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Vailes Vails Vale Vales Vals Vayles Veales family
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Dr Geoffrey Mann
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7 John VAILES 1692?-1730
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m Mary SAVAGE 1715
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John VAILES was born about 1692; his father John was a weaver in Witham. When he was 20 he was found guilty of stealing a pair of sheets and sentenced to be whipped. He married Mary SAVAGE at Witham in 1715 when he was 23, but their daughter Sarah had been born a year earlier. At least three more children were born before John died in 1730. At the time he was living in Duck End, a continuation of the main street of Witham over the bridge. Mary remarried a widower two years later. |
C=Christened
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age DATE JV MS |
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? 1692 7Oct1712 20 25Nov1713 21 4Sep1715 23 13Dec1716 24 24Jun1722 30 7Jan1727 35 8Dec1730 38 18Nov1732 |
John born, son of John
& Elizabeth sentenced to be whipped
for stealing a pair of sheets dau Sarah born; C
9May1714 at Witham John & Mary SAVAGE
married at Witham son George born and C at
Witham Joseph VAILS C at Witham
& bur 9Jan1723. Possibly son of John & Mary son John born; C
2Jul1727 at Witham John VEALES of Duck_End
buried Mary VAILES widow,
married George LONG widower at Witham |
b=born m=married d=died
C=Christened B=Buried
John's first known child (Sarah-6) was born in 1713 at Witham, so a birth for John around 1680/1690 is expected. No suitable baptism at Witham has been found. However another John VAILES was m at Witham in 1691 (to Elizabeth PULLIN) and baptised Hannah there in 1707. This is unlikely to be a previous marriage of John, since there is a second John burial in 1733 proving there were two adult John VAILES in the parish at the same time. The only other VAILES parents at this time (William & Anne) were married in 1700 which is too late for a son to have a child in 1713.
It is very probable therefore that John-7 is the first son of John & Elizabeth PULLIN, born about 1692 and the baptism took place somewhere else or is missing (or was missed) in the Witham register.
MARRIAGE
the following marriage was missed in a search of Witham
registers but appears in the IGI:
m 4Sep1715 Jn & Mary SAVAGE at Witham
this is 18 months after the birth of their child Sarah, so the date needs checking in the original register
C 9May1714 Sarah d John & Mary VAILES b 25Nov1713
C Dec1716 George s John & Mary VAILES b 13Dec1716
C 24Jun1722 Joseph VAILS B 9Jan1723+Joseph VAILES
C 2Jul1727 John s John & Mary VAILES b 7Jan1726+
no parents were named for Joseph, but the date fits best John & Mary as parents
B 8Dec1730 John VEALES of Duck_End
m 18Nov1732 George LONG wdr & Mary VAILES wid
there is a second John burial in 1733, but as this occurs after Mary’s marriage it cannot refer to John 6
John VAILES of Witham guilty of stealing 3 Oct a pair of sheets and an apron worth 4s of Nathl GENTRY; wit: Thos LEVETT & Wm DARBY; pleaded not guilty, found guilty, to be whipped (ERO Q/SR 553/7
[This
probably refers to this John as he would be aged 20 and not yet married, but
may refer to his father (John-8) who would be aged 44 a weaver and married]