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The PHIPPS Families of Bristol (C18th-C21st)


Distribution of the family name in 1881.

Seeking early C18th ancestry of the PHIPPS family in Bitton, particularly Sampson PHIPPS of Don John's Cross, Bristol who married Grace BUSH in 1712 at Bitton. My 7xGGPs.

Otherwise known is William PHIPPS, brother of Sampson PHIPPS, who with a wife unknown had a son Sampson PHIPPS c. 1728 at Oldland.

Only known child of Sampson & Grace PHIPPS is Daniel PHIPPS c. December 1728 who married Hannah HASKINS, d/o Edward of Mile End, Bristol in 1748. My 6xGGPs. Over 150 descendant PHIPPS family members have been traced so far.

There known children of Daniel & Hannah PHIPPS include:

  • Hester PHIPPS (c1751);

  • Hannah PHIPPS (c1754);

  • Solomon PHIPPS (c1756);

  • Sarah PHIPPS (c1757) who married George GARLAND in 1775 at St. George (my 5xGGPs);

  • Sampson PHIPPS (c1760);

  • Martha PHIPPS (c1761);

  • Mary PHIPPS (1761);

  • Joseph PHIPPS (c1762) - the main line of descent.

Descendants of Joseph PHIPPS (c1762) from his marriage to Ann HIPSLEY include their only son Joseph PHIPPS (1793) who married Elizabeth MILSOM. One of their 4 sons, Thomas PHIPPS (c1834) married Susannah HAMBLIN, and their son George PHIPPS (1862) coincidentally married another of my Bristolian ancestors Alice OSBORNE.

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Sampson PHIPPS, member of the famous rescue squad of 1735 who rescued three men and a boy entombed in Two Mile Hill coal mine for 10 days and nights. Successive rescues were halted by Chokedamp/Blackdamp gas however the final attempt on the eleventh day was successful.

25th May 1753:
With no stocks of food to last to next harvest, hungry colliers massed, along with their women and children, for an attack on the City of Bristol. They were unarmed apart from stones carried in the women's aprons. Several killed by the armed citizens of Bristol in the riot that followed but 29 captured including Job PHIPPS, who was dangerously wounded.

31st May 1753:
Prisoners lay in filth and squalor of Newgate prison for over a week without medical attention for their wounds.

17th July 1753:
Prisoners visited by John WESLEY, the Methodist preacher.

4th August 1753:
Special tribunal set up to try the rioters although the ringleaders were still at large. Authorities announced reward of £200 for Sampson PHIPPS & £100 for four others. Kingswood, with the reputation of looking after their own, never gave them up. [Sampson PHIPPS (senior), uncle of above named Sampson PHIPPS was another member of the famous rescue squad of 1735].

5th September 1753:
Sampson PHIPPS (junior) found guilty of High Treason in his absence. No one was prepared to give evidence against those on trial.

17th September 1785 (SFBJ):
Committed to Gloucester gaol, Solomon PHIPPS, for the robbery and attempted murder of John MILLER, a journeyman mason, on the highway between Lawrence Hill and New Church. MILLER had completed a week's work at Kingswood and was walking to Bristol when he was assailed by three men. Two of them held him down, while the third, alleged to be PHIPPS, cut out his breeches pocket with a knife. One of the others called out "At his throat!" whereupon PHIPPS put the knife under MILLER's chin, giving him "a dreadful gash" whilst uttering the words "Now go and tell who robbed thee!" MILLER was fortunate, for the wound was in his thick double chin which saved his throat. The other two men had not been taken when paper went to press. Solomon PHIPPS was acquitted

 
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