Men & Armour for Gloucestershire in 1608 (General)

by jhopkins , Saturday, August 25, 2018, 03:19 (2275 days ago) @ MPGriffiths

Yes, I have been trying to find his baptism record so I can go back further.

Here is the marriage record for my gt gt gt grandparents, from the Parish records here:

Marriage of Philip and Sarah Hopkin

Record_ID: 47091
Entry_Number: 141
Year: 1793
Month: Dec
Day: 2
Grooms_Surname: HOPKIN
Grooms_Forenames: Phillip
Grooms_Age:
Groom_Condition: Bachelor
Grooms_Occupation:
Grooms_Residence: Parish of Woolaston in the County of Gloucester
Grooms_Fathers_Surname:
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames:
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation:
Brides_Surname: HOPKIN
Brides_Forenames: Sarah
Brides_Age:
Brides_Condition: Spinster
Brides_Occupation:
Brides_Residence: Of this Parish
Brides_Fathers_Surname:
Brides_Fathers_Forenames:
Brides_Fathers_Occupation:
Licence_or_Banns: Banns
Date_of_Banns: [not stated]
Signature_or_Mark: Both sign
Witness_1: The mark of William Williams
Witness_2: William Hulin
Other_Witnesses:
Officiating_Minister: Tho[ma]s Edmunds Curate
Event: Marriage
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P278 IN 1/9
Page_Number: 39
Parish_Chapel: St Briavels
Soundex_Groom: H125
Soundex_Bride: H125

Three notes -
1. Philip and Hopkin are spelled in various ways in the records, which tripped me up a few times in searches on this site. Philip/Phillip Hopkin/Hopkins.
2. Philip married a Sarah Hopkin - as she came from the same small area of the Forest, I have always wondered whether they are cousins. There are two possible baptism records for Sarah - Record_ID: 288479 and Record_ID: 288470. Both are a close match with her date of burial and age at date of death. I suspect that the first record is more likely to be the one, because of her parents' names which continue to recur throughout the family. Their son (my gt gt grandfather) was named Thomas (Record_ID:539).
3. Sadly the marriage record does not include Sarah's parents' names.

Philip's will 1847 is in the resources on this site, and I have tried finding his beneficiary brother Charles' baptism record to see if I could find their parents' name, with no success. Not knowing his approx age in relation to Philip made it a bit hit and miss.