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Life History

Notes

• Manor of Atherstone: Court Rolls and Minute Books
  Administrative history:
  Names of Lords and Stewards of the Manor
  Edward Repington, Esq. 1734 - 6 Nov. 1758
• Wolferstan estate and family papers
  D948/4/4/21  1731, 1735, 1737
  Contents:
  Atherstone. Proposals for enclosure 2 enclosure agreements by Gilbert and Edward Repington,     , and various freeholders, copyholders of Atherstone.
• Edward Repington succeeded to family estates at Tamworth in 1734, but died without issue, Feb 1759*
  (Burke's Commoners,  II., 475).
  * "Edward Repington, Esq." was senior bailiff of Lichfield in 1753 (Harwood's
  Lichfield, 434).
• Burke's Peerage:
  Edward Repington, esq. ... dying in February 1759, was succeeded by his brother, Charles Repington, esq.
• England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
  Name: Edward Rippinton
  Gender: Male
  Baptism/Christening Date: 17 Nov 1706
  Baptism/Christening Place: ST MARTIN LUDGATE,LONDON,LONDON,ENGLAND
  Birth Date: 31 Oct 1706
  Father's Name: Gilbert Rippinton
  Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C02160-2
  System Origin: England-ODM
  Source Film Number: 374476, 374477
  Reference Number:
• The National Archives
  Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Lichfield Record Office
  Messrs Hinckley, Birch and Exham, Solicitors, Lichfield
  DW3222/339/9
  1739
  Contents:
  Deed of Edward Repington's estate at Amington, co. Warwick.
• The National Archives
  Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Lichfield Record Office
  Messrs Hinckley, Birch and Exham, Solicitors, Lichfield
  DW1851/8/85  1630-1738
  Contents:
  Tamworth. Great Amington, Bolehall, and Glascote.
  Tithes belonging to the prebends of Amington and Bolehall.
  (Repington/Orton).
  Lease for 3 years. 1630.
  Tamworth & Dunston. Messuage and lands at (Fuller/Eggington).
  Assignment of lease. 1738.
• Parish Records Collection 1538-2005
  REPINGTON       Edward  1759            Tamworth        Staffordshire
• Derbyshire Record Office
  Gresley Family of Drakelow  12th - 20th century
  Official Papers
  Papers of Edward Repington, Sheriff of Warwickshire
  RefNo D77/5/10/14
  Title Bond of Elizabeth Judd, Warwick, widow, et al., to Edward Repington, Sheriff of Warwickshire
  Date 19 Feb 1741
  Description Consideration: £5000
• Derbyshire Record Office
  Gresley Family of Drakelow  12th - 20th century
  Official Papers
  Papers of Edward Repington, Sheriff of Warwickshire
  RefNo D77/5/10/6-7
  Title Letters Patent for the accession of Edward Repington to the position of Sheriff of Warwickshire
  Date 31 Dec 1741
  Description 15 Geo II
• Derbyshire Record Office
  Gresley Family of Drakelow  12th - 20th century
  Official Papers
  Papers of Edward Repington, Sheriff of Warwickshire
  RefNo D77/5/10/17
  Title Deed of Transfer to the position of Sherriff of Warwickshire Edward Repington, late sheriff to Bourne Eabourne, now sheriff
  Date 12 Jan 1742
• Derbyshire Record Office
  Gresley Family of Drakelow  12th - 20th century
  Official Papers
  Papers of Edward Repington, Sheriff of Warwickshire
  RefNo D77/5/10/13
  Title Deed of Recovery from Edward Repington, Sheriff of Warwickshire, to Stonior Parrott of Hawkesbury, Foleshill, Coventry and Wadham Wyndham, Coventry, esq. regarding the recovery of debts of £1500, recovered by Francis, wife of Wadham Wyndham
  Date 5 May 1742
  Description Includes Inventory
• Derbyshire Record Office
  Gresley Family of Drakelow  12th - 20th century
  Official Papers
  Papers of Edward Repington, Sheriff of Warwickshire
  RefNo D77/5/10/15
  Title Bill of Sale from Edward Repington to Sarah Duncombe of Birmingham, widow regarding the goods recovered to pay a debt of £200
  Date 3 Jun 1742
• Derbyshire Record Office
  Gresley Family of Drakelow  12th - 20th century
  Official Papers
  Papers of Edward Repington, Sheriff of Warwickshire
  RefNo D77/5/10/16
  Title Bill of Sale from Edward Repington to Sarah Duncombe of Birmingham, widow regarding a debt of £169 that Thomas Catterill has recovered against Thomas Warren, in the form of goods, cattle and chattels
  Date 23 Jun 1742
  Description Consideration: £120 12 s 6d
• Derbyshire Record Office
  Gresley Family of Drakelow  12th - 20th century
  Official Papers
  Papers of Edward Repington, Sheriff of Warwickshire
  RefNo D77/5/10/12
  Title Bond for performance of the office of Bailiff
  Date 17 Sep 1742
  Description Consideration to be paid to Edward Repington: £2000
• Derbyshire Record Office
  Gresley Family of Drakelow  12th - 20th century
  Parish and Ecclesiastical Papers
  Parish of Seale (16th cent-c1748)
  RefNo D77/6/1/7
  Title Details of a persons charge of 6s 3d per acre, 5 Feb 1731
  Date 1731
  Description with note at back Edward Repington to cousin re the account on the house at Tutbury
• Derbyshire Record Office
  Wilmot-Horton of Osmaston and Catton  13th cent-1955
  RefNo D3155/7565
  Title Assignment: Derereux Littleton of Tamworth, Staffs, esq. of 1st part, Christopher Horton, Lee Gresley of Nether Seal, esq. George Moore of Appleby, Leics, esq. Edward Busby of Barton u Needwood, esq. Edward Repington of Sudbury, gent. William Wood of Fishwick, Staffs, gent, and William Webb of Croxall gent of 2nd part. Rev. John Botham of Clifton Campville, Staffs, clerk of 3rd part; The Manor of Harlaston and the tithes of Clifton Campville. W: John Botham, jnr. John Topping. Jo. Avery. Sam. Clark. Ja. Gresley. Thos. Moore. Geo. Wilson
  Date 15th Apl. 1734
• Mr. Gilbert Repington, Peckwater, Christ Church, Oxford
  Gilbert Repington, whom this letter shows to have been one of Johnson's schoolfellows, had matriculated from Christ Church on 7 December 1734, aged 21 : he did not take his B.A. till 1740 and his M.A. till 1742. His brother, John Repington, had matriculated from Exeter College on 12 July 1729, aged 18, so may have known Johnson at Oxford. Perhaps John it was who had met Johnson in the country, and, hearing of his wish to recover his books from Oxford, had promised that his brother there would attend to them. It will be noticed that Johnson undertakes to pay all the expenses of carriage, etc., to Gilbert's brother, who must therefore have been easily accessible. The family
  place of the Repingtons was at Tamworth, only a few miles from Lichfield, and was inherited by John's and Gilbert's eldest brother, who afterwards married a daughter of Johnson's good friend Theophilus Levett.*
  * See Johnsonian Gleanings, ante, III., 128 ; and IV., 190-1. I find from Gent.'s Mag., 1737, P.701, that the marriage took place on 3 Nov. 1737 :—" Edward Repington, Esq., of Litchfield, to Miss Levett, Daughter of the Town- Clerk."

Sources

• 1. Johnsonian Gleanings - The doctor's Boyhood - appendices
• 2. Reports of cases, upon appeals and writs of error, in the High Court of Parliament 1772
  • (secondary evidence)