Rampton of Pamber Family Chart no. 1

	Francis RAMPTON		Ann OMADEY
	bapt. 27 Apr 1645 at Monk Sherborne
			mar. 14 Feb 1667 at Pamber Priory Church
	died circa 1676
	Verger

Children of The Marriage

Additional Information

On 27 Apr 1645, Francis Rampton, son of John, was baptised at All Saint's Monk Sherborne. Francis would have been about 22 years old at the time of the 1667 marriage, about the right age for a young man to marry, and there are no other men of marriageable age called Francis in the area at that particular time, at least none that I have been able to discover. The only other evidence for Francis' existence is an Inventory attachment to a lost will for Francis RAMTON of Pamber, Vereger, dated 3 Jul 1676.

There are no children listed in the parish records for Francis and Ann, and no record of the burial of either in Pamber. However, on 18 Sep 1676, George HANKINS a widower of Herriard, married Ann RUMTON, a widow of Pamber. This event took place only 10 weeks after Francis' will inventory was taken, and could not have been many months after his death. It is not impossible that the new Mrs Hankins was Francis' widow. On consulting the Herriard parish registers, I found that the (presumably first) wife of George Hankins (also called Ann although spelled An in the burial notice) was buried there on 16 May 1676, and Ramptons abound in the early Herriard registers, so perhaps Ann took her children when she went to Herriard with George in 1676. Perhaps this will become clearer when I examine the Herriard Registers.