Mark RIPPINGTON1,2

1846 - 1917

Market Gardener

Life History

1846	Born in Marston, Oxfordshire
25th Dec 1846	Baptised in Marston, Oxfordshire
1861	Resident in 24 Upper Marylebone St., Middlesex, London
1871	Resident in Marston, Oxfordshire
1881	Census 1881: butcher, in Charlton St, Marylebone, London lodging with a family called Field.
1891	Census 1891: butcher in Marston, Oxfordshire
1901	Census 1901: butcher in Church Lane, Marston
1911	Occupation Market Gardener
1911	Resident in Marston, Oxfordshire
1917	Died in Headington Registration District, Oxford, Oxfordshire

In 1874 he was summoned for failing to pay maintenance of an illegitimate child. He had been ordered to pay 1s 6d per week but was 19s 6d in arrears. He was ordered to make immediate payment plus 5s 6d costs, or a month's hard labour. It appears he defaulted in his payment and was therefore committed
Mark was repeatedly convicted of drunkeness frequently involving fighting, the last known being for the 17th time in March 1886. On that occasion he was fined and sentenced to 14 days hard labour.
Birth Record Name Mark Rippington
Year of Registration 1846
Quarter of Registration Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District Headington
Registration County Oxfordshire
Mother's maiden name
Volume Number 16
Volume Page 67
Death Record Name Mark Rippington
Year of Registration 1917
Quarter of Registration Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District Headington
Registration County Oxfordshire
Age at Death: 70
Volume Number 3A
Volume Page 878
Oxford Journal - Saturday 01 December 1877
OXFORD CITY POLICE COURT,
FRIDAY. Present, the Mayor (Ald. Cavell), Ald. Randall, & Justices G. Ward, Pike, and Wyatt.
Mark Rippington, jun., of Marston, pleaded guilty to being drunk and incapable, in George-street, on Wednesday night.
Fined 10s., and 3s. 6d. costs, or 7 days.