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The PHIPPS
Family of Early C18th
Kingswood, Bristol
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Distribution of the family
name in 1881.Seeking early C18th ancestry of the PHIPPS family at Bitton, particularly Sampson PHIPPS of Don John's Cross, Bristol who married Grace BUSH in 1712 at Bitton. My 7xGGPs.
Otherwise known is William PHIPPS, brother of Sampson PHIPPS, who with a wife unknown had a son Sampson PHIPPS c. 1728 at Oldland.
Only known child of Sampson & Grace PHIPPS is Daniel PHIPPS c. December 1728 who married Hannah HASKINS, d/o Edward of Mile End, Bristol in 1748. My 6xGGPs.
There are seven known children of Daniel & Hannah PHIPPS: Hester PHIPPS (c1751), Hannah PHIPPS (c1754), Solomon PHIPPS (c1756), Sarah PHIPPS (c1757) who married George GARLAND in 1775 at St. George (my 5xGGPs), Sampson PHIPPS (c1760), Martha PHIPPS (c1761) & Joseph PHIPPS (c1762).
Sampson PHIPPS, member of the famous rescue squad of 1735 who rescued three men and a boy entombed in Two Mile Hill coal mine for 10 days and nights. Successive rescues were halted by Chokedamp/Blackdamp gas however the final attempt on the eleventh day was successful.
25th May 1753:
With no stocks of food to last to next harvest,
hungry colliers massed, along with their women and children, for
an attack on the City of Bristol. They were unarmed apart from
stones carried in the women's aprons. Several killed by the armed
citizens of Bristol in the riot that followed but 29 captured
including Job PHIPPS, who was
dangerously wounded.
31st May 1753:
Prisoners lay in filth and squalor of Newgate prison
for over a week without medical attention for their wounds.
17th July 1753:
Prisoners visited by John WESLEY, the Methodist
preacher.
4th August 1753:
Special tribunal set up to try the rioters although
the ringleaders were still at large. Authorities announced reward
of £200 for Sampson PHIPPS
& £100 for four others. Kingswood, with the reputation of
looking after their own, never gave them up. [Sampson
PHIPPS (senior), uncle of above named Sampson
PHIPPS was another member of the famous rescue
squad of 1735].
5th September 1753:
Sampson PHIPPS (junior)
found guilty of High Treason in his absence. No one was prepared
to give evidence against those on trial.
17th September 1785 (SFBJ):
Committed to Gloucester gaol, Solomon PHIPPS,
for the robbery and attempted murder of John MILLER, a journeyman
mason, on the highway between Lawrence Hill and New Church.
MILLER had completed a week's work at Kingswood and was walking
to Bristol when he was assailed by three men. Two of them held
him down, while the third, alleged to be PHIPPS, cut out his
breeches pocket with a knife. One of the others called out "At
his throat!" whereupon PHIPPS put the knife under
MILLER's chin, giving him "a dreadful gash"
whilst uttering the words "Now go and tell who robbed
thee!" MILLER was fortunate, for the wound was in his
thick double chin which saved his throat. The other two men had
not been taken when paper went to press. Solomon PHIPPS was
acquitted
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