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SOMERSET PARISH
REGISTERS
There
was a branch of the family in Somerset for much of the 17th Century,
but its origin is unknown, and no earlier family references have been
found in surviving Timsbury Parish Registers or Bishop's Transcripts,
which date back (with gaps) to around 1600. No male child survived
and the branch consequently died out. County archives are held by the
Somerset Record Office at Taunton, who have microform copies of
parish registers and Bishop's Transcripts. They also have quite a
number of typed transcripts of many of the PRs, including both
Timsbury and Bath St.James, though names and dates have not always
been extracted correctly. Timbsury is six miles south-west of the
cathedral city of Bath. No family entries have been found in the
registers for the following parishes in the Timsbury area - Camerton,
Dunkerton, Farmborough & Radstock; nor in the Bishop's
Transcripts for High Littleton, Marksbury and Priston.
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Bath
St.James Parish Registers
1 May 1637
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Thomas
Fisher
m Abigall
Sturdivant
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28 Jul 1642
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Allexander
Stevens
married Anne
Sturtivant
.
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18 Jul 1659
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John
Sturdivant
of
Timsborough buried.
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Timsbury
Parish Registers
Baptisms
29 Jan 1608/9
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John son of John
Sturdevant
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5 Aug 1610
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Jone daughter of John
Sturdevant
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17 Jan 1612/3
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Abigail daughter of John
Sturdevante
.
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20 Nov 1615
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An daughter of John
Sturdevant
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1 Feb 1617/8
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Rhode daughter of John
Sturdevant
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7 May 1620
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John son of John
Sturdevant
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19 Oct 1623
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Marie daughter of John
Sturdevant
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15 Jun 1649
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Hester the base child of Mary
Sturdevant
deceased.
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Timsbury
Parish Registers
Marriages
31 Oct 1608
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John
Sturdevant
&
Jone
Wright
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26 Jan 1639/40
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William
Heale
& Rode
Stuarduvant
.
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6 May 1643
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John
Vincent
& Joan
Stuarduvant
.
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Timsbury
Parish Registers
Burials
30 Jan 1608/9
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John son of John
Studevant
buried.
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4 May 1655
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Joane the wife of John
Sturdevant
buried.
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10 May 1658
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Joan the wife of John
Stodivant
died.
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12 May 1658
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Joane
Sturdevant
the
wife of John
Sturdivant
buried.
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16 Jul 1659
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John
Sturdevant
buried.
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3 Jun 1662
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Mary
Sturdevant
buried.
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24 Mar 1699/1700
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Hester
Sturdevant
buried.
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Timsbury
Bishop's Transcripts
19 Oct 1623
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Marie daughter of John
Sturdevant
baptised.
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26 Jan 1639/40
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William
Heale
married
Rhode
Stewanduvant
.
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3 Jun 1662
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Marie
Sturdevant
buried.
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Bath
& Wells Marriage Licences 1583-1623
Wells Book 19L. 1608
p.1. Entry No.8
20 Oct 1608
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Jn
Sturdivant
,
Timberscombe, juvenis & Joan
Wrighte
, same ancilla.
Ib. Bnd. Thos
Jones
, vicar of High Littleton, Jn
Brookings
, Wells, Innholder.
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Footnote
Simon
Sturdevant
, formerly of Middle Rasen, Lincolnshire,
was a teacher at Martock, near Yeovil, Somerset in 1604. In that year
he became rector of Compton Martin, Somerset, where his name appears
in the church on a list of incumbents. In 1613 he was dispossessed of
his living, probably for neglecting his parish and the rectory. He
was by then living in Islington, London, and undertaking waterworks
including Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.
[Compton Martin is only
10 miles from Timsbury. Could John Sturdevant there have been a
relative who also came from Lincolnshire?]
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