John Mepham Sr. of Heathfield
(-1731)
Dorothy Wood
(-)
Dorothy Mepham
(1694-1766)

 

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Spouses/Children:
John Dearing of Heathfield

Dorothy Mepham

  • Christened: 16 Feb 1694, Heathfield, Sussex, England 1
  • Married: 11 May 1715, Heathfield, Sussex, England 2
  • Buried: 11 Oct 1766, All Saints, Heathfield, Sussex, England 3

  Research Notes:

Writing his Will in 1721 John Mepham of Heathfield, yeoman, bequeathed 2 shillings 6 pence to his daughter Dorothy 'now the wife of John Deering...I having heretofore provided for her.' He bequeathed her two sons John Dearing and Christopher Dearing £20 each and £5 to his grandson Henry Dearing.

In 1732 Dorothy Mepham was the sole executrix of her husband's Will, who bequeathed her his copyhold tenements and barn on two pieces of land called Stuckles in Heathfield for the term of her natural life.

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Dorothy Dearing, widow (burial record)

  Marriage Information:

Dorothy married John Dearing, son of Christopher Dearing and Elizabeth Willard, on 11 May 1715 in Heathfield, Sussex, England. (John Dearing was born on 27 Dec 1683 in Heathfield, Sussex, England, christened there on 8 Feb 1684, and was buried on 27 Jun 1731 in All Saints, Heathfield, Sussex, England.)

Sources


1 Heathfield Sussex Parish Registers, Baptisms.

2 Ibid., Marriages.

3 Ibid., Burials.


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