**COMPLETED** Wrentham - PANKS & DURRANT lookup

[jonwicken]

Simon Panks and Martha Durrant were married by licence at Lound, Suffolk, on 7 July 1735.

The marriage states that both were of 'Rantham', which is presumably Wrentham.

Does anyone please have access to the Wrentham parish registers to see if either of these people have baptisms recorded there?

Many thanks,
Jon

[annes]

Hi Jon

I checked the Wrentham parish register transcripts today but neither Simon nor Martha were baptised there although they were obviously of the parish at the time of their marriage.
Sorry I couldn't provide more information.

Anne

[jonwicken]

Hi Anne,

Thanks very much for looking. A shame neither of them turned up but maybe they will in the future... somewhere else.

Thanks again,
Jon

[jonwicken]

Hi Anne,

Further to your kind previous post, I wonder if it may please be possible for you to tell me if there are any Panks entries in the Wrentham parish registers?

Thanks to another rootchat poster, Simon Panks' baptism has turned up at Burgh Castle in 1711, but he was living in 'Rantham' at his 1735 marriage and also 1734 when he is listed in the Norfolk poll book as having a freehold property at Freethorpe.

I now know his parents were James Panks of Bradwell and Elizabeth Jenkinson of Lound, who married at Bradwell in 1708.

They had a daughter Martha at Burgh Castle in 1709 and Simon also there in 1711 NS. Two further daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth, were baptised at Oulton in 1713 and 1716. Elizabeth wife of James was buried at Oulton in 1718.

James Panks then remarried at Lound in 1721 to Sarah Thwaits and had four children at Lound: Sarah Panks (1721 – 1721), James Panks (1724 – 1724), James Panks (b. 1728) and Sarah Panks (1729 – 1730). His daughter Elizabeth from his first marriage also died at Lound in 1722.

However there are no more Panks burials at Lound after 1730 so I think maybe the family then moved to Wrentham.

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Kind regards and thanks,
Jon

[annes]

Hi Jon I don't have the parish register myself but have been to the records office today and had a look at the transcripts of the Wrentham registers.  I've noted down all references to the name Panks but now having re-read your post I can't see that any of the names match.

The notes I took are as follows.

Baptisms

Children of Henry and Elizabeth Panks (late Rainer)
Philip 27th August 1792

Children of Charles and Dinah Panks (late Hazell)
James 27th August 1808
Robert 12 November 1809
George 20 December 1810
Mary 26 December 1811
Anne 21st April 1814
Anne 19th May 1815
Charles 1st July 1817
Robert 25th Feb 1819
Robert 17th September 1820
William 22nd Oct 1821

Children of George and Hannah Panks
George 14th September 1834
William 26th November 1837
Mary 16th June 1839
Charles 11th October 1840

William illegitimate s/o Ann Panks 23rd Feb 1838
William illegitimate s/o Nathan Flatman and Ann Panks 14th June 1840

[annes]

Marriages

Charles Panks bachelor
Dinah Hazell spinster
BOTP
Banns: 10, 17 and 24th January 1808
Married 25th January 1808
Witnesses John Roote and Hannah Winters

Henry Pank bachelor
Elizabeth Rayner spinster
BOTP
Married 12th April 1792
Witnesses Honor Peek and Sarah Pleasants

George Panks bachelor
Hannah Brown spinster
BOTP with consent of parties
Married 2nd June 1834
Witnesses Ann Brown and Samuel Blowers

William Brown shoemaker bachelor
Ann Panks dressmaker spinster
Married 14th July 1844
Fathers: Jeffrey Brown shoemaker, Charles Panks hairdresser
Witnesses: George Panks, Mary Naunton

[annes]

Burials

Robert Panks a child 9th Jan 1812
Anne Panks infant 28th April 1814
Robert Panks infant 2nd March 1819
Dinah Panks a married woman 9th Sept 1822 age 38
Charles Panks 31st Jan 1838 age 60
William Panks 27th April 1838 age 10 weeks
William Panks 12th June 1840 age 7 months (water in the head)
Charles Panks 28th June 1840 age 23 (disease of the brain)

And a monumental inscription:

Dinah
Wife of Charles Panks
Died 4th September 1822 aged 38 years
Also 3 of their children who died in infancy

[jonwicken]

Hi Anne,

So sorry for the delay in replying to your post.

Thank you so much for looking into all this for me and for posting up the details.

It will be really helpful in working out my Panks family.

Thanks again,
Jon