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Family of Late C18th - Early C19th Ashbrittle & Kittisford
(Devonshire/Somerset Borders)
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Distribution of the family
name in 1881Name variants may include GANE(S), JAMES, JEAN(E)S and appear to have earlier origins in the neighbouring village of Kittisford, Somerset.
Possible head is John JEANES (n. c1670) & Mary (of unknown family) who married prior to 1695, who would be my 8xGGPs. Widow Elizabeth JEANES (bur. 12.3.1704) may be John & Alexander's mother. Children include Richard JEANES (I) (c. 22.2.1695; most likely Richard below), Alexander JEANES (c. 2.2.1699), & Thomas JEANES (c. 6.8.1703), all Kittisford, Somerset.
Alexander JEANS & Betty (of unknown family) had child John JEANS (c. 13.9.1728).
Current family head of Ashbrittle family is believed to be Richard JANES (I) (n. c1695) & Susannah MARTYN who married 15.4.1726 in Ashbrittle- my 7xGGPs. Children include Mary JANES (c. 31.3.1721) & Thomas JANES - perhaps from a former marriage of Richard, common-law children, Richard JANES (II) (c. 20.4.1729), Bartholomew JANES (c. 2.1738), all Ashbrittle, Somerset (Church of St John the Baptist).
Son Richard JANES (II) who married Joan (of unknown family; m. by 1747) are my 6xGGPs. Children include James JANES (c. 7.3.1747) at Kittisford, Richard JANES (III) (c. 22.5.1748) & Mary JANES (c. 24.1.1752) at Ashbrittle.
Richard JANES (III) & Elizabeth HARRIS, my 5xGGPs married 2.5.1770 in Ashbrittle. Richard was buried in Ashbrittle 21.8.1825 (age 78). Children include Joan JANES (c. 24.12.1770, m. John VICKERY in Ashbrittle 24.8.1792 and moved to Stawley (The Mill, Tracebridge) where all their children were born.) Elizabeth JANES (c. 3.11.1772; m. James GAMBLIN* 24.4.1808 Ashbrittle), as daughters of Richard, and Ann (c. 2.3.1777) & Susanna JANES (21.11.1779; m. James PERRY 27.7.1800 Stawley), as daughters of Richard & Elizabeth.
The possible reason that Joan JANES & husband John VICKERY went to the Tracebridge Mill was that father Richard JANES may have already been there. Mills at Tracebridge are mentioned from 1592. According to local historian RODWELL (Somerset Archaeological & History Journal - volume 128 (1984)), the mill was leased to a Richard JONES (sic) in 1791 and then to John VICKERY in 1815, later William VICKERY in 1831. Based on records (occupations on children's birth certificates), milling was probably the family seasonal activity.
Ann JANES (my 4xGGM) married William COTTRELL, Mason on 20.9.1801 at Ashbrittle, Somerset.
*Note: Today, just outside the nearby hamlet of Greenham, Somerset is Gamblin's Farm, no doubt connected to the family above.
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