John
SIM(E)S [304]
Mary
LAGGATT [305]
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These
are the parents of John Sims [302] born 1689 in Canterbury Kent, who married
Ann Ollive [303] in London in 1721
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21/1/1682
- At Nunington Monthly Meeting John and Mary "of Canterbury and Waltham
Meetings" declared intention to marry, two friends of each (John West
& William Upton, and Eliz Hurst & Grace Methurss?) appointed to check
"clearness of each" to marry.
[a]
18/2/1682
- Meeting "leaves them to their liberty to take each in marriage when they
please..." (after both fathers supplied consent) [a]
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MARRIED ------------------
2/5/1682
- Marriage certif, John Simes of (par of St Paul) Canterbury, a tailor, at an
"assembly of the People of God called Quakers" at Nunington Meeting,
Mary Laggett of Elm(on)stead Kent. Witns and relatives inc Alse & Henry
Simes (John's parents?), Stephen Laggett (Marys brother?) but not her
parents. [a]
(there's a list of those present at this
mar) [a]
The couple "appear to have resided
for many years in the old Palace or late dissolved monastery called St Austin
or Augustine without Burgate Canterbury"
[a]
24/12/1683
- Henry born [a]
30/2/1685
- Susanna born [a]
8/1/1687
- Mary born [a]
2/1/1689
- John born [a]
2/7/1692
- Grace born [a]
4/7/1695
- Stephen born [a]
2/4/1697
- Ann born [a]
3/4/1699
- William born [a]
5/4/1701
- Thomas born [a]
8/11/1704
- Amy born [a]
(... probably all born in Canterbury)
abt
/4/1707 - Son Henry, a Grocer (after usual sequence of checking by Nonington
"Mens Mtg", by John Adams & Richard Phillpotts) married Catherine
Courthorpe, dau of George C of Cranbrook.
[a]
(There's a list of their kids bn 1708 to
1723, and added notes on some of them. They lived in St Margarets Canterbury.
Catherine died 1723, Henry 1756, both bur in FBG at St Dunstans) [a]
15/1/1708
- A Mary Sims, wife of a John Sims of the Borough of Longport, died and was bur
in St Dunstans (not sure who these are, an earlier generation?) [xx]
11/4/1735
- John died aged nearly 80 and was buried in Friends Burial Ground St Dunstans
Cant [a]
(See notes on John by his son John, the
apprentice of London) [a]
7/1/1741
- Mary died and was buried in Friends Burial Ground St Dunstans Canterbury [a]
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SOURCES
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[a] Thomas Perry's family hist notes
[b]
[c]
[xx] Ex file notes