Firstly, Mary's mother Katherine Gilpin and grandfather Richard Newby do mention her husband William Shepherd in their wills, but I don't think they record his place of residence, and William's only named child is a daughter Katherine (in Katherine's will in the early 1630s - I can't find her baptism). Martin Gilpin was also a member of the family who had been at Kentmere Hall since the 1200s, so when some of William Shepherd's descendants at Patton later became landed gentry and recorded a pedigree in Burke's, I would have expected them to mention the connection - which they don't. At least five separate William Shepherds had children baptised at Kendal in the early 1600s, and it's hard to tell them apart; almost all must have married before 1615, but a William Shepherd of Strickland Roger had a single child recorded, a daughter Margaret baptised in 1619/20 - too soon after one of the Patton baptisms to be one of mine.
Sorry for such a long post - but if anyone was able to help/advise, or stumbles across this at some point researching the same family, I would be very grateful to hear!
Very many thanks.
Ronan
[SHORTER QUESTION:]
Would anyone with access to full transcriptions/images for the Kendal parish registers from 1607-1616 possibly be able to check whether a spouse's place of residence (e.g. Patton, Strickland Roger or Strickland Ketel) is included for any of the following marriages? I've only managed to find baptism records for these years online. Thank you!
William Shepherd married Marie Gilpin, 27 April 1616
William Sheperd married Ellen Birkett, 29 May 1608
William Shipperd married Elizabeth Jininges, 14 Jun 1607
[FULL QUERY(!):]
I'm descended from a William Shepherd, yeoman of Field End, Patton, who had four children christened at Kendal in the early 1600s: Arthur bap. 15 Mar 1616/7, Elizabeth 1619, Martin 1626/7 and Lancelot 1631. He may also have had a son Anthony and daughter Katherine - but Arthur was the oldest surviving son, and inherited William's property.
William's father Arthur (probably bap.1561/2) had bought Field End from an Allan Gilpin in 1612/3, and the property seems to have been mortgaged in 1608/9 by a Bernard Gilpin, yeoman of Strickland Roger.
I suspect that my William Shepherd married Mary/Marie Gilpin (bap.1592/3), daughter of Martin Gilpin and Katherine Newby of Strickland Roger whose eldest son was a Bernard Gilpin (bap.1583/4). The marriage was 10-11 months before the baptism of William's first child; another of his sons was apparently named after Mary's father Martin; and he lived on land previously belonging to the Gilpin family.
I have a few doubts, though. Firstly, Mary's mother Katherine Gilpin and grandfather Richard Newby do mention her husband William Shepherd in their wills, but I don't think they record his place of residence, and William's only named child is a daughter Katherine (in Katherine's will in the early 1630s - I can't find her baptism). Martin Gilpin was also a member of the family who had been at Kentmere Hall since the 1200s, so when some of William Shepherd's descendants at Patton later became landed gentry and recorded a pedigree in Burke's, I would have expected them to mention the connection - which they don't. At least five separate William Shepherds had children baptised at Kendal in the early 1600s, and it's hard to tell them apart; almost all must have married before 1615, but a William Shepherd of Strickland Roger had a single child recorded, a daughter Margaret baptised in 1619/20 - too soon after one of the Patton baptisms to be one of mine.
Sorry for such a long post - but if anyone was able to help/advise, or stumbles across this at some point researching the same family, I would be very grateful to hear!
Very many thanks.
Ronan