9. BOAVINS

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I have numbered the generations working backwards from my own as (1)

 

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JOHN BOAVINS (9)

 JOHN BOAVINS fathered a family in the parish of Chawleigh. The village stands on high ground two miles south-east of the small town of Chulmleigh, on the other side of the Little Dart. Its western boundary is the River Taw.

 

There are a few other Boavins in the parish, who may be his relations. Elizabeth Boavins died in 1690. She could be his mother or sister.

George Boavins was married there in 1697, probably not long after John, though his children were not baptised in Chulmleigh. He, or another George, died in 1709.

Elizabeth Boavins, a possible sister, was married in 1705.

Abigall Boavins had a ‘Base child’ Rachell in 1714. She could be a single woman or George’s widow. Rachel herself became an unmarried mother in 1739.

 

The baptisms of six of John’s children have been found in Chawleigh. None of these records names his wife.

Baptisms. St James. Chawleigh.
1696  Richard the son of John Boavins was baptized the 23 April
1699  Hag – – the daughter of John Boavins was baptized the 25 March
Her full name is Hagar.
1702  Roger the son of John Boavins was baptized the 13 Dec
1705  John the son of John Boavins was baptized the 20 June
1707  Edward the son of John Boavins was baptized 13 April
1712  Elizabeth the daughter of John Boavins was baptized the 25 Nov

Half these children did not survive. Richard lived less than two years, John less than one, and Elizabeth was three years and three months when she died.

 

John died before the marriage in 1724 of his only surviving daughter, Hagar, in Chulmleigh.

Burial. St James. Chawleigh.
1722  John Boavins was buried  23 Dec

 

His son Edward went on to raise his own family in Chulmleigh.

 

 

 

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