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Hi Colin,

I just came across your posting. Elizabeth French married John Reddington at St Sepulchre London 14 Oct 1731. John Reddington was buried at Langley Marish 10 Dec 1740. Their last child, Judith, was christened 5 Jan 1741/2 at LM. I don't have a marriage date and place for Elizabeth Reddington and Edward Buckland, but it is evidenced by the will of John & Elizabeth's son John in 1760 ("my said mother Elizabeth Buckland the wife of Edward Buckland"). That Elizabeth and Edward had two daughters - Elizabeth and Jane - is shown by the wills of two other Reddington sons, Henry (probate 1816) and William (probate 1811). By this time Elizabeth was Elizabeth Charman and Jane was Jane Cooper. Elizabeth Charman was buried 21 Jun 1833 at Fulham, aged 90, so the 1743 christening looks to be the right one. Also the mother of the first John Reddington was Margaret Buckland, so there may be a relationship between Elizabeth French's first and second husbands.

Some detail of the Reddington family can be found on a webpage I've recently created:
https://sites.google.com/site/redingtongenealogy/families/windsor
the rest of the site is a bit rough around the edges but that page is well formed.

best wishes

Andrew

On the original curious question

The GRO deaths index does not show the deaths of any two Sprid* surnames in the same quarter in Cornwall, 1838 to 1930, who could be a murdered father and mother, except in 1849 when there were three burials, no ages shown: Thomas Stephen, Ruth and Susanna, in St Germans reg dist.
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The deaths of Thomas and Ruth Spriddle were recorded three pages apart in September quarter 1849, which might suggest they didn't die at the same time. Thos and Ruth Spridle in the 1841 census in Rame were aged c65, with a daughter Ruth aged c30.

This 1841 census entry is for Thomas Spriddle who married Ruth Langmaid in 1799 at Talland and had children Thomas (1801, Lansallos), Jane (1802-6), Susannah (1802 Lansallos), Ruth (1803 Rame) Sarah (1805 Lansallos), William (1807 Lansallos), Frances (1813 Lansallos), Martha (1815 Talland), Mary (1818 Rame) and William (1821 Rame).

Ruth senior was still alive in 1851 when she was a widow living in Kingsand, Maker with her daughter Martha. She is probably the Ruth whose death was registerd in 1855. I believe her husband Thomas was an 1847 death registration. Thomas Stephen was born in 1844, St Germans District, so only about 5 at his death. The 1849 death registration is probably that of Ruth junior - I don't know of any other Ruth Spriddle, and she does not appear in the marriage registrations.

So I do not think this cluster of deaths can possibly be the right family.

I've lots of SPRIDDLE information. The only link I have to Megavissey is that it was the birthplace of Mary CLOAK who married William SPRIDDLE at Rame in 1803.  She is my 4x-great-grandmother. I've traced the CLOAK/CLOKE/CLOK family back a couple more generations in Megavissey.

When was your most recent SPRIDDLE ancestor alive? That might help us tie down the timescale a bit.

According to http://jackiefreemanphotography.com/bodmin_executions.htm public executions in Cornwall were at Bodmin or Launceston, and the last public one was William Nevan on 11 Aug 1856. No mention of SPRIDDLEs or Mevagissey in that list of executions.