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Offline findem

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Has anyone seen either of these two?
« on: Thursday 27 May 21 04:07 BST (UK) »
Rafe (aka Ralph) Classon (aka Claxon)
Frances Gun

They married 24 Jun 1619 at Good Easter and baptised 6 (known) children there 1620 to 1632.

I have searched Ancestry's Essex Parish Register Index (EPRI), Family Search, FreeReg and the initial search on FindMyPast, also an all counties and records search on Ancestry without success.

The children's names are: Elizabeth, Rafe, Ann, Samuel, Abraham and John, they were all baptised with the surname Classun, the u in Classun could be an EPRI transcriber's misread o.

I have wondered if they came from Cambridgeshire or Hertfordshire, although I haven't seen anything to indicate that, only their seemingly absence in Essex.
Concentrating currently on:
Essex: Card, Harris, Stowell, Theobald/Tibbles & Turner.
Norfolk: Beale, Cork & Dalton.
Yorkshire: Oswald Sturdy birth/baptism c1708, Oswald where the devil are you?

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Re: Has anyone seen either of these two?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 27 May 21 07:19 BST (UK) »
A search of Essex Archives shows that they have this: Inventory of Abraham Claxon of Good Easter (1686).
I haven't tried all possible versions of the name, so there may be other items.
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Re: Has anyone seen either of these two?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 27 May 21 07:31 BST (UK) »
Boyd's Marriage Index has a marriage of
Abr Claxon and Rose Newton at Chignal Smealy (about 3 miles from Good Easter) in 1658
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Re: Has anyone seen either of these two?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 27 May 21 07:37 BST (UK) »
Date of Abraham's marriage 16 Nov 1658
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott


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Re: Has anyone seen either of these two?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 27 May 21 08:00 BST (UK) »
I haven't found a marriage for them, but a couple named John andd Dorothy Claxton baptised these children at Great Waltham, Essex:
Sarah - 10 Sep 1667
William - 29 Apr 1669
Abraham - 9 Jun 1671
Ralph - 6 May 1673
Mary - 25 May 1675
Frances - 11 Apr 1678

also Jane - Feb 1665 to John and Dorothie Classun at Good Easter
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Re: Has anyone seen either of these two?
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 27 May 21 08:26 BST (UK) »
may be some more family
John Claxon bapt 29 Mar 1653 at Roxwell, Essex s/ o Ralph no mother recorded.
could Ralph be son of Rafe and Frances?
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Has anyone seen either of these two?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 27 May 21 08:27 BST (UK) »
Marriage at Mashbury,Essex  19 Jan 1664 - Johannes Classun and Dorothea White
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Re: Has anyone seen either of these two?
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 27 May 21 08:56 BST (UK) »
Could the first Rafe have come from London?
Sybell Claxton bapt 24 Feb 1577 at Saint Dunstan in the East, d/o Rafe Claxton. Could this Rafe be father or grandfather of the one who married Frances Gun?
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Has anyone seen either of these two?
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 27 May 21 09:14 BST (UK) »
Mary d/o Abraham Clarson bapt 14 Feb 1670 at High Easter

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also transcribed as Claxton
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott