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Lappage, Sarah, spinster of Colchester, 1778
- brother John Lappage of Fordham
- cousin Ann Turner
- sister Dina Turner of Layham, Suffolk
- cousin John Lappage of Stanway
- cousin Solomon Lappage of Fordham
- cousin John Scott of Colchester, chairmaker
- cousin Robert Wyles of Colchester, chairmaker
- cousin John Wyles of Colchester
- cousin John Turner of Layham, Suffolk
Executor: friend Robert Lorkin of Colchester, gentleman.
Witnesses: James Mansfield jnr, William Mason.
Written 28 Oct 1777, probate 9 July 1779
Testator died in the parish of St James’, Colchester, “within a fortnight” of the probate date.
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Transcriber’s notes:
Sarah’s family came from Hadleigh and moved to Essex in the early-mid 1700s. Her sister Dina was baptised at Hadleigh on 29 Apr 1714, the daughter of John and Ann Lappage, and Dina married John Turner at St Mary’s at the Walls, Colchester, on 2 May 1742.
A Judith, daughter of John and Ann Lappage, was baptised at Polstead in 1709, and is presumably Dina’s sister, and therefore the testator’s sister as well. Judith Lappit (a variation of Lappage, presumably), married Robert Wyles, a widower at St Nicholas’, Colchester, on 12 May 1730. Their daughter Judith was baptised in early 1731, and she married Thomas Scott at St Martin’s, Colchester, on 2 Dec 1750. This explains why there are Wileses and Scotts in Sarah Lappage’s will, as they are related to her through her sister Judith. A John Lappage married a Frances Scott in Copford in 1745; John might have been the testator’s brother, who lived in Fordham by the 1770s.
A Solomon Lappage and his wife, Elizabeth Grimwood, married in Hadleigh in 1694 and had several children there before moving to Wivenhoe. They must be related to the testator.
Lappage, William, farmer of Frating, 1779
- wife Elizabeth
- wife’s daughter: Elizabeth wife of Thomas Purkis
- wife’s daughter: Temperance wife of Edward Lappage
- wife’s son: William Duffield
- son: Edward Lappage (wife of Temperance)
- son: John Lappage
- daughter: Sarah wife of John Hazell
Executors: sons Edward and John Lappage
Witnesses: Elizabeth and William Mason
Written: 8 Apr 1772, probate 30 Nov 1779
Transcriber’s notes: William Lappage married Sarah Mumford in Elmstead on 16 July 1740. They had six children, but only there – Edward, John, and Sarah, as mentioned in the will – survived to adulthood. The testator’s first wife died in 1758.
In 1762, he married his second wife, Elizabeth, and became her fourth husband. Her first husband was Thomas Young, by whom she had Elizabeth and Temperance, both baptised in Great Holland. Her second husband was William Duffield. They had six children, but only their son William survived to adulthood. William Duffield died in July 1756, and on 30 Nov 1756, Elizabeth married husband #3, Thomas Sheldrake. Their marriage lasted only two years.
I had wondered if the testator was related to the Hadleigh Lappages, but I’m not sure at the moment.