Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1688/9 Baptism of Johes Lavor in South Petherton, Somerset

   It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1688/9 baptism record of John Lavor in the South Petherton, Somerset Church of England parish records.

The baptism entry for John Lavor  is the third record for January 1688 on the right-hand page:

"[1688] [January] 19 Baptizatus fuit Johes filius Samuelis Lavor"

I think "Johes" is "Johannes" in Latin, since he was called John later in life.

And January 1688 in the records is January 1689 in modern calendar terms.  

The source citation is:

South Petherton, Somerset, Church of England records, John Lavor baptism entry, 19 January 1688/9, imaged, "Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriage and Burials, 1531-1812," Ancestry.com  (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60856/records/2621778 : accessed 15 October 2025), South Petherton > 1670-1737, image 9 of 45; Original records in Anglican Parish Registers. Somerset Archives & Local Studies, South West Heritage Trust, Taunton, England.

John Lavor (1689-1755) was baptized on 19 January 1688/9 in the South Petherton (Somerset) Church of England parish, the son of Samuel Lavor and his unknown wife.  He married Joanna Axe (1682-1748) on 15 June 1709 in the South Petherton, Somerset parish. 

John and Joanna (Axe) Lavor are my 7th great-grandparents, through their son John Lavor (1722-1799) who married Elizabeth Wills (1730-1796) in 1750 in Lopen, Somerset, England.

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