Rampton of Whitchurch Family Chart no. 10

	William RAMPTON		Sarah COOPER
	born circa 1759 [bapt 15 Apr 1759 at Overton ?]		born circa 1761 [?]
			m. 19 Nov 1786 at Whitchurch
	[bur. 27 Feb 1825 at Whitchurch, aged 66 ?]		[bur. 7 Dec 1839 at Whitchurch, aged 78 ?]

Their Children

Charlotte	John	Sarah	Sarah	William	Martha	Charles	George	James	Thomas	Sarah	Mary
bapt. 1 Apr 1787 at Whitchurch	bapt. 14 Sep 1788 at Whitchurch	bapt. 13 Dec 1789 at Whitchurch	bapt. 6 Mar 1791 at Whitchurch	bapt. 18 May 1793 at Whitchurch	born 2 Dec 1794 bapt.5 Apr 1795 at Whitchurch	born 24 Dec 1796 bapt. 22 Jan 1797 at Whitchurch	born 4 Mar 1799 bapt. 24 Mar 1799 at Whitchurch	born 27 Mar 1801 bapt. 7 Apr 1801 at Whitchurch [and again on 9 Aug 1801!]	born Apr 1803 bapt. 31 Jul 1803 at Whitchurch	bapt. 25 May 1806 at Whitchurch	born 6 Aug 1808 bapt. 7 Aug 1808 at Whitchurch
	m. Sarah WILLIAMS 9 Nov 1811 at Whitchurch			m. Anne RUSSELL 28 Feb 1816 at Crux Easton		m. Rachel PEARCE 12 Oct 1822 at Tufton [IGI]	m. Hester HILL 25 Dec 1830 at Whitchurch
			bur. 31 Jan 1794 at Whitchurch, aged 4

Additional Information

The only mature William I can find buried in Whitchurch after 1808 is the William aged 66, buried in 1825. The age of this William leads me to suppose that he is the William born in Overton in 1759 to George and Ann, and that William of Overton moved to Whitchurch in his youth, became a resident, and subsequently married Sarah Cooper (both he and Sarah were of this parish when they married).

The first two children listed above are based largely on speculation. Charlotte's baptism is recorded in the Whitchurch register with parents John & Sarah, and John's baptism shows his parents as William & Mary. However, no other baptisms in Whitchurch are recorded whith these two sets of parents, and the date of Charlotte's baptism ties in with the date of the marriage between William and Sarah. If Charlotte and John were not children of William & Sarah, then their first child would have been recorded fully three years after their marriage; this is not completely unlikely - miscarriages could account for such a gap - but it is unusual. It is more likely that the parish clerk, recording baptisms in the register months after they were actually performed, made two mistakes, getting the father wrong on one baptism and the mother wrong on another.