Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1744 Burial Record for Henry Rawlins in Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire

  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 1744 Burial record of Henry Rawlins in the Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire Church of England parish records.

The burial entry for Henry Rawlins is the first record at the top of the page for 1744:

The transcription of this record is:

"[1744]  August 19'th Henry Rawlins Sen'r: Clark of this Parish

was Buried                        Affidavit 26th"

The source citation is:

Wootten Rivers, Church of England records, Henry Rawlins burial entry, 19 August 1744, Clark of this Parish;  imaged, "Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriage and Burials, 1531-1812," Ancestry.com  (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61187/records/993446 : accessed 11 March 2026), Wootton Rivers > Parish Registers > 1708-1801, image 19 of 70; Original records in Original data in Wiltshire Church of England Parish Registers, Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England.

Henry Rawlins was born before 1 February 1673 in Staverton, Wiltshire, the son of Henry Rawlins and Elizabeth --?--.   He married Jane Andrews (1681-1757) on 28 January 1705 in Wilsford, Wiltshire.  Henry died before 19 August 1744 when he was buried in Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire.

Henry and Jane (Andrews) Rawlins are my 6th great-grandparents, through their daughter Elizabeth Rawlings (1714-1770) who married Joseph Richman (1710-1761) in 1731 in Whaddon, Wiltshire.

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