Some last scraps of PUPLETT material flushed out of the back reaches of the filing cabinet...
This is a tag to some material from the Surrey Assizes Records of the time of Elizabeth I, in which a Puplett or two are mentioned. But they're also interesting in their own right, for background to the life and times and all that. And you'll also find entries on other people at the edges of the Puplett's lives. (Watch out for spellings, don't be afraid to try some variations when using your /Find thing.
There are also references to several Pupletts serving as jurymen at the Essex Assizes(from an old library ref book), but I can't find these on line anywhere...
George P of Witham 1584
William P of Witham 1584
Gregory P of Chelmsford 1592
Gregory P of Brentwood 1596
Henry P of Chelmsford 1579, 1589, 1594, 1595, 1600
Henry P of Brentwood 1597
Thomas P of Chelmsford 1589
(This was at an Inquisition on a death, where apparently one Thomas ........ of Rochford, Yeoman, hit someone's wife who fell on a child holding a baby which got "squashed" and died 4 hours later. Verdict Death By Misadventure.)
Also, a not so reputable father and son...
Henry Puplett of Chelmsford, a suspect, in gaol, then tried, then released on bail 3/3/1575
Henry Pulplett Snr of Chelmsford of Great Horksley, Yeoman, indicted 3/3/1575 for barratry (you need to look that one up!) and fined 6s/8d.
This is a tag to a book "History Of Banstead In Surrey" (where we suspect a pool of Puplett's originated). In this 'txt format you can use your /Find to locate all the "Puplett" "Puplet" entries - there's many. Click on "See Other Formats" to get the book itself up, probably easier to read, and is also searchable.
This is another Surrey book from the Internet Archive, also with a couple of Puplett entries.
If you're looking for some background material on Yankalilla (south of Adelaide, where the Puplett family spent some of their time, and where the Puplett daughter met the Edmonds son) you could do worse than track down a copy of...
...done for the Yank Hist Soc, covering 1836-1986. It has some brief references to the family, but heaps of "life and times" stuff.
These are a couple of PUPLETT background bits found a long time ago, not sure if they still exist anywhere...
Married (1) at Maldon, 5-1-1796, Elizabeth Puplett, duaghter of Thomas and Elizabeth Puplett, of Purleigh, who died 15-7-1823 at Stebbing, aged 48, and (2) 18-3-1828, Hannah Scott, then of Southwark, who died 22-10-1833 at Stebbing, aged 63.
Died 15-9-1846 at York.
Samuel Jesper was a farmer at Purleigh, Essex. The farmstead, the name of which is variously spelled as Digoods, Drygoods, and Dygoods, was demolished some years ago, but there is still a "Diegoods Farm" in the parish.
It will be remembered that Martin's Hall, which we have regarded as the Jesper homestead, was occupied in turn by John Jesper (1), John Jesper (2), his widow Judith, his som John Jesper (3), and the latter's widow Esther. Esther died in 1787, leaving Martin's Hall to her daughters Judith and Hannah, the former died in 1797, the latter married Robert Levitt, and went to live at Coggeshall in 1805. We find Samuel and his wife at Bran End soon after trhe birth of Rebecca, the youngest daughter: possibly he kept both farms on until his oldest son John was old enough to take over management of Dygoods--it is, however, rather a far cry from Purleigh to Stebbing.
"Samuel and Elizabeth Jesper's book given them by Judith and Hannah Jesper, the 29th day of the 6th month, 1796,"
--a belated wedding gift.
This is a Diary, for 1848, given to Lucy Puplett (nee Perry) by her husband James Puplett....
This is the way Lucy used her diary, entering a few odd facts, but nothing else. This is the first entry, the others look similar, and all are listed below just as written (done in ink unless otherwise)...
Jan 16 - "This day year 1847 my dear father died in London in his 70th year burried in Bunhill Field"
Our relatives in Australia who left this country were a Biscuit Maker James Puplett, born Essex 1817, who married Lucy Perry from Reading, Berkshire, born 1819. A wood and coal merchant, Daniel Puplett, born 1790 and Mary Louisa Puplett, born 1852 in Liverpool.
When you think that because of a birth in France in 1027-28, my children are here in England on their father's side.
On the 12th December 1573 the common pond in Banstead, called the mere. was polluted by the ducks and geese and John Puplett was fined 12 pence. Also it was ordered that no-one should lay straw or dung or any other litter in any byway or street, if they did they must clear it or be fined 6s & 8 pence. It seemed that John Puplett's case was brought to keep clean the drinking water. Also Richard Puplett was made to pay for road repairs caused by his cart. Later (a?) Philip (Puplett?) and also (an?) Emmanuel (Puplett?) had to pay a Hearth tax.
In the Domesday Book the name of Puplett is mentioned many more times than any other and also changed less in spelling. We started off as a Christian name and then became a Surname. Because people then could not write the "e" got left off of Poplette and because of bad writing became Puplett. Since that long time ago, it has not changed.
As the armies (of William The Conqueror 1066?) settled after fighting they bought land for sheepfarming in the Banstead and surrounding area. The land on Tadworth Station and where the Tadworth Court is, was sold by Emmanuel Puplett who by then was a millionaire and Sir
Emmanuel. One day John Puplett was fined one farthing for not cutting his hedges. In Reigate churchyard by the steps at the front entrance is a grave stone about 16th or 17th century. It is difficult to read the name, but it is either Tom (Puplett?) or John (Puplett?).
At Walton-on-the-Hill is a cottage called Puplett Cottage and the five barred gate is still there with the name on. Also in the cellar is the side of a van, East India Tea Company where someone went overseas and had business there.
A few years ago a man came from Australia to go to London to our War Ministry, and was surprised to see Puplett on an ffice door as his Grandfather's mother, Mary Louisa, had been a nee Puplett, born in Liverpool in 1852. Her parents, James Puplett and Lucy Perry married in Reading in 1840. James went to Australia in 1855 and had four daughters so this line ended there. There are hardly any people by the name of Puplett in the whole of Australia.
The only parish listing of the name is in a Church in Banstead in 1601.
The first recorded (Puplett?) Christian name was Ricardo. Looking through the entries in the Reigate records an Edith Puplett was charged with murdering her husband by giving him a toadstool instead of a much loved mushroom. She did get off on that charge.
In 1835 Emmanuel Puplett bought a quarter of land for 1 farthing. He and Philip Richbell owned all the land in the Banstead area, Emmanuel being the biggest landowner at that time. He was a millionaire and owned all the land from Dorking Road, where Tadworth Station is, all of Walton Heath and out to Burgh Heath. When he died he left in his will his money, not to his only son John but to his daughter-in-law and then in trust for his 2 grand-daughters. It took a year to settle the will as it was so unusual.
Throughout the history of the Pupletts Tom and John were the most popular names, and they still are to this day.
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