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SHEPARD/SHEPPARD family in Wimborne St Giles 1807-1841
« on: Thursday 07 November 13 17:23 GMT (UK) »
Hi, Everyone,
I have been tracing back the SHEPARD/SHEPPARD farming family from the present day to a marriage on 15th January 1807 in Wimborne St Giles between a Richard SHEPARD and a Sophia LONG.  I have them as a family in the 1841 Census in Wimborne, but have been trying to discover all the baptisms and possibly burials of this couple's children after 1807.  Whenever I try to put a narrow field on baptisms either on Ancestry or on Familysearch it throws up literally thousands of possibilities, even though I put this parish in, and also the timeline 1807 to 1827 as a rough guess.
So is there anyone privy to the Wimborne St Giles PR's who could tell me about any entries for this family, who apparently were baptising their children when the records were first started here in 1594 (?).
Many thanks, Keith
P.S. Or if anyone could point me towards a cheapish transcription of the Wimborne Parish BMD's..

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Re: SHEPARD/SHEPPARD family in Wimborne St Giles 1807-1841
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 07 November 13 17:29 GMT (UK) »
Hi Keith,
Source: Somerset & Dorset Family History Society, St Giles, Wimbourne St Giles, Burials:-
4th June 1825, Alice SHEPARD, aged 82.
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Re: SHEPARD/SHEPPARD family in Wimborne St Giles 1807-1841
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 07 November 13 17:49 GMT (UK) »
Victor,
Thanks very much for that - I wonder if that individual might have been a parent to Richard, or an aunt.  When I begin to assemble the bigger picture, I'll know more!
Regards, Keith

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Re: SHEPARD/SHEPPARD family in Wimborne St Giles 1807-1841
« Reply #3 on: Friday 08 November 13 23:48 GMT (UK) »
...and have now come across an excellent link:
forebears.co.uk/england/dorset/wimborne-st-giles
which has thrown up nearly 50 entries for the SHEPPARD/SHEPARD family.  Plus a pivotal original will for a Richard SHEPARD, which was proved in 1779. Just need now to try and fit some of these pieces together in the right places!
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Re: SHEPARD/SHEPPARD family in Wimborne St Giles 1807-1841
« Reply #4 on: Monday 11 November 13 22:47 GMT (UK) »
...talking to myself again (such a bad habit!), but on Ancestry I have now come across a couple of very informative wills, one for a Richard SHEPARD for 1779, where the next two generations of his direct family are made quite clear - his grandson is almost certainly the individual aged 70-ish in the 1841 Census.
And there's one for a Richard SHEPARD for 1803, that again simply has to be his son dying.  And this middle Richard refers to his own wife Alice in this will.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is the Alice aged 82 who dies and is buried in 1825, whom Victor very kindly turned up for me on this thread earlier...
regards, keith
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