Help with Brodribb family please.

[Jo Harding]

I am sending a link to a Find My Past search to give you an idea of the name variants.

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/results?lastname=brodribb&lastname_variants=true&keywordsplace=shepton%20mallet%2c%20somerset%2c%20england&keywordsplace_proximity=5&yearofbirth=1793&yearofbirth_offset=10&sourcecountry=great%20britain

Jo

[Vance Mead]

I suppose Brodripp must be an alternative spelling?

Here is a case in King's Bench, 1642 Hilary term:

Somerset. John Day & Dorothy his wife, née Dorothy Brodripp, versus Agnes Brodripp, widow, executrix of James Brodripp. Indebitatus Assumpsit: account with arrears of £30. (An undertaking to pay a debt, made at Taunton)

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/C1/KB27no1672/bKB27no1672dorses/IMG_2112.htm


Still earlier, this is a case in Common Pleas, Hilary term 1528:

Wilts. John Rider versus John Brodrip alias Mason, of Kyngston Deverell, mason, for a debt of 46  shillings; and William Ratclyff, of Wanstrowe, Soms, clerk, for a horse worth 40 shillings.

Second entry:
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H8/CP40no1057/bCP40no1057dorses/IMG_6938.htm

[trish1120]

I presume William was a Convict?

Looking at a Tree he names children Agnes Brodribb and Samson Richard Collier Brodribb

So maybe the Bapt for him with Mother Agnes is correct.

[Cienna]

Hello Jo,

Thank you so much for the input on the Brodribb/Broadribb name, it had me totally confused with the spellings, especially when they were spelt the two different ways in the same family.

Yes, I do know spelling back then wasn't totally accurate, but back in the day one done the best they could regarding the situation in those times.


Than you again

Kind Regards

Cienna.

[Cienna]

Thank you Vance and Trish for the info I am going to research all possible avenues with the difference in the surname spelling, I may find more doing that and piece them all together with the names I have...thank you also Jo for the link, I will be sure to have a go at that also......
Kind Regards

Cienna