Thomas 1678 - 1710 page from overseers accounts

Life History

Notes

• At various times he was an Overseer of the Poor and also a contributor himself to the Poor Relief of the parish, paying sums of 7s.3d and 8s.0d in 1700 and 1701.
  The attached photograph shows pages from the Overseers of the Poor accounts for Waterperry 1701/2.
  The left hand page shows the monies received as part of the Poor Relief Tax with a nomination that Thomas be an Overseer for the following year.
  The right hand page shows the disbursements, signed off by Thomas.
• Register of Papist Estates:
  Sir John Curson's estate at Waterperry.
  Oxfordshire Record Office ref CJ/V/81:
  The Lord of the Manor of Waterperry at this time was Sir John Curson who was a Roman Catholic.
  By an Act of Parliament in 1715, following the Jacobite Rebellion of that year, all Catholics had to provide details of their property to the Quarter Sessions.
  From the register of Sir John Curson's estate, carried out sometime between 1715 and 1718, we see that "Sarah Rippington had a messuage and lands belonging thereto at the yearly rent of £32." She also "holds New Close at the yearly rent of £8".
  Her husband Thomas had died in 1710 so the property was presumably held in her name.
• Oxfordshire Parish Register Transcripts
  St. Mary the Virgin Church, Waterperry
  Baptisms
  Jan 19 1678
  Rippington Thomas s. Jerome & Jane
• Oxfordshire Parish Register Transcripts
  St. Mary the Virgin Church, Waterperry
  Burials
  May 18, 1710
  Rippington Thomas