Hi Sherron Great stuff.
Glad to see you are doing a fair bit of research yourself.
A contact had a look at the Puncknowle Parish Register
Marriage entries of which they had a full copy and the marriage
between John CHANT and Mary DAVIS in May 1786 at Puncknowle was
there. It also say's both were otp (Of This Parish) /married by
Banns / Witness's were Robert Chant and Joseph Cox.
Will now move onto looking at Brampton, Somerset and try to
work out where Low****thon and Leuyon, Odcombe is in Dorset
just north of Sherborne. Sort of makes sense about later parts.
Well the Brampton, Somserset connection puts your line closer to
the main West Chinnock and Stoke Sub Hamden lines.
Will check those Somerset and Dorset references. If I had a copy
of the Settlement certificate to view I might work it out. I have
had some success in that area for more than 210 of my family
ancestral lines tracing a few in Cornwall and Cambridgeshire back
to 1500's.
Regards
Michael Cheeseman
-----Original Message-----
From: SherronRBiddle(a)cs.com [mailto:SherronRBiddle@cs.com]
Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2001 9:39 AM
To: CHANT-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CHANT] Reading Settlement Papers
Hi,
By any chance can anyone help me out?
I have been trying to read the settlement papers for John Chant dated 6
December 1800 in Piddletown. (Film No 1596309 Item 41, Piddletown Poor
Laws). I cannot read the script. It seems to say he was born at Brampton,
Somerset the son of John Chant and moved to Puncknowle then Piddletown and
Low****thon where he was a molecatcher. His father now lives in Leuyon,
Dorset. John Chant (the younger) is a legal parishioner of Odcombe
(Somerset?) County.
Has anyone looked at these papers and can translate more clearly what it
says
than I can?
Thanks
Sherron Biddle
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