The Wythe/Wyeth family of Hannington

E22. ELIZABETH BAGGS born WYTHE

Elizabeth Wythe was born in 1755.¹

She married [E5] Henry Baggs on the 25^th November 1773, at All Saints church, Hannington, Hampshire, after banns. In 1773 the newly married couple were provided with a moiety of the Wythe copyhold farmhouse. Their children, all baptised in Hannington, where they continued to reside, were: Elizabeth (1774–1774), Elizabeth (1775–1775), Sarah (1776–1844), Mary (1777–1795), [E4] John (1781–1838), Joseph (1783–1860), Robert (1785–1801), Rachael (1787–1857), Richard (1789–1844), Hester (1790 – ?), Henry (1792–1873), Thomas (1794–1794), Hannah (1795–1887), and James (1798–1808).²

She was buried in Hannington churchyard on the 1^st June 1837.³

Elizabeth Wythe was a daughter of [E23] Richard and [E25] Elizabeth Wyeth.⁴

1 Ken Smallbone (2010) Baggs: The History of a Family. The Ancestors and Descendants of the Baggs Family of Hannington, Hampshire, England. Basingstoke: The Changing Seasons; International Genealogical Index shows the birth at Hannington in 1755, to Richard and Elizabeth Wythe.

2 parish register; Smallbone (2010), which says 1773.

3 Hampshire burials; Smallbone (2010)

4 Smallbone (2010)

E23. RICHARD WYETH

Richard Wyeth married [E25] Elizabeth ____. Their children were probably Richard (1752 – after 1782), [E22] Elizabeth (1755–1837), Sarah (? – ?), Mary (? – 1831), and John (? – 1804). Richard was copyhold tenant of the manor of Manydown, Hampshire, from the death of his father in 1772. In 1773 he borrowed £34 so that he could afford a dowry for his daughter Elizabeth, of Thomas Webb, yeoman (often called 'squire') of Hannington, on mortgage at 3% p.a.¹

He died in 1795, his body being buried at Hannington on the 16^th May that year.²

Richard Wyeth was the child of [E24] ____ Wyeth.³

1 Ken Smallbone (2010) Baggs: The History of a Family. The Ancestors and Descendants of the Baggs Family of Hannington, Hampshire, England. Basingstoke: The Changing Seasons; International Genealogical Index shows the marriage of a Richard and Elizabeth Wythe in Hannington, apparently in 1754, as well as the birth of a Richard Wythe about 1710, in Hannington.

2 Hampshire burials; Smallbone (2010)

3 Smallbone (2010)

E24. ____ WYETH

____ Wyeth died in 1772.¹

1 Ken Smallbone (2010) Baggs: The History of a Family. The Ancestors and Descendants of the Baggs Family of Hannington, Hampshire, England. Basingstoke: The Changing Seasons; Hampshire burials for Hannington list a Thomas Wythe on 6 May 1771 and a Richard With on 18 February 1773, but no 1772 burial

E25. ELIZABETH WYETH born ____

Elizabeth ____ was born in about 1728. She married [E23] Richard Wyeth. Their children were probably Richard (1752 – after 1782), [E22] Elizabeth (1755–1837), Sarah (? – ?), Mary (? – 1831), and John (? – 1804). She died in 1807, her body being buried at Hannington on the 28^th January that year.¹

1 Hampshire burials; Ken Smallbone (2010) Baggs: The History of a Family. The Ancestors and Descendants of the Baggs Family of Hannington, Hampshire, England. Basingstoke: The Changing Seasons

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