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The
PHIPPS Families of Bristol (C18th-C21st)
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Distribution of the family
name in 1881.
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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:
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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