Rampton of Whitchurch Family Chart no. 64

	Jesse RAMPTON		(1) Mary Ann COSTON		(2) Matilda FISHER
	born 9 Mar 1861 at Abbots Ann		born circa 1867		born circa 1865 Stoke Charity
			mar. 3 Jan 1891 at Chapel od St Cross, Winchester St Faith [witnesses Frederick Rampton and Annie Rampton]		mar. 12 May 1894 at Langley, West Bromwich, WOR
	d. 1941 at Lincoln		d. early 1894 Kingston, SRY
	Engine Driver (at Phosphorus Works and Electric Station) Mechanical Engineer

Their Children

Ivy Coston	Frances	Edith Emily
bapt. 5 Jun 1892 at Old Basing [parents resident at Long Ditton SRY]	born circa 1894 at Long Ditton, SRY	born 28 May 1896 at Oldbury West Bromwich, WOR
		m. William SOUTHWOOD 5 Mar 1821 at St Martin Lincoln, LIN

Additional Information

Jesse was for a long time a mystery to me, as he did not seem to quite fit into any of the known Hampshire families. I had obtained his birth certificate from Martin Southwood, and on it it states that his mother' maiden name was Mary BROWN. However, his father married Mary RAY and I have no evidence to suggest that Mary Ray died and father Jesse remarried another Mary. However, the fact that this Jesse took as his second wife the sister in law of his brother Frederick, added to the fact that Frederick and family followed Jesse to Lincoln, ties him incontrovertibly to this family.

When he married Mary Ann Coston, Jesse was working as a Telegraph worker and living at 127 Maysoule Road Battersea; when daughter Ivy was baptised in 1892, the family was said to be resident at Long Ditton, SRY; when Jesse remarried in 1894 he gave his address as Jackson Street, Langley West Bromwich, and Matilda gave hers as Winchester Hampshire [it is odd that their first child Frances should have been born in Long Ditton in 1894]. In 1896 when Edith Emily was born their address was 33 Farm Road Oldbury West Bronwich. By the time of the 1901 census they had settled in St Mary Wigford Lincoln, close to Jesse's brother Frederick.