Marriage of John RIBBANS/REVANS in Mickfield

[ribbo39]

Hello Walter,
I'm very interested in the Will of John Revans and wonder if you have obtained  a copy. I would very much like to see it,  if at all possible.
His death/burial does'nt seem to be in the Suffolk Burial Index (ex SFHS)

Regarding Robert fathering two bastards, could I ask where you were able to get these records from, please?


I agree that the bapt. date of Robert, s/o Robert & Hannah, should be 1677.

Alan

[grib]

Thank you very much, Walter, for this very pertinent information. I share Alan's keen interest in John's will. I tried to get it on the internet with the details you gave, but didn't manage to obtain it--my incompetence I expect.

What is your source of the two bastardy cases? I found the second in the Suffolk Archives and may have missed the first, but I didn't find the child's sex or name recorded. I am also interested in William Darnforth/Margaret Revans' two daughters. I found both parents listed as tenants of the manor in Loder and Green's histories, and William also paid hearth tax at Felixstowe in 1674. Have you discovered anything new about Humphrey?

Another Ribbons who interests me is given in John Ridgard's recent compilation Great Framlingham in Suffolk and the Howard Dukes of Norfolk, Blaxhall Press, 2009, p. 124: John Ribbons is listed as the innkeeper of the White Lion at Framlingham in 1712; the source is the Framlingham Tithe Book of 1716.

Keep up the good work, both of you!

Geoffrey

[suelaw1954]

Hi Geoffrey,

From the Suffolk Record Office microfiche of the Mickfield parish registers:
Microfiche #2 Row 3 Image 5
Register FB 19/D1/2, Baptisms, Marriages & Burials 1706-1773 (pages not numbered)

Mar^d
John Revans of Debenham singleman
Jane Parker of Mickfield were married
Septem^r the 21^st 1724

The register at this point is "mixed", i.e. the baptisms, burials and marriages are entered together in chronological order. There are no entries at all in July.

Regards,

Sue 

[LOSTREVANS]

Geoffrey/Alan,

If it's a wet afternoon perhaps you'd like to waste time on three of my outstanding queries.

1. Revans in connection with Elizabeth 1 and Duke of Anjou.

2. Anything you know about William m Mary Noller 15 Sep 1722.

3. Revans in connection with the Constable family.

                 Hopefully   Walter 

[ribbo39]

Walter,

Sorry to say,  none of the people you mention figure in my tree.

Please keep me informed of your searches as I'm interested as no doubt
Geoffrey will be as well.

No rain where I am.

Alan

[grib]

Dear Walter,

I greatly appreciate your contributions to Revans/Ribbans genealogical history, but I draw a blank on the issues you raise, two absolutely and one partially.

Please enlighten me about the possible connection with Elizabeth I and the Duke of Anjou, which on the face of it seems far-fetched. The only Duke of Anjou I know anything about is the grandson of Louis XIV who became Philip V of Spain in the early 18th Century (my academic speciality is Spanish culture); this is over a century after Elizabeth. If you give me what evidence you have, I'll try and give an opinion on it.

On Constable I know only that he was based on Sudbury, which was not very conspicuous among the Revans/Ribbans clan. Again I'd like to know more.

On William, married to Mary Noller Sep 25 1722 Woodbridge, I have him annotated, very tentatively, as possibly the son of John, b. 1671, and Mary Woods., m.1691.  Even more uncertainly, as the possible second husband of Mary Humphreys; since a widower called Wlliam Revans married her on Sep 1739.
All this is very problematical, with so many Johns, Roberts and Williams around.

in particular, I should like to know more about the two Johns: 1) 1671-1709, m. to Mary Woods, and 2) his son, 1692-1741, m. to Jane Parker. He is supposed to have left a will mentioning his brothers Samuel, Thomas and Robert (but not William).

Sorry to complicate life still more. Where is your rainy home? Mine, in Providence, Rhode Island, is just recovering from a cold and snowy winter.

Geoffrey