John, Have you any interest in JAMES JESSOP who married ELIZABETH NUNN at St. Marys Church, Huntingfield, near Halesworth, Suffolk on 14th Feb 1777. Between 1778 and 1805 they had fourteen children. More info if interested Regards Alec Burwood ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Flint" <jflint_peru@yahoo.com> To: <suffolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [SFK-UK] JESSUP/JESSOP Name interest > Hello Margaret, Rosemary and Suffolk Listers, > > I too have an interest in the Jessup family of the Norfolk/Suffolk border > area. > I am descended from the QUINTON/QUINTIN family who lived in the parishes > surrounding Diss and Eye in the 1500/1600s, and I am aware of the > following > three QUINTIN/JESSOP marriages: > > ELIZABETH QUINTIN m. JOHN JESSOP at Diss on 19 July 1607 > THOMAS QUINTIN of Eye m. ABIGAIL JESSOP of Occold about 1619 (they had > five > children between 1620 and 1627) > FRANCES QUINTIN of Scole m. NICHOLAS JESSOP at Scole on 2 July 1633 > > I suspect (but cannot conclusively prove) that my QUINTON line descends > through > THOMAS and ABIGAIL. Unfortunately many early parish records simply have > not > survived, and those that have are often far from complete. For instance at > Stuston there are no records whatsoever for 28 of the years between 1559 > and > 1630. Similarly, there are gaps in the surviving records for various other > North Suffolk parishes, especially Occold. Again at Stuston there is an > entry > in the Bishops’ transcripts for 1605 which stated that ‘many dyed of the > small > pockes’; the strange thing is that the actual burial register recorded > only 3 > deaths in 1605 and 4 in 1606! Another factor is that in general in early > parish > records there is a lack of vital information. Often baptism records gave > only > the name of the father, while burial records seldom provided details of > age at > death or the status of the deceased (widow, wife, spinster, husband, etc). > > > Fortunately, some of these QUINTONS left wills, as did ABIGAIL's father, > ADAM > JESOPE, who bequeathed a house and land at Occold to his son-in-law THOMAS > QUINTIN, and it appears that this same property remained in the QUINTON > family > for at least another 140 years. It is thus through land ownership, rather > than > parish records, that I have (tentatively) traced back my 17th/18th century > ancestry. > > I hope that this mail is sufficiently provocative to warrant a response > from > listers! > > John Quinton Flint > Peru, South America > > > ________________________________ > From: margaret jessup <maggie2lo@tiscali.co.uk> > To: SUFFOLK@rootsweb.com > Sent: Mon, August 23, 2010 8:28:37 AM > Subject: [SFK-UK] Name interest > > I am new to this list so I just thought that I would post my name interest > in > Suffolk. > JESSUP/JESSOP. especially from the Thetford border area. > Margaret Jessup > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SUFFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SUFFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message