Thanks for this, I did stumble across a roger and jone, but like you said, felt this was too early for the roger I was looking for. Is it possible theres a Roger Cripps birth registration in those areas you mentioned? Perhaps the Roger who married mary godfrey came from one of those other towns??
Perhaps Roger and jane were my Roger Cripps parents? Theres also one possibility mentioned below where a Roger married an elizabeth Hicks??
The following site gives some details:
https://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/
Roger Cripps/Mary Godfrey marriage 23rd January 1803 Bodmin
Mary Cripps baptism 16th November 1806 Bodmin
And from the same website:
Burial 22 July 1838 Bodmin - Mary CRIPPS, wife of Roger.
Burial 26 March 1848 Bodmin - Roger CRIPPS of St Nicholas Street, age 78, died 23rd.
There are no other baptisms for children of Roger and Mary in or near Bodmin.
I checked the images of the Bodmin Parish Register on FamilySearch for baptisms - there are no CRIPPS baptisms from 1760 to 1806. So, Roger had a non-conformist baptism, was not baptised at all, or moved to Bodmin from elsewhere. Mary (1838) and Roger (1848) are the only CRIPPS burials in Bodmin since 1640 which indicates that Roger arrived from elsewhere.
A search on the Cornwall OPC website shows CRIPPS burials and baptisms in Lostwithiel, Mevagissey, and Antony. The AA Route Planner website has modern distances from Bodmin by road: Lostwithiel 6.5 miles, Mevagissey 17.3 miles, Antony 25.9 miles, so Lostwithiel seems the likeliest starting point.
Philip
ADDED: There is a baptism on the Cornwall OPC in Lostwithiel 18 Sep 1744 for Roger CRIPS son of Roger and Jone - too early for your Roger, but on 24 Dec 1769 in Lanlivery he married Jane HUSBAND of Lostwithiel. Given that Roger was a relatively unusual name at the time, this might be a lead worth checking.
