Friday, February 22, 2019

52 Ancestors - Week 266: #435 Elizabeth (Wills) Laver (1730-1796) of South Petherton, Somerset

Elizabeth Wills (1730-1796)  is #435 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #434 John Laver (1722-1799)  in 1750 in Lopen, Somerset, England.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter, son, #217 Joanna Lavor (1763-1836), married #216 John Vaux (1747-1806), in 1785.
*  their son, #108 James Vaux (1787-1839), married #109 Mary Palmer (1790-1845) in 1808.
*  their son, #54 Samuel Vaux (1816-1880), married  #55, Mary Ann Underhill (1815-1882) in 1839.
*  their daughter, #27 Abigail A. Vaux (1844-1931), married #26 Devier James Lamphear Smith (1839-1894) in 1861.
*  their daughter, #13 Abby Ardell Smith (1862-1944), married #12 Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), in 1887.
*  their son, #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), married #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977).
*  their daughter #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

 *   Name:                           Elizabeth Wills[1–3]
*  Alternate Name:              Elizabeth Lavor[3-4]  

 *  Sex:                               Female
*  Father:                           Thomas Wills (1705- )
*  Mother:                         Mary Screven (1706- )   
 
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                             before 16 August 1730, Merriott, Somerset, England[1,3]
*  Christened:                   16 August 1730 (after age 0), Merriott, Somerset, England[1,3]    

*  Death:                            before 1 January 1796 (before age 65), South Petherton, Somerset, England[3-4]    
*  Burial:                           1 January 1796 (after age 65), South Petherton, Somerset, England[3-4]
  
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1:                   John Laver (1722-1799)    
*  Marriage 1:               16 April 1750 (after age 27), Lopen, Somerset, England[2-3]    

*  Child 1:                     Thomas Laver (1750-1750)    
*  Child 2:                     Jane Laver (1751-    )    
*  Child 3:                     Betty Laver (1753-    )    
*  Child 4:                     John Laver (1755-    )    
*  Child 5:                     Jacob Laver (1757-    )    
*  Child 6:                     William Laver (1759-    )    
*  Child 7:                     Joanna Laver (1761-1762)    
*  Child 8:                     Joanna Lavor (1763-1836)    
*  Child 9:                     Samuel Laver (1764-1834)    
*  Child 10:                   Hannah Laver (1766-    )    
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Elizabeth Wills was baptized on 16 August 1730 in Merriott, Somerset, England, the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Screven) Wills[1,3].

She married John Laver (christened at South Petherton, Somerset on 30 October 1722) on 16 April 1750 in Lopen, Somerset[2-3].  They had at least 10 children, all born in South Petherton, and some were christened in the South Petherton Parish Records of the St. Peter and St. Paul church:

*  Thomas Laver, born about 1750.
*  Jane Laver, christened 14 August 1751, married 5 January 1779 to Francis Sturton in South Petherton.
*  Betty Laver, charistened 28 March 1753.
*  John Laver, christened 31 January 1755.
*  Jacob Laver, christened 4 February 1757.
*  William Laver, christened 17 January 1759, married 14 May 1789 to Elizabeth Stuckey.
*  Joanna Laver, christened about 1761, buried 17 May 1762.
*  Joanna Laver, christened 5 January 1763, buried 4 November 1836, married 2 August 1785 to John Vaux.
*  Samuel Laver, christened 7 July 1764, buried 25 April 1834, married 4 September 1788 to Susannah Hebditch.
*  Hannah Laver, christened 31 December 1766. 

Not much is known about this Laver family, perhaps because they were Non-Conformists.  The Old Meeting house (Presbyterian) records start again in 1747, and many baptisms, marriages and burials of the Laver family were recorded in the South Petherton parish church[3].

Elizabeth Lavor was buried 1 January 1796 in South Petherton, at the age of 65[3-4]. 
 
5.  SOURCES

1. "English Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," indexed database, FamilySearch  (http://www.familysearch.org), Merriott, Somerset, Eliz. Wills christening entry.


2. "Somerset Marriages (pre-1754) Transcription," indexed database, Findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com), Lopen, Somerset, John Laver and Elizabeth Wills entry, 1750.

3. Sara Anson Vaux, The Vaux Family of England, the United States, and Australia, digital manuscript (available at http://www.southpethertoninformation.org.uk/vaux_family_of_england_index%20page.htm), Chapter 6, Laver family information, pages 21-27.

4. Hanna Nicholas and Liz James, "South Petherton Parish Records," online database, South Petherton Information (http://www.southpethertoninformation.org.uk/index.html), "Burials, 1795-1799," Elizth Lavor entry.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2019 to 312 Ancestors in 312 Weeks.


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